15 May 1874
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Newspaper
The Berwick Independent
Location
Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1874
Page
1
A poem exploring wealth and earthly attachments. The merchant, plowman, broker, and money hoarder each show that true treasure lies not in gold but in Heaven. Wealth, fear, and love are marred by craving, while devotion preserves perfect bliss. The speaker urges giving Heaven the affections that bind humans to material desires.
A husband recalls his chaotic night seeking medical aid for their six month old, a quarrelsome mother, a wary nurse, and a comically misread exchange with the doctor. Amid ice slick streets and a missed bell, the tale ends with the doctor’s abrupt exit and a bill, raising questions about doctors’ seeming reluctance to treat ill babies.
A Arizona Miner correspondent recounts a midwinter meeting with seven large California lions near Anvil Rock and Aztec Pass. He describes their sizes, colors, and long tails, plus his failed pistol shots and a dramatic arrival of three horsemen who offer no help. The tale ends with a humorous digression on physiognomy and chins.
A Persian laborer was tortured for a crime, receiving 150 blows, then bit the judge’s ear in a whispered confession. After recovery, he was brutalized again with his teeth pulled in front of a mob and later died from further punishment. The account blends sensational violence with other brief notes on politics and local curiosities.
A Paris correspondent recalls the Cipriani case who swallowed a fork and has wandered through faculties. A clerk argues the fork can be swallowed by a calm man with will, while doctors fear metal poisoning and a fatal outcome. Cipriani’s fate hinges on an operation to remove the fork as he lies under chloroform.
A speaker extols digestion as paradise and blessing, linking good digestion to joy and bad digestion to downfall. References include Adam and Eve, Macbeth, Milton, Carlyle, and an fiery two handed sword as emblem of indigestion, implying nourishment as path to happiness. Continuous praise contrasts with warnings about improper digestion.
Sam Weaver, a tax collector in Law ce ee, killed Justice of the Peace Green after a dispute over a burned widow’s house at Eagle Factory. Green’s dying vow to haunt Weaver drives the man to near madness with persistent apparitions. Weaver, believing the ghost follows him, has twice attempted suicide. The piece closes by recalling Andrew Jackson dismissing a lieutenant over unpaid board dues to a widow in Washington.
The Troy Press recounts Loomis family hardship in Pawlet during midwinter about fifty years ago. A sick husband left widow and two children with little money, prompting town aid denial. The widow later vowed Pawlet would not be pauper free for fifty years and, now near a hundred, visits the town house annually, refusing offers of marriage and help, claiming a family lineage of long lifespans.
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