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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1868
Page
2
A fragmented 1840 poem about enduring love until death. The speaker urges faithful, ardent devotion while love lasts, warning the final hour comes when kneeling by the grave or weeping over loss. The text blends archaic phrasing with misspelled phrases and scattered stanzas.
The St. Louis area reports a river flood washing away an Arsenal Island cholera graveyard. About thirty eight corpses were recovered and many more drifted downstream toward Carondelet and Ivory Station. Authorities suspect the bodies came from the Arsenal Island burial plan and warn the island may vanish due to ongoing erosion.
The article recounts Mr Bringhurst proprietor of Editors' and Printers' Journal Logansport Ind among the wounded after a deadly train wreck. He saved his daughter Mary eight, leaping for the bell, then amid ruins regained consciousness and believed he was watching a theatre scene. Mary survived with a scalp wound, and both travelled to Philadelphia.
Obituaries report Wm. O. Rives and Capt. J. 0. Calberteen dying at 74 and 65 respectively, Harriet Benham Prentice also dead. Other items include Charles P. Bronson’s death in New York, local issues in Cincinnati, New Orleans and Philadelphia disasters, and political shifts on government bond taxation and naval matters.
The House rejected Robinsons impeachment withdrawal by a 51 to 18 vote. Resolutions approved include one to inquire into Telegraph lines control. The bill paused acts on the Army and Navy, reining officer counts to authorization levels from March 2 1887, and private totals to 15 000. A bankruptcy act amendment tightens discharge rules for assets below 50 percent.
The text covers Senate impeachment proceedings from April 22 to April 27, detailing how many managers may speak, Boutwell and Nelson’s arguments, and daily sessions. It notes illness of Mr. Stanbery, adjournments, and readings of orders regulating voting and sentences. It also mentions Iowa and Wisconsin legislative items and speakers like Sumner Groesbeck Stevens Wilson and various procedural motions.
A D Seaman & Co of Milwaukee showcases extensive hotel furniture making at their Huron street complex. The firm, praised for beauty durability and price, supplies parlor sets, chamber suites, and office furniture to hotels in Milwaukee Chicago and St. Louis with a finishing shop on multiple floors and an expanding capacity.
From the May Kewtown records a piracy attempt occurred in Hooper Straits on a Monday night. Captain Bramble of Dorchester county defeated armed African pirates aboard his ship, firing at the helm and fending off attackers until the vessel reached Cambridge where captives were handed over.
Brevities summarize varied items from 1860s era: qmareers Monthly turning eighteen, monograms replacing door plates, a twelve hour Baltimore prayer meeting, Lake Ontario's water level, Stewart's new Broadway store with acre-flooring, a spider tale, Mrs. Stanton's paper circulation, slang and slang history, Missouri oil depths, foreign trade figures, a Salt Lake powder incident, fatal lightning, house intrusion scare, Corcoran death by horses, ancient Greek coin found in India, Bishop Meade quip on education, Charlestown church bells dedication, McCormick wealth ranks, and Adelina Patti gossip in Paris and New York history.
A hodgepodge of personal items and remarkable mentions spans fortunes and fates. Veazie of Bangor leaves 1.5 million to heirs while Napoleon’s modest 12000 bequest echoes era wealth. Notable figures like Charles Kean and Victories in arts appear alongside tales of tragedy, suicide, bankruptcy, and distant travels from St Petersburg to New York.
Adjutants defend branding prisoners as not inhuman describing tattoo marks placed on the chest after court martial for desertion. The piece also notes Bronson’s Comet near the horizon after clouds blocked observation, visible low with a telescope near the Pleiades group moving northeast.
The readable portion lists guidance or directions involving Allews and Balsam with related place names. No clear event or outcome is described. Further context from surrounding text would clarify the intended action or instructions.
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