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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1888
Page
2
In Mansfield Ohio two youths playing anarchists fashioned a bomb from gas pipe. Maxwell suffered severe facial lacerations and may lose both eyes. Civil authorities and doctors monitor his condition as the incident is investigated.
In a country court in England a dog ownership case ended without a verdict. The judge arranged each claimant on a side with an officer holding the dog in the middle and ordered both to whistle while the officer released the dog. The dog bolted through the door as the judge called the next case.
D G Parntex of near Griffin Georgia shows a remarkable rooster that adopted a brood of chicks after their hen died. The bird feeds, shelters, and watches over the orphans, filling the mother hen role with evident devotion in the farmyard.
A St Helen's Recreation Football Club player, Tayonorn aged 27, died from brain concussion after a collision with a Widnes opponent during a rugby match. He continued playing briefly, then collapsed, with doctors noting severe brain injury and a twisted ankle. Reports from Americus, Georgia mention racial whispers regarding a hanged or accidentally killed husband.
A headless woman haunted the village with constant talking and unseen replies. Local legend says she could summon her husband from the grave at any time, and his shadowy figure would rise, cross the fence, enter the house, and cradle the children. Negroes spread the tale, claiming to have glimpsed the headless man pass through a keyhole when called.
A dated list from Tcher nizeff district outlines club conduct including dress restrictions tradesmen entry limits and fines for improper attire and behavior. Rules ban grease odors, velvet waistcoats, decency breaches and public smoking with penalties.
About 5,000 Protestants of the Ce Yennes gathered atop a mountain to mark the centenary of the 1787 edict of toleration signed by Louis XVI. A rustic pulpit stood on the summit as thirty pastors in black gowns sat before the ridge. A commemorative stone was unveiled by a Ce Yennes patriarch and V Pastor Vigne of Paris preached.
A Bodily lesson on reputation urges restraint and subtleness. It argues that many men gain standing by doing nothing, as effort invites scrutiny and failure may ruin perceived ability. The reflection warns against overexposure and declares cautiousness makes one appear capable in all respects.
The Detroit Free Press recounts a Quaker wedding in a plain meeting house. The couple, Huth Stiles and David Hill, exchanged vows without music, in a silent, devout ceremony observed by a small congregation, witnesses signing the certificate as the union joined a mission school teacher to a farmer's family.
Near Berlin a German corporal named Otto Schreiber reportedly has no blood in his veins and felt no pain after a knife pierced his mouth and exited the neck. Doctors allegedly cannot explain the condition despite tests. Comrades avoid risk by avoiding his toes and handling him carefully after a duel.
A fragmentary OCR excerpt mentions Otto Schreiber and a plan to reveal himself in major European cities next year, with no clear event, date, or context to identify a full news item.
A reflective piece centers on an hour passing in a town: a clock, a chemist, four women discussing scandals, a tempted youth, a mother and child, a sick bed, and prayers. It asks what report the hour carried to each reader and urges responsibility before the moment passes. The passage references Antigonus and a line about a despised slave bearing treasures.
In a San Francisco Post item, a young man Mr. Yardash courts Tillie a mission girl and dines with her family. Tillie admits she is not a large eater, her mother defends her while her brother jokes. A scolding escalates then the son is warned away, Tillie asserts she will not be whipped for truth. The mother’s meddling is rebuked and the suitor defends Tillie’s appetite.
An Indiana encounter recounted of evangelist Peter Cartwright who scolds two widows’ daughters Peggy and Patience for wearing their mother’s feather bed and brass kettle as fine clothes. He pauses in sermon to mock their adornments exposing their folly and family disputes.
A humorous note recounts William Wilberforce's family wit, tracing it to a clever daughter who plays on the name during a Yorkshire election. An English divine likens Wilberforce to both an angel and a monkey, per St Louis Magazine, highlighting wit and agility in public life.
A John street diamond dealer recounts a pair of encounters in a building with entrances on John street and Broadway. A well dressed man waited, later in satiny clothes with a vanished smile, claiming a friend owed him money and would return it at a hotel. The conman lured a country visitor, who handed over 65 dollars, then vanished after nine reports of suspicious behavior, prompting the dealer to warn others about the trap and invite a look at the bunco scheme.
London Rechange argues for a formal tipping system in Lucerne hotels, noting servants rely on tips for wages and that direct tipping motivates better service. The piece contends prohibiting gratuities risks higher hidden charges, while critics fear demoralization, but proponents see tipping as natural and preferable to covert payments.
European orders of chivalry flood the market with prices from 200 to 31000 dollars, proving honors can be bought. Henri IV favored recipients lacking merit, while Spontini boasted crosses to conceal his vanity, a contrast to Mozart who needed none. Oats commanded high prices in the Middle Ages, with Welsh protection around 948.
A survey of varied science notes from Popular Science covers factory-made bedclothes of layered manila paper, an Oxford meteorologist's pole-shift theory linked to climate, railway telegraph tests on the Lehigh Valley line, stove efficiency by surface area, a precise pendulum experiment, tailless cats and nose-less Japanese dogs, smut control in oats via copperas and potash treatments, and measurements of musk, thyme odor diffusion, ambergris longevity, camphor molecule weight, and avafertida volatility.
Idaho society column reports a wedding near Judge Plunket residence nearly disrupted when the Jizen Point Vigilance Committee hanged the groom Frank K Ellsworth for horse theft. Bride Miss Duckie Plunkett offered to marry Rev Penderswort instead, ceremony led by Justice Woolly, wedding saved by swift action. Also notes hotel guest notice and etymology of England’s name from Egbert in 829.
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