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Newspaper
Lone Rock Pilot
Location
Lone Rock, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1876
Page
2
A garbled translated poem fragment attributes lines to Hugo and contrasts roses with thorns, night and dream imagery, longing, and the poet offering songs and love. The text is fragmented and reads like a faulty OCR of a translated lyric.
A frontier blacksmith hides in a forest cottage as the Revolution rages. His wife and child perish in a British raid, and he swears vengeance with a hammer. He dies at a cherry tree after a final act of defiant rifle fire for Washington and Wayne.
A historical Appletons Journal passage by Jasan Haw thorne reflects on bus conductors and drivers. The excerpt praises their multitasking, describing the conductor’s constant vigilance, fare collection, and memory for routes while noting the mystery of their daily hours and routines.
A London Telegraph report recounts the disappearance of Richard Jones in 1859 from the Rising Sun inn near Merthyr, with a later claim by a returning man that he can name Jones’s killer. An investigation yielded an open verdict, and the case resurfaced when a neighbor implicated in Jones’s death faces magistrates amid renewed suspicions.
James Little of Montreal presents a pamphlet on future timber supplies for Canada and the United States. He warns Maine and many Eastern and Middle States will exhaust white pine in a few years. Michigan holds spruce for six years, while Wisconsin and prairie states depend on them. Washington and Oregon have some timber left. He urges reforestation to curb rainfall loss from deforestation. The piece mentions California wheat speculators and a Norwich journalist visiting a hairdresser for ear-wigs, ending with Worcester news.
The decline in stock prices of the Big Bonanza mines the Consolidated Virginia and California has sparked a lively demand for shares at current rates. Doubts arise whether the mines wealth is nearly exhausted as dividends and production fall. The Consolidated Virginia paid a $324,000 dividend in April 1874, while dividends have rarely ceased. share prices surged to $780 for Virginia and $805 for California in November, then plunged to near $4. The total dividends to Virginia stockholders reach $21.6 million. total mine product $35 million. Monthly yields averaged about $1.2 million, recently dropped to under $600,000 with July not exceeding $250,000. Managers cite moved mill facilities to the other mine with $20 million ore in sight. In the past month both mines depreciated by about $33 million in quotable value.
The tale follows Nicholas Joseph Platel, famed French cellist, who, ill and penniless, appeals to Prince de Chimay. A charitable hamper of wine prompts relief, but a reused label reading only Coda hints at a lasting symbolic ending as Aquatic Boros swims nearby.
A garbled OCR fragment describes stars and candy imagery with references to darkness and sweetness. The text mentions Mare and Milastay in a cryptic, dreamlike sequence that is difficult to parse, leaving only partial names and phrases.
A patchwork of snippets and quips. Jokes about water intake for infants and adults, a laborer with a pieraxe, a Jamey Gate house, and a tall tale of a 17 foot sitter. Snippets touch on fashion, teeth, bells, and slang, with stray reflections on Greece, the Sioux, and marriage lore.
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