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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1877
Page
3
A fragmentary Scots verse piece depicts a father tucking his children into bed. The bairns, Jamia Rab Tam and others, resist playfully until the father quiets them with promises of cuddling down. He reflects on life beyond their room and the love keeping them close.
An older man recalls a perilous Christmas Eve when, after a delayed ride home, he fought off a masked assailant in a rocky quarry path. The struggle ended with the thief captured, jailed for life, and the narrator confined by illness at the tavern for weeks.
Mr Laxcasten Hopers of Brownville Maine aged 106 receives a visit from an 88 year old who plays old tunes on his fiddle. The centenarian rises in joy and begins dancing in a skilled, lively display with pigeon wing steps and other dances.
A RECEOT contrivance uses a telegraph wire net spread over money safes connected to a powerful alarm bell. Any attempt to force, drill, cut, or remove the network or tamper with the device will trigger the alarm.
The letter recounts Kurban Bairam at Abdeen Palace with soldiers in the court and Egyptian ladies in brilliant dresses. It notes the chief wife of the Khedive receiving visitors, slave girls singing, and Western French furniture amid Oriental décor, concluding the harem blends allure with a gilded prison.
A story recalls a summer dispute with Pitman over chickens eating garden radishes. In response, a plan used corn with fish hooks attached to rockets aimed at the birds, producing a dramatic but dangerous explosion. The method resulted in chickens leaping skyward, shedding feathers, and chaotic outcomes.
The passage explains how gold and silver coins and jewelry hold fancied value in India. It notes coins can be bent or scratched, and that natives convert coins into bangles rings anklets and wheels for ox carts. It contrasts Indian ease of selling jewelry with higher costs at home and criticizes external appraisals of heirloom gems.
The passage argues Indians show little surprise at unfamiliar tech while marveling at ordinary objects. It contrasts stoic behavior with astonishment at telegraph repairs and simple devices like glass bottles and calico. It notes reactions to locomotives, wheels, and a woman on a side-paddle, framing novelty through an observer's biased lens.
A visiting actress Miss Adelaide Neilson drew cheers from the Virginia House of Delegates as Congressmen stared and forgot their duties. Delegate Mr Clarke paused mid sentence to catch a glance of her leaving the chamber, triggering a roars of laughter and a resumed speech.
A four to five inch fish, resembling a catfish, was found inside a raw oyster shell in John O’Brien’s saloon on Smithfield Street. The fish was placed in alcohol by William Dauler and may be donated to the Western University museum.
James H. Elmore a former flour merchant and gas fixture maker died in a Poughkeepsie lunatic asylum after a life of fortune and loss. He lost wealth in oil and rail ventures, fought long lawsuits with Avaryn A. Degrauw, and saw his Jamaica estate seized, his wife die, and his son Charles killed. He ended penniless with the estate tied up in courts and his heir protected by Brown Hall Vanderpool before his death.
Vanity Fair reports two Scott Russell yachts and War Office officers trialing a submarine engine in Poole Harbor. The inverted boat device, designed to pierce Cronstadt Harbor, failed as crew could not propel it and weights malfunctioned, risking thirteen sailors’ lives. The venture cost about £38,000.
Poem recalls an old ivy covered wall and a beloved face as sunset lights glow on old bricks. A memory of waiting by the ivy wall returns with red lights and a distant future where the past and present blend in dreamlike imagery.
A sprawling catalog covers land proprietors in France, Vermonters in Colorado sheep farming, and curious claims from markets, mines, and seas. It notes eccentric anecdotes from New York debt totals to Philadelphia circus weddings, plus quirky editorials and a peculiar New York sub-editor exchange.
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