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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1881
Page
2
A fragmentary verse reflects a teacher’s view of the young mind, classroom fantasies, and discipline. It contrasts hopeful, sunny innocence with everyday chaos and reminders of a challenging, tender vocation.
Hetty and Loyd Sutton test love against wealth when Hetty accepts Mr Frisbee's proposal. Loyd contemplates self harm but Hetty pleads him back, seizing a laudanum vial. She later confesses enduring love, and they marry, while Loyd reveals a secret about the note and her salvation.
The Kentucky man Tilford Gregory, once wealthy in Louisville, was lured to Indiana by an assassin who stabbed him and attempted to kill him by stabbing the heart. Surviving his injuries, he identified the robber, who was hanged. Gregory later lost his fortune, became a beggar, and now lies dying at sixty in a garret.
In Macon, a 1881 scene shows a married woman with two children receiving a 1876 letter from a former lover, found in a torn letter-case. The missive from John arrives as her husband and relatives learn the former lover is a Chicago pork-packer with a wife and three sons.
A column recalls multiple foundling incidents across states. A baby on a St Louis to Relay train triggers panic and relief as passengers race to identify its mother. Other cases include a Kansas tornado basket baby and a Michigan wagon rescue, with townsfolk recounting the odd scenes.
A Brooklyn observer memoirizes a moonlit Damascus evening with rivers, plane trees, and Arab crowds. The scene includes guitar and tambourine, chibouque and coffee, and a melancholy old love song about a beloved fading like roses.
A portrait of General Kilpatrick placing emphasis on his popularity in Chil and his life in New Jersey with a farm, pigs, and a fashionable household. Readers glimpse his military past, eccentricities, and social circle, plus humorous vignettes and almanac-like tales from his era.
The Rev. Albert Simpson notes only 78 090 professing Christians in New York from a 1 280 000 population, with 490 churches unchanged since 1875. Rich pew rents and offerings deter many, and Episcopalians in suburbs face annual $120 pew costs, restraining church use amid overall favorable clerical pay.
A vivid portrait of a brutal foreman who throws men down stairs when they confront the editor and who alters dates at the head of the paper. He boasts of rapid typesetting, outpacing seven printers in a short time and meddling with copy and ads.
In the Mount Vernon old mansion a round faced clock in Washington's relic room rang three strikes. Superintendent J Yeu Hollingsworth and visitors witnessed the event on November 16. The clock has stood silent for forty years with broken works and only a few wheels left. The account by J W Buel calls it a fact not sensation. Experts suggest a sprung wheel or broken spring as the cause.
The Enquirer reports Father O’Hanlan and Father Ryan visited Mansion House near Cincinnati. After drinking, they argued with the landlord over payment. four shots were fired, wounding Father Ryan. Ryan then assaulted the landlord.
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