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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1882
Page
1
A dramatic dialogue of wind and ship, contrasting peril and resolve. A lone sailor pleads to steer toward pleasant shores as winds and waves challenge every voyage, while the wind urges steadfast effort and courage at the helm. The exchange ends with a vow to endure, fight, and keep watch.
A verse piece ponders broken lyres and liars across changing seasons. It contrasts a springman and the serpent of the sea with a granger, a needlework woman, and a skipper, as age and memory swell the ranks of deception. It ends by asking who can tell the growing liars hedgeing us in.
The poem laments human mortality recording that life passes quickly with seasons and people replaced after death. It contrasts enduring nature with fading human memory and the cold inevitability of being forgotten as time moves on.
In the morning two women shared a scene one sang of a sad sweet life while the other spun. The crowd praised the spinner's work naming thread and craft as the singer faded from memory with faded roses. Over the sea the spinner's fame endures in lines of gold.
A reflective poem about two lovers whose paths drift apart as autumn comes. The speaker recalls shared golden days and wild times, then laments that time and distance may separate them forever. A single whispered regret hints love might endure if rekindled.
A $90,000 monument to Oakes Ames near Salt Lake on the Pacific railroad has been completed. The red granite statue rises sixty feet above a high hill, commemorating the financier.
The prohibitory amendment was obeyed in Iowa with the start of the month, enforcing closure of all saloons, distilleries, and breweries.
The piece defends Hon. Overmyer against revived claims of past Knights of the Golden Circle ties. It recalls meeting him in 1868, noting his Republican stance then and labeling the insinuations as mean. The writer likens such allegations to unfounded wartime misconduct critiques.
The article reflects on Oliver P. Morton five years after his death, praising his leadership and character while criticizing current party leadership. It laments the lack of a figure to fill Morton’s place and questions the party’s stance on constitutional amendments. It mentions S. W. Dorsey on trial for embezzlement and the party’s struggle with prohibition policies.
The Madison Courier argues that labor has faced declining real wages while capital accumulates power. It asserts that in the last two decades capital gains have outpaced labor, challenging Democratic free trade policies and urging the public to curb centralized wealth and its political power.
The New York Herald notes Schuyler Colfax in good health with his familiar smile. The Atlanta Constitutionalist observes government in disarray with leaders away fishing. The Cincinnati Commercial mocks defamers of Robeson. The Chicago Times jokes about the President and the Republican vote in New York. Albany Journal doubts Folger’s election amid shifting November certainty. Buffalo Courier claims clerks in Washington Departments cheer Hubbell’s failure to secure renomination.
Veteran elocutionist recalls the Cincinnati welcome home event in Pike's Opera House. General Hooker presented a flag for reading war lyrics and camp verses. Thomas Read delivered the poem to him, which drew an eager audience and favorable reception.
Washington report details Hubbell resisting Republican State Committee appeals for financial aid from the Treasury. Jay Hubbell cites low response from treasury clerks and other departments, blaming press attacks and promised immunity for the reluctance. New York delegates depart dissatisfied with press power.
The piece denounces protectionism as a tool for special interests, arguing tariffs on foreign silks would fund wages for 34,000 operatives, mostly women and girls, by paying over $600 annually while current wages hover near $400. It attacks tariff as overextended, fueling waste, corruption, and hampering natural development.
The piece calls on all citizens to fulfill duties of citizenship and vote, arguing intelligent, disinterested individuals must oppose demagogues and improve the sanitary condition of American politics. It urges independence if both parties offer objectionable candidates and to nominate and vote for like minded individuals.
A dentist under laughing gas removed a patient’s tooth in New York. A forcep slip left tooth fragment in the throat, prompting coughing and vomiting for a month until it is expelled. The patient sued in Marine court, and a jury awarded $500 damages, with judgment affirmed.
An old advertisement touts Wells' Health Renewer as restoring health and vigor and curing dyspepsia impotence and sexual debility. The blurb mentions pricing at one dollar and references pot Swormstedt and Co. as sellers.
Connecticut reports only one functioning gin distillery remaining amid assorted notes on industry and economy. Nearby Georgia's cotton seed prices, Paris suicides, New York architecture, and social trivia are touched on in this miscellany of 19th century observations.
The timetable shows South Accommodation mail leaving Indianapolis at 7 40 am and 5 00 pm for Columbus arriving 9 16 am and 6 50 pm. North Vernon departures at 10 11 am and arrivals at Madison 11 26 am and 9 00 pm. The 1 50 pm train connects at Cambridge City for the East.
All trains connect at North Vernon to and from Cincinnati and Louisville. Mail train leaves at 6 00 am to Indianapolis and returns, leaving Indianapolis at 5 00 pm. Through tickets to all points North East and West on sale at the Depot and by city agents. Caldwell, Deering, McKenna and Gahr cited as officials and agents.
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