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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1883
Page
3
A Southern correspondent reports on alleged Black superstitions, linking birds and signs of death to households, cemeteries, and moon phases. The piece claims enslaved people held fears of conjuring, viewed corpses with morbid fascination, and aligned farming and rituals to lunar timing. It closes with sensational notes on visions during religious conversion and strange mountains with deadly air, citing London Echo.
The article surveys gemstones and superstitions surrounding amethyst, jasper, diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald, opal, havil opal, and garnet. It notes carat origin, diamond rarity, color values, historic beliefs, and regional sources from Hungary, Mexico, Bohemia, and Nevada. It discusses flaws, uses, and perceptions, including black diamonds for tools and royal mourning.
A volcanic Java valley earns the name Valley of Death from deadly earth emanations. A traveler reports nausea and giddiness near the belt of fetid air, then explores an oval floor one mile in circumference and 30 to 40 feet below surrounding land. Skeletons lay among stones while tall hills remain forested and healthy.
The Chicago Herald argues three improvements are critical for country life, with good roads at the top. It notes the high cost but huge benefits for farmers, enabling freight and social activity, education, and mental health by easing travel during wet seasons and mud.
Axminster Devon gained fame for its carpets in 1755. Chenille shawl weaving techniques cut costs starting 1839, though carpets remain expensive. Templeton & Co of Glasgow still largely weave by hand with design studios in London and Glasgow employing nearly 100. They produced royal commissions including a 100 by 34 foot carpet for Siam with a three headed white elephant center and others for Denmark Mikado and the Sultan worth about 6000 dollars.
Prof Sargent disputes rain from forests and J D Whit ney echoing the view after studying prehistoric and historic data across the Old and New Worlds. Yet forests’ role in catching rain and shaping moisture remains significant while preserving trees is emphasized as the core issue. A brief New Hampshire Thanksgiving proclamation urges gratitude to the bountiful Father. A confection of similes notes Cromarre as a small part of a man, but clothing and toothpicks serve the meal. In Philadelphia Times, John McGrath at 1236 Christian street is noted as cured by St Jacobs Oil for severe rheumatism.
The Hartford Courant notes a New Haven firm sells 120000 cigarettes a month to Yale College students with ten months in town yielding about 1200000 cigarettes and $8000 yearly at just over half a cent each. The same firm earns $15000 yearly from soda and minerals and a $500 monthly cigar bill with collegians. In West Covington Kentucky Tommy Dodd wed Emily Hale when rivals say he should have married Miss Welch and his mother threatened to kill him.
David Quackenbush of Greenwich street, a druggist born the same year as Thurlow Weed, says he has two beliefs. He notes he has practiced over sixty years and never met a woman who could prepare a prescription yet sees no reason women should not learn the drug business. He mentions some medicines are repulsive but education exists as the hurdle.
Proprietors report thousands of letters praising the medicine as a superior female remedy. Testimony from many ladies claims it relieves bearing down, exhaustion, low spirits, and gloom associated with dysmenorrhea. Ask your druggist to obtain it.
A satirical notice mocks quacks and coin extractor products claiming quick cures and public gullibility. It references Pur Nam’s Paintess Coin Extractor sold widely by Lord Stoutenburgh & Co. in Chicago and mentions an East Indian lady in Paris who speaks twelve languages, noting she is not married.
A collage of testimonial blurbs and product pitches including Burpock Broop Brrrers, Hood's Sarsaparilla, Thomas' Eclectric Oil for sprains, Dr Dye's Electro-Voltaic Belts, pine cod liver oil by Caswell, Hazem & Co, Frasier Axle Grease, and various tonics. The clashing claims promise rapid cures, vitality restoration, and health boosts with little risk, targeting bodily ailments, hair, nerves, and general debility.
A man and his sweetheart rode twenty miles through a lonely Minnesota tract. Midway they fought, the man unhitched the horse, mounted it, and rode off, leaving the girl in the wagon. He appeared to think she could pull the wagon herself.
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