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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1877
Page
1
The Register lists subscription prices and strict payment rules. It details advertising rates for quarter, male, and full columns, plus rates for local column and job work.
A poem describes sunset over the hill and river with gold light and a shore farewell. Two lovers part at dusk as tides and bells mark the moment. The speakers debate if parting is sweet pain or tearing the heart apart, lingering together though destined to go.
Poetic meditation on emotional distance and enduring love. The speaker contrasts stormy barriers and cold waters with faith and unspoken sympathy that bind two hearts. Despite longing, drifting, and fate’s weave, a golden thread promises unity and resilience across hardship.
A speaker recalls the pensive mood as frost nears and the landscape turns brown. A sympathetic companion with tearful eyes softly murmurs goodbye while placing her lily hand in his.
Spare the Old Woman, Claiborne Jackson, the prewar Missouri governor, married five sisters in succession. After each wife’s death he remarried among the family, and when seeking consent to wed the last sister, the father quipped that Jackson already had them all and should not ask for the “old woman” again.
As conflict unfolds three major powers shift roles in the war effort. The Russian leadership, initially paired in a two head view, now dominates with a tripled command structure, signaling expanded control. A Turkish influence completes a reshaped alliance, indicating intensified regional involvement and strategic realignment.
In 1876 the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania recorded 228 miners killed and 462 wounded. The figures reflect harsh mining conditions and high accident rates in the era.
A married couple clashes over social life and fidelity, as Elsie defies her husband George Walton in pursuit of opera and society. Aunt Eunice warns of reaping the whirlwind while Elsie grapples with fear, separation, and regret, amid a wartime hospital scene and a satirical census tale.
A wounded soldier awakens to cry out for his wife Elsie and then fades with the realization that their reunion on this side of the dark river was brief. The next bedmate turns away, mistaking the moment for a fleeting encounter, while Elsie’s happiness follows the same doomed course as her husband.
A fractured 1877 note from Iowa includes misspelled lines about crops, cattle, and longing. The writer pleads for a return, asks for pecans and corn, mentions sleepiness at supper, and signs the note to Mr. Joshway as if a fond, imperfect plea across distances.
California's wool growth is becoming one of her greatest industries. The export last year exceeded fifty million pounds, worth eight million dollars. Several wool growers own between thirty thousand and forty thousand sheep each.
An Irishman spots a boat dangerously laden and barely afloat, exclaiming that if the river rose slightly more the ship would go to the bottom. The remark reflects a vivid, humorous maritime image from the period.
The carpet trade in Philadelphia sees investments over 4,000,000 dollars with prospects bright. Factories report full capacity operation and high activity across the sector.
Col Ingersoll argues against farmers rising at night in Illinois. He calls early rising a relic of barbarism that robs workers of leisure and health. He urges rising after sunrise, feeding cattle the night before, and eight hours of work plus restful sleep as the path to well being.
A seedy man stands on a street corner with a look of despair. A mild passerby offers help, but the desperate man drinks to conquer a demon he claims robbing him of control. The encounter ends as the passerby moves on, leaving the solitary figure lost in thought.
Lyman Dwight of Whitehall and Mrs. Nancy Adams of Carson City Nevada, once sweethearts as youths, reunited after five decades. Dwight now 67 runs a Whitehall hardware business and the couple married September 30 at South Hero’s Lodine Spring House, Rev. Guernsey officiating. The pair previously drifted through lives in New York Lake Champlain towns and Nevada gold country.
A humorous sketch on English misuse highlights examples from ads and conversations. It includes a furrier asking ladies to bring skins for muff and boa conversion, a plea for washing by two sisters, and a horse advert. An exchange about a man with six children in New York ends with a pun on birth timing.
A humorous aside recalls Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh bantering in a mock exchange. The Virgin Queen rebukes a saucy knave then grants a gracious gesture, noting the jest. Researchers omit this anecdote in some histories.
A telegraph station has been established at Gjesvor near Cape North Norway. It sits around 71 degrees north latitude and becomes the most northern station on the globe.
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