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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1885
Page
2
The Register recounts a dramatic fall of a forty ton rock from a Virginia arch and profiles Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron known as the Oatmeal King. It also notes Crow Indian cultivation limits, a cracked parrot crippled on a Portland ship, and Schumacher’s rise from poverty to wealth in thirty years.
Circles at Harvard College stir over a decree that Bancroft the rowing coach must resign. The professional educator faced removal after faculty cited misconduct, with supporters warning the action could harm education unless reconciliation is reached.
About fifteen thousand men drafted in 1863 in New York form a movement to obtain repaid expenses for substitutes. They claim half the counties paid all draft costs while others paid most, and urge the Legislature to authorize supervisors to reimburse expenditures upon a majority tax-payer petition. The item notes women’s comments on marriage market in New England and a Texas girl in Boston who advertised for a husband with a substantial property schedule. It mentions Prague theater patrons reacting to a headgear ban led by the manager.
The piece notes ladies with extravagant hair in a theater under a despairing manager. It reports General England’s death at ninety six, leaving General Whichcote as the sole surviving Peninsula officer in the British army list. It also lists Sir Abraham Cloete as the oldest European forces officer and General Hope Dick as the Army's oldest overall.
A Washington statesman denies the tale that S W Dorsey paid $100000 to R G Ingersoll for legal fees. Ingersoll says no bill existed and helped Dorsey as a labor of love and later lent money, receiving stock in a New Mexico firm. Dramatic Philadelphia cemetery reunion follows a separated couple after a boy’s death. Missouri’s Grand Gulf cave in Oregon county dwarfs nearby caves with arches 250 feet high and linked canals, a deep mouth, and water passages that swallow driftwood.
From the Troy Time a Boston school history class prompts with a question to Jalnie about the most notable ship to land on the New England coast. The Mayflower is named. A child answers with a humorous pork and beans remark.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch excerpt explains how crayon portraits are faked using solar prints from enlarged photographs. Artists tint with crayon, erase bluish highlights, and retouch to fool viewers, with cheaper costs and higher profits driving the practice. newer platinum prints last longer but fade over time. The piece notes frauds, methods, and the professionals behind them.
A New York Times correspondent details Sir Moreton Frewen and Herbert Frewen, nephews of Lord Dufferin, as major English-driven ranchers in Wyoming and Montana. They control about 245,000 cattle for outsiders, manage the Duke of Manchester’s herd, and are expanding via partnerships with Barber and others to ship cattle and improve English investment in Powder River regions.
Ben Perley Poore recounts Secretary Fish arranging a social etiquette lesson for ministers Howard Maynard of Tennessee and Godlove S Orth of Indiana. Orth receives guidance on dress code to avoid social faux pas while Maynard, described by his Indian features and long black hair, struggles to adapt.
In Demorest's Monthly an essay argues American families abroad favor foreign maids for better training and service. It contrasts submissiveness, language skills, and stability with homegrown help, urging view of domestic care as noble. It laments disorganized modern domestic labor and defends reverence for others as a virtue.
A survey of tight electoral results and parliamentary clashes highlights near misses in Illinois 1854 Congress races, Massachusetts 1839 governor race, and New Jersey 1830 House contests. The narrative notes Adams’ dramatic 1830 speech shaping the chaotic scene, plus anecdotes on flower care and bath etiquette across Europe and Asia.
Theophilus Parsons, Massachusetts chief justice, died in 1818 after a peculiar remedy. His doctor prescribed almost scalding water baths to cure a spreading skin irritation that resisted prior treatments. Parsons endured an hour in the bath, his son fearful of the heat, and within days the eruption dried up and he died a few weeks later.
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