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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1875
Page
2
The Register notes the death of Lady Franklin widow of the Arctic explorer who perished decades ago. The obituary recalls her long years of suffering and her efforts to find her husband, including funding expeditions and a Greenland voyage. She died on the 18th, over seventy and invalid for some time.
The Indiana delegation to the Centennial, Cox Donny Roache and Gray, returned from Philadelphia pleased with exhibition preparations. Indiana space is ample, with state headquarters planned of Indiana stone and wood. The Cotton States Congress at Raleigh urged more greenbacks and legal tenders, stressing agricultural and industrial interests.
The Democrats of St Louis push to host the next convention and form a committee to ensure success. A contrasting note suggests Louisville could host, while a wax Henry Ward Beecher likeness at Madame Tussaud's in London is described as a living image of Theodore Tilton.
A Pittsburg editor quoted, The closer people get to nature the closer they are to God. He took leave to work in the countryside and was struck by lightning while robbing an apple orchard, an incident that drew local attention.
The Indianapolis Journal reports on Robert Dale Owen's mental decline at the asylum. Dr. Everts sees no hope for recovery, predicting total paralysis as softening of the brain advances. Owen wanders between rapid fantasies of travel and Arabian horses, maintaining a distant dignity even as incoherence dominates.
The piece rails at Ulysses S. Grant from a Bonner's New York Ledger perspective. It contrasts his rise from poverty to commander and president with scorn for the sacrifices he touts. It ends musing on press critique and sharp editorial wit about newspapers.
The article argues against funding debts and favoring greenbacks over interest-bearing government bonds. It contrasts Republican moneyed interests with worker welfare, calling for debt retirement and broader industrial growth. It cites figures like 1.5 billion in bonds and 75 million in annual returns.
A Colebrook Ohio farmer B F Philips offers a free safe inexpensive potato bug killer. The mixture uses equal parts copperas and slaked lime in twenty gallons of water applied with a whitewash brush. He reports one application cleared his potato field of bugs and claims the treatment improves vines.
A collection of humorous maxims for horse owners advising to use a tow board for kicks keep the horse fat avoid liens tie fasten halters and bits with care and watch for proper attachment. The excerpt notes Chicago plans a floating hospital system to cure diseases using pure air from rivers and lakes in contemplation.
In a letter, Smirn mocks English bigotry over American demands, noting concessions were possible yet stalled by heroics. The piece recalls Sam Petter Coffee, pilot of the Nassau, who died in Brooklyn on June 7, born 1777, a long US Navy and steamboat pilot veteran. It also cites a foreign lady selling a kiss for 20000 and a Western passenger suing for a thousand. General Joseph Lane reportedly alive, having killed a panther near Roseling on July 1 and receiving a roar of applause on July 6.
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