30 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1883
Page
1
Shingles or lumber can be sawn to order from any timber furnished. The advertisement promotes the Duclos Co. saw and planing mills in New Harmony Indiana offering custom wood products to customers seeking processed lumber.
In New Orleans on March 26 a southern critique argues that natural forces created the Mississippi valley and that attempts to reclaim floods with levees have failed. It condemns government navigation schemes and warns that grand levee plans would ruin lands and tilt costs to owners.
Special to the Register from New York reports removal of obnoxious persons by knife and pistol with murders linked to Italians fond of cards and alcohol. A Sicilian brigand-eager killer is tracked after disembarking. jokes about lawyers and police flood the scene as sensational anecdotes unfold amid winter gloom. Also notes bridge opening plans, temperance clashes, odd medical alcohol schemes, and tributes to John Howard Payne and the ailing Catherine Crouch.
Winfield Inc reports adjourning the graded school due to smallpox with plans to finish the term. No new cases beyond the local poor-farm where three deaths occurred. others recover. Carrie Neal of Evanaville visits. Wheat fields look bare and real estate rises as tracts sell high. A saw-mill may arrive to mill poplars. Mt Attna eruptions grow more violent with eleven fissures and new crater threatening nearby villages. Caldwell Cooper moves to Robb township, weddings planned.
Curent state and neighborhood notes report river pirate James Neuman arrested by Marshal Paul and deputy Garrison for stealing about six thousand pounds of meat from Illinois farmers during the overflow. In Gibson County Ban public events include fox hunter Burr Robb taking eight scalps near Buena Vista, and Oakland population 1144. Evansville article lists local race for mayor with Bridwell and Dannettell campaigns, plus council fights. Other items note floods washing soil down to bedrock, a cat traveling 100 miles, lawsuits over whisky death, and numerous small local developments across Indiana.
In Washington, a Treasury assay office tests coin samples for weight, fineness, and standard value. Dr Lawner, the nasayer, explains metal testing to visitors. notable events include Congress printing costs, health fears for Secretary Folger and the President, emigrant and election news, and various national happenings from Ohio floods to Indiana air routes.
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