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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1876
Page
2
The Marshall Messenger notes Jomm Littlefield as editor and proprietor in a brief promotion of the newspaper’s leadership and editorial direction.
The 142 atone masons who sailed from New York for Scotland are set to work on Greenock’s new parochial buildings. They receive 20 cents an hour and job security for two years. Meanwhile a Hell Gate explosion mocked Fenimore Cooper’s Water Witch chase scene and the Centennial Commission’s wine jury logged over 8,000 samples, implying heavy tasting activity.
Dr William A McHlenberg founder of St Luke's Hospital New York and author of I would not live alway receives a $20000 purse from New York friends on his eighty birthday. Greek admiral Cawanis from Scio who sacrified forty two associates to destroy the Pasha ship is alive at Athens at eighty two, hale and hearty.
That Radical paper Les Droits de Homme Paris has paid during the last two years fines to the amount of 380 000 francs. Recently the editor M Rochefort was seized for flagrantly libelous article and sent to prison for three months and fined 600 dollars. Journal ism in that republic is about as much fettered as it was in the days of the empire.
The interior merchants speak hopefully of business prospects as Crowvep hotels show signs of recovery. Transient visitors are trimming room rents and back hire, a hopeful shift for hotel and hack operators. It is not too late to mend.
An English magazine notes about 10,000,000 Jews worldwide with vast fortunes. It claims Rothschild could buy Palestine, Goldschmidt could rebuild the Temple, and Montefiore could fund a statue of Solomon, yet none of the wealthy Hebrews are willing to return.
Felicien Cunsor David, noted as a precursor to Wagner, died in France. He led a regulated life, lived in the same modest home for 29 years, owned numerous cats, and shared breakfast with them daily. He was regarded as a representative musician with strong memory. In Illinois, the Supreme Court ruled that public school pupils cannot be required to study branches not prescribed by law, upholding a lower court ruling in Winnebago county. The case involved Frances Post who was expelled for refusing to study book keeping. damages were awarded to her parents.
Dre Scotian uncovers Cyclopean wells at Tiryns birthplace of Hercules. Discoveries include rock-built house walls and primitive water conduits. Eleven terracotta cows and nine horned female idols interpreted as Janiform forms amid archaic copper pieces.
News of the Week presents the public debt statement as of October 1. It lists six centrum bonds valued at 984,999,650 dollars and five centur bonds totaling 712,320,450 dollars.
The report covers sales of 100 000 tons of Lackawanna coal by the Delaware Lackawanna and Western and by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company with prices for steam grate egg stove and chestnut grades. also mentions a Hell Gate engineering award, the St Germaine passengers, a New York Irish fundraiser dispute, and a September 28 ship coal sale auction with rising prices.
The report notes a West Central frost in Memphis as a salubrious measure against yellow fever. Water froze in Omaha to a quarter inch, Evans and Hornick line train brought 30000 in gold from Deadwood, and San Francisco bank Tax Vallejo Savings and Commercial Bank suspended due to President’s financial woes. Indian Affairs notes no Ritting Bull movement. Governor General Lory Durryxim departs San Francisco for the East via Cheyenne, Denver, St. Louis, Ottawa.
Foreign dispatches describe an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Haytian president, Servian resistance to peace terms, and calls for foreign military intervention. Messages from Constantinople warn of a critical situation, urging an American fleet to Bosphorus protection. Reports reference the Czar’s letter and Russian influence.
Reports say the Austraan Consul will quit Belgrade if Prince Milan accepts a royal title while King George of Greece’s return is indefinitely postponed. There is talk of Crete cession to Greece and frontier ratification in Epirus and Thessaly.
The report notes Gzx Banks winning renomination for Congress by the Republicans in Massachusetts Fifth district. It records Republican gains over 1874 in Colorado, a two thousand majority predicted in the state, and a forty seat joint-ballot Republican legislature. A Wheeling parade featured speeches by Gen. Bickles for Republicans and Ben Wilson with J H Goode for Democrats. Wisconsin Democrats nominate Col John Cochrane for Third District. At Lincoln Nebraska convention on Sept 27 A O Abbott of Hall county is nominated for Lieutenant Governor, Bran Tzschuck is renominated for Secretary of State, J B Weston for State Auditor, J C McBride for State Treasurer, Prof S R Thompson for Superintendent. All state officers nominated by acclamation.
Washington reports the Tax Secretary of the Treasury has offered A B Mullett, former supervising architect, the superintendency of custom houses in Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis, and of post offices in New York Philadelphia and Hartford to complete projects per the original designs.
A series of deadly and violent events are reported including Mrs. Burke’s death from clothing flames during brush burning near Eden, Md. James Casey shot in a tavern quarrel in Bloomington, Md., and Edward Hupp’s attack leaving both victims in critical condition. Jewelry robbed from Franklin Horton’s store in New York. A New York music professor killed his wife and child before taking his own life. U S Marshals Torbett and McAlexander confront Moonshiner Giles in Tennessee. Torbett killed. Boiler explosion at a grain separator kills three and injures nine in Indiana. a 12 year old boy dies. Tax jury clears the Babcock case. judge Fullerton comments on evidence. Further reports mention a boating accident in Youghiogheny harbor with fourteen deaths and other scattered incidents.
Osxo Suits bon-caraman and his brother Mark, famed in Philadelphia for their champion four-oared crew, drowned October 1 in Halifax harbor after their schooner collided with the Nova Scotian. A passenger named Luke was rescued. the others vanished.
An American visitor recalls going to Brigham Young in his office near the Bee Hive House and Lion residence. The meeting shifts from curiosity to admiration then stark critique as the narrator describes the prophet’s polite demeanor and rumored schemes. The piece contrasts pious aura with harsh judgments about Brigham Young.
A narrator discovers a cramped shop filled with books and old master paintings and meets a famed painter at work on a Gainsborough study. The piece notes the fading trade in old masters and the dealer’s snuff stained attire as they discuss art and the market.
The centennial commission on September 27 approved forty thousand awards for exhibitors across Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa and Michigan. The list names numerous companies and institutions with items ranging from veneers and oils to clocks furniture and agricultural machinery along with educational exhibits and pupil projects from state schools and universities.
A chaotic car window episode unfolds with six men attempting the job. A young woman sits amid antics from bystanders, a lavender knee and cherries provoke slips, a man faints from the exertion, and a crowbar-wielding mechanic is interrupted when the conductor opens the window with a twist.
A French resident in South Africa recounts a tale of a sagacious macaque bested by another tribe member. A large baboon roams a coffee plantation raiding fruit, with wasps nesting low in trees as a deterrent, though a chorus of yells and howls signals danger where they cluster.
The fruit trees become heavily laden and a venerable baboon is seen in the distance tossing infant monkeys from the trees. The enraged occupants chase the primate while the baboon climbs higher to gorge and then pelts the monkeys with rinds and pits.
In a Nashville address, Prof. Huxley argues Niagara’s canyon formation through six miles of rock results from gradual erosion. He estimates back-cutting at around 10,000 years, notes alluvial shells and mastodon teeth in older rock, and contrasts this view with common beliefs about Earth's past.
The report portrays Hamid as a twenty year old who barely knows Arabic and Turkish scripts, yet at the Paris Exposition in 1867 his physique and European tastes are highlighted. He is described as strong, pale, quick-eyed, with a notable moustache, fond of gymnastics, fencing, and weight lifting, living modestly with his wife and two children at Kiahat Hane. He receives conspirators at a country estate and holds harsh views toward Greeks while praising the Young Turk party’s moral qualities.
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