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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1885
Page
6
Colin Thaxter’s verse in St Nicholas for January speaks to a Child meeting the Year. Four seasons bring gifts winter snows autumn bounty spring flowers and summer rose. The final prize requires a divine effort a clear conscience peace of mind and virtues truth patience courage and love to crown the child king.
The elderly deacon pursues his estranged son Alexander McNab across Texas after a long silence. He finds him in Austin, learns of his marriage to Mary Baylor, and is welcomed back to Glasgow with new purpose. The reunion reshapes their lives, ending years of separation and restoring family bonds.
A tale from Pike Township recounts Uncle Jimmy Frazier luring nocturnal owls to a razor edged scythe by nailing it high above a chicken house. Each dawn yielded owl toes until the ruse taught the birds to stay away, leaving local owls with stump toes as a lasting peculiarity.
Two strangers stop at Rowland Hill's Church to hear a sermon. The preacher halts their exit with a tale of a man who would forge all axes and all trees into one whip to thrash those who turn from the gospel, illustrating the power of a story.
Captain H. K. Byington reported a remarkable incident when the mill wheel halted abruptly after a ten pound trout wedged between a bucket. The fish, uninjured, had stopped the wheel and was later cooked as supper for the caption.
A Tulare County correspondent describes irrigation transforming Tulare lake fringe into fertile farmland. Artesian wells, canals, and reservoirs feed vineyards and orchards near Tulare and Page & Morton ranch, powering a growing economy with diversified crops and abundant wildlife.
A Galveston anecdote features John Barber described as dissipated and fortunes squandered. He begs Parson Bum pus for a quarter and pledges repayment, while the parson doubts his honesty based on past lendings and warns of being deceived again.
West Randolph Vermont resident Mr Sparhawk sought fire insurance on his factory but as he paid the premium a fire alarm rang and the Sparhawk property burned. The timing proved the insurance valid and the loss was covered by coverage bought in the nick of time.
The report notes four large tobacco factories began operations in Lynchburg Virginia with additional plants preparing to start. Separate items describe President-elect Cleveland’s cordial meeting with Michigan delegates in Buffalo and policy actions in Congress on rivers harbors and loan extensions for Otoe and Omaha lands amid hog cholera losses.
George H. McFadden, linked to Prentiss Tiller in a Pacille Express heist in St. Louis, pleads guilty to grand larceny and receives a three year penitentiary sentence. Separate notes seek runaway Washington siblings in Iowa and an Ohio murder case with Annie Van Fossen. Battered victim Frendesack dies after a St Francis Wis. assault. Nine government bonds tied to the Mead murder are recovered in Washington.
Major Vance of North Carolina was renominated by acclamation. John A. Martin became Kansas governor on the 12th with state officers and supreme court present. J. S. Robinson of South Carolina resigned from Congress as representative of the Ninth district. Ex Governor St John denies payoffs from any party to Prohibitionists. The Independent Republicans met in New York on the 12th. receipts were 24.1 and 31.1 expended on campaign documents. Springer committee heard Amos Ludington testify about poll tampering in Cincinnati. black voters faced intimidation and whites shouted repeater before judges could intervene.
Washington advance notice shows an unofficial 4th Congress membership: 133 Democrats 100 Republicans 1 Greenback Democrat Jr Weaver of Iowa and 1 Greenback Republican Mr Brumm of Pennsylvania. Several states retain or shift delegates and Utah Idaho and Washington show party changes. extra session possible after March 4 1881 and Senate to convene briefly to confirm cabinet appointments.
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