Night Poem Laments Sleep and Restful Peace
A short verse laments the fading day and calls weary souls to rest. The speaker imagines a quiet night as the road to dawn and peace.
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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1880
Page
7
A short verse laments the fading day and calls weary souls to rest. The speaker imagines a quiet night as the road to dawn and peace.
A religious text defines gambling as a vice rooted in love of excitement and gain. It traces pathways from social gambling to professional sharpers and warns that gambling destroys work, family, health, and souls while urging enforcement of laws and personal virtue.
The speaker argues race as history’s key, warning that Latin, Teuton, Slav, Celt, and Semite groups shape politics and conduct. He questions where the Latin race resides in Europe and warns leaders to recognize distinct racial traits to avoid misanalysis and dangerous political missteps.
A writer contemplates Arab and Semite influence after the Congress of Vienna, noting Mehemet Ali’s potential Mediterranean empire and Jews as a powerful, organized minority shaping diplomacy and finance, then argues race rests on blood, not language or religion.
A New Orleans Picayune account traces Mme Miramon daughter of a judge who married General Miramon in 1859. She saved his life, escorted his remains to Mexico, slept beside his coffin, and later pursued education for their children before returning to Europe.
A Little Rock Gazette report describes a joint Electic and Historical societies committee evaluating how to pronounce Arkansas. The favored approach aligns with the French origin and Italian syllable stress, with a light final syllable and a broad final a sound, hoping for a settled lexicographic standard.
Five men in an oyster saloon on Sutter and Du Pont streets watched Francois a Frenchman swallow a ten dollar gold piece after Alberge offered an oysters supper for five. He then bet he could swallow a fifty cent piece and did so to prove his claim.
A lightning strike at the Huntington gas works on Saturday night destroyed about 140 barrels of petroleum while the building was saved from serious damage.
In a small villa near Kure ef Loire the cemetery portals carry a municipal decree restricting burial to residents of the immune district. The notice signals local policy on who may be interred within the grounds.
Opera singer Minnie Hauk recently performed for the Queen of the Belgians in a royal concert, showcasing her soprano repertoire before the royal audience at a Brussels venue.
New York Sun reports William Urbach a gaunt restaurateur at 82 Beaver Street draws a Brazilian note from a postman claiming an unsettled bill for beer and life’s comforts. The letter, from Orange Stephens in Natal, asks payment from Urbach and deposits the balance with August Belmont, prompting a curious scene as Urbach mistakes the portrait for the Emperor Wilhelm.
In a crowded scene, Urbach and a boy distribute beer wine cigars and a bank note for 500 reis as Dot Shiefens and Steven entertain. The note proves 500 reis equals forty cents and the exchange reveals deception and a flashy con man’s show.
In Goltz Strasburg experiments a dog with brain tissue removed acts as an automaton until provoked by tail touch or head pat, shifting from fury to calm. A French soldier wounded in war shows similar dissociated reactions, eating when fed yet responsive to external impulses that trigger or quell emotion.
The text describes how external cues trigger automatic actions in both a dog and a man, with impulses guiding eating, digging, and past battlefield memories. It argues the brain is a delicate, unique mechanism where mental speed varies by physical factors, causing individuals to think at different rates.
Washington Star reports James Stephenson of the US Geological Survey arrived in New Mexico with news of a vast cliff town carved into the rock near Santa Fe. The 30 mile canyon contains cave homes dug 15 to 20 feet deep, with artifacts suggesting later Indian occupancy during intertribal conflicts.
Albuquerque residents discover a street between the plaza and the Post Office on Santiago Street paved with human bones from an old cemetery. A Tuesday windstorm exposed skulls and teeth, with bones laid bare by centuries of wind and traffic, inviting observers to witness the macabre scene.
Mdme Marie Rose visits Mont Dore in Auvergne after the operatic season. Her church attendance has drawn travelers to donate and her name is well known among villagers for aiding the organ fund.
Attorneys Brigs e Massie, lawyers at law, operate offices over Sullivan County Bank in Sullivan Indiana offering legal services.
M PLE and WAGGONER attorneys at law operate in Sullivan over Yornss gesture with inconclusive office details.
John T. Gunn attorney at law operates from office number 7 on the South Side in Sullivan Indiana offering real estate and insurance services.
ISON and COULSON Attorneys-at-Law Sullivan Indiana announce office upstairs in bank building and prompt attention to collections.
Legal notices show Buff and Patten with offices on the north side of the square over McCammon's Store and John T Uays at the northeast corner of the Public Square.
Attorney advertising legal services in Sullivan Indiana with a focus on collections. Office located at 7 Commercial Row up stairs offering specialized debt collection assistance.
M G Buf attorney at law operates from 107 Maine Street Terre Haute Indiana and will attend all courts in Sullivan giving undivided attention to professional business.
An old column lists a physician and surgeon living near Sullivan Indiana. It notes prompt attendance day and night with special attention to chronic ailments and diseases of females. The ad mentions a location near Humphrey's Grocery Store and references online access.
W Johnson, photographer and dealer in frateness offers photographs ambrotypes and all styles of pictures. Specializes in copying and enlarging old pictures. New rooms over Curry and Duttons grocery store north Side Square Sullivan Indiana.
General fire life and accident insurance agent. Office over Post Office Sullivan Indiana.
An 1875 affidavit testifies Kendall's Spavin Cure cured a bone spavin in a horse after months of growth. The owner reports the horse was never lame again and the enlarged hock did not return in size.
An advertisement touts Kendall's Spavin Cure as a powerful, mild yet penetrating remedy for joint and bone enlargements in both animals and humans. It claims relief from spavins, splints, callouses, rheumatism, and other conditions. Priced at 1 per bottle or six for 3, with Husteated Circular available upon request. Proprietors Dr. B. J. Kendall & Co. Enosburgh Falls Vermont. Sold by all druggists.
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