05 Nov 1879
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1879
Page
1
A poem titled What Ails the World by Father Byxan ponders why suffering and death haunt humanity. The speaker recalls the poet’s mournful refrain and the futile search for an answer as singers across ages fail to resolve the world’s malaise. The piece ends with the poet’s death, leaving questions unanswered.
A reflective verse on memory and virtue contrasts what to recall with what to forget. The author elevates Charity as a guiding angel, praising kind thoughts, helpful deeds, and neighborly acts that aid others and avert harm, hatred, and vengeance.
A mournful scene shows Anderson Curitchett beside a quiet cottage door watching the dying fire. Her raven hair with silver threads frames a pale face as she recalls past scenes and the once-loved figures on Menmore's shadowy shore.
On a Maryland road a maiden Lulu Sanford and Capt. Fred De Laney rescue a gypsy boy from abusive workers. Viola Hale, a beauty governess with a dark past, sways Lulu and Capt. De Laney, but the gypsy chief Carl uncovers a deadly device, the Death Charm, proving Viola's treachery. The truth splits secrets and ends in a lasting bond among Lulu, Carl, and De Laney.
In a terse exchange a police officer states Viola is dead and that our tribe condemned her to take her own life as a gypsy, a fate she accepted. Capt. Carl and his son retreat to their woodland camp bearing a heavy, unspoken burden.
The article explains that tortoise shell comes from the scales rather than the bone. It details thirteen scales eight flat large ones and five curved ones. It describes harvesting these lamina by heat and knives, noting cruelty and turtle deaths but occasional regrowth into a single piece after repeated catches.
A columnist argues that a woman aged twenty five holds clearer self knowledge and steadier prospects for love and marriage. She is less driven by emotion, more confident in choosing a worthy partner, and her future happiness is in her own hands.
In a dialogue between Smithington and Potts the topic turns to marital infidelity and drastic responses. Potts favors a pistol theory while Smithington contemplates the consequences and methods of coping with a wife’s betrayal. He ultimately rejects violence and suggests cordial, face to face dealings with the rival.
A Boston woman tells how Hop Bitters cured a fourteen year suffer from sick headache and neuralgia. She praises the remedy and says it prompted twenty two families in her circle to adopt it as their regular family medicine. The piece lists many U S city names to illustrate state and city confusion in mail.
An advertisement urges readers to take Kidney-Wort to cure liver and bowel complaints, piles, and kidney dysfunction. It claims the tonic cleanses poisons and restores organ function, promising renewed health and vigor.
A list of practical remedies for cooking and cleaning. Tips include sealing fish before packing in salt, soaking salt fish in sour milk, re sweetening tarned milk with soda, and avoiding curdling milk. Other items cover stain removal with boiling water, ripe tomatoes, turpentine, starch with gum arabic, and cleaning irons, beds, boots, kettles, and furniture.
The Henderson News reports that 21 years ago McCormick, living 2.5 miles east of Saltillo Hardin county, went insane and his family confined him in an eight by ten foot pen built near the house. The prison lacks door and floor with provisions pushed through log gaps and a quilt for bedding. He has not left the pen for two decades and his condition and nails are described as neglected. The piece notes the family’s wealth to place him in a proper asylum yet says others profit from his confinement in the hog pen.
Professor Thomas, newly tied to Butler University, was noted for exact language. One night he woke to raucous noises from a student dorm, knocked, and urged silence. After a noisy exchange the men mocked him with a drinking song until daylight, and the professor never referred to the incident.
Advertisement urges farmers to color and pack butter using Wells, Richardson & Co. Perfected Butter Color to achieve a bright golden June hue and secure higher prices, noting dealers sell processed white butter for double the farmers’ paid cost.
The Indianapolis Sentinel ridicules Sherman for continuing cash wheat sales to Europe, claiming farmers rely on his leadership while some demand a visible "rainbow." The piece mocks political rhetoric and comments on medicine and gender stereotypes in a brisk, satirical tone.
A Courier Journal item narrates a young man from Chestnut Street who poured money on gifts and experiences for a girl who soon announced her marriage to a Kalamazoo man. Rather than despair he drafted an itemized diary bill, sent it to her guardian, and collected a check for 880.33, leaving him bitterly happy.
In Meudon a tannery processed the skins of guillotined aristocrats between 1792 and 1795. Male skins yielded a velvet like fabric valued by patriots, while female skins were said to be too fragile. The piece notes blonde hair among lower-class women linked to political shifts.
A Leadville jury ordered the sheriff to jail the judge for two weeks to curb his style, while a popular barkeeper sits in the judicial chair as the case proceeds. The item blends humorous quips about Shakespeare and Harvey with notes on a long lived Suffield man and a lively editor’s anecdote.
A column extols Kidney-Wart as a kidney tonic for bedwetting children and mentions a Lancaster County inmate named Al. Chamberlin serving a two year term for forgery who cannot write names. Also recommends Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup for mothers-in-law to keep family peace.
The CILANGE line lists May 39th 1879 as the start date for time changes. South accommodation mail from Kalianapolis to Columbus and North Vernon arrives Madison by 7 PM with through tickets to Indianapolis and beyond. Trains connect at North Vernon with Cincinnati and Lansville routes and through tickets are sold at the depot and Madison dry goods store.
Cincinnati opens at 12 a m and closes at 2 30 and 9 p m Louisville and Indianapolis mail routes listed with opening 12 a m and closing 2 30 9 p m. Local lines North Vernon to Warsaw pass with varied hours. Stated mailings include Stony Point Mud Lick Bryantsburg Rexville St Magdalena New Marion Titusville Versailles and others with Tues Thurs Sat close 6 a m and Mon Wed Fri open 6 p m. Semi weekly towns Manville Moorefield Home Craig Long Run Vevay Kent Graham Volga Cresswell dates and office hours given by Postmaster Garber.
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