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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1880
Page
3
A veteran diver explains the peril and mechanics of deep water work. He details pressure dangers, the cued risks to the body, and the eerie routine of recovering wrecked bodies. Coral forests, electric eels, and underwater speaking tubes illustrate a then fledgling submarine profession.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Sojourner Truth at anti slavery meetings in Michigan. An angry preacher flees fearfully as Truth taunts him, and a second tale shows truth confronting a brutal anti abolitionist speaker with sharp rebuke. The piece ties to Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and vivid frontier church scenes.
The Alark Lane review reports six weeks of seasonable weather improving crops while wheat remains backward in some districts. Prices declined, English wheat supplies tight, and foreign wheat demand shifted. The official London grain stock rose to 278 000 quarters from 209 000 year start, with imports of wheat and flour noted.
A band of robbers entered Rhodes in Lerida county Spain while most villagers were in church. The three robbers walked in with faces smeared in soot as a rifle was slung, a Sunday sermon interrupted by the raid.
An elderly widow visits Governor Buckingham during wartime, seeking an order for her late son’s rifle. She offers money, but Buckingham refuses, directing that she keep the rifle for her grandson. He escorts her out and reflects on Connecticut women’s heroism and sacrifice.
The New York Times notes Mrs Gladstone will influence policy when she returns to the Treasury benches and two sons sit in Parliament. It praises her, critiques her bonnets, and describes Gladstone’s dress, mood, and routine before crucial speeches as fatigue from recent Scottish and Yorkshire triumphs recedes.
The ancient Roman year began with a yearly journal edited by the Pontifex Maximus recording key events. News was posted on white wooden tablets on citizen homes, then expanded to daily bulletins on public tablets and red chalk on walls.
The April table shows fifty reads earning 15 080 425 dollars in 1870 versus 11 883 414 dollars in 1879. The gain nears twenty seven percent despite more miles operated, with higher freight tonnage and increased passenger movement fueling the surge, according to the Financial Chronicle.
A report from Norristown Herald describes a young woman, daughter of Alderman Dellett, who lost an artery when a scissors tied to a friend's waist was swung and cut her arm. The piece warns that embraces are dangerous and should be done only by men, praising male bravery.
At the General Conference sessions in Cincinnati the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society report notes eleven years of activity abroad and at home, with expenditures totaling 590 946 dollars including 278 000 in the last four years, plus 2 091 Sunday schools and 600 099 scholars. The Book Concern debate as to financing and consolidation sparked a stormy installment with votes split along ministerial and lay lines.
In Indianapolis a survey of manufactories shows strong Republican opposition to Grant among employees with nearly 60 percent refusing to vote for him if nominated. The German element is nearly solidly against him. The elder Kalloch trial opens in San Francisco as Judge Carter presides with a panel of superior judges.
Chicago May 25 The Illinois delegation contest will be a key test vote at the convention with the anti Grant faction likely to hold credentials and seat the minority report. The Grant men expect one member from sixteen states on the credentials committee.
A Bank of the Metropolis loaned $40,000 in government bonds to 5S. C. Carll after introduction by his brother G. FE. Carll. The bonds were stolen and recast with Carll's name. upon Treasury verification the fraud was exposed. Carll is imprisoned. Perils of the sea report Mercator missing with $120,000 cargo. Ice and fog affect ships St. Paul Athlone and Topaz. Morristown firm Morris Shoe Co. suspends operations, 300 workers idle.
Ship captains report fields of ice and icebergs on the Newfoundland banks. On May 19 the steamship Marengo sighted several bergs including one a quarter of a mile long and 200 feet high. The Crown Jewel encountered an iceberg described as nearly as long as Staten Island and 400 feet high. Staten Island spans thirteen miles.
The Philadelphia Times reports renewed talk on the failed attempt on Spanish consul d Uriarte. Pinkerton detectives abandon the line as moonshine while investigators describe a possible shipment from a New Yorker. A suspect mailed the cylinder to the city post office and fled after asking postage. The man was described as five feet five, neat, foreign, with dark features and side whiskers.
The passage recalls Zach Chandler and colleagues debating duels and forming a secret 1850s pact among Chandler Wade and Cameron. It notes Northern Senators' resolve to fight southern intimidation, with details on signed copies and the fate of the concealed document and signers.
The Louisville Courier Journal reports French capitalists plan a 252 mile canal through rough terrain with sixty locks. It would cost about 110 million dollars and cut Brest to Malta travel by up to four days, offering a Mediterranean shortcut that could irk England amid Gibraltar guardianship.
A New Orleans Picayune quote likens small boys crawling under a tent to politicians, urging both groups be asked to withdraw. The remark reflects a sharp, satirical stance on boundaries and authority.
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