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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1880
Page
6
A long digest of miscellaneous notes from Rhode Island to Russia includes Rhode Island pigeon shooting ban, a Atlanta currency scheme, personal vignettes about Charles O Conor and G A Sala, Miss Esther Cornish Bowden’s heroism, Indiana local items, and global political shifts.
News notes cover a House resolution reaffirming the Monroe Doctrine aimed at Europe, Vanderbilt's vast government bond holdings yielding $800,000 yearly, an aid to the Sultan detained for conspiracy with a Greek, and a railway bill from Bismarck. Also reported: shrapnel found in St. Petersburg, Stametz castle rental by the Russian Emperor, and a deadly fight at Bates school house in Nebraska with eight wounded and William Bates fatally injured.
Burned and bruised individuals escaped serious harm after plunging into an open cistern during a powerful blast that shook the neighborhood. The explosion destroyed the street and damaged nearby houses, stirring widespread alarm and excitement.
A suit seeks to confirm a right to an eight seat box at the Opera Comique, held by inheritance since the 18th century. The Duke de Marmier and Duchess de Fitz James were denied entry on January 1, as the theater now belongs to the State. Judges refused an immediate reinstatement, noting the dispute concerns property title to be decided at a full hearing.
Bishop Wiley argues for expanding the episcopacy to meet growing work. He notes church growth since 1864, urges more education and attention, and highlights new missions in the south and western territories beyond the Rockies, with conferences rising from fifty nine to over one hundred.
A somber reflection on mourning and mortality. The essayist contemplates grief for the dead, the pangs of losing loved ones, and how memory and acts of kindness toward the living can comfort the bereaved, while death casts its shadow on the living.
Pietro Alessandro Garcia dies in Turin. He hoisted the tri colored flag at the Tuileries when Napoleon returned from Elba and served on Napoleon’s staff. He fought at Waterloo, helped in the 1821 revolution in Piedmont, and joined uprisings in Portugal and Spain. He later led an English mining company in Peru before returning to Piedmont and serving in the Subalpine Parliament. He befriended Garibaldi in Sicily and lived at Samona château.
A reader proposes a theory linking the tree of life and the tree of knowledge to early intoxication, Sin, and human fall. The piece connects Bacchus worship, Prometheus, and Eden legends with ancient mythic imagery, suggesting serpent origins and sun moon standstill motifs in biblical lore.
New York Tribune notes a proposed English gift of a dinner-set made from the frigate Resolute’s timbers. Once the ship was rescued after being frozen in ice near Baffin Bay and later gifted to Queen Victoria, the act now aims to honor her with a gracious gesture as the vessel is to be broken up.
The Adams Express team plans a new challenge against independent lines on the Cincinnati Southern route and a Southern line, signaling a bold push to win against the Union Express company after being routed by Louisville and Nashville.
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