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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1876
Page
1
The Tax Register lists pricing for advertising including a yearly prepaid rate of 150 dollars and 82 if six months delayed, with strict adherence. It details rates by column width and duration, notes on arrears, and requires advance payment for transient ads and delivery payment for work.
A reflective poem advises readers not to fret over neighbors wealth or success. It urges honest effort, endurance through toil, and personal worth over material gain. The speaker notes appearances hide true fortune, while perseverance and integrity lead to lasting reward.
A lyrical meditation on true love growing beyond initial passion. The speaker contrasts fleeting romance with a divinely guided love that awakens life’s great glory and binds hearts in one moment of deeper realization. The verse frames love as a divine insight that transcends youthful fancy.
A sunlit path leads Love into Mischief’s ambush as he pleads for release. Mischief demands half of Love’s gained hearts in exchange for freedom. Love yields, travels to Venus, pleading for mercy from beauty. The Queen of Beauty notes fate remains and promises sweeter pain, Scribner for August.
The Honorable Richard H. Dana has donated fifty dollars toward the preservation fund of Old South Church, contributing to the ongoing fundraising effort.
The letter documents Thomas A. Hendricks accepting the National Democratic Convention's nomination for Vice President at St. Louis. He endorses the party platform, calls for corruption reform, civil service reform, and fiscal restraint, and praises Tilden as a reformer. He stresses restoring constitutional government, local self government, and nonpartisan schools, ending sectarian conflict, and achieving specie-backed finance.
A Victorian note condemns the cruel practice of flaying birds for feather trade with Baroness Burdett Coutts leading an English women’s movement to end it. The piece cites London sales of tens of thousands of hummingbirds parrots and kingfishers and predicts new protections. It also reports on Democratic Executive Committee sentiment toward Administrative Reform and a Boston Post excerpt praising reform outlook. A Centennial Hall anecdote describes two taxidermist hogs on placards, sparking a humorous misread by a couple.
The Wartford Times reports a Republican leaning in Maine and doubts over Massachusetts and Illinois while New York and New Jersey appear solid for Tilden. Pennsylvania and Indiana show uncertainty, Wisconsin leans Democratic, and Missouri’s paper concedes rottenness in its party amid a regional split with the South and Pacific States largely aligned for Republicans.
Sir Philip Francis, famed gourmand, watched a neighbor savor two bowls of turtle soup and reserve a green fat morsel. Unable to resist, he took the piece with his fork, then offered his card and apologized or offered satisfaction, stating the neighbor had no right to present such temptation.
An English girl named Lillie Tompking long employed by her aunt in Pera Turkey was sent to Prince Murad’s palace with goods bought by his principal wife and never returned. The prince, sultan, took her as his fourth wife.
In New York a distressed man pleads that a lie would betray him. He tries to coax Captain to justify deception after confessing 35 dollars saved for purchases like alpaca dress and hooks and eyes. The officer jokes about honesty and mock apologizes for advising deceit before the caller departs.
Scientific American reports New York citizens have developed a brown wrapping paper made from straw saturated with tobacco juice to imitate real tobacco leaves. The artificial wrappers, stronger and cheaper, are exported to Havana, with as much as 30,000 reams in a single cargo, and can contain a film of paper indistinguishable from real leaf while leaving only light gray ash.
In the entrance of St James Hall London Rubinstein about to begin a concert meets an old lady who asks for a seat She is told there is one seat at his disposal which she may take The seat is at the piano the pianist notes with a smile
Mr Blaine has returned to his home at Augusta Maine greatly improved in health He plans to take an active role in directing the canvass in his state and after that to travel the stump in Ohio Indiana and Illinois
Reports from Alabama describe worsening cotton conditions as warm weather favors spread. Fears rise of widespread destruction across nearly every plantation, signaling a severe impact on crops and livelihoods.
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