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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1879
Page
11
The article credits Marshall and TRorima as highly profitable ventures noting Goldsmith Maid has earned $350,000 in ten years, a figure rivaling most businessmen outside the newspaper industry. It underscores the lucrative potential of these ventures in the country.
A peace accord ends prosecutions against Tennessee moonshiners on condition they cease illicit distilling. The government and mountaineers agree to live peacefully and abandon illegal production, marking a temporary settlement in a long running dispute.
Capt Brown of the steamer Alaska says no alarm is warranted while the Sitka Collector offers a contrasting view. The discrepancy suggests possible dislike of Alaska as a station influencing judgment.
Stuper Love wearing a mask and sheet entered Student Stout's room at midnight. Stout knocked him down with a chair fracturing his skull and displacing his nose in a startling campus incident at Ohio Normal College.
A fragment recalls a touring show titled Oxies with living figures praised for crowd appeal yet described as tame next to raw depictions once staged by a native prince in India who played chess using decapitated slave children as pieces.
A striking scandal unfolds as a fashionable young woman, daughter of a publisher, runs away with and marries her father's coachman. The affair draws sharp attention from New York society, highlighting a dramatic union within a peculiar circle.
Mlle. De Macxerr, daughter of a rich Russian, is arrested in St Petersburg for complicity with a Nihilist conspiracy. She and two other young ladies, Countess Panin and Gen. Gerstfeld’s daughter, lie in chains in Kiev's citadel under similar charges. They reportedly gained revolutionary ideas from lectures at the State University.
In Connersville Indiana Miss Hattie Spangler visited James Monson's home and spent the evening socially. A prankster hid behind a corner and sprang out causing her to faint and lose her voice entirely.
In Louisville Courier-Journal notes a small shop with sign Blacksmithing by Nellie and Carrie Blair. Described as young, pretty, well educated, they were orphans who learned the craft under a farmer blacksmith and now work by day while continuing studies by night.
The conference in Salt Lake City reported a membership of 109000 with 20000 families. Tithing receipts totaled 476000 for the year. One hundred members were appointed as missionaries to Europe Asia and the Sandwich Islands under the leadership of the twelve apostles led by John Taylor.
A discovery in the Cleveland iron district promises to cut steel costs. Previously high phosphorus in local ores prevented Bessemer steel, costing North England much sealand. Now magnesium limestone lining and magnesium additions enable production.
A historical report notes that ore containing 20 percent manganese and 5 percent carbon yields the very best Bessemer steel, reflecting the era's metallurgical understanding of alloying elements and steel quality.
The French suppression of the New Caledonia revolt is described with harsh suffering. Insurgents reportedly faced famine driving extreme acts, while native allies reportedly mutilated prisoners. The uprising is said to be completely quelled and convict safety restored.
Susan Johnson of Uniontown Kentucky dressed as a boy armed with two pistols and a dagger boarded a packet to Evansville to live as a terror to the foe. A rat scurried on deck prompting Johnson to shout before being carried to the ladies cabin where she agreed to help in the kitchen and sewing upon returning home.
In Leapayville a bunko man robbed a miner of 188 dollars and, after being identified, surrendered under threat with six pistols at his head. He handed over 480 dollars and the miner received 188. The chairman kept the rest as the crowd released him with a 50 yard head start amid pistol fire.
A Rochester woman, claiming Spiritualist mediumship, says she is a spirit-artist who has recently taken many photographs of prominent Spiritualists on negatives and proofs. A leading Rochester photographer audited her process and, under her direction, produced spirit pictures that show distinct faces which later vanish from the negative if not printed promptly.
In St Petersburg forty five people including guards officers chamberlains and councillors were seized overnight after the life attempt on Gen Drenteln. Two unmarried daughters of a senior ministry member were placed under house arrest as authorities act on suspicions beyond a simple Socialistic plot.
The Czar declares a state of siege across much of Russia, viewed in England as a civil war in which the government is the aggressor. The move erodes laws and protections, placing lives and property under arbitrary control by petty despots. Europe awaits the outcome, fearing increased Nihilist rebellion and accelerated demise of despotism.
In a sunlit schoolyard Rosy befriends Bella Saunders a blind newcomer. Rosy guides Bella home and to school and learns empathy for disability. As Bella prepares to return to the asylum they exchange sorrowful parting words and hope for heaven where sight and mobility are restored.
A report from the Sierra Nevada mountains describes timbers of a stranded vessel resembling a Chinese junk found high between Mineral King and the headwaters of King's River. Copper fastenings remain, bones possibly human were found nearby, shells and petrified fish hint at past waters. Geologists note an inland sea once existed, with Chinese claims of ancient exploration lending color to the find.
Busch reports Sheridan described as a small corpulent 39 year old with a German accent while Burnside appeared tall with whiskers in a coffeehouse meeting. He quotes Sheridan praising hard blows to soldiers followed by overwhelming suffering on civilians to force peace, a German view of war strategy.
Mabel Stanley, the lead can-can dancer with the Rentz company, demanded a jury trial. During a recess her counsel invited the jury to view the dance. The jurors convicted her, and she was fined 250 dollars.
A baby girl was born recently aboard a Pullman car in Iowa. She was named Maro line Bert, marking a unique origin and given name.
The report details a deadly shootout near Stephensville after Deputy W. H. King served papers on Rusk Holloway. A skirmish erupted ending with Robertson and Ross murdered, Holloway and his daughter aiding the assailants, and eventual arrests of the killers. The narrative notes frontier lawlessness and a violent gun battle.
A letter from a Seventeenth Lancers trooper describes dire rations aboard a ship bound for Natal. He complains of biscuit taste and quantity, salt pork, salt beef, and scarce bread while officers enjoy fresh fowl and mutton, condemning the treatment of men defending England's honor.
Laprade, a young Frenchman, was sentenced to death at the Assizes of Lot-et-Garonne for murdering his father, mother, and grandmother. He shot his parents, then his grandmother, and mutilated the bodies to seize a small property. The crime is noted for its cold methodical brutality.
The Burlington Hawk Eye ridicules EK O Stedman at Scribner for singing about tasting a red lip while a grim old man behind him, eyes bloodshot and wielding a cane like death, threatens punishment if he acts.
Oxurve Logan, upset by United States Minister Welsh not invited to the royal wedding in England, takes a cab and heads to the American Legation seeking assistance.
A compiled digest reports on a Marx bet weigh in near two pounds, a predicted busy Lowell cotton mill summer, a memorial to the English poet at Olney, Sitka soldiers, opium laws in Japan, a Texas jury request for no speeches, honey costs for bees, Pittsburgh riot relief, many U.S. postmasters, a Vermont music reaction, Cincinnati grocers’ delinquent bills, a Chicago man at Bunker Hill, St Louis hotel funds, Paris hotels, English language unity, fox hunts in England, Brook trout and salmon prices, lumber and rail trade, a Mississippi river duel ending in death, grape seed fatalities, a San Francisco minister’s sermon, Uniontown arson and threats, and a scandal at the Soldiers Orphans Home in Xenia.
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