05 Jun 1880
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1880
Page
1
A poetic description credits a white clad maiden with hair blossoms as a vision of pure beauty. The speaker, Joseph Veroy, extols her as a duty to love, lifting observers from earthly memory toward a dawning light in a distant scene.
State reports note a Shelton bank planned, a German paper magnet in Lincoln, Nance county agricultural society, and a new Elmer town at the Republic Creek forks. Nebraska eyes rich corn and fair wheat crops, Destree weighs college campus funds, and a Niobrara chalk stone is shaped for durability. Om aha and Kearney incidents include a man in a well fall with broken legs and a toy pistol fatality. Papillion tragedy follows a rider’s chest injuries from a sudden horse fall.
A Miners Union forms at Rochford while the Deadwood Custer stage adds a daily coach to Rochford and Deadwood. The Rockerville Flume Company hires nearly 400 workers for a major project to flood water by August, and the Little Rapid Hydraulic tunnel nears completion. Pennington and Custer counties are forecast to contribute over a million dollars to Black Hills gold yield next year.
William and Frederick Reed, new workers from Germany, were harassed by assailants posing as Mollie Maguires near Pottsville Pennsylvania. Blank cartridge pistols were fired as threats driven the brothers to flee to Reading. Frederick showed suicidal intent near woods, while William was found weeping at a milldam after disposing of his pocketbook. No further details given.
A San Antonio vignette describes a vagrant ass by the Sunset railway depot. An engine stops near the beast and screams its whistle. The donkey merely ears the sound, then roars back in a comic, impossible cheer: I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.
A Scribner's Monthly critique argues socialism corrupts education culture and merit, elevates untrained individuals as the norm, and fuels envy of material luxury. It maintains equality leads to impoverishment and barbarism, urging industry and savings as the only path, warning war will be needed to resist socialist gains.
The tale recounts Tildens devotion to a New York heiress, betrothed in youth, who sailed on the President and vanished. Each year he returns to the shore on the farewell day to renew his vow, keeping faith through wealth, power, and time.
A comic tale from Cape Cod contrasts a clam with a clergyman in a street encounter. Fort McLeod butcher uncovers five dollars in gold in cattle stomachs. Gold bearing claims rise as parties seek new ranges. Uplands between the Republican and Willow are claimed up to fifteen miles above Willow’s mouth.
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