20 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1878
Page
1
A somber verse from Chambers Journal laments despair and sleepless grief. The speaker longs for a vanished June with a loved one, recalling past days of happiness and vows to remain true until reunion on the heavenly shore. The poem shades from mourning to enduring devotion.
A reflective poem on a rain soaked winter day. The speaker endures a lonely scene with bare trees and driving spray and finds a hopeful note as sorrow softens and hints of spring emerge beyond grief.
A somber poem depicts a dying day and frozen marsh as a funeral train passes slowly. The rei sun glints on red village windows while snow resumes, burying fences and marking a bleak landscape. Bells toll, and the speaker's heart mourns with a lingering death knell.
A lyrical meditation on a song carried by a summer breeze from a distant clime where roses bloom. The verse recalls bright eyes and fair foreheads, a cross and crown, thorn and down, lost prayers, and a tincture of price as time’s old tune returns at dawn and mingles with distant chimes.
A poetic exhortation to labor, be active, and scatter blessings through kind deeds. Emphasizes sympathy, cheerful words, and giving as the path to personal joy and spiritual reward.
A writer recalls an evening at Jardin Mabille in Paris where he meets a duchess with a dazzling, chaotic quadrille. He notes her bold behavior and the aristocratic crowd’s flamboyance while contrasting French nobility with a humorous wish for steadier public manners.
A brief note describes a spiritualist figure known as the circulating medium who can levitate or float within a room. The piece outlines claims of paranormal influence and the unusual phenomenon surrounding such a medium.
Captain J O Longiners of the Danish vessel Lutterfeld reports a remarkable 1876 incident near Terra del Fuego. Off Magellan's Straits the ship narrowly avoided an island that vanished as hot waters hissed around a conical rock, eventually sinking below the sea surface. The event may relate to South American seismic activity.
The long public life figure, Thomas H. Benton, recalls his mother's guidance. She urged abstinence from tobacco and drinking and avoidance of gambling. He credits his lifelong restraint and perceived usefulness to her early commands and support, noting a vow of total abstinence since age seven.
The note laments ruined happiness and warns of a dangerous season for children. It urges parents to keep Dr Bulls Cough Syrup on hand, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
The piece lauds medical professionals for their selfless labor and risks. It argues that physicians deserve public support and a guaranteed fee as a solemn, irrefragable bond of gratitude, beyond mere compensation. It emphasizes long studies, dangers faced, and the moral worth of their service.
A Southern reporter interviews Bishop Beckwith of Georgia about chastising youth with vivid hellfire tales. He recalls Virginia days when a nurse used brimstone imagery to frighten a boy into moral reform, noting hell as an ever burning, never quenched blaze.
A well dressed young man visits a young woman and explains he is a mechanic. She dismisses him, but he becomes wealthy with a good wife while she ends in poverty. The piece praises mechanics as noble and warns against judging a person by occupation, citing Jesus Christ.
Advertiser notes Hall's Hair Re newer is popular and trusted, claiming strong reception worldwide and a solid track record of merit. It urges readers with premature gray or hair loss to try the product, presenting it as a proven remedy.
A fragment from Ben Franklin style verse spoofing marriage and fidelity. It riffs on a widow's grief and a fool’s reform, with mock dialogue among deities and jokey couplets. The piece plays on almanac satire and social mores of the era.
A collection of pithy maxims and sayings on honesty wealth love and judgment. Observations contrast greed folly and virtue with lines about lawyers doctors friends and travel. The tone reflects old world street wisdom and practical philosophy.
In Lafayette Avenue, Sarah's brother Bill faces jokes about riding and courtship. A boy asks why the family won’t join a sleigh ride, Bill notes their finances and Sarah's fears, and he reveals Sarah’s fourth engagement with a practical joke about shoe sizes and readiness.
In Queechy Vermont a litter of unusually large long haired kittens has appeared. Each brood includes one specimen raised to maturity showing lion like stripes or solid black fur. Six inch wide tails and tufted ears accompany ruff like neck fur. They are agile and will leap eight to nine feet effortlessly and defend themselves when frightened.
Zeno rebukes a self important youth urging him to listen more than speak. A French writer notes wise modesty, likening it to wheat that bows when grain is grown.
A historical critique notes opponents published bogus analyses of Dr. Pierce's medicines to sway voters. Despite rebuttals and rebukes after his overwhelming Senate victory, rivals republish absurd formulas from the Buffalo Commercial dated Oct 23 1877, praising Pierce’s health, education, and business acumen while questioning ethics.
Fragment reads as a political screed arguing that after a brief pause critics will resume denouncing a figure as a public benefactor. The tone is satirical, implying ongoing sneers and journalistic tone about a controversial leader. Other readable hints suggest ongoing disdain and media battles.
A collage of humorous lines and maxims from Hawkeye and the New York Commercial Advertiser notes on marriage, philosophy, language, and religion. It cites proverbs about wives and husbands, insights on aging, and quips about ministers and sermons, ending with a jab at prizefighters.
The note praises remedies for dyspepsia liver sour stomach constipation loss of appetite and languor claiming guaranteed cure. It promotes a 10 cent sample bottle and a 75 cent regular size from Henry C Firth and lists Simon's Consumption Cure plaster and a perfume by Henry C Firth.
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