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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1872
Page
3
A reflective poem from Cassell's Magazine as a speaker recalls cherished footsteps of a child. The verses describe a motherly longing, the glow of three years of joy, and the ache of loss as the tiny steps fade from earth yet linger in the heart.
Reports from London and Paris cover the Paris Commune aftermath and French finances, Italian and British diplomacy, and Spain's rumored unrest. Turkey and Belgium are noted, with the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting France. A lighthearted cab incident in New York contrasts with warnings of revolutionary plots in Madrid and Seville.
Wilkes's Spirit of the Times reports a remarkable woolly horse owned by R B Woodward of San Francisco. The 14 hand sorrel colt weighs 800 pounds and has horse ears a zebra like head and woolly coat. Born on Mr Dougherty's Curry county Oregon farm. A separate note recounts a Michigan Indian who opened a nitroglycerin can with a tomahawk and vanished after losing an arm and a thigh bone.
A young man named John Jenkins died early yesterday at the Anderson and Woods steel mill on Ross street. He had been drinking the night before and, entering the mill in a drunken condition, was crushed between hot rolls as his head struck the machinery. An inquest, led by Coroner West, returned a verdict that he was crushed to death while intoxicated.
Zion's Herald recounts a horse in a pasture near a sheep flock in New Hampshire that repeatedly signaled its master by whinnying. The farmer's wife followed to learn the cause and found a wennae dog gripping a sheep. The horse then chased the dog away, seeking to trampling the intruder.
A meeting in Ireland recalls a two century old lease practice where tenants owed poultry and other goods, later paid in cash at the time of the lease. Now the peer demands either live ducks and geese or their modern market value, forcing tenants to consider reset of tribute costs.
A Dublin University Magazine excerpt extols winter storms as beneficial purifiers that remove noxious city gases. It frames air and ocean as global cleansing forces and views wind as divine handiwork, cleansing the earth whether people are awake or asleep.
A fair exhibitor recounts hotel crowding with forty men sharing a single room and armed companions, while the London Economist notes a panicked English stock market reaction to American case coverage. Sealing fishermen at Prospect, New Brunswick report a dangerous encounter as one hunter survives a seal attack.
The West End Company has purchased 14 acres of prime land in Mill Creek Valley between Flint and Liberty streets and McLean and Garrard. Improvements include thorough sewering and drainage and planned street layout, aiming to make the area the handsomest part of Cincinnati in a few years. Directors and officers listed include WM. L. Robenson, John Walliman, Saml. W. Bell, Edwd. Leahy, with many trustees and local dignitaries named.
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