26 Dec 1877
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1877
Page
1
The poem presents a Georgian era meditation on Christmas night. It contrasts nature’s winter gaze with the newborn Christ child and the peaceful reign he will inaugurate, invoking angels, shepherds, and ancient prophecies within a dense tapestry of classical myth and biblical imagery.
Correspondent notes Hayes message as modest and well written yet politically distant from suffering masses. It highlights infatuation with Wall Street wealth, bonds, remonetization, and South conciliation while labor distress and bread lines go unaddressed. Remarks on Mary Queen of Scots and contrast with Knox conclude the column.
A collage of short items includes a murder linked to a railroad tie marked with a cross near Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania a polite Raleigh North Carolina tramp story two brothers reunited after eighteen years a grass eating insane patient in Nashville and a dead duck with a large oyster attached A Nevada suicide note to a friend urges death many literary epigrams and reflections on virtue judgment and education.
A Detroit Free Press item describes a half mile from the city school a plan by twenty one large boys to attack the teacher. The conspirator attempted a wad throw, then the teacher collaring him stopped the uprising as twenty others resumed lessons in fear and awe. The big conspirator has since reached eighteen.
The notice advertises Day and Night Express routes from Madison to St Louis with timings for Madison to Vernon to St Louis, highlighting parlor cars on day service and sleeping cars on night service. Tickets via Firemen & Mechanics Insurance office, agent R. P. Gahr.
A shy Scottish man Jamie wooes Jennie for fourteen years then buys a graveyard lot while proposing they lay their bones together. Jennie, knowing him well, replies with cautious humor asking if they should be buried together while still alive.
A dialect dialogue explains a slave's master prospering by selling hay in the fall and cattle in the spring, earning money twice yearly. The description highlights scarce labor value and economic tactics in a farm setting.
In a Russian school the spelling class grinds through a new alphabet each week. Some of the knotty words are smoothed with a jack-plane before assignment to students.
The text markets Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a safe reliable harmless and cheap remedy for coughs and respiratory relief presented as endorsed by the people.
A father and daughter exchange a playful riddle about Arabs of the desert eating butter on sandwiches. The girl presses for the answer while the father hints at biblical imagery, culminating in a pun about Lot’s wife and the wilderness.
Baron Rothschild of Paris paid eight hundred thousand dollars for a painting while weighing a modest subscription to the Christian at Work for three dollars. He would receive two chromes that evoke eternity and a future state, though the gift could haunt him at night.
The advert claims the syrup never promised relief from childhood diseases without effecting it and notes the public reliance on the product. It lists a price of 25 cents per bottle.
A collection of witty anecdotes and puns about language love and daily life. Swift on learning writes of accumulation while a teacher and poet face misprints. A Hibernian laughs at love pain and a lady jokes about umbrellas. Webster and a lady exchange postscript quips.
An Indiana editor cites a farmer’s claim that coal oil rubbed on the hogs’ neck and head cures hog cholera. Cincinnati Saturday Night ridicules such testimony, highlighting skepticism toward unverified remedies.
Henry Niesse runs the Western Hotel at Madison Indiana hailed as the nicest cleanest in the country. A Madison belle receives thanks for a handsome bouquet and a kiss. Jas Cochrane is praised for joining the Red Ribbon Club and for being a clever clerk and sober, happy man.
Mrs Charles Fawlks was found dead in her bed in Jeffersonville with consumption suspected as the cause. Jonathan Shepard, a farmer near this area, died after being thrown from a wagon, conditions likely alcohol related. The Indiana State Teachers Association will meet December 26 to 28 in Plymouth Indianapolis with railfare and hotel details advertised and expected large turnout.
In a conversation between Susie and Sary a woman vows to remain faithful to her late husband. Susie explains she promised him before his death to join the church and will not tell a lie. She recalls fainting at the grave, noting she fainted three times, with the last time nearly deterring her from attending.
A passerby asks a policeman who is helping an intoxicated man in the gutter. The officer cannot identify the fallen man as he is unable to give any account of himself. The passerby quips that balance loss makes an account impossible.
The text contrasts mental pleasures with bodily joys, praising self restraint and reflection. It likens aging to seasonal change and warns that worldly pleasures deceive and imperil happiness, while a good conscience provides true comfort. It warns that listening to harmful conduct carries its own punishment.
A humorous tale opens with a boy asking what beans are and a young man explaining them. The piece then shifts to a playful science experiment with a galvanic battery and a kiss, plus assorted items from a Chicago clergyman’s failure and college elevator news, ending with a fatal accident remark about a bride-to-be.
Trains on the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad run new schedules starting Monday Oct 29 1877 with both Accommodation and Mail services. Departures include Madison 730 am and 315 pm. arrivals at North Vernon 901 am and 545 pm. Columbus 1005 am and 830 pm. Indianapolis 12 noon and 1115 pm. St Louis 900 pm and 830 am. Chicago 10 pm and 730 am. Cleveland 710 am and 230 pm. All trains connect at North Vernon with Cincinnati and Louisville services. The 750 am Mail train from Madison travels through to Indianapolis. return departs Indianapolis 330 pm. Through tickets to all points available at Madison. agents A Anderson Louisville Ky Horace Scott Madison Supt W Quainey Madison.
The Sun asks readers for renewed support as it marks ten years of coverage. It describes its four page Daily Sun at 55 cents a month or 65 dollars a year and the Sunday Sun eight pages at 1.20 dollars annually.
The Weekly Sun is a national family newspaper with editorial, agricultural and literary pages. It aims to be a guide and friend, priced at one dollar a year postpaid, with a deal of ten subscriptions for ten dollars including an extra copy.
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues that greenbacks are the only remedy for economic ills caused by laws favoring a monied class. It urges government credit to sustain bonds and greenbacks for the people, inviting migration and resource development. McLean, Cincinnati publishers, offers specimen copies and yearly subscriptions.
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