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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1877
Page
7
A fragmented poem recounts a sack of a minster with shattered windows and ruined liturgical objects. Amid smoke and ruin a small acolyte lifts a lamp to rekindle the altar while mournful chant drifts through the gloom and a procession seems to move toward a rekindled light.
In 1841 Castine and Penobscot Bay stir as Commodore Tucker defies the British threat. A widow arrives with a coffin claiming her husband died and asks to be landed at Sheepscot. Tucker, moved by pity, agrees to transport the coffin aboard the schooner before clearing the harbor amid fear of a pursuing frigate.
An old sailor alerts Commodore Tucker to a coffin rigged with danger on a schooner. Dan exposes a spider on a woman passenger and a string linked to a concealed weapon system. The coffin hides four cocked pistols and a trap to sink the vessel, but Tucker foils the plot and binds a hostile officer. The traitor is lashed, later missing at dawn, presumed dead or fled.
Correspondent recalls a grand ride across the Isthmus of Darien and the forty seven mile railroad connecting Atlantic and Pacific. He describes lush forests, vibrant birds, native villages, and the dangerous fever that claimed many workers among the unhealthy climate.
A Burlington Hawkeye item recalls a North Hill dispute on who should rise and build the fire. A woman lops off her husband’s wooden leg to kindle a fire and uses his false teeth to bite the dog. The husband bites back with the glass eye, waxes the ceiling eye, and splits air to wash the kitchen. Judge Newman says divorce cannot be granted with only one party present.
A historical portrait of the Kafir people in Natal from Lady Barker’s observations. It describes labor roles, perceived laziness, physique, dress, and head adornments, including hair rings, feather decorations, and ritual implements. It notes huts, living spaces, musical speech, and language challenges with English phonetics.
The West Point foundry has for one to two years been converting large navy smoothbores to rifles. It aims to turn the 10 inch Rodman gun into an 8 inch rifle by boring and inserting a wrought iron rifled tube eight feet long weighing about 4 800 pounds. The tube is seated by the force of the ammunition after one or two shots. The work, formerly done by Armstrong in England, will save money versus new armament. Twenty five tubes for Rodman guns are ordered for Boston.
The narrative describes a family story in which a three month old baby exposed to blue glass sunlight allegedly becomes ill and causes chaos. After days of exposure the child allegedly injures Mr Blimley and his wife, prompting destruction of blue glass panes and the baby being restrained.
A Detroit man dressed as a laborer brings a chest of tea to a Michigan Avenue grocer claiming it was found in a lumber pile. The grocer discovers the chest holds clean sawdust, and curses the incident as a dollar swindle while ordering his clerk to consider firing.
The Dramatic News reports John T. Raymond plans a morning bet with a Rocket and a large afternoon return for more. In San Francisco last fall Raymond and Maurice Grau played high stakes, escalating from tens to thousands and allegedly netting Raymond a claimed loss of 32 000 before a final dramatic match.
The speaker recalls two imagined moments when a beloved arrival would be met with total devotion. In dawn the heart would be given fully and with patience, at eventide hands and brains would be offered, yet now at sunset the speaker refuses to give a broken life and says no.
A jumble of quips, cartoons, and short items fills pages with light humor. snippets include editorials displaced by reading material and assorted vignettes about politicians, a German clerk, a Niagara Falls stunt, and a duel over a favor. scattered captions, hotel notices, and a San Francisco suicide prompt a wide, foxed collage of late 19th century miscellany.
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