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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1882
Page
1
The Register announces subscription at $150 yearly in advance and notes non-discontinuance unless arrears are paid. It lists advertising rates by column, with price per square, fractional squares counted as whole, and legal notices charged by law. Transient ads require advance payment. job work due on delivery.
A Parlor Store offer gives 25 cent shoppers a card with a number and a chance on April 1 to win an Organette and over 200 feet of music. The store also advertises Masquerade Trimmings, Gold and Silver decor, stationery, picture frames, and a range of goods at low cash prices. A wall paper and window shade line is promised soon. Feb 17.
William Hartman boots and shoes at Main Street New Harmony Indiana offers ready made work and custom orders with prompt service. Shop emphasizes fair terms and satisfaction. Also advertising FIRESH Pilsener lager beer mixed drinks wines and tobaccos with free lunch daily and hints at nearby businesses Friendly notices for other merchants in Omega area.
Notice from Harmony Township trustee Frank D. Bolton enforcing State Board of Health rules requiring all teachers and scholars to be vaccinated within sixty days from January 1 1882 or be excluded from school until certified by a physician. Refusers incur a five dollar daily penalty reported to the county health officer. February 3 1882.
J W Davis announces purchase of J T Hugo’s undertaking business and stock, adding a large and varied line of caskets, coffins, robes, shrouds, embalming fluids, and a patent cooling board. A hearse and matched horses will serve Poseyville and Stewartsville, with local agents ready to respond to calls.
Washington dispatches report Boss John C New of Indiana receiving an assistant secretaryship of the treasury after pushing Grantism, with Indiana Republicans crediting him while noting S. W. Dorsey’s decisive influence. Contested seats in the House waver as Republicans back away from mass expulsions. Wheeler and Chalmers loom as seats at risk amid apportionment changes. A Sherman junketing expedition seeks posts and sights in Texas and the West, while Texas anti-Democrat fusion eyes Congress gains. The apportionment bill sets Representatives at 825 after 1883, with shifts toward the South and West, and Indiana notably no gain. Virginia snubs Mahone amid Readjuster tensions. larger Navy appropriation debates arise alongside indictments of Star Route figures. Grant and Douglass in D.C. scenes as speculation and politics intertwine.
The culture reports 1881 crop yields across the country in bushels. Wheat reaches 416,481,000. corn declines 31 percent. oats show growth. buckwheat totals 9,486,200. Overall wheat and buckwheat strong, with a 24 percent drop from the previous year in total meat product? The Senate approved the Congress apportionment bill on the 21st.
A Hopkinsville farmer left hogs to hang, a colored thief’s neck snapped over a gambrel stick, and a hog ended up on the thief’s side. Carmi reports a well-dressed beggar with Guiteau-like airs, Princeton hosts a twine wire telephone, and rail fencing complaints rise between Owenaville and Cynthiana. Prisoner Cal Barnett gets 10 years, Mt. Vernon to add a flour mill, and a Pennsylvania academy burns.
New York dispatch recounts a flour mill boiler explosion near Fulton ferry causing casualties and panic. The Radix column extols Mutual Life Insurance Company assets at $94,702,957 and 1881 policy payouts of $12,640,112 with substantial dividends. Also notes oddities of quirky locals, a tall mulatto prince in trouble, postmen with sciatica from Valentine’s Day mail load, and social bursts as Lent nears with hunts, Knights Templars gala, and Grant’s Madison Square Garden review.
A fragment notes a sea serpent seen near Long Branch with a square head and two big horns. The writer compares it to bull whales and suggests it may be male, contrasting with feminine or juvenile forms observed by others. The piece hints at paying respects to General Grant next summer.
Unprecedented rainfall floods rivers from White and Wabash in Indiana to the Ohio near Cincinnati and Louisville. The Ohio and Mississippi basins overflow, submerging streets, bridges, and towns from Evansville to Rock Island. Rail travel disrupted as bridges and homes are washed away and millions face destruction.
A Miura, Kentucky correspondent recounts meals to spare moments with friendly hosts, a racy tale of a grand ball hosted by Mr. Spence Burns and the awkward social misadventures of a floor routine. The piece notes a completed grist-mill and tobacco seed sowing by farmers in the area.
Chester dispatch reports a blaze at Admiral Porter home where a former pyrotechnist stored explosives. After an hour of fighting flames, a violent explosion killed about twenty men and left fifty injured. Survivors describe a scene of panic, with bodies and wreckage in the streets. Nearby, a duel in Louisiana ends with Stewart killing Martin. Virginia forces capture oyster pirates, and a Massachusetts fire blazes through Haverhill, damaging ten acres as Boston aids arrive.
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