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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1872
Page
3
The poem extols spring as a life giving force. Birds sing, flowers bloom, and warmth returns to the land. It links nature’s revival to human healing and hope, portraying spring as a type of eternal life. The speaker imagines laborers, reptiles, and blossoms sharing in the season’s awakening.
Private letter from Nagasaki dated February 4 1872 describes arrival on the New York after Shanghai voyage. Observes foreign settlement terraced hills temples police and social life including Chinese merchants and Japanese workers, New Year preparations and daily meals. Mentions Nagasaki harbor coal mining on Takasima island and historical high rock island execution site.
Major Brackett arrived from Oak Lake with two Indians in custody. One admitted involvement in the Cook family murder, weeks ago, while the other is linked to a Swede family killing nearby last year. James Whitehead and James Lamb aided the capture. Lamb provided crucial information leading to arrests and recovered items tied to the crime.
The report describes a brutal massacre in which Bobolink and companions killed Mr. Cook, his wife, and their children with toma hawks after demanding skins. The attackers ransacked the home, looted valuables, set the house on fire, and fled. Bobolink denied torture and sought release from irons during transport but remained in custody. Authorities pursue remaining assailants. Indian Commissioner Walker withholds annuities until surrender.
Summary of legislative activity across the Senate and House including conference reports on supplemental apportionment and army appropriations, amendments to tobacco storage and stamp tax provisions, a tax reduction for matches, centennial Philadelphia celebration bill, land grant allocations for soldiers, Louisiana election alignment, Japanese indemnity settlement, Illinois judicial district division, and enforcement act changes amid filibuster adjournment.
A winter visitor, a 600 pound bear, repeatedly approached the Tubbs and Blanchard camp on the Chippewa river. Lacking bullets, Tubbs crafted wooden molds to cast improvised slugs and fired from a shotgun. The bear was killed after the home-made shot was fired, ending the threat to the camp.
A Teheran telegram describes extreme famine with cannibalism risk and robbers, noting abundant crops and water but deadly conditions, while prices fall and relief is sought. It also mentions Pennsylvania coal mines reducing production, 700 workers laid off, and a daily loss of 30,000 tons.
Indian a items recount court cases at Cambridge City speed trial entries list pirates and speed contestants for June 4 to 7. Mentions Mattocks battle sheriff injuries Vevay thefts and officers, a Daisey death in Mont Vernon, Masons elect officers, rail plans for Fort Wayne and Indianapolis to Decatur funding, and a Philadelphia Centennial Commission note.
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