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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1870
Page
1
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The Indiana Democracy unanimously adopted a platform denouncing Reconstruction, urging preservation of the federal union and Supreme Court independence, opposing centralization, tariff reform, and debt policies. They demand gold and greenbacks parity, abolition of the National Bank system, expanded currency, equal taxation of bank shares, and oppose the fifteenth amendment and Know Nothingism.
A reflective narrative follows Ruth Brown, a beautiful village woman who endures class stigma and hardship. After love, loss, service, smallpox scars, and moral tests, she marries Dr. Young, whose respect for her heart outlasts her faded beauty. The tale champions inner gentleness, self denial, and steadfast patience as true beauty.
The text notes circuses must manage two groups of workers including Black performers kept out after shows. It mentions a conscript who refused a duty due to a dislike for sweetness, illustrating harsh social attitudes of the era.
A New Albany couple kept savage dogs on their premises and taught them to fight. During the mêlée the old man intervened and the lovers fled through the back door, eloping afterward. Nearby, postmasters in New England are accused of misappropriating funds, and Charlotte E Ray enters a Washington university as a Lady student.
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