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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1885
Page
1
The Register lists ad rates by column size and duration with fractional squares counted as whole. It notes payments in advance for transient ads and delivery payment for job work, and announces Sunday publication by C W Slater with arrearage policy and renewal terms.
The April 15, 1885 New Harmony Register dispatch details humane efforts against animal cruelty led by Mr. Angell at the exposition. It mentions harsh city mule car conditions, Idaho and California displays, Idaho taxidermy, mining yields, and Colorado destruction of a fragile exhibit, plus a complete U S coin collection shown at the fair.
The Laguirer details the Labor Congregation founded 1846 in Johnson township Gibson county Indiana. It recounts the suicide of Frederick Dieckmeyer at age about 22, a tombstone inscription, the church parsonage layout, and a history of unsettled pastors. It reports Rev Bollander’s May night vision by a tombstone of Dieckmeyer and a spectral request to erase the verse.
A lengthy Washington dispatch notes slow reform under the new administration, criticizing departmental underlings and Senate barriers. It highlights Easter events at the White House, jokes from Congress, and a mix of anecdotes about officials, inspections, and ongoing partisan tensions.
A miscellany of figures and facts: days off in France and other nations. thousands of skating rinks. Irish wealth on the Pacific slope. petunia seed prices. Bible society reach in Concord. a deputy sheriff guiding convicts to Philadelphia. copper cents worth more than face value. elevations and rainfall. New Haven and Union legislature seats. April fool wallet tale. German emperor’s cellar wines. gambling livelihoods in New York. New Jersey elections trends. Secretary Manning plan. Grant’s condition. a grand moral legislature adjournment and a hail event.
A compact digest of Indiana news notes from Gibson county to Evansville. Post offices swap hands briskly. paupers in Gibson cost $1.13 weekly for food. Charley Elmore jailed. Princeton fish price 123 cents per pound. Evansville lacks a pro baseball club for the season. Princeton owes Evansville tailors $1,000. Some Gibson fields acre for corn. Caborn’s Station burned two buildings, loss $2,000. Laporte and oleomargarine plant noted. Hancock County poor asylum cost $25,000 and is unsafe per grand jury. Indianapolis plans a new city hall at $125,084. Mrs. Asa Ross saves a chicken by opening its overloaded craw. Oakland City reports 430 school children. B.S. Gray named Portland postmaster. Merom drowning incident of Pyle and two workers with a child aboard. Jackson county families return from Kansas. Dry cattle disease near Scottsburg. Delaware County to build a $200,000 courthouse. Senator Smith of Jennings elected senate president. Rumor of Lieutenant Governor Manson resignation. Smith could succeed. Evansville council seat: Wm. Caldwell resigns. replacement due on the 25th. Vanderburgh circuit court term yields 15 penitentiary sentences and one female reformatory term. fines near $1,000. Evansville ward trends favor Republicans amid old editor’s note on November 4, 1884 storm.
The barn of 5. D. Blair near Grayville burned in last week's storm. Other Illinois notes include 40,000 bushels of old corn for sale in Wabash county and a count of expenditures as the legislature nears 100 days in session costing $200,000.
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