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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1880
Page
2
A poetic meditation contrasts sorrow and hope as a speaker recalls a dawn in a world desiring light. References to a mysterious Romany figure, nature imagery, and the reaper Death frame the longing for meaning amid scattered voices.
An elderly narrator recounts a windy night when a polite burglar enters her room seeking a loan of forty dollars and eighty cents. She locks him in the adjoining closet, extorts gold from him through a tense stand‑off, and later uses the money to help her niece Rebecca attend school. The tale ends with a puzzled eyewitness remark from a neighbor.
A gaunt woman confronts a Central Station captain claiming census omission and demanding recognition of her humanity. She details her age forty three, marriages nine children, English father and American mother, and threatens to return if not recorded. The account ends with a separate note on Robert H. Coleman canceling work on a Lebanon estate after his wife’s death.
The Alabama Republican State Committee warns of massive fraud in the late election. The document details alleged schemes by Democrats to void Republican gains, with specific county examples and claims of forged returns. The report argues black voters were disenfranchised and asserts a Republican majority would have existed under fair counting.
A collection of home cures and farm advice covers poultices with sweet oil and laudanum, pest control for the buffalo tree hopper, seed corn selection tips, and a safe Colorado potato bug destroyer from Cornell and Wood. Also includes recipes for Scotch potato scones and spice salt, plus decorative feather screen ideas.
A Bangor Maine editorial notes some cigarettes are dangerous with opium traces and arsenic whitened wrappers. A physician analyzed a sample and warned of addiction risks from constant use. The piece contrasts this with a wealth snapshot of New York’s Fifth Avenue residents led by Vanderbilt and several others with fortunes over five million.
A Scottish mine tragedy near the Clyde floods left many drowned while one miner escaped by hiding in an abandoned shaft. After sixty days of isolation he signaled rescuers with a rope and clothing, was pulled to safety almost dead, then nursed back to health to recount the harrowing ordeal and his survival against odds.
A Florida Peninsula Railroad worker gathered ten thousand oranges from one tree last fall. A fifty thousand acre tract on the Northern Pacific Railroad has been bought for a Belfast colony. Berlin University pays nearly twenty thousand dollars for a rare Archaeopteryx fossil bird. Missouri grows 60,000 acres of grapes yielding millions in value. California 60,000 acres in grapes valued at eighty million dollars. The Evansville and Terre Haute line in Indiana planted 85,000 catalpa trees, destined to become fence posts and cross-ties. Atmospheric vapor shapes summer comfort by cooling the body through evaporation. Nevada mines depths include Utah 1980 feet and Crown Point 2800 feet among many. Prof Reade cites rivers washing away vast solids yearly, estimating global denudation around six hundred tons per square mile annually.
A well dressed Swedish woman told Chief Justice Neilson of Brooklyn City Court that as a child she was adopted by a family and later married a man who turned out to be her own brother. The judge advised the marriage be dissolved and referred the case for settlement. names were withheld.
A singular Chinese burial in Virginia City Nevada featured Mongolian musicians and a noisy brass band. A hearse carried the deceased, followed by a wagon with a roast pig and paper offerings, drawing curious locals to a spectacle of unusual customs.
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