12 Feb 1870
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Newspaper
Princeton Union Democrat
Location
Princeton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1870
Page
1
A crowd rescues a freezing ragged girl after a horse carriage nearly strikes her in Fourteenth Street. She is taken to safety with injuries described and a plea to address child poverty and hunger. The passage reflects the editor’s broader concern for the homeless, urging action to aid orphans and poor families and recounts related social commentary.
The narrative describes a poor sheltered child named Sarsh, left alone after loss and imprisonment faced by her father. Readable passages plead for someone to provide care, a home, and support to improve her bleak life. The piece urges readers to reflect on homes and compassion for vulnerable children in the city.
A 19th century notice recommends lemons with sugar as a cooling remedy for feverish patients and sleepless nights, claiming two to three lemons daily provide comfort invigoration and appetite. Also describes a folk cure for felons on fingers using dried rock salt and turpentine applied to the affected area to “cure” within a day.
A quirky historic recipe mocks tattlers by blending terms like Runabout weed, Backbite, Dont tell it, Malice, and Envy. It mentions Miss Tabitha Teatable and Miss Nancy Nightwalker, with fantastical steps to brew a social poison and unleash evil talk.
Radical leaders oppose payment of five-twenty bonds issued in greenbacks during the Civil War. States like Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana paid debts in gold, while others preferred greenbacks. The clash centers on which currency was used to settle official obligations.
The State Sentinel quotes a certificate by John Day, a Black Indianapolis resident, alleging W R Revels, a former colored Methodist preacher, drafted Black men for substitutes during the Civil War and profited from it. The piece accuses Loyalists of trying to suppress Black rights to influence voting, contrasting Revels’ qualifications with unnamed Republicans and noting New York Democrats’ critique.
The piece recalls an old Georgia song associated with a fire engine named Shoo Fly in Savannah dating back to 1866 and includes the obscured verse. It also notes recent explorations placing Mount Hervard at fourteen thousand two hundred seventy feet in the Rocky Mountains with a peculiar climate and frequent thundery rains.
Twenty couples competed for a belt in a prolonged dance in Pittsburgh. After five hours the crowd urged on, despite musicians bleeding from feeble fingers and dancers collapsing. One couple won as others sank ill, with many needing medical care. Shoes had to be cut from feet and limbs swelled. medically, the participants and musicians suffered lasting harm.
Henry Ward Beesher supports recognizing a religious denomination as orthodox and favors a cooperative union of all forces opposing evil. After involving Richardson with McFarland in a solemn mockery, he appears to have embraced a broader idea of uniting everyone and everything.
A brief exchange shows Jagonitt asking a mother figure for change for a dollar. She responds that she will send the dollar tomorrow. The fragment suggests a small everyday monetary transaction or a repayment plan.
National Government departments urge the Committee on Appropriations to report a bill for salaries and contingent expenses exceeding last year’s totals. Notable figures include War Navy and Agricultural Departments with multistate expenditures, startling Mr Dawes and provoking public debate over perceived extravagance and corruption claims.
Summary from Bains Phrenological Journal describes a Buddhist Chinese concept of hell with ten prisons and a presiding judge. It lists punishments such as knives, boiling water, ice, swords, tongue removal, serpents, dismemberment, sawing, bloodied beds, and darkness, plus additional hells and brutal fates.
A transcription of a debate fragment shows House members questioning Secretary Boutwell about a supposed $86,000 indemnity Japan paid to the United States for aggression. Boutwell cites Treasury records lacking any entry of such payment. The garbled text notes a shoemaler's one dollar token and streets of New York, with no clear resolution.
The Bloomington Pantograph reports the revival of the Order of the Eastern Star in Bloomington with a charter obtained for a new lodge. The group, termed Adopted Masonry, admits wives, widows, sisters, daughters, and mothers of Master Masons. Five degrees with color symbols and a five pointed jeweled signet define the order, whose 1778 origin and widespread adoption are noted along with 40,000 copies of the manual sold.
A colored boy was elected page of the Kansas House of Representatives with General Byron Sherry praising the event as a sign of political equality. The remarks mockingly suggest the era of “the crown of political equality” and reveal hostile views amid the era’s racial tensions.
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