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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1877
Page
2
The Merrimac Silver Mining Company reports a vein of gray copper south of their shaft, the richest yet found, assaying up to 5000 dollars per ton. A questionable passage mentions sparing on privates and soldiers, with references to a court martial in the German army, but details are unclear.
Beech er remarks on premarital relations comparing men and women to figures and ciphers. He argues the woman has no value until paired with a husband, then she multiplies his sum tenfold, provided she stays beside him, otherwise she loses status and reverts to insignificance.
Strange animals reach the New York aquarium including the Blind Proteus from Austria. The cream colored creature has a long body and short legs and darkens with sun exposure. Also on display are Chinese fish named Long Tsing Yu with quadruple tails and dragon eyes, attracting attention.
Minister Washburne predicts the Paris exposition of 1873 will exceed all previous displays in magnitude and splendor as France strives to prove a progressive republic. He notes the U S omission of Congress to send representatives is regrettable amid strong Franco American ties and the Centennial display.
An extraordinary suit filed on March 8 in San Francisco pits Francis Shefington, penniless, against his rich son John for alimony and counsel fees. The judge, Wheeler, ruled that law does not compel a son to support a father, denying alimony.
Switzerland, late to feel Europe wide economic downturn, faces rail stock panic and bleak watchmaking prospects. The hotel trade is hurt as twenty six public houses in Montreux and Geneva fail, prompting officials to launch large scale road construction to provide employment.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent writing from Shanghai argues opium importation and cultivation in China pose a greater threat to American society than coolie immigration. Official figures show opium shipments to California rising from 448 boxes worth $188,750 in 1868 to 1,285 boxes worth $829,971 in 1875. China, once a heavy opium importer, has become a major exporter, fueling a widespread addiction seen as far more troubling than immigrant flow.
A Seine net yielded a heavy metal mass covered with sediment and shells, later sold to a Paris curiosity dealer on Quai Voltaire. He cleaned it and displayed an oval vase marked with the Greek letter phi. A scholar suspects it may be a Corinthian bronze rarity once seen in Benepe, prompting speculation on its origin and composition.
The week reports Thomas A. Scott and nine others elected to the Pennsylvania Railroad board for the coming year. A Massachusetts bill to block railroad strikes is postponed. The Susquehanna River at Wilkes-Barre rises rapidly signaling a serious freshet with snow three feet deep upstream.
March 20 a cargo of twenty silk and tea loaded ships from Yokohama left San Francisco for New York to beat a two month old time on the northern trans continental route. The run crosses many lines including Central Pacific and Baltimore & Ohio with hopes of shaving minutes off the record.
Dispatches report that talks with Montenegro are suspended not broken, with a possible compromise on disputed points. The Vatican’s power is questioned while a pope’s health is disputed. In Congo, the Avon destroyed villages on the Ombgo river and killed natives after an attack on an American schooner, with looting of coffee.
President prefers Hampton and Chamberlain speak before him and the Cabinet to hear mutual positions. Treasury issues a forty four then call for redemption of bonds. details include coupon and registered bonds, with payments due June 20. Also reports on treasury frauds, timber depredations, and civil service promotions at the Executive Mansion.
The Louisiana Senate seated J J Monette and General Thomas Anderson in place of Ducrogs and Garland, while Nicholls auditors retain control. Brooks of Boston and Burnside lead big property tax payments to Nicholls officials. Harriet A. Gully loses her civil rights suit against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with the jury verdict favoring the railroad in this and 17 similar cases.
A flood dam failure at the Staffordville reservoir in Connecticut on March 27 caused extensive damage including washing away freight facilities and about fifteen buildings. Loss around 350000 with two deaths reported and about 1000 workers displaced. Also reports of Swayse and Wilson shooting incident in Topeka. one editor killed and another wounded, both arrested. A Missouri Avenue fire in East St. Louis destroyed a frame house and caused tens of thousands in damage. Darby Pennsylvania cotton mill fire, Madrid village burglary and destruction, a New York man violent crime against his wife, and a bold stage robbery near Whitewood Canyon are noted with injuries losses and suspicions.
A sequence of deadly and near fatal events is reported, including Slaughter killed and Walter Iter wounded in Deadwood, a Boston Chemical Company explosion, a £4 bet in March injuring four with two fatalities, a deadly train derailment near Worthington Indiana injuring seventeen, a $40,000 fire loss in Prissina, a fireman fatally wounded, a Treasury doorkeeper arrested for ejecting Dr Mary Walker, a widow assaulted in Sebastian county Arkansas with death next day, a Cambridge creek capsizing drowning two, Joann West fatally dismembered by a saw, David Stauy died after being struck in the head, a Baltimore fire engine driver killed, a Chicago poster fraud discovered, and a distributing clerk confessing to stealing $300 from Chicago merchants.
The excerpt extols April as the tenderest month with vivid sensory images. It describes April’s sights, sounds, and odors, from young green grass and birds to bees and sap, praising its fresh, almost transcendental fragrance and the march of springs across hills and valleys.
A young man from Salt Lake City visits San Francisco and stays at the Palace Hotel. He plans a luxury feast and, after instructing a waiter to buy five dollars worth of oranges, is astonished by the heavy fruit delivery. He vows to inquire prices before future purchases.
Washington Chronicle reports Ohio Governor Tom Young’s comic moment after spotting two signs one promoting Pinker’s remedy for piles and another warning to prepare to meet your God. The piece notes the governor had a sign painter modify the two to read together as a single message. The article adds Rome hosts four hundred thousand pilgrims for Pope Pius’s Episcopal Jubilée.
A San Francisco Call correspondent describes a crumbling adobe prison six miles south of Salt Lake City on a Wasatch bluff. The four-wall yarded enclosure houses seventeen prisoners, with two death sentences, under Warden George W. Crowe as guards tighten security around condemned inmates.
The Virginia Enterprise recounts Senator Nye tale of meeting the Sultan of Turkey in Constantinople. The Grand Vizier offered a pure Arabian horse with velvet coat and great courage. Nye declined, noting U.S. law bars accepting gifts from foreign princes, and said he could not afford freight to New York.
A fragment mentions a Paris event where trained birds performed for spectators in scientific gardens. The description hints at an unusual spectacle captivating Parisians, noted with admiration for the display and the curator's methods.
London Globe reports the Jaradin d Acclimation adding secretary birds to a display described as an attractive spectacle. Spectators watched birds fight snakes, with the bird using wings as shields and legs as clubs in a rapid chase. The piece notes the birds run rather than fly and suggests larger snakes would test them more fairly.
A compact meditation on how eyes reveal truth and intent across species. The piece contrasts human limits with animal sight, notes birds’ keener vision and instinctive signals, and extols eye contact as a forceful, revealing language that transcends rank and age. It cites Emerson on the mind entering through the eye and the eerie aura of gaze.
A Dayton Journal tale recounts a tramp’s Brazil stint in 1864 with diamond hopes. His crew’s robbery led to a death sentence and attempted execution by guillotine. Surviving, he awoke to a physician claiming to graft heads and trunks, discovering his body bore another man’s traits. Additional notes cover raw potatoes as rheumatism cures and pile remedies with Buckeye talismans.
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