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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1883
Page
2
A 12 year old boy tending cattle in Dakota is believed dead after a prairie fire. He later returns home with a tale of fright and loss to cover the stock's value. The Register also reports on varied topics from executions to railroad labor, a three tongued Arkansas child, and a dog delivering a vital help note.
A Philadelphia Times critique targets the habit of spitting in public, detailing how the Man Who Spits disperses saliva in homes, streets, and transit with alarming frequency. It notes repetitive spitting on streetcars, the spread to fellow passengers, and the moral and health drawbacks, calling the behavior ugly and dyspeptic.
A Prof Adler quote in the N Y Herald urges viewing children as loaned gifts with own significance tied to society. It argues that each child embodies a wider life beyond parental lineage and calls for bringing out that unique significance. The piece adds that on average not more than one in ten attend church.
The piece recallsSir Walter Scotts death in 1832 at Dryburgh and his status as the leading novelist of his era. It notes his age of 61, the deaths of his children and heirs, the extinction of the baronetcy, and his enduring literary prominence beyond fifty years. It lists his major novels from 1819 to 1823 and assesses late works like Redgauntlet Woodstock and Anne of Geierstein.
A North England clergyman to play chess on his lawn with parish children as living pieces recalls Adrien Robert’s Contes Eccentriques. In the tale the Thugs lose after a long battle on a Barrackpore plain for the Governor of the East India Company hat, and the ringleaders are handed to the Company. The Governor’s generosity leads to the thugs’ surrender and India’s salvation.
Insensible to abuse describes how a public man should ignore hostile press. Silas Wright, a Democratic leader in New York fifty years ago, used a blunt antidote by not reading hostile articles. An editor apologized after discovering a morning piece on Wright was false. Wright replied calmly that the published charges were untrue.
A chagrined editor confesses to six months of writing against Mr. Wright, who coolly replies that he has indeed been targeted. The editor vows to write no more, surprised to learn the length of the feud and Mr. Wright's calm stance.
A historical sketch recounts how the English crown granted New Jersey to the Duke of York and how Fenwick and Byllinge purchased rights, sparking disputes that led to arbitration by William Penn. His involvement rose from West Jersey’s legal deadlock to eventual proto statehood, inspiring Penn to found a structured province and shaping his future as a colonial planner.
An apparent wooden statue of a woman in Strassburg conceals a horrific trap. A bound victim is impaled by double doors lined with steel spikes, then subjected to extended torture culminating in a fall into a grinder and river, feeding fishes.
During the war at Little Rock General Steele confronted an Arkansawyer charged with shooting a soldier. The man claimed the soldier insulted his daughter and wife and mocked his college training, saying he could not endure it any longer and lifted the man. A separate note states in India and Ceylon twenty four of seventy two missionaries are children of missionaries.
A long miscellany of moral tales and wry sayings adapted as fables. Jokes about marriage, dicey finances, and social pretenses unfold through brief vignettes featuring a Chicago judge, a mother, editors, a dog and its tail, a Measles party, and a pawnbroker. Each tale closes with a practical lesson or social observation. The pieces lampoon vanity, misinterpretation, and human folly with a light, period voice.
A Georgia editor rails at early marriages by young men in the social sphere. He mocks untutored lovers who marry before earning steadiness, jokes at their lack of wealth and readiness, and complains of doctors, households, and bridal chaos that follow quick unions.
A new office boy arrives cheerful and bright, then quickly misbehaves. He taunts a printer, torments the cat, fights another boy, borrows $2 claiming his mother is dead, and steals two days’ pay from the cashier before pawing a coat and clashing with the janitor.
A Boston Courier clipping recalls a worker who damaged a newspaper press and left a note saying his mother forbids him to work in a dull place. He proclaims he would make a good preacher and wishes to go fishing, signing off Till Death do Yank us.
Edward Eggleston recounts Captain Myles Standish’s bold leadership in Plymouth Colony, detailing his ruthlessness in quelling a Indian conspiracy near Weymouth, including the ambush and execution of Pecksuot. The account notes Robinson’s dismay and contrasts the head exhibited in Plymouth with London’s Temple Bar later.
The article surveys biblical theories locating Eden among various regions. It weighs Tigris and Euphrates as possible waterways, debates Pison and Gihon identifications, and notes differing geography from Armenia to Africa and Babylon. It highlights unresolved questions about the rivers and Eden’s location. It also comments on John Ruskin and his self-critique.
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