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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1888
Page
2
The Register notes that St Taney, famed for quiet demeanor, kept Congo State station plans private during his explorations. Amnevia Rives Chanter is preparing a new drama titled Ethelwold set in England before Henry I, with plans to release early next year.
A jumbled column recalls Pike County feud leader J. E. Campsetti killed, a Bar Harbor Protestant visiting a Catholic church, Mare Satomon wife of Haiti's ex president in exile, a New Exeuaxed genius with a centuries old Mass plow, a Birmingham horse protecting a grazing goat, and hints of a banana trust forming to control imports. The piece closes with a musing on a future watermelon trust.
A couple honeymooning at a Bar Harbor hotel recounts a globe spanning courtship from Atlantic meeting to Sweden proposal and Russia acceptance, with English permission and U S settlements, marriage in Algiers, and Bar Harbor as a rest stop. Also notes a Welsh rabbit misrendering in a Sir Walter Scott tale and a French translator’s erroneous footnote. A proposal to ease walking pain suggests elastic rubber heels to quiet steps and prevent winter injuries. Miss Jenufer Carson, once deemed hopeless, at Brooks Farm in Franconia demonstrates disciplined mind and continued writing while ill, producing several books.
Desonian Powers of New York celebrated her 99th birthday last week, marking a longtime life milestone. The centenarian year reflects a long span of personal history and local community ties.
Col Perkins of Connecticut notes her rank among longevity. She leads Powers & Son bankers and oil cloth makers. Sixty five years ago her husband founded the Lansingburg oilcloth factory. He died in an accident, she ran the firm, managed offices, and later took her two sons into partnership. The Powers became wealthiest residents as a private bank flourished after a town bank failed.
Mrs Moses Fratey, wife of a former Baltimore newsboy, headlines Long Branch society with lavish display. She reportedly owns forty eight trunks five maids two hundred pairs of shoes six dogs and a million dollars in jewels. She changes outfits five times daily and praises her husband for rising from poverty as a hustler.
The piece reflects on fashion shifts away from black stockings toward lighter hues and patterns, noting practical concerns for visibility of footwear. It proposes doctors, lawyers, and clergymen wear conspicuous badges to aid quick recognition in crowds or during urgent needs.
Senator West laments the end of river navigation as railroads replace steamboats, comparing vanished river glory to Tecumseh and Indian chiefs. He predicts railroad expansion will redefine travel, recalling Louisville to St Louis trips as a young traveler’s peak ambition and mourning the era’s loss.
A patrolman reaches Griswold Street crowd as a young man is placed in an ambulance after allegedly giving a fireman a cigar with a firecracker. The officer notes no one can save the victim’s life. Detroit Free Press.
John Pounds born 1776 in Portsmouth, a shipwright turned cobbler, ran a free classroom in his shop for over forty years. He educated hundreds of poor children, teaching reading and writing while caring for birds. He died January 1, 1839, at 72, leaving a lasting example of humble charity.
The life of Mikhail Bakunin spans birth in 1814 at Torzhok to exile from Russia, arrests, and missions across Germany France Poland and Switzerland. His career includes leadership in Dresden 1849 imprisonment and a death sentence commuted, Siberian exile and eventual travels to Japan the United States and back to Europe while producing substantial revolutionary writings.
In France a young artist named Caran Ache creates “French shadows” shown on large screens at a Paris theater. Arrays of sheet zinc figures eight inches high enact historic battles and celebrity pageants, moved before a lamp to project enlarged silhouettes. Weapons and visuals use gun cotton flash, orchestra drums, muskets, and cigarette smoke to simulate combat.
The Arkansas Traveler notes silhouettes in a drill where guns move in unison. Some silhouettes show color through apertures covered with transparent paper, creating partial shading effects as the mechanism progresses.
Somnambulism shows as sleep talking and dreaming with retained brain–body links. It ranges from harmless muttering to dangerous feats, including murders or injuries, sometimes with no awakening. Historical reports note writers, composers, and workers producing work or speeches in dreams, yet often without conscious action.
The piece recalls how in the past English hosts relied on women to perform heavy table duties. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learned carving from masters and hosted with formal rules, often eating early alone to prepare for her role. The text contrasts past expectations with modern hostessing.
In Grand Circus Park a weary man and confiding woman discuss living cheaply as she vows to sew for support. Happiness glimmers as they pledge to wed, per a Detroit Free Press paraphrase. A closing line from Bishop J. Hall adds a moral note about knowledge and concealment.
At a dinner hosted by George P. Marsh, Waftus Choate, Mr. Baird, and Prof. Agassiz discussed science. A batrachian specimen emerged. Mrs. Baird mistook a spider’s silk as her wedding handkerchief, sparking laughter while Mr. Choate, distressed by a snake, asked for reprieve of nature’s creatures.
A quoted exchange portrays harsh poverty and pride as a tramp refuses a penny, followed by a defense of national character. The dialog echoes moral cultivation and strength in the face of hardship, reflecting social attitudes and personal dignity.
A Newark Advertiser excerpt discusses a controversial claim that subcutaneous strychnine injections can cure alcohol addiction. It traces methods from 1873 and 1884 advocates, describes preparation and dosing, and notes potential effects including appetite restoration and sleep. The piece suggests police testing and broader use in Russia for reform of intoxication.
Carter H. Harrison reports from Vienna on Austria’s multiethnic empire and rising anti Jewish sentiment. He argues Jewish wealth and influence in Budapest and Vienna provoke hostility, while imperial needs push elites to hire Jewish financiers for war funding.
A 1842 Kabul earthquake hostage tale shows Brigadier Shelton quarrelling with prisoners while Mackenzie explains the tremor and escapes down cracking stairs. An Australian note touts sunflower seeds as a health booster for horses, claiming increased vigor and brighter hair when fed regularly before parades.
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