22 Oct 1879
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1879
Page
1
In a bright June scene Rosa Mond moves through a garden with a dagger and a vase of roses. She admires color and form, sings old songs, and prepares a morning robe and hat as petals bloom in a boudoir for seven days. The poem ends with thoughts of tossing the flowers into the river.
A reflective verse depicts a tranquil stream scene with singing birds and shadows. The speaker seeks continuity of love across seasons, calling for a kindred echo and a gaze from a lover as if spring returns and they remain together. The piece appears in Harpers Weekly.
A poetic portrait of a brook winding through brambly wilds and valleys. The flowing water moves past fern and gravel, catching sunbeams and skimming swallows as it journeys on beyond the brimming river.
Poem fragment urges the reader to have Hope Faith and Love as guiding lights through hardship. It portrays God judging hearts and calls the reader to love all humans as brothers with charitable action. The verse emphasizes inner strength and illumination during life’s storms.
A digger recounts a perilous night at Avoca's Swan diggings when Maggie Hyatt vanishes. Her lover Ned Vance allegedly assaults her. she is saved by a rescuer and dog Pip. Vance is found dead next day, with authorities silent on motive or guilt. Maggie recovers and Pip wins lasting singleness in memory.
A Bridgetown romance unfolds as Jeremiah tricks Jerushy into surrendering an 18k gold ring and promises a future diamond. He flees to Texas, sending a jack of diamonds with the inscription This is the best diamond out as proof of his claim.
A splendid dairy owner must feed cows well and use Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Perfected Butter Color to keep butter rich and gilt edged. The color, says the ad, yields the golden June hue and adds five cents per pound to butter value.
The United States corps of engineers used a twelve pound load on a slender rope to measure Niagara Falls depths. Despite bungled prior attempts the dive reached 210 feet near the lower bridge with whirlpools and 20 foot waves, confirming a deep canyon.
The Detroit Free Press discusses how scholars debunk famed legends and portraits. Senor Bertolatti’s Edinburg Review findings challenge Beatrice Cenci depictions, noting she died in 1599 and was not a beauty, while Guido remains uncertain as the painter of the famous portrait.
A man jailed for disorderly conduct at Washington police station in New York drew a live yard-long snake from his pocket to prove it was a pet. The keeper halted the search and the inmate was sent to his cell.
Advertises a dry vegetable compound named Kidney Wort that allows any sick person to prepare six quarts of medicine. It asserts cures for kidney diseases liver complaint constipation and piles and bills itself as a grand tonic for females.
A bachelor mocks a claim that two lovers can sit up all night with only one chair in the room saying it would require one to sit on the floor. He decries the notion as ignorant and unworkable.
A Gentlemen’s Magazine writer argues for moderate tobacco use by citing several cases. A city man walks three miles daily to smoke at every turn and smokes all day Sunday, avoiding worship and social activity to preserve his habit. Another loyal reader rushes meals to keep smoking, skipping tea and dessert to save minutes for the next pipe. A government worker uses holidays to lie in bed and smoke, and a married man ends his day with a last pipe in bed.
A cobra enters an open church during a service. The beadle kills the snake with a tutwar. A curious congregant, stepping on the head, triggers the venomous fangs and dies within half an hour, illustrating the cobra venom’s fatality.
Measurements detail the five Great Lakes with their greatest lengths and breadths, mean depths, elevations, and areas. Superior: 335 by 160 miles, 688 feet depth, 627 feet elevation, 82 000 sq miles. Michigan: 300 by 108 miles, 690 feet depth, 506 feet elevation, 23 000 sq miles. Huron: 200 by 169 miles, 609 feet depth, 274 feet elevation, 20 000 sq miles. Ontario: 180 by 65 miles, 500 feet depth, 161 feet elevation, 6 000 sq miles. Combined length 1 265 miles and area over 135 000 sq miles.
A compact list outlines nine pairs of virtues and vices in brief aphorisms. It presents items to love admire hate wish for like avoid cultivate contend teach govern and cherish, each with three associated concepts. The rhythm emphasizes character and behavior.
In plain terms the advertisement urges readers to try Hop Bitters, claiming their value makes them preferable to all other tonics. The piece emphasizes honesty and urges a trial based on demonstrated benefits rather than flashy appeals.
A Lang Hee’lan’ Miles vignette shows a Yankee tourist quipping to a driver about road milestones. The driver nods that the last milestone was a pig tree and the next will be a public house with a tram sold there.
Agrafena Igna tiva, a reputed witch, was burned February 26 1879 at Vratshevo in Novgorod Russia after epilepsy rumors and public fear led villagers to lock her house and set it ablaze while she cried out.
A reader asks if it is etiquette to eat bread with a knife and fork. Authorities differ, but the Sentinel notes the mouth is the generally accepted method and bread should be baked before consumption. It promises a future discussion on the topic.
The East India Company ruled India with three presidencies Bengal Madras and Bombay. Bengal held the best appointments and the largest salaries while India paid higher starting pay to entice young officials. Life risks in India forced earlier retirement compared with England. Higher pay was needed to balance this.
A New Orleans Picayune Paris letter recounts a telegraph clerk’s wife in Normandy who dies after a neighbor’s note reaches her husband, triggering a swoon and suspected danger to his health. The piece also notes a $5,000,000 gold shipment aboard the steamship Canada due in New York, to be minted into small denomination coins in exchange for wheat.
A period advertisement promotes Kidney-Wort as a remedy targeting both kidneys and liver. It claims the medicine helps flush waste from the body and restore tone, describing it as a diuretic and cathartic.
A domestic reflection urges warmth at home matching politeness abroad, suggesting happiness grows when household gentleness mirrors social courtesy. The line emphasizes equal kindness indoors and outdoors for a fulfilling domestic life.
All trains connect at North Vernon to and from Cincinnati and Louisville. The mail train leads hare at 6 00 am and runs through to Indianapolis, returning by 2 35 pm. Through Tickets to all points North East and West on sale at the Depot and at W. H. Rogers' Drugstore Madison. A. Anderson, General Ticket Agent, Louisville, by Horace Scott, Central Superintendent.
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