Mixed News From Around The World And Local Life
The item collection notes a West Point appointment prospect for Phil Sheridan, plans for a monument to Frederick König, and quirky local buz about cows named after sweethearts. It covers Alaska coal, convict statistics, a California fox farm, gender practice limits in Russia, a Maine divorce telegram tale, and legal-library debates tied to Tilden. It also includes a vinegar egg trick, Chicago corruption rumors, a printing office typo about Daniel, Spurgeon on backbone, shipboard scripture humor, and a Bahama waterspout sighting with vivid details.
Umbrella thief crackdown ends in jail term
A Dover crowd caught and convicted a man who took a neighbor's umbrella during a drizzly storm. He received three days in jail and $9 costs. Another thief who took an umbrella from a private residence hallway got sixty days. The men urge continued vigilance and praise to the effort.
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Dover
N. H
Hiffel
San Francisco Named Cruiser Despite Superstition
A curious superstition opposed naming the new cruiser launched at the San Francisco navy yard San Francisco. Letters declaring bad luck flooded the Navy Department before Secretary Tracy overruled them and ordered the name kept. The ship now sails as San Francisco amid amused crank speculation.
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San Francisco Navy Yard
San Francisco
Navy Department
Rushel
Tracy
Mare’s Island
Scanlan as a Reformer Delighted by Blessings in Louisville
Irish comedian W J Scanlan recalls an unexpected kindness from a couple in Louisville last winter. The woman credited his stage presence with inspiring her husband to return to total abstinence after a night at the theater and a sight of Scanlan performing the Peek a Boo song. The man, sober at last, found work and prosperity following the pledge. Scanlan says the couple blessed him and he enjoyed a memorable dinner with them.
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W. J. Scanlan
Louisville
Mr. Sewlan
Mr. Scanlan
New York Star
Depend Upon the Doctors at Gardiner Church Trial
A free Baptist church in Gardiner, Elder John Stephens helps lay the foundation amid laughter from a physician who jokes about filling the parsonage. Stephens replies that clergy can show the way to heaven but rely on doctors to get people there. The Lewiston Journal notes it among egotists that the Evil I is mostly found.
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Old
Mexico
Maine
United States
Washington and
Jefferson
Free Baptist Church
Gardiner
John Stephens
Sen Yenr
Elder John
Lewiston Journal
Send No Flowers
A New York Weekly poem laments cynicism toward flowers at death. It argues mourners should send flowers as a sign of love, praising heavenly purity and the scent that might lift the soul of the deceased toward God.
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Jesus
Howe
God
New York Weekly
A Lesson for Lovers Ends in Reconciled Hearts
Susan Ray and John Arbright quarrel over love and pride. Susan fires harsh words, fears his enlistment, dreams of battle, and seeks him. John remains calm, forgives, and their confession leads to a lasting engagement and renewed trust.
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John
Susan
A Primitive People Of Goose Creek Island
Goose Creek Island off the North Carolina coast is a remote, swampbound community with several thousand acres of fertile land and a small water passage that can only be navigated by tiny craft. The island hosts about 250 mostly cabin homes, a social divide between educated planters and poorer residents, and women described as buxom with muddy complexions. Residents wear calico dresses with bustles and use dried sea grass as makeshift trim, reflecting an isolated, old fashioned lifestyle.
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Goose Creek Island
North Carolina
Theory of hail formation from tornadoes and storms
A Nature correspondent outlines a concise theory of how destructive hailstones form in tornadoes and violent storms. Air is drawn into a rarefied axial zone, condensing moisture into cloud or rain below and snow higher up. Ascents and descents cause repeated freezing and snow coatings, producing hail or transparent ice as the drops gain multiple coats.
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Nature
German Recruits and the Moral State of Peasants
The author details the labor of turning ignorant peasant lads into soldiers in the German army. Recruits often lack basic literacy and moral concepts, with many coming from backgrounds where German is not understood and where discipline relies on rough methods. Some have never heard of Frederick the Great, revealing deep gaps in history knowledge and patriotism.
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Berlin
House of Correction
Fritz
Frederick the Great
Prince Kraft Zu Hohenlone Ingelfingen
Quantrell Guerrillas and the Lawrence Massacre Record
The Quantrill band emerged from teacher Quantrill and his brutal rise after Kansas killings. Lawrence endured a bloody August 1863 raid, many conscripting for the massacre, the gang famed for a black flag and ruthless executions. Survivors bore scars, and Cole Younger wore a rope-mark as a grim warning. After Lawrence, the group dwindled. Quantrill died in Kentucky linked to a Sister of Charity.
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Quantrell
Kansas
Lill Anderson
Lawrence
Cole Younger
Cole
Missouri
Kentucky
Sister of Charity
Jacksonville
Death by Charcoal: Paris Watchmaker’s Suicidal Notes
A Paris watchmaker, inspired by a drama by Alexander Dumas, suffocated himself with charcoal fumes. In his room a blackened paper clenched in his hand bore a minute by minute record of his actions and thoughts from 2:15 to 3:20, concluding that there could be no God and that death would end his suffering.
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Alexander Dumas
Paris
Duchesnes
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Bert
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Joln Arbright
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