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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1872
Page
3
A neighbor speaks of class and labor noting a regal man who earns by wit and talk while others toil with calloused hands. The speaker reflects on fortune, debt, and social riddles, asking who truly deserves more in a world of work and want.
Congress reports reveal Sen Sumner denying a Times attribution of remarks about notifying Britain on wartime actions. Kansas war expense reimbursement set at 337000 dollars. Fort Gibson Arkansas Territory district bill listed. House adjourns after all night session with private bills and a Wallace house reimbursement vote failing without quorum.
The writer extols Borneo and the Eastern Archipelago with vivid sea approaches and river vistas. Dense jungles, lofty trees, mountain glimpses, and pirate-haunted valleys are described as warlike yet beautiful. The text then links these regions to the broader cluster of the thousand islands famed for fringing trees and fertile lands.
The Garman and Siegfried hardening process, developed by Alexander H Siegfried of South Bend Indiana, gains traction with US Navy funding of ten thousand dollars to test its use in government work. A Boston company led by F A Gushman pursues further development with offices at 27 Duane Street.
May 25 dispatch reports Marshal Serrano declining to form a new ministry. Admiral Tepete to head a new cabinet with Topete as War Minister ad interim and Serrano expected to succeed him. Serrano grants full pardon to insurgents who surrender. Carlists in Biscay surrender add momentum, only a band remains in Navarre.
The Bangor Commercial recalls Uncle Van Meter a colored philosopher who died months ago. He once testified in a Supreme Court cow case before Judge Hathaway, who tried to bring him to reason with a simple question as the lawyers teased him about every topic but the cow.
A vivid storm narrative describes a ship under sail racing twelve knots as waves tower and foam spews, while later items discuss railroad company dangers, executives under strain, and a Amherst professor obtaining a massive ruby. The fragment ends noting a Republican convention in North Carolina with C. L Cobb seeking a congressional seat.
An 1840s political sketch recounts A Adams family stance on a Missouri call. Mr Wells presses for Adams views while Adams answers with sharp wit about selling clams. Bowles later publishes the letter after Wells grants permission, aiding Adams’s defeat. A second anecdote notes Mazzini's appeal to Cavour in Paris and Hudson’s protective support.
The San Francisco Bulletin reports California hosts about eight million sheep, up from five million in 1869, with this spring's lambs adding roughly three million. Wool values may reach 35 cents per pound, predicting a spring clip near 86 million pounds and a crop value around 6.8 million dollars, despite crude farming methods. A mammoth San Francisco diving bell aims to prospect golden sands off the northeast coast, capable of raising up to a hundred tons per hour under favorable tides.
May 2 report notes Dill paid Kansas 337 dollars for war costs. Tax and tariff measures discussed as Senate entered executive session. House session extended, Wallace of Lexington, Missouri mentioned amid war destruction remarks. Voting unclear due to garbled text.
Historical notes recount Drury Lane's decline and late eighteenth century entertainments, a posturemaster at the Haymarket, and Mrs Knapp’s quackish patronage. The Czar of Russia endures melancholy and solitary routines in Livadia, while Irish editors suffer train dismissals. In Hamilton Canada about one thousand workers are unemployed due to factory owners resisting a nine hour movement.
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