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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1878
Page
1
Fragmentary verse urges heart to stay at home and rest. It contrasts homekeeping happiness with wanderers troubled by care and homesick longing, noting those who roam face weariness and disappointment and implying a preference for domestic life.
A narrator travels in late November through a bleak New Hampshire forest. After a perilous night he reaches a village inn where a grim sexton recounts the legend of three brides associated with a solitary farmer and a haunted mansion. The tale evolves into a grim history of doomed marriages and murder.
A reflection on the effort journalists invest to ensure precision in reporting, citing the challenges of verifying dates and details. The author notes that true accuracy requires continual, painstaking work beyond a single great achievement, demanding steady diligence every day.
The coral snake, four feet long with iridescent coral and pearl markings, is praised for beauty yet feared for lethality in Central America. It moves slowly, offers little warning, and bites can cause rapid dissolution with death within about thirty minutes after exposure if a victim steps near.
A historical note recounts Prof Agassiz doubting trout age, leading to an experiment by Mr Page using platinum wire tags marked with years. Weighing trout and tagging them allowed tracking growth. in 1873 artist Thomas Moran caught a 2 pound trout bearing the tag 4 71, showing it gained 12 pounds in two years.
The article notes 27 States with Fisheries Commissioners handling US Fish Commission eggs. About 4 million California salmon eggs were distributed in October. Congress allocates 5000 for ponds near the Washington Monument to breed carp. Wisconsin reports large hatchery work distributing 1,736,000 lake trout and 6,295,000 whitefish, plus brook trout and California salmon. Hatching success sits near ten percent. Maine reports unusually large salmon harvests due to dishing efforts, with several ponds stocked using black bags to combat pickerel. In the Milwaukee River area statutory measures are cited.
Two youths from Newbury trapped a sapling snare baiting meat to catch game, then found their dog Whistling dead in a store, hung by the snare and choking. The event, described as retributive justice, unfolds amid a grim hunt through woods and the ensuing distress.
A scrambled vignette of 19th century notes covers German emigration to Japan since the Franco Prussian War, Turkish comments on prisoners, a San Francisco departure of 168 Chinese to King Kong, a Peruvian funeral procession, a seven foot three hundred pound Mose shot near Oxford North Carolina, and Holland’s inland mortality. The pieces mix anecdotes, travel, and curiosities with brief data on music therapy, England’s longbow history, and the Modoes’ reservation era.
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