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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1872
Page
3
A fragmentary meditation on shared suffering and kinship urges the reader to seek divine life beyond self. The speaker contemplates inward pain, Christlike endurance, and the ache for higher existence through compassion and selflessness.
A Naples letter to the Boston Globe recounts the eruption near Naples with about 27 victims and vast destruction of houses and vineyards. Soldiers saved a mother and child from lava as a sergeant sacrificed himself, receiving the cross of Savoy. the scene near Vesuvius is described with lava, smoke, tremors, and crowds fleeing toward Naples.
Lieutenant of the US Army details uncovering an old masonry door leading to a dark 10 by 20 foot cell within Fort Marion. He notes a hidden well shaft under a north curtain cell and human bones, later deemed non reportable, with an overseer and surgeon confirming bones.
A temperate country deacon visits city druggists for soda water mixed with sassaparilla. After two doses he experiences an overstrong syrup effect and lapses into a winking condition, prompting a second draught and a wary exit as he leaves town.
A Cleveland Leader item reports a deacon found unconscious after drinks at a local soda water stand. He recalled being drugged as strangers watched him. A later visit to a jeweler revealed the prank caused by his uncontrollable drinking habit.
Mrs. William C. Rhodes, at Clinton prison area, landed a monster speckled trout weighing twenty two pounds one ounce in the rough two hour battle on Chazy Lake. The fish was dressed and sent to Gov. Hoffman, marking a record catch for the lake.
Religious conventions to be held in Richmond with guests from New York. Northwest short horn cattle breeders convened and planned a May 1873 meet. Indiana lawmakers urged adoption of a medical society tied to Indiana State University. Grand Temple of Honor and State Medical Society elected officers. Richmond council debated railroad lease and shop plans, but vetoed by mayor. Indianapolis court cases linger over frauds in state printing and venue changes aimed at election timing.
Senate adjourned after night session with votes 28 to 14 on habeas corpus and 27 to 14 on civil rights. House reports Robeson Committee findings and debates amnesty bill procedure. Treasury concerns prompt inquiry into Farnsworth remarks and related charges.
A sequence of names appears to be a roster or attendee list including Edward Leahy, W. W. Roberts, T. H. McGeehir, H. Bishop, T. C. Campbell, C. P. Webster, Wm. Caven, R. H. Flemming, Hon. Alex Long, A. J. White, John P. Story, Dr. A. M. Brown, Theo Schumaker, Jacob Haas.
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