20 Sep 1883
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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
1
A collage of brief items including charity bequests by Count du Chambord, trials and travels, crop reports, political hints, and odd anecdotes. Notable names include Horace Greeley, Secretary Folger, Miss Mollie Garfield, and Gen Stonewall Jackson, with references to New Orleans, Michigan wheat, and Mexican rail events.
A quizzical older text warns that combining falsehood malice envy and jealousy in a bottle of misconstruction yields a ready gossip brew. It advises aging in a warm street setting and stirring, then taking slight doses before going out to provoke harmful outcomes.
A 19th century moral reflection extols women’s ideal traits, praising delicacy in appearance, refined sentiment, gentle speech, modesty, and avoidance of notoriety. It argues deviation from these standards disgusts men and corrupts virtue.
The piece notes that small inventions often pay off far more than expected. It cites the siligent pen yielding about £2000 annually, colored shading pens, gummed newspaper covers, screw-point pencils, the Abyssinian well earning Col. Greene roughly £600,000, and roller skates and other child amusements earning substantial sums. The Orieni toy brought £30,000 in under a year.
A Victorian style note explains simple methods to gauge train speed using distance between poles or fence posts and a watch. It describes counting groupings at various speeds and notes common misconceptions about railroad velocity, ending with an anecdote about a musket safety lesson.
The piece argues New England lacks soil and wealth, manufacturing migrating south and west to exploit coal iron and cheap raw materials. It foresees Southern strength reshaping wealth and power, imagining a central empire of the world amid daylight and industry legends. It also recounts James T Fields and Daniel Webster anecdote about paying old debts with hidden cash.
A Detroit Post and Tribune correspondent recalls Native groups in Washington. Indiana visitors ignored the President and General Grant as they passed. He notes wild Sioux showed no surprise at steamers, merely studied them, then moved on. A streetcar tale shows a temperance sermonist woman challenging a drunken rider with biblical nods, while a country man defends his bottle and baby.
The article compares English reform in 14th Angust to modern moves in Pennsylvania, noting England’s shift to separate property for wives and feme sole status, with liability for contracts. It contrasts English reform with Pennsylvania law, which permits separate estate but limits liability to necessaries or debts, urging parity of power and responsibility between spouses.
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