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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1882
Page
1
The poem recalls a moonlit riverbank meeting from the past and a love that faded with time. The speaker recalls tall tree shadows hazel meadows and a silver river winding beside former days of carefree joy. The sea beckons as waves drift onward, leaving love behind.
In a reflective domestic tale Mrs. Wallace recounts Hettie Le Roy and Joe Hewberry, childhood sweethearts separated by family pressure. The narrative shows a girl’s devoted attachment, parental manipulation through promises of affection, and the pain of longing as a Christmas reunion gift arrives with Joe’s return.
A long tale of Hettie Wallace's devotion to Joe Hewberry unfolds from childhood longing to adulthood. Joe's sudden departure and later marriage tests her enduring love, but a renewed letter reveals his prior engagement. Hettie becomes a bride at last, and the narrative notes a wiser, happier ending.
A reflective line notes that the deepest sorrows are those shed away from eyes that witness them. It emphasizes solitude as the reservoir of true sorrow and the quiet cost of personal pain.
A Shetland fishing crew reports a monstrous sea encounter twenty eight miles east south east of Fellar describing a 150 foot creature with green eyes and large fins that followed their boat after they fired on it. A second item notes African funeral dances with vivid contortions and a lively cancan style, plus a new opera whisky glass that doubles as a drinking device during theater acts and prompts wary gallery etiquette.
The speaker urges choosing moral stands over conforming to fashion. He insists on acting with personal conviction, even if seen as rustic or antiquated, and stresses inner soul over outward trend.
A Texas hunter details bat caves in Medina or Bandera counties with millions of bats, dangers from snakes and chasms, and bat guano rich in nitrate of potash. He notes vast saltpetre deposits usable for fertilizer and gunpowder, estimating potential value near sixty dollars per ton, comparing it to a gold mine.
The city of Gouda is linked to stained glass and Dutch pipe making. Among its wares is the wedding pipe three feet three inches long with a coat of arms on the bowl. Festivals honor copper, silver, gold, and diamond weddings with stem leaves renewed at each anniversary.
A South American traveler describes a desert spring fed by burrowing animals resembling prairie dogs. He claims the animals bore a water well, and that their digging produced a fresh stream after eighteen days. He envisions wide irrigation potential for Southern California and Arizona with these pets.
A Washington memorandum shows pension payments for the late war total $500,781,950 through March 1, 1882. About 250,000 pensioners on the late war roll plus 30,000 War of 1812 service pensions yield an annual value of $30.3 million. Projected May and June disbursements keep the current fiscal year near $65 million, with 217,162 arrears claims and 53,179 newer claims affecting annual values by about $24.5 million.
The piece describes an agrarian scene with constant cultivation, bare land aside from preserved patches of wood, a grey border wall along the highway, road gradients revealing subsidence, close furrows, and rows of pollard willows with trimmed twigs. It notes stripped poplars and willows by a brook, creating a stark, orderly countryside image.
The June 18 anniversary of Waterloo was celebrated in England with regimental observances and laurel decorated colors. Chelsea College reports a sole Waterloo survivor, John Mackie, 97, pensioner and Marlborough House parade participant, still lucid. Other survivors live in different parts of England.
A train of ten improved stock cars carrying 158 cattle arrived in New York after leaving Chicago on the 26th and traveling to Buffalo then to New York at 30 to 45 mph. The journey, the quickest livestock run yet, showed only 20 pounds average weight shrink per animal from 1,430 pounds to 1,410 on arrival. Cattle were watered and fed at stations, with 40 foot cars featuring sixteen stalls, cushioned gates, and external feeding troughs. Automatic brakes accompanied the voyage.
The veteran German Army chief Von Moltke would likely smile at US Senate debates over retiring army officers at sixty four. He began Sadowa campaigns at sixty six and captured Paris at seventy one after defeating two armies in under a year.
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