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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1881
Page
7
A dated verse fragment presents James W Riley's reflection on tears and memory. The speaker recalls boyhood tenderness and a gaze blurred by emotion, confessing that his eyes are not themselves today as he wrestles with lingering nostalgia.
A behind the scenes look at the Uncle Tom’s Cabin troupe at Booth’s Theatre in New York. Singers of many colors and ages discuss roles as angels in the Beulah Land sequence and 97 audition hopefuls seek spots, with 16 names deemed promising by manager Morton after a busy registry.
A Portsmouth New Hampshire man rescues a wounded night heron after it was shot at a river rock. The bird heals with care and is released to its mate. A Canadian butterfly tale follows and then a lengthy profile of Colonel Fair of Nevada mining fame detailing his career, wealth, family, and Senate prospects.
A New York Times correspondent reports Nevada's coming Legislature will sit on joint ballot with Democrats 53 and Republicans 22, yielding a 31 vote Democratic majority and likely electing Col James G Fair as United States Senator to replace Republican Sharon.
The article argues that Dom Pedro II rules more like a republic leader than a monarch and that Brazil’s people may seek a republic after his death. It notes his age fifty six and suggests his successor is likely one of his daughters, though doubts remain on shaping a new form of government.
The New York special notes a historic subscription of 8,001,000 dollars to fund two Atlantic cables for Jay Gould. It contrasts this with Cyrus Field’s earlier fundraising struggles and praises American capital for quickly raising over a million dollars beyond the requested amount. The cables’ capital stock will total seven million dollars.
The Lancaster Burials section describes James Buchanan’s tomb at Woodward Hill near Lancaster, Thaddeus Stevens’ Schreiner Cemetery, and the Reynolds family plots in Lancaster Cemetery. It notes Harriet Lane Johnson’s care of Wheatland, Stevens’s anti slavery legacy, and the naval figures Jonathan Y Woltz and Rear Admiral William Reynolds. It contrasts dignified memorials with private commemoration and includes brief financial market observations about bullion, banks, and foreign exchange trends.
A collage of quips and captions from a Detroit Free Press and Boston Transcript blend humor about crops and weather with wry tales of politics and society. Anecdotes touch on Garfield and canals, patent medicines, a Milwaukee editor, and a missing blacksmith found as a skeleton after two years.
The close of the year brings heavy imports of gold due to American security purchases by foreigners. Money reserves exceed legal requirements and Treasury payments for interest and year end disbursements loom. While imports and large lenders affect rates, authorities expect continued market control by a few big operators with the possibility of strain if activity rises.
A compilation of surprising body statistics from an old volume. It lists average weights for adults and skeletons, brain weights for men and women, tooth counts, and breathing and circulation rates. It also notes heights for English French and Belgian men, blood volume, heart output, lung cell counts, and related physiological metrics.
A noon boiler explosion at E P Dodge's shoe factory in Newburyport Mass kills engineer James Bluntington of Boston and two workers Daniel Bridges and John Bailey. Smith's factory and boiler house suffer near demolition. boiler hurled 200 yards into Green Street shattering windows. Several men injured. fireman reported missing.
A young man named W. G. Drury was shot and killed on Christmas morning in Napoleon Ohio. The shooter was BR. M. Scott, former Governor of South Carolina, who was arrested and taken to Defiance amid fear of lynching. Drury, engaged to be married in a few days, was the victim.
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