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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1872
Page
3
The speaker laments ignoring daily gifts in pursuit of a distant treasure and the coming year. We mourn what is past and miss the present peace and joy, passing through life’s rooms without pausing, until doors close and we sigh for evermore.
In Columbus on March 11 the Senate heard petitions to modify municipalities liquor control and to save the K-5 law, with calls from Erie and Portage counties. Bills were introduced on water works fire hydrants and channel excavation, plus tax and public health measures. A debate over a monument tax for fallen soldiers ended with the measure laid on the table.
Hungarian ex governor Louis Kossuth outlines a gout remedy from Monsummano grotto in Tuscany. He describes a regimen of exposure, cloth rubbing, warm bath, and fasting, claiming a complete cure attributed to mysterious electro magnetic forces. A separate English court case sees a ten year old fined for squirting water on a girl, judged harshly but with calls for leniency in child discipline. The Dutch Gap canal near the James River in Virginia opens fully, stating a width of 130 feet and depth of 8 feet, shortening travel distances along the river.
A vivid account of powder mills detailing the dangerous steps from mixing charcoal saltpeter and brimstone to grinding, sifting, glazing and heating powder. Workers move through fire risk rooms in rubber boots, with strict silence and perilous machinery, ending each day at three or four. The piece notes the fear, discipline, and rarity of visitors to these deadly plants.
The ermine fur, prized in Sweden Norway and Russia, is linked to high rank in Austria with royal and noble attire. Snow white coats of the weasel species signal status, with black dots cut from Astracan lamb jaws. Rank is marked by velvet capes and scarlet robes, connecting fur to hereditary power.
In Freeport Illinois new beet sugar factory plans surface with secured machinery and a beet crop expansion. A man stares at a hardware store sign reading Cast-iron sinks all sizes and jokes about its meaning while the town eyes development and potential growth.
Purchase funded by a broad group of local leaders including WM L Robinson president and JOHN WALLIMAN vice president. The plan covers 14 acres of premier land to be graded this summer, with trustees E Edwards Leahy, W Roberts, and S W Bell among others, and notable names such as Alex Long and A J White supporting.
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