Evening Chronicle: Diverse Local Facts and Oddities
The article compiles varied notes from London to Maine including literacy and hunger figures in London schools, flogging in Boston schools, global pin production, and prospecting in Washington’s Olympic Mountains. It also mentions Queen Victoria’s linen gifts to hospitals, Lord Dufferin’s lamp scene, and a Revolutionary chair found with an old patchwork cover dated 1751.
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Victoria Has Jong
London
Mars
Warren Hinn
Machias
David Cobb
Revolutionary Army
Greeks hail birth of crown prince Constantine
A correspondent reports Greeks are overjoyed by the birth and christening of Constantine the crown prince. The piece notes a prophecy matching the parents, Constantine and Sophia, and recounts public delight.
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Athens
Constantine
Constantinople
Sophias
Sophia
Mountain Meadow Massacre instigator and aftermath details
The piece recounts the Mountain Meadow massacre of 1857 led by Lee and its aftermath. It notes the 1875-initiated investigation by Howard yielding conviction of Mormon instigators and Lee’s punishment, and contrasts Professor Asapu Hatt’s Saturn rotation measurement with Herschel’s historical value, highlighting telescope advances and planet naming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain Meadow
Lee
Salt Lake City
Howard
Admirals objections to spars and sails on warships
Admiral Porter opposes stripping vessels of spars and sails arguing it would raise weight and top hamper, hinder ammunition and machine guns, foul screws under fire, and risk death from toppling debris amid modern artillery. The piece also contrasts French and American stove use and notes health risks from overstrained energy policies.
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Admiral Porter
Old Exception in Atlanta Found Safe Haven
An Atlanta business man nicknamed Old Exception gained a wartime exemption from General Sherman who ordered all non‑combatants to leave within twenty four hours. The man appealed to stay to protect property, and Sherman declared he must depart within an hour or be shot. The name stuck ever since.
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Atlanta
Sherman
Gen. Sherman
Uncle Rastus Teaches Arithmetic Hard Lesson
A merchant quizzes a job applicant on a simple sum in subtraction. Asked how much would be owed after three months with $5 lent at $1 per month, the applicant answers five dollars. The merchant suspects poor arithmetic but the man insists he knows Uncle Rastus.
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Rastus
Brother Consider Smith on Trial for His Life
In Paradise Hall an emergency mock trial convicts Brother Bradder Smith on eight charges, from charlatanism to borrowing money. He pleads guilty to one, denying others. Judge Discovery Smith and Col. Gluecose Green preside as Smith is fined 28 000 and suspended, then led away in tears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise Hall
Elder Toots
Discovery Smith
Shindig Watkins
Johnson
Taylor
Samuel Shin
Givendam Jones
Brother Gardner
Gineral
United States
Pertickler
Brudder
Agin Bradder
Smith
Hisself
Col. Gluecose Green
Brother Smith
Bekas
Tneber
Jess
Bradder Smith
Pusson
Idun
Dan
Kentry
Austins in New York city tale of pipes and pens
A humorous exchange between Mr and Mrs Austin of Texas as they tour New York City. They joke about buried Broadway pipes and fountain pens while teasing each other about city life and pa’s pipe collection. The piece ends with a playful bench of city folly.
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Austins
New York
Austin
Texas
Mrs. Austin
Orleans
Mr. Austin
John
Broadway
Miranda
Central Park
Trampish Looking Man Saves Impoverished Stranger
A "trampish looking" man helps an old starving stranger about to dive into a bayou water, refusing to give him a dollar until the case is clarified. He presses the man to reflect, then lends a dollar after a staged confrontation, revealing the traveler’s manipulation. The tale ends with the trampish man walking away whistling. The piece also notes sun exposure as vital for health and recommends sunny rooms in homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sucide
Arkansaw
Tennessee
Alf
Mur
Arkansaw Traveler
Sunshine and Shade in Gardens and a Chinese Hero
A Sunlit garden tale contrasts thriving sunlit perennials with shade plagued beds and notes sunlight actinic rays aid health. A Tennessee hoop pole man story devolves into a cautionary parable about vanity. A Chang family tale from near Peking recounts a boy’s filial sacrifice to save his mother with a piece of his own flesh. Reports on dogs as sentinels in Tonquin critique cruel training methods.
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Calcutta
Chang
Peking
Old Tiger Cave
Paris
Tonquin
Doga
London ‘Telegraph
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Mott
Colorado
Lord Dufferin
Helen
Clifton Springs
N. Y
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Tae
Sumner Howard
Arizonia
John Lee
Asapu Hatt
United States Observatory
Saturn
William Herschel
Uranus
Eli Perkins
Boulevard Des Italiens
Gardner
Delroji Free Press
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Gen. Taylor
Col. M
Harper's Magazine
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