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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1880
Page
3
ScriNer Co offered Ruskin 400 for a short Venice Cathedral of St Mark article and 1600 to Browning the poet, both of which were refused. The events reflect publishers’ bidding for cultural pieces and notable literary names.
The NH governor appoints a tax committee to probe cattle illness in the state. They conclude the disease is not pleuro pneumonia, but caused by local factors and not contagious.
St. Petersburg dispatches report plans to decree special penalties to punish those who propagate Nihilist doctrines among the Russian army. The note highlights concerns that nihilism undermines imperial authority and fuels subversive secret operations.
The story of Howard, arrested for theft to feed his starving family, drew active sympathy from wealthy New York residents. Public outpouring revealed him as a thief, his likeness already in the rogues gallery, exposing the misjudged case.
The report notes that if the Afghan rebels had defeated the British they would have demanded the English be sent back to India the reinstatement of the Ameer and two army officers held as hostages. British victories prevented the mutineers from presenting these terms.
BaZzaine once celebrated in Mexico now a stateless man. Metz surrender ended his glory and led to a death sentence for treason later commuted to prison. He escaped with his wife’s help and now requests permission to visit France to settle military affairs, which is refused.
A New York Medical Journal writer referenced Seward in Yokohama during his world trip before death and noted jaw damage from the 1865 assassination. Dr. Gunning, who performed the operation, sued for $25,000 for libel over the claim.
As a young lawyer Thad Stevens left a Pennsylvania court with angry words and a halted exit. The judge challenged his conduct, and Stevens replied with mock seriousness that he was only trying to conceal contempt for the court.
A Washington correspondent recalls how Mrs. Langdon of New Hampshire secured access for women to listen to Congress debates. After her remark to Fisher Ames, hearings were opened for ladies, and gallery attendance has continued.
Scant respect was shown the memory of Nathan Hale, the American, who during the war of the Revolution, per-
A British spy hanged on a scaffold is contrasted with Major Andre, celebrated by an American as virtuous yet involved in a traitorous plot. The piece cites Andre’s youth, connections, and a Philadelphia occupation letter while noting his theft of valuables from Dr. Franklin and the Philosophical Society, including books.
The Dexter Savings Bank cashier and treasurer Barron is linked to a 1878 vault death and a later claim of a 4796.82 defalcation. Officials hired an expert, asserting evidence of theft, while public memory recalls martyrdom and memorials. The question remains: was Barron a thief or a victim?
Paris contains 74,740 houses with 337,587 business spaces and 684,952 dwellings. Annual rent value totals 579,887,641 francs. Sewers extend 571,559 metres with 22,455 houses connected. population in 1878 reached 1,988,506, or 254 per hectare.
A Sheffield worker asks if elephants shed tusks and notes over 1,280 elephants killed for ivory used last year by a single firm. The piece warns elephants are disappearing, with breeding limited to the wild and immense waste from demand for knife-making ivory.
A woman in Ulysses Nebraska wrapped her baby in a sheet and left it by the warm ashes near the fireplace to visit a neighbor. On return she found the infant burned to death.
A child asks about Dod and a big party with angels while dreaming. The muse-er is teased as the boy declares he will have his own when Dad lets the wind out, imagining stars blown to pieces and flowers scattered. Lucneses.
In Monongahela Pennsylvania Mr Joseph Herron buys a hollow tin penholder. A yellow jacket nest is found inside the hollow. The male and female yellow jackets raise a brood while Mr Herron writes with the pen and the insects harvest sugar for their nest.
An old hawk lives beside a French rail line between Mesquiny and Romilly for fifteen years. Aware of trains, the bird times attacks with the locomotive, preying on small birds that scatter along the track. The piece notes the oddity of a railbound predator and the danger trains pose to birds and animals alike.
A city fable set in Manayunk during a Caliphate era tells of a proud doll who mocks a sweet caramel. The caramel is insulted and mistreated by the doll, a prank by the doll’s mistress’s brother leads to the caramel’s loss, and the doll is discarded. The tale closes with a moral about valuing simple treats over vanity.
A Lancaster resident named Mr. Geo N Worst shot at a large Pennsylvania hawk in the country. The bird fell quiet until the hand reached it, then the hawk attacked and tore a finger, leaving a grim pun about who got the best.
In Chambersburg Pa a farmer entered J Nixon’s drug store with a hornet nest the size of a straw hat. Nixon hung the nest above a gas flame and ten hornets burst out striking fear as every man in the shop fled within ten seconds.
Report notes unexpected Hornets observed at a scene as investigators describe warming effects from an unseen gas. The event reveals dormant activity restarting under the influence of the substance. Authorities are assessing risk and potential sources of the gas exposure.
A Chicago Tribune piece accuses Governor Garcelon of planning to use militia and federal troops to seize Maine’s government, linking the alleged conspiracy to national Democratic aims. It cites Indiana mob violence against Black migrants and argues both states reveal a Democratic plot to control elections and suppress voters.
An agricultural correspondent notes no infallible method to keep eggs from spoiling. He suggests a practical tip: keep the henery doors open and rely on a six month old hound puppy to patrol. One pup suffices for a 280 acre farm.
Reports indicate thousands of camels perish in each campaign in India due to over-exertion and starvation. Advocacy groups call for better animal welfare and humane treatment of pack animals used in military and logistic operations.
The article discusses nasal breathing advantages and a device to keep the mouth shut during sleep, then covers 19th century meat therapy for diarrhea, sting remedies for insect bites, and a Wisconsin origin story for the term Badger with miner lore from Chicago Tribune.
The Madison Journal explains how the terms Badger and Sucker arose from Wisconsin lead country miners before statehood. Badgers lived in cave like holes and diggings while Suckers were migratory Illinois arrivals opening surface pits. The terms spread to label Wisconsin and Illinois peoples and states. Pennsylvania Poets notes follow with critique of Bayard Taylor and contemporary American poetry.
A barber in a Providence Journal tale shaves a dead customer who awakes mid-shave in a trance like a revenant. The barber, startled, remains silent to keep the man from reliving the shock, then finishes the shave and leaves arrepentant.
A Coldwater Mississippi five year old boy, son of Mr. R. H. and Mrs. E Harris, is praised as extraordinarily intelligent. He learned letters at 18 months, mastered readers from First to Fifth by age four, studied multiplication, and now reads newspapers while showing curity and precise speech.
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