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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1879
Page
3
The note asks customers to tell wherelisers to deliver their plenent to this paper. It emphasizes reporting the transaction to the Herald once goods are bought. The wording is odd but indicates a directive for readers.
The Herald reports on advertising reach, job services, and a variety of local notices. It lists births and deaths, marriages licenses, a fatality from a runaway incident, race results, and community events including a Masonic lodge installation.
Prof W A Caldwell a Hanover College graduate has taken a teaching position at the California Deaf and Dumb Asylum. The finance committee asks for donations to cover expenses for the planned soldiers' reunion in the city next month. Joan Garmore formerly of the city now in Covington Ky has filed suit for divorce on abandonment grounds. Two sons of the late Hibbs George and Jesse fought at Rockport Ind leaving George likely fatally stabbed. City mortuary report for June 30 1879 shows 138 total deaths including numbered causes and stillbirths.
After a three month absence fr. James Smitha returns from St Joseph Louisiana and denies plans to move there. Madison Guards elect officers led by Captain Joseph Marshal and lieutenants Michael Millen George W. Smith and others. A humorous note corrects a false claim that Hanover township resident David Patton is 101 years old, clarifying he is 52 and single.
Mr. San ford Leap of Clifty Halls farm reports four pounds of alfalfa seed from Bishop Creek California. He grows the plant three to four feet tall and cuts thrice per season on the Pacific coast. Leap believes alfalfa cultivation will succeed locally. The Fourth of July included bell ringing cannon fire and picnics. A Beech Grove Park Western Fire Company No 3 picnic drew a large crowd with dancing and enjoyment. James O'Donnell the municipal hog ate a stuffed goose in twenty one minutes then ate sandwiches and drank water. Many gatherings occurred at Deputy Lexington Bryantsburg Neville's Grove Wirt and other sites.
City Council Thursday evening elected Vincent Kirk as City Attorney. Western Fire Company No 3 received five hundred dollars for engine house repairs. The equalization board reported a net property valuation increase of 69 700 with levies of 65 cents for general purposes 35 cents for debt polls 50 cents per poll dogs 1 for male 5 for female. Gas committee backed substituting gas lamps for gasoline in places due to lower cost. The ordinance requiring transient merchants to obtain a license passed unanimously.
The article previews Mr and Mrs M. W. Bates billed as the world’s largest couple visiting W. W. Cole’s Circus. Bates stands eight feet four inches, his wife the same height. together they weigh over a half ton and hail from Kentucky and Nova Scotia. Queen Victoria reportedly gifted Bates a diamond watch and chain after their earlier English tour.
The post office at Madison on Monday July 7 1879 lists remaining letters by recipient including Mira Jenney Bowen Mrs Mary Coneton Mrs Clara Clace Anna Faber Freeman Ida Gosneil Stella Gos sed Emma Gall Mary Honiker Clara Heard Harrold Millie Hamilton Jennie Johnson Kate Lewis Susie Lanham Maggie Logan Stella Marquis Nellie Marsellas Julia Miller Mary Nichol Julian Phillips Florence Percy Sarah Patterson Mary Quinn Rosetta Rhea Fanny Rader Mary C Robinson Mary Schwalmeyer Maria Shannon Bettie Short Rachel Storm Jennie E Smith BF Sturgeon Fanny Temply Nettie Taylor Carrie Williams Blanch Wehr Newton Ayers Bell Elisha Banta Bow en Frank G Carpenter Wm Carr David Condon Leonard Debsado James Gordon Conner Geraghty Frank Hollard Wm Humphreys Dr F Hutchinson D W Howe Hudson J JI Skimilton Co W E Jolly John Kirby John Krue W V Ky ger Arthur Knapp Michael Kelly Jacob Lehman John Murray B F Moore Henry Tussmann W McCormac Wam Phibbs Peter Paul John Powers P Quinn W Shockley Snodgrass Wilson Taylor Willie Walters Wright Henny Wyatt George Zeigler Zook
The arrangements committee applied to the Secretary of War for a loan of tents for a city soldiers reunion camp. Patrick McLaughlin, 22, son of James McLaughlin, died yesterday at 6 am of cholera morbus and was respected by all who knew him.
Roscoe Conkling in March 1878 condemns four years of corruption and political barter. The piece notes public distrust toward Hayes and compares contemporary leaders with past figures. It ends with a quip about the death of a Philadelphia-based millionaire who popularized mince meat commerce.
M Rosetti investigates sun temperature by testing radiation laws. He uses a mercury filled Leslie cube, a thermo pile and a Weidemann galvanometer, measuring copper and other materials heated by flames. The study yields a sun effective temperature near 9965 C to 20380 C depending on atmospheric absorption.
Passengers on a Vienna to Berlin night express woke to claims of being pricked as a woman cried out in fear. A stout man reported thigh pains, and near a station six large leeches were found feasting on his leg. A jar of leeches spilled, causing chaos and a local doctor tended the swooning woman.
A comic vignette on rude behavior aboard a car contrasts with a string of small notices and curiosities. It moves through language shifts on Manx, fish hatching as a business, and a quip about quinine taxes tied to dogs, then pivots to reflections on the death penalty, ice cream effects, and a purse of $25,000 found in a London billiard saloon. The piece closes with pirate treasure hunts, a coffin rope, swarm weather gags, and odd questions about hanging and murder alongside scattered local anecdotes and shipping news.
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