21 May 1868
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1868
Page
1
A motherless speaker describes a peDTIMI woman named Rosebod Ley in a trundle bed with folded hands and fixed eyes. A child asks for divine care as she envisions angels, roses, lilies, and a return of the soul at dawn, blending prayer with dreamlike imagery of heaven.
A blustering evening prompts Miss Jemima Bloor to repair Mrs. Mary Jane Robinson's dilapidated house while suspicions of her missing husband Willie loom. A shipwrecked sailor returns after nearly twenty years, seeking reunion with the devoted wife, who remains unmoved and silent until the reunion scene unfolds.
A narrator recalls Mary and Willie in a shared haunted life. Robinson tells of shipwrecks and hope revived by The Zephyr, while Mary grieves and clings to Willie’s memory. Mary dies after a quiet, hopeful vision as the old man over the way endures with patient care.
Mrs. Lyon widow sues Daniel Home to recover 300000 in bank stock and other securities she gave him after believing in his supernatural powers. She cites messages from her deceased husband via a Sloan Street athenaeum table rapping and a photographer's influence as key factors. The matter advances in court.
A Scotch paper recounts Emerson and Professor Wilson visiting Thomas Carlyle at Craigenputtock, Dumfries shire, describing the two story farm house and ash trees with swallows. Carlyle's lonely retirement from 1827 to 1834, his unpopularity, and Burns sharing the parish are noted along with a Goethe letter dated September 25 1828.
Rev I N Matson notes in a Chicago Post letter from Nice that American travelers should beware hotel charges in France. Rooms cost five francs, but service candles and fires push totals high. breakfasts and dinners often exceed ten francs per person. Two travelers can share rooms and meals to cut costs, though fees and extras apply.
An English clergyman offers a history for school use noting that England taxed the North American colonies to fund the war and that American resistance grew. He argues the dispute was rightful but England erred by not supplying vast regions with bishops.
In Newcastle upon Tyne, a religious movement grows largely among women. They travel among workers, read the Bible to them, discuss religious topics with zeal, and several preach on Sundays.
Rochester paper recounts Reverend Peter Cartwright at eighty as a witty pioneer Methodist on the western circuit. An anecdote shows Bishop Hamlin attempting to curb his jokes by prayer. Cartwright answers with humor. The tale ends with him quipping he is growing in grace "in spots."
A plan to use electric telegraph signals to announce approaching storms and tornadoes. Telegraph stations at county seats would relay alerts to towns, with cannons fired to warn farmers and bells or whistles in cities. The system could save harvests and aid commerce as Western Union would supply test telegrams when towns arrange signal guns.
A Western report describes Herman Missouri as a German in America enclave with vineyards on bluff hills and caverns for grape juice. Growers yield up to twenty thousand gallons annually, land sells for two hundred to one thousand dollars per acre, and high profits spark vineyard mania among locals.
A daughter of Mr Poposky returned home with thigh pain and a boil like wound. A needle point lay inside the inflamed spot, rusted except the tip. After removal the child improved, having suffered years of recurring right side pain. The needle had been unnoticed for years.
Detroit figures list various individuals and amounts received in 1867 payments or incomes. Notable entries include C. H. Buhl at 43 387, E B Ward 71 977, D Whiting Jr 50 174, J J Bagley 57 547, and D M Ferry 41 796.
A curiously assorted column lists actors, publishers, heirs, and public figures. It notes Miss Braddon, Miles O Riley, Baron Von Holstein, W Chambers, Capt Mayne Reid, Dr Hastings, Rosamond Owen, William Astor, Prince George of Prussia, James Mel villa, Rev Dr Johnson, W S Lingle, J Hammond Trumbull, J Reed manuscripts, a statistician at Iowa Prison, Henri Didier, William Talleck, Archduchess Carlotta, a goat at court, and 1867 1868 business figures. It also covers agricultural tips on strawberry covering.
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