24 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1879
Page
1
A poem by A. B. Dyeti contemplates city life and its diverse crowd. It contrasts the rich and poor, the virtuous and the fallen, and asks how time will erase distinctions yet leave the world constant with sun and moon. It laments neglect of the needy and calls for universal brotherly love.
Verse recounts a paired journey of Love and Death across seas to the Northland. Love brings wreaths and warmth, his voice bright and lush as he drafts a moist greenhouse scene. Death arrives with pale towers, wreaths for the beloved, and a quiet house of dust and sleep.
A child asks to be a fairy, wishing for a personal brook. The verses describe a stream that laughs among trees, runs under the window, and sings as it creaks over mossy stones. It should leap from hill to fountain, wild as a bird, busy as a bee, and echo a baby's laugh.
Poem by Josie C. Malott reflecting a weary speaker seeking faith and guidance. It speaks of dark days, stumbling on the journey, and turning to Jesus for strength and life eternal. The speaker accepts a hopeful path through faith and divine understanding.
The New York Press weighs whether Democratic leaders who prevailed at Syracuse will continue to pursue a purge of Tammany. It argues that a true demolition would unite voters around a determined reform, while a mere power struggle would dull interest and aid Tammany’s return. It notes Robinson’s renomination for governor and contrasts support for Lucius Robinson versus Alonzo Cornell, urging stand against machine control.
Mrs. Thomas Leonard recalls Tibbie the tortoiseshell cat adopting eggs and hatchlings after a hen abandoned them. The cat guarded fed and moved the brood, even rescuing four chicks from danger as neighbors watched a remarkable avian surrogate in a Brooklyn home.
The notice extols Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Dr Sage Catarrh Remedy as cures for scrofula throat and lung diseases and catarrh. It also promotes Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription for women's health and advertises the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser.
The piece describes regional folk divination rituals in Lancashire Shropshire and Durham with rhymes about locating lovers and predicting marriage. It then shifts to a political boast praising Democratic successes under Uncle Jimmy Williams in Indiana, claiming 55 million bushels of wheat and projecting a Democratic 1880 presidential win and state governorships.
The piece discusses coloring butter with Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Perfected Butter Color to produce yellow butter even without flush pasture. It claims the product adds at least five cents per pound to white butter and yields a dollar return per cent cost. It includes a Memphis anecdote about a man named Charley and a Dickens quip about a photographer and writing.
A newspaper advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as a cure for liver and kidney diseases and constipation. It claims the dry compound is easy to prepare like coffee and compares its value favorably to six dollar bottles of rival products.
A folksy remark extols men who can swap horses or catch fish and still tell the truth, praising honesty as a rare virtue. The quip frames straightforward skill and integrity as exemplary in men.
A Greene County Iowa correspondent recalls Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton Massachusetts and his fiance Susanna Parker. Just as the wedding knot was being tied an orderly delivered orders to march his unit to the American army. He completed the ceremony, led his men, earned a furlough, and later lived to see fifty years of independence and raise a noted family.
The origin story traces Andrew Stewart’s 1828 speech where Wickliffe of Kentucky scolds him for saying hay and corn were shipped from the western states. Stewart reframes by asking what is sent and revealing animals carry hay, fattened cattle, and finally a hog carries thirty bushels of corn to market. Wickliffe then declares, I acknowledge the corn.
A country man in a John street car lights a five cent cigar despite rules and objections from a conductor and ladies. He argues smoking is his right, then continues smoking on the platform and inside the car, claiming no harm from ashes on gowns.
A patient credits Hop Bitters with ending six years of illness costing $1200 and his wife’s subsequent year of uninterrupted housework. He urges others to learn from the remedy. He quips about inventing mucilage that sticks like a fly to a bald head for fortune.
A weary salesman tells a cashier about a gimlet’s many uses while trying to entice a purchase. The cashier resists, noting no need for gadgets and mocking the salesman’s grandiose promises. The encounter ends with the peddler leaving, his pride intact.
A girl asks her small brother Jack to wear a wig and moustache to a concert. She plans for him to stare at her through glasses and pass a note at the doorway, hoping to catch Gus’s attention and quicken his pace with other girls chasing him.
At the Central market Elder Toots of the Lime Kiln Club was seen chewing a very green watermelon with no black seeds. A bystander remarked on its greenness and the Elder insisted he might get sick but would risk it to taste the fourth watermelon that turned green, determined not to waste melons this year.
A Whitehall Times note mocks thin snake stories with a tale of a snake swallowing an umbrella and splitting it open. A Dundee woman buys a brass door-plate inscribed Macpherson and jokes her husband’s name isn’t Macpherson yet may be useful if the next owner is.
An advertisement touts Kidney-Wort as a quick tonic to renew kidney and bowel function and restore strength. It claims the product revitalizes the body and urges immediate use. It ends with a thrift tip about spending on ribbon over a new dress to cover old one.
A collection of maxims about busts, temper, hair dye, endurance of evil, and discretion. It offers terse guidance: avoid anger, keep hair dark, endure misfortune, and stay silent with eyes open.
The notice announces a revised May 19 1879 train timetable linking Madison North Vernon Columbus Indianapolis with both south and through services. It lists Mail and Accommodation trains with departure and arrival times from Madison Indianapolis and North Vernon, noting through tickets and sales at the depot and Rogers drug store. It names A Anderson as General Ticket Agent and Horace Scott as General Superintendent with connections to Cincinnati and Louisville.
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