07 Aug 1867
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Newspaper
Sparta Eagle
Location
Sparta, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1867
Page
1
The Sparta Cagle weekly edition notes a publisher in Sparta, Monroe County, Wiss er MS, with a price of 62 00 per annum payable in advance. Distribution and office location stated near the corner of Hels and Water Street, at Huck over Beaver Creek.
Advertising rates listed per inch with 1 percent commission. Rates for business cards up to twelve lines, leaded type, and news advertisements. Double charges on special notices and society items. Transient ads require advance payment. marriages and deaths notices 10 cents per line. renewals and discontinuations billed per rate. Quarterly payments for advertisements.
A fragmentary poem reflects on moonlit waves and water spirits at Pascagoula Bay Mississippi. It recounts a legend of a once mighty tribe drowned in the bay and a death song carried by the tides. The piece notes an unpublished early 19th century verse by an aspiring Southern author and anchors the lore to Pascagoula.
A detailed, old New York exposé describes ropers or gamblers agents who lure victims to loss via hotels, billiard clubs, and social schemes. It covers methods, statistics on earnings, and the social dynamics of cons, including the faux rustic act and staged introductions to trap targets.
An English broadside recounts Richard Tane of the 47th Regiment of Foot before Glasgow mayor for playing cards during divine service. He explains the pack served as Bible and almanac, while the mayor and constable debate virtue, using card meanings to illustrate Biblical topics and calendar units.
Sailors from Milwaukee report sightings of a large amphibious creature in Lake Michigan bigger than a whitefish or sturgeon. Captains McBride and Conzaul describe a whale like beast with a huge tail and blowing noises, seen near the river mouth and moving inland before vanishing. Reports claim the creature emits a moan and sinks after attention.
Eyewitnesses describe a giant unknown entity in the lake, said to be larger than any wheel ever seen, with immense heat and a wide jaw. Alleged evidence includes large carcasses along the banks showing evidence of biting, dubbed a shark-like monster of the deep.
The article sentimentalizes the 1867 Maximilian and Carlotta story. It portrays Maximilian as noble and brave, dying for state reasons, with wife Carlotta depicted as devoted and beautiful. It contrasts fate and honor, asserting their romance surpasses fiction and will be remembered in history.
Albert Wells, former Adams Hyxgrass Company agent at Sandoval, is confined in Marion jail after stealing 1800 express funds and fleeing to Worcester. Arrested on a requisition from Gay Oglesby, he was brought back to Salem to await trial for felony. He is described as highly educated and talented at telegraphy, with a persuasive manner, who briefly escaped by exploiting a prison employee before recapture.
George Alfred Townsend offers a vivid if salacious portrait of Newport beach life. A blue dressed New York belle walks the sand, then a red robed apparition appears in a bathing box, transforming into a radiant sylph as onlookers react to the surreal scene and a dramatic near-mystical metamorphosis unfolds on the shore.
A fatigued young officer resting on turf beside his browsing horse is awakened as the enemy approaches. The horse snorts, then carries him to safety, allowing him to rejoin his comrades. The officer credits the loyal animal with saving him from captivity or death.
From the Indianapolis Herald July 22 a Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad line incident reports three brothers aged under ten lying between ties to trap a passing passenger train. Engineer George Drain spotted them just yards away and the train failed to stop in time. All three were severely bruised with broken limbs and one head injury deemed fatal to recovery. Children are said to be sons of John Bonse and misjudged tunnel depth.
The subject is a about sixty year old social figure respected for benignity and charm. He earns around $10,000 yearly from books and other wealth and carries a life of labor and study since adolescence. He has traveled widely and collected impressions from foreign lands, with three daughters and one or two sons.
The account recounts Audubon witnessing a toad undress by rubbing and bursting its skin along the back, peeling and swallowing the shed hide in stages. The narrative proceeds with the creature pulling off segments and swallowing as it moves, detailing the odd process.
A 19th century wash guide advocates boiling clothes with sal soda and thio to clean efficiently. It instructs soaking overnight, wringing, rubbing with soap, using tea cupful of mash, then boiling thirty minutes, rinsing, and final washing for a brighter result. It targets poor tired women with praise for improved cleanliness.
A fragmented historical note discusses wedding anniversary names: two years termed the paper wedding, five years wooden, ten years tin, fifteen crystal, twenty th made up as tho. It mentions the twenty-fifth silver, fiftieth golden, and seventy-fifth diamond milestones, though text is garbled and unclear.
An order appoints Sophia Kid as administratrix of the estate of the deceased, with publication required for three consecutive weeks in Sparta’s newspaper. The hearing and further bearing are set after notification, under Bee County authority as recorded by G. Gratay.
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