08 Apr 1881
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1881
Page
1
The Register charges in advance or with six months delayed payment. Discontinuances require notice, with unpaid arrears leading to new engagement. Advertising rates include squares, fractions, and columns with monthly, six, and yearly terms. All job work paid on delivery. legal ads per law.
An advertisement lists seed potato varieties including Clark's No 1 Beauty of Nebron Bliss' Triumph Mammoth Pearl and Early Rose, plus Landreth's seeds and various garden items. Also notes canned tomatoes Niagara Butterless Solid Meat and new food articles, with Thrall & Mumford's offering a wide stock of groceries, drugs, paints and fabrics at low prices. A note mentions scarce West Virginia sorghum.
A poetic fragment opens with pleas for peace and restraint. The speaker urges suppression of venomous speech and reprisal as a blessing desired to ease wounded feelings. Lyrical imagery invokes a temperate breeze and heartfelt sincerity amid rising passion.
The Richmond crowd hears Rev. John Jasper, famed colored preacher, deliver a Sunday evening lecture on Exodus and Joshua. He mocks scientific distance estimates to the sun, insists the earth has four corners, and extols Scripture over modern astronomy. Jasper is described as earnest, with a strong sway over his audience.
A fragmentary miscellany notes a curate of gossip about John William and a witty remark about wild thyme. It references Vice-President Arthur as a widow with a third marriage soon, a San Francisco wealth tale about family portraiture, and London Times commentary on electric light overtaking gas amid cautious progress.
A persuasive essay on intolerance as a threat to home and society contrasts historical figures like Cromwell, Lincoln, the Dutch Prince of Orange, and Puritans with modern freedom. It argues tolerance sustains liberty, presses for humane handling of religious and political differences, and urges domestic harmony through tolerant family leadership.
The New York Sun notes Democrats aim to expose a Republican accord with Mahone to control Senate offices. It argues Mahone’s influence blocks public business until Gorham becomes Secretary and Riddleberger is Serjeant at Arms, with broader ties to the Administration harming Virginia and creditors.
An editorial excerpt from Rural New Yorker argues against the belief that ice or hoar frost on fruit tree branches harms them. The piece asserts frost is preservative unless the weight causes breakage, explaining that frost is dew and that dry air and rapid cooling during long clear winter nights are far more lethal to plants than light frost.
The imperfect report of Mr. Mahone's Senate speech is described as bombastic and meaningless. The New York Sun calls it a disgraceful barter tied to Republicans, with Democrats urging Mahone be kept away.
The widow Van Cott has failed in an effort to reclaim the image of Utica described as poor and worldly, reflecting a public dispute over the city’s reputation and moral framing.
The passage recalls how Augustus Cesar faced death standing, Julius Cesar concealed his death face, Siward of Northumbria donned armor at his end, Maria Louisa met death awake, Lord Nelson hid scars after a fatal shot, and Napoleon died in marshal attire. Each vignette highlights composure and ritual at near the end.
An amusing Ghent moment during the peace talks saw Adams Clay and Bayard unable to whistle Yankee Doodle. They summoned a servant named John to whistle the tune, which the band then played as the United States national air.
A collection of curious, dubious statements linking battles, peoples, and inventions to unlikely facts. It catalogs fanciful claims about Waterloo, Chinese participation, Selkirk's island life, Ptolemy’s beer, and other anachronistic notes, presented as historical trivia without sourcing.
Passengers in a train car witness a snow drift block progress as the engine struggles against a six-foot bank. A fat woman quips the iron horse is beaten while a solemn man calls it black tin, leaving the conductor puzzled and silent in the doorway.
A brief remark notes that small amounts of study can mislead, likening ignorance to an itch that can affect violin playing and skill development.
A discussion of persistent ad tactics from signage to depot frames and hotel registers. It stresses the lure of painted fences, lampblack kettles, and bold wrappers to catch quick readers, notes costly framing at depots, warns against newspaper ads, and extols broad but expensive strategies for larger profits.
The Speaker of the House of Commons and Captain Gossett, the Sergeant at Arms, face strain from obstruction events. Gossett, son of Sir William Gossett, fears exhausting his power amid aggressive Irish demands. A young nobleman proposes a Florida-born candidate from the United States Senate, boasting strength to arrest absent members, provoking amusement and debate.
The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled the $5 weekly tax on commercial travelers illegal. The County Court voided the levy as unconstitutional but the Supreme Court based its decision on the city charter’s lack of authority. St. Louis drummers seek refunds of payments already made to the city treasury.
A Dayton resident carried death in his pocket for a decade, sometimes a poison dose or a weapon. After repeated misfortune he chose laudanum and took it, ending his life. The tale notes he kept arsenic, laudanum, hydrocynic acid, a pistol, a knife, and rope ready for self harm.
The theater producer declares intent to form a dramatic troupe comprising sons and daughters of renowned actors. He has engaged two Jefferson sons, a Sothern daughter and two sons, Lydia Thompson’s daughter, and his own children. The venture appears risky despite limited prior stage success, notably Lytton Sothern who spent a season in Australia as Dreary.
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