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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1880
Page
1
The Register outlines subscription costs and advertising rates including one square ads up to ten lines and multiple insertions. It sets payment terms, discontinuation rules, and mentions legal ads and column rates for quarter half and whole columns with advance payment required.
A reflective meditation on time and mortality asks what a year truly means. The verse casts time as an iron heart and brazen wheel, a fleeting breath, a bubble on a wave, and a transient scene from youth to old age, ending with the cycle of life and death.
A fragmented OCR passage lists numerous party names spanning 1775 to 1868 including Nova Scotia Cowboys Federalists Anti-Masons Whigs Know Nothing American Party and National Union Republican Party. It contrasts these labels with the Democratic party and cites a Petersburg Democrat line about steadfastness. It also notes the forthcoming publication of The correspondence of Peter the Great at St. Petersburg and closes with a Galveston Sunday school quip about Sunday beer.
A Kansas railroad train plowed into a herd of cattle causing thirteen deaths. Authorities responded as crews secured the scene and investigated the incident, while officials warned of dangers at crossings and urged caution for drivers near rails.
A night scene at Mr. Carmichel’s window unravels into a comic vigil as a prowler on the shed provokes a surreal cat duel between the yellow cat and a brindle. The tale blends whimsy with urban mood, ending with Carmichel dozing in wonder rather than fear.
Poet Whittier recalls an old friend harassed by jeering boys as his hat blew off. He calls to the swearing boy, tips him a quarter, and jokes that cussing those boys costs two shillings. The anecdote surfaces in a reminiscence with Misa Abigail Dodge.
A young lady declined a role in a Daughters of Temperance division. She stated a clear intention to pursue another path, indicating personal reasons for her decision. The exchange reflects individual choice within the temperance movement.
Jacob Terwilliger of Shawangunk Mountains New York describes a near fatal encounter in his apple orchard. A bed of rattlesnakes coiled on the track and attacked him as he moved. He killed eight snakes and escaped with two hand scars. He credits whisky as the cure that saved him within two days.
When an Eastern man goes to Colorado he is called a tenderfoot until he has been stabbed, shot at, engaged in a free fight, fallen down a mine, kicked by a mule and chased by a vigilance committee. Then they admit he is getting used to the country, and when he kills his man he is looked upon as a citizen.
A fragmented line suggests Mr Archibald Forbes delivering a lecture titled Kings have met with mention of a future encounter involving three kings and a pair of sevens. The text includes incomplete phrases about attire and a stray line about travel.
The story depicts Bummelhanos, a traveling salesman for Twopercent, clashing with his harsh employer after a costly State trip. To illustrate sales tactics, the duo reenact drumming a country merchant, ending in a violent outburst that ends with a threat of brutal consequences.
A peculiar encounter in Exchange Place occurred when a shabby stranger posed as a missionary seeking a loan. He tested a merchant by asking if honesty would influence a donation, then confessed he had no money and planned a rough winter. The exchange ended with a wry farewell from Wall Street News.
The Chicago Times notes the Grant faction’s victory and Conkling’s rising influence. It laments the Sherman Republicans and mentions a Democratic secret organization affecting voting precepts in Ohio. Maine’s result could energize Blaine’s presidential hopes while Conkling contends for control of the party conflagration.
An editor in the Providence Dispatch comments on a recent advance, urging readers to heed the moment and reflect on duty. The remark highlights public interest and the newspaper’s stance during a pivotal period.
Critics debate if orators are born or made. Patrick Henry is cited as a rare exception, a natural speaker admired by Jefferson yet uneducated by formal standards. The piece contrasts Henry with modern orators, arguing that future eminence requires ideas and the skill to present them, best gained by study.
In a Michigan interior town a couple known as the Siamese Twins are inseparable. They attend church, split wood, walk the streets, and even fight together. After a recent quarrel a man asks why the woman pummels her unprotected husband. She replies they will die together, a pact made when they married after his first wife’s death. He had proposed a new marriage seven days after the widow’s funeral. she refused and waited ten days before marrying him.
Two country gentlemen in Galveston spark a stir after a misdated programme promises the next act two years later. They question staying for two dollars a day and seek to leave, approaching the ticket man for exits.
A Lausanne Cathedral sarcophagus of Roger of Tuscany, Bishop of Lausanne buried in 1220, was opened recently. The remains were largely intact and his episcopal robes preserved, drawing attention to the medieval burial.
Fragmentary OCR reads as a note about government involvement in a railroad settlement or policy. No clear names, dates, places, or outcomes are readable.
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