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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1887
Page
2
The Register reports a range of items from a NSW land grant bid to missionary work and a papal interest, two bells melting for Milwaukee, a cat fostering kittens after a hen fights their mother, a Normandy submarine tramway planned for summer, and New York state personal property values revealing assessment reform needs.
A Findlay Ohio petroleum refinery has placed its product on the market and aims to compete with the Standard Oil monopoly. The move is seen as a bold challenge to a dominant player, provoking interest across the trade. Public sentiment often favors new entrants but rarely aids them in defeating established power.
Rupert TimRELL, longtime Rhode Island resident, deserted the British army seventy two years past during George III’s reign. At age 93 he received a royal pardon from Queen Victoria and plans to return to his homeland to die among kin after nearly three quarters of a century in exile.
A concise reel of anecdotes notes President Cleveland's early involvement with the American Short-Horn Herd Book, detailing his help in correcting pedigrees for volumes two through five and his lasting knowledge of short-horns. The passage shifts to legal and biographical vignettes about J J Albert, Alfred Krupp, and Malcolm Ford, highlighting insurance disputes, Krupp’s death, and a glimpse of Ford as a champion amateur athlete.
A critical meditation on excessive athletic training leading to early death contrasted with the futility of chasing championships. The text laments ruined constitutions, recalls the Dakota Bell closure due to unpaid subscriptions, and highlights Vanderbilt University’s free highway engineering course for county officials as a public-spirited advance in road science and economy.
The Hurricane Geyser in Norris Basin Yellowstone Park is a new, dynamic feature scarcely a year old. Observers describe a revolving liquid globe, a central boulder, and boiling water bursting over a rock wall, with heat intense enough to burn a bare hand and subterranean chambers expanding as other geysers wane.
A San Francisco Examiner feature retells Vic Smith a famed northern scout’s escape from Wolfmen after being bound and left to die near Fort Abercrombie. The account covers his youth in Milwaukee, mail routes, a $50 premium swap, Brown’s land fever, Robinson’s murder attempt, and a dramatic rescue near the fort.
A former clerk recalls a country store egg theft by an organized rat gang. Rats crept into a beam scale, formed a living staircase to reach eggs, and a veteran thief among them passed eggs down to accomplices. The tale mixes humor with a sharp reminiscence of village shop life.
Brother Gardner opens with a humorous sermon on faith in God and human nature. He cites Pickles Smith and Trustee Pullback to illustrate mercy and misfortune, then critiques drunkenness and saloon culture, arguing for divine forgiveness and steadfast belief amid temptations.
A correspondent reports from home on Thackeray’s London Exhibition ode and its reception. The writer describes the vast crowd, splendor, and uplifting atmosphere comparing it to a world festival, noting royal figures, a pantomime–like Chinese visitor, and priests peering through opera glasses amid prayer.
A passage from Mr Boyd on Guayaquil describes donkeys abundant in the port city west of South America. They carry fruit baskets and butchered meat, wear leg coverings and ear protections, and sometimes have embroidered garments. The scene evokes a comic tropical wardrobe. Also includes a brief Emerson quote on immortality.
The scene along Kievs Dnieper shore blends ancient fortress walls with gilded churches and modern Imperial landmarks. Street life on Krestchatik reveals artisans, shopgirls, portly drosky drivers, monks, peasants, and bustling markets amid tea and tobacco fumes, bright fabrics, and abundant traders.
Barrymore, born in England but shaping as an American, intervenes in a London tenement scene where a woman thrashes her husband while a crowd ignores the abuse. He bursts into the room, only to find a fierce struggle with a large six foot woman fighting the man as cries of murder fill the night.
The Austro Hungarian chancellor Count Beust, famed for many foreign orders, attempts to wear a counterfeit grand cross received from a visiting minister. The diplomat presents both diploma and jewel case, and Beust, short sighted, pretends the minister commanded him to accept the order. He then swaps the forged cross for the real insignia, preserving the diplomatic ruse.
A reflective line compares humanity to swine that fatten on acorns beneath an oak tree, yet offer no gratitude to the tree that bore them, only rubbing bark and tearing the surrounding sod.
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