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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1872
Page
1
A man travels at night from a Ravenswood station to a ruinous Drew's tavern. He narrowly escapes an ambush by a ghostly apparition of his wife and a pistol blast, then flees through the woods to safety. Weeks later his sister reports his wife appeared beside him in New York to save him.
A humorous excerpt defines common terms with wry twists. Water is a clear fluid once used as a drink while Water’s opposite, honesty, is an excellent joke. A list of pithy misdefinitions follows for tongue bargain doctor wealth esquire jary state’s evidence modesty lawyer the grave and money.
A Collected snippet shows Josh Billings style reflections on parrots and pets. It includes humorous, sharp observations about parrot usefulness and nuisance value, plus a string of brief items: a California man lassoing a cow misadventure, a quarrel with an ignoramus, a death by suicide in Ottawa, swamp drainage work in Florida, peat discovery, and a Tennessee woman starving herself amid presumed insanity.
The Belgian papers report the death of Klaes known as the king of smokers. He amassed a fortune in linen and built a Rotterdam mansion with a pipe collection organized by nationality. His will orders a funeral invitation to all smokers with ten pounds of tobacco and two engraved Dutch pipes. He requires pipes kept lit at the funeral and ashes dumped on the coffin, with annual tobacco gifts to neighbors' poor. His oak coffin to be lined with cedar from Havana boxes. He wished a box of French caporas and Dutch tobacco at the foot, his favorite pipe beside him with matches and tinder. Four tons of tobacco and about 600000 quarts of beer smoked and drunk in eighty years. An admonition to smokers ends the note.
The Strasbourg Cathedral will be restored after earlier perilous repairs. Architect Herr Klotz estimates 125000 dollars in gold to complete repairs including over 1200 glass panes. The clock’s uninsured status requires cleaning and the twelve apostles will march again at noon. Concerns arise over a shell lodged in the organ causing possible danger if disturbed. The Boston Journal notes wooden shipbuilding revival amid iron tax shifts and British dominance. An Annapolis firm earned ten percent on a 10000 bushel corn shipment to Liverpool via New Orleans.
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