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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1877
Page
1
In a staged elopement scare the neighborly plan collapses when Samuel Jones discovers a letter and plans to raid a possible lover. The twist reveals the missive was a story fragment, leaving Amelia and Uncle Joshua to explain amid family laughter and comic relief.
The narrator recalls leaving New Harmony for the South and Cairo for work, then laments the separation from Josephine who marries a grey-headed man in Cairo. He plans to stay, strive for living, and return with Josephine to Harmony, hoping to reunite in a merged life. The verses joke about marriage, flirtation, and travel via the Wabash to Cairo.
Tom tricks Nell and Bess by claiming to find the first spring flower at dawn. They wager a kiss, but he reveals the joke when Nell reveals a frog prize and calls him a wretch. The line ends with an April Fools twist as the croaks echo.
A lyrical verse set in a twilight mood pleads for love to arrive as day fades and night rises. The speaker calls on the sun to die and the moon and stars to glow while imagining a beloved’s arrival. Dreams, petals, and dew accompany the wish for everlasting affection.
A brief poem in which the speaker contrasts artificial pearls with natural dew born gems. Imagery moves from chemists to heavenly dew, then to an Indian sea setting where shells form pearls. The narrator questions why a beloved cannot produce a pearly kiss and ends with a hopeful exhortation.
The extra session of Congress must address funding and reduce the army to 10,000 men. The House should also attach a provision barring political use of troops in elections or by any claimant for office. The goal is a neutral force, with other grave issues awaiting consideration.
An earnest churchgoer at a First Presbyterian revival refuses to seek personal salvation. He waits for the evangelist to act and reveals he only wants a chance to confront a man with a blonde mustache about a $10 debt after the service. The minister guides him to act for himself.
In buying lamp chimneys and glassware, inspect for specks resembling white stones embedded in the glass. These silica particles create brittleness and cracks. Detectives sometimes blame the glass as much as kerosene for breakage.
A preacher quotes a shrewd observer: the best remedy for an inattentive audience is to give them something to attend to. The saying likens the hungry sheep to looking up at a rack when hay is present, underscoring attention driven by a tangible incentive.
In the U S House scene General Sam I Houston is brought before Speaker Andrew Stevenson of Virginia for a reprimand after an Ohio member named Stanverry accused him of defrauding the Government in a tribal transaction on the Tennessee border. Houston met the charges with dignity as the Speaker administered the penalty.
A New Orleans Picayune note highlights persistent climate differences between the Mississippi east and west banks. West bank plantations produced 56,350 hogsheads versus 84,901 on the east bank, with the west showing 61 percent of the east’s output, reflecting growing regional productivity disparities. The column also recounts a London party anecdote about a dress collapse from an air-tight lining and reviews historical war costs and casualties, attributing two‑thirds of the 1800–1871 total to Napoleon I.
A Burlington Hawkeye quips about bonnet fashions praising a proverb and criticizing editors. It notes how modern styles lift bonnets away from the lips and describe variations among quiet, fashionable, and stylish women with humorous imagery.
The piece condemns the pursuit of a Supreme Court vacancy through political bargaining and favors merit over partisan influence. It cites the Bradley Strong decisions, Electoral Tribunal actions, and claims the process is auctioned to the highest bidder, urging selection by character and qualification.
A Springfield Republican editorial argues that exempting mortgages from taxation avoids double taxation on real estate and lowers interest rates. It contends the exemption benefits lenders and borrowers, reduces rents and business costs, and minimally impacts public treasuries while aiding debt relief.
A Canadian schoolgirl, insulted by a male pupil, flogged him after he disturbed the school. The boy’s parents sued and won $350 damages. The next day she opened with a bold remark about whipping misbehaving scholars to fund continued studies, and she remains the town’s most popular figure.
French hospital records show a long drop in leech consumption from 1830s to 1870s with annual numbers rising from 183,000 to 828,000 then steadily falling to 42,000 by 1875. Costs fell from 90,000 francs in 1835 to about 1,800 francs in later years.
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