21 Jun 1873
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1873
Page
1
A patchwork meditation on truth and hypocrisy across professions and leaders. It satirizes lawyers doctors merchants preachers and officials, urging honest practice and accountability while imagining a world of visible consequences for deceit and neglect. It blends political critique with everyday woes and odd images.
In St Pierre a French colonel named Compte de B- tolerated a boastful captain who boasted of dueling. After the captain struck him the colonel challenged him to a duel with small swords. The colonel repeatedly wounded his foe and clipped corners of a black patch, finally driving his sword through Captain G- and stating the wound was cured.
The May 10 voyage, led by Leigh Smith, sets out from Dundes Scotland aboard the Diana with a crew of twenty and four scientific gentlemen. The privately organized trip aims to reach open seas by midsummer and log tides, currents, and specimens from Cobbe's Bay Spitzbergen onward aboard the Sampson and Diana.
A London correspondent recounts an Atlantic disaster tale from the Garrick Club. An American quips that he would have sailed, as he prepared his trunks, but a friend remained on board. A boarding newsheet later lists cabin passengers he had feared would drown, prompting the remark that the man was surely “up.”
In TLama two shepherd children Monique and Francinette exchange gifts and vows, chasing a moon as a symbol of love. Monique’s comic quest to obtain the moon ends with the cows slain and Francinette’s revelation that affection, not luck, yields happiness as they marry.
Internal revenue appointments list Gangers Sanford Parsons Rodes Meladden and Jacob Thompson ill with cholera in Memphis. New York Court of Appeals grants Stokes a new trial with potential innocence evidence. Freedmen Bureau finances under scrutiny and Cotton brokers suspend payments amid market stress. Sum of unrelated domestic and international notices follow.
A farmer writes on lasting success in agriculture noting love for the work as essential and advising against risky overextension. He cites a man who began with $900, six acres, and cautious saving as proof that steady discipline and devotion yield wealth, with many others capable of similar results.
A Grrwaxn mining engineer named Bredemyer narrates to San Francisco reporters a dramatic life across Dutch India and Burmah. He rises in mining under various rulers, survives a three day siege, is tortured and crucified, escapes on a horse, and is later imprisoned before being released via British intervention. After further mining under a barbaric king and a near poisoning, he leaves India for California in search of safer work.
An English exchange recounts a Farmers' Seling Race incident at Punchestown where Mr. Bull rode his mare Mile. Schneider to showcase her for a private sale. The mare won after the other horse misjudged a flag, but a later inspection revealed a wire bound to a leg. The mare was sold for 170 guineas, Mr. Bull receiving 80. Strong indignation greeted his conduct.
Notuine¢ outlines the ancient rise of glass making from imitation of natural crystals to its use in luxuries and utilities. It notes Egyptian relics, early windows, and how glass enabled optics, thermometers, and barometers, shaping science and daily life through luxury and utility.
The article praises the white willow as a stock proof live fence suited to damp lands. It explains planting cuttings six feet long driven deep, spaced nine inches apart, and predicts a strong fence in three years. It notes uses for trimmings, hoops, hop poles, and live fence posts. It also briefly gives a method for silvering copper with chemicals.
The text distinguishes rage from hatred, noting rage fades when an enemy suffers or dies, sometimes leading to pity. Hatred endures beyond the foe, seeking the enemy’s total ruin and extending malice to the foe’s relatives and associates, with lasting hostility.
An automaton barber created by Alcibiades Botteler runs amok in his shop after a crank pulls too far. Clamps seize Botteler’s head, the machine wreaks havoc, lifting him from his chair, tearing through the room, smashing a mirror and injuring bystanders before steam is shut off and Botteler’s neck is found stretched.
An Inter Ocean piece denounces the massacre of Modoc captives by Oregon volunteers, condemning the unarmed killings as barbaric and unjustified while drawing moral comparisons to other nations' actions. Also notes fashionable linen suits with lace and embroidery for summer wear.
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