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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1878
Page
2
Text reflects a poem about parting and shared joy. It contrasts those who depart for adventures or duty with those who stay, expressing that the traveler may be happier, and that faith and companionship sustain both sides amid doubt and longing.
The piece recalls Judge a respected, brave miner who aided sick fellows and thwarted despots in Cold Springs near Placerville, Coloma. It recounts the arrival of June Meredith and husband to the Springs, the crowd’s awe, the judge’s disappearance, and graves dotting the knoll above the mining camp once bustling with five thousand miners.
A ghostly tale centers on June Meredith's grave in a deserted mining camp. A well dressed stranger, visiting on the anniversary night, pays for removal of other graves yet keeps vigil to the silent tomb, while a Judge Dean Pratt is linked to Civil War era loyalties and a strained defense of Sherman.
A partisan tirade attacks William Tecumseh Sherman as a criminal and tyrant who purportedly used Federal troops to intrude in Southern affairs. The piece accuses him of violence, profiteering, and defiance of Southern interests, urging him to disappear from public life.
A French merchant whose house burned at Constantino ple lost his valuables after entrusting a trunk to a Turkish porter in the confusion. Months later the porter found him and restored the trunk intact, with no articles missing.
A Newcastle shopkeeper repays a debt twenty years late. He had kept a half guinea dropped by the gentleman's wife while crossing the Tyne, then later prospered and now settles the long owed sum with interest.
During Moore’s tenure as Lord Chancellor a courteous man sent two silver flagons to him. Moore ordered his servants to fill the flagons with the finest wine from his cellar and to return them, inviting the gentleman to drink and promising further refills when empty.
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