19 Jun 1878
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1878
Page
1
A devotional lyric envisions the better land beyond the tide with pearly gates a radiant sun and heavenly gardens. It describes rivers gardens mansions and angels praising the Savior as the faithful long to join the glorified throng and sing with harp and golden strings in a blissful city.
A coast watch during a shipwreck yields only one child saved in the night. The town mourns as waves, guns, and prayers fail to bring back the dead. A lone baby is found on the sand, unnamed and remembered with the carved phrase God knows.
A lyrical scene of springtime in an orchard with drifting petals and blooming flowers. The poem evokes May weather and nature's renewal as lovers listen to the silvery trebles from blossoming lanes and birdsong.
A grandmotherly vignette recalls John Quincy Adams saying prayers nightly. A mother teaches a child the familiar lines as the child repeats them with lisping effort. The scene closes with the child asleep and murmuring that God knows all the rest.
The verse speaks of the poet’s gift as single and pure while describing waves, earth, dawn, time, and leaves as carriers of memory. Imagery centers on natural elements scattering poems like fruit across shifting shores and distant regions.
An elderly couple argues over danger and gumption as they travel toward Madison on a wharf boat. The husband jokes about bravado and work to reassure his anxious wife while she frets about steamboat dangers and missing home belongings before boarding finally proceeds.
The account recalls Andrew Jackson’s former servant Hannah Jackson describing the death of her old master. He revived briefly after a doctor’s dose, recognized both Black and white family in the room, preached his own sermon, and died with gratitude for his faithful servants and Mrs. Adams. The piece then pivots to a string of curiosities and vignettes from the era, including amusing notes, natural history, and social oddities.
A Burlington Hawkeye account depicts six girls in light dresses fishing from rafts. They stumble into the water, curse, laugh, and scramble for bites as they pull sunfish from lines, discuss fish and beaus, then retreat to eat lunch and gossip until sundown.
A collage of humorous quips and social jests alongside a Civil War anecdote. The tale recounts a sharp exchange between Generals Forrest and Van Dorn over captured spoils, ending with mutual respect and a raid assignment, followed by Van Dorn’s later death.
The piece argues Alexander H. Stephens, once a Confederate leader, is seen as head of the Hayes party by supporters and newspapers. It questions fairness in elevating him while Jefferson Davis, the chief Confederate, remains alive and should be the true leader of the Hayes faction.
A Lake of Soda Water known as the Lake of Lonar in India supplied soda used for washing and dyeing chintzes. Evaporating in dry weather yields vast soda quantities but a new report says supply now exceeds demand due to railway distance and Durbar duties. No new supplies were taken in 1876 77 as stocks remained unsold from the previous year.
Representative Dickey of Ohio discusses the congressional probe into a key letter. He expresses initial doubt about the inquiry but now believes concealment exists and urges going to the bottom, alleging the letter was written to aid the Administration and halt the investigation.
The article argues that sympathy is vital but must be guided by reason. It warns that unchecked impulse leads to wasteful pity and urges training to balance sympathy with rational discernment for worthy aims.
The public has been humbugged by worthless remedies and only a few effective preparations remain in use, as the old line of quack cures gives way to tested medicines like Dr Bull's Blood Mix.
A curio collection of wit and puns from Johnson to Catherine II. including Johnsons savage reply, Hook and a pompous dandy, Gabriellis bold retort for five thousand ducats, and a note on baby health with Dr Bulls Syrup priced at 25 cents.
A quotation urges improving every talent for preaching writing speaking and acting with humility faith and perseverance until death. The piece touts Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer as the best hair product on the American continent praising its effectiveness and recommending Johnston Holloway & Co as Philadelphia agents.
A Scottish minister expounds on why God sent the whale to swallow Jonah, denying fish names like colt or herrin and joking about a whale. An old woman quips hints that it was a whale, provoking the minister to lambaste the congregation member for questioning a minister’s word.
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