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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1881
Page
2
Rumors of hog shipments in Chicago and Mexico tornado destruction in Manzanillo. Reports of earthquakes in Germany and Italy, Irish and Polish issues, and political shifts in France and Ireland. Bank failures, census figures, and crime trials color a broad, rapid-fire cross-section of late 19th century briefing.
The language used by Lord Denman in the Oxford trial on shooting the Queen is cited as having singular relevance to the Guiteau case. It holds that a person who fires a loaded pistol at the Queen with knowledge of the outcome is responsible and liable for criminal punishment despite delusions or morbid notoriety.
Professor Brunyilti of the statistical archives of Rome estimates a total world Jewish population of 6 565 000. Europe holds 5 500 000, Asia 240 000, Africa 500 000, America 308 000 and Australia 20 000. In Europe Romania leads with 7.44 Jews per 100 inhabitants, followed by Russia 3.57 Germany 1.22 Great Britain 0.20 and Portugal 0.04.
Senor Castelar, addressing the Spanish Cortes, described government forms with deep emotion. He recalled President Garfield in a dramatic passage that stirred the house and galleries as he questioned how to best structure governance.
The tribute lauds a noble chief of a free people who died at his post, a martyr to duty after a brave career. It laments the assassin’s cowardice and honors the deceased’s fortitude, his family, colleagues, and the nation.
John Jasper and James Casey, both described as colored men, staged a mock duel over a political dispute in Virginia. They stood as if in a duel with double-barreled shotguns. Jasper collapsed and died at the first shot while Casey’s gun was loaded.
A Washington dispatch profiles the impaneled jury for the Guiteau assassination trial. It lists jurors by name with occupations and notes the group as intelligent, educated, and respectable Christians with no Masons or office-holders among them.
Guiteau the assassin states he needs increased guards to aid the Lord in guarding him. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled on the capital of the nation.
The summary lists varied items from 1881 including rising French food exports and falling imports, Gloucester losses of seven vessels and forty eight men, an 80 thousand Paris electrical exhibit, Moody and Sankey at Spurgeon's London tabernacle, Krupp’s factory potential move to a joint stock company, Lieutenant Suhanoff's alleged secret execution, a Pullman car extension to England, Mayo rents cut by half, a thousand new apple toys, Dr Schluter's insanity and arrest, Austria’s new peer strategy, a Moscow foundling hospital treasurer robbed of 300000 roubles, and Rome on papal consultation with English hierarchy.
A Washington rag describes a once brave cavalry officer reduced by drink. Stripped of his shirt, a bag with his brevet major general commission and letters was found, then returned. The man begged not to publish his name, preferring silence over shame as intemperance and gambling ruined him.
A woodpecker in the Adirondacks bores bark holes in spruce and plugs them with acorns and nuts. A single eight square inch plank holds ten plugs tightly enough to require a knife to remove. The bird’s behavior suggests winter food caching, though squirrels may benefit as well.
Readable fragments describe three days of progressions naval displays and fireworks. Reports mention drummers wearing woolen nightcaps at hotels and a Somerset County Maryland farmer’s collapse into insanity after losing enslaved labor.
Norfolk serves as the hub for southern market gardening supplying early vegetables and fruits to the north with large shipments in past years. Estimates show hundreds of thousands of barrels and quarts of cabbage strawberries beans peaches cucumbers onions and other produce sent to Philadelphia and New York.
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