26 Apr 1867
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1867
Page
1
A damaged line of poetic text laments a missing boy and a somber mood. The speaker asks if the boy beside you is seen and reflects on toil, honor, tender visions, sadness, and an unseen guest, hinting at a final breath fading.
Washington correspondence notes three Lincoln relics in the Patent Office. A small air bellows device he designed for rivers, his Ford’s Theatre hat, and gloves mailed to him after his death are displayed alongside a New York-made driving pair. Also reported is a 20 inch monster gun cast at Fort Pitt Foundry with a 140,000 pound rough weight and 95,000 pound finished weight.
General Sherman as chief Marshal faced a calamity when a July crowd risked collapse of a packed American theatre. He restrained fear, ordered silence, and waited as officials checked the wall while the audience departed calmly, averting catastrophe with steadfast duty.
Ex Governor Orr in Charleston denounces renewing ties with the old Democratic party after Reconstruction. He recalls ten years as a South Carolina congressman with that party and says, though he once respected it, that dream is over and accounts must be settled before affiliation.
The Montgomery Ala. Mail argues whites will be excluded from enough voters by the new law to grant the colored population a state majority. It contends the Huntsville Convention shows whites may split their votes, while radicals claim 30,000 white votes. The piece suggests a Brownlow government and urges patience until Northern support for the Constitution collapses.
The revival at Siloam Methodist Church in Philadelphia continues with over 800 conversions since it began. A new 73 by 86 foot frame building on Otis Street above Girard Avenue has been raised to house 1,600 worshippers.
French residents in the United States press for direct political recognition. A Detroit meeting led to plans for a convention on the 25th to gather delegates from Michigan and the West. With over a million French in the U S and more than 5 000 French voters in one Michigan county, advocates urge French representation similar to Germans and Irish.
Boston authorities shut down a hidden gambling operation led by Nathaniel C. Goodwin who posed as a Dayton Copper Company agent. The office on Tremont Street concealed a glass closet housing a telegraph device feeding playing cards to an operator at the table.
A 1770 English Parliament proposal would punish women who seduce men into marriage using scents paints cosmetics false hair or other adornments. If convicted the marriage would be void under witchcraft style penalties. The Rutland and Stamford Mercury reports the bill’s reach across virgins maids widows.
People of the Red River Country demand release from Hudson's Bay Fur Company control. They claim ten thousand British subjects lose political rights due to fur traders in London and threaten independence or possible annexation to the United States if relief is not granted by English or Canadian authorities.
The drought in Europe injures crops and leaves planters hopeful for a two thirds yield while rain is awaited. Wealthy planters and merchants fail, political discontent grows with disaster, and crime and personal crises rise rapidly.
A hotel dining room tale in New York features a waiter, a green Irish girl, and a red headed gentleman. The guest asks for a napkin, she says none left, adding that the red headed man ate the last. A quip suggests serving a fried town instead.
Walter Scott encounters an Irish beggar who asks for sixpence. He cannot find one and gives a smile with a promise that the man owes him a sixpence. The beggar replies that he will pay when he lives long enough to settle the debt.
The Dayton Journal notes Capt. G. Gallagher of Franklin visited Dayton on Saturday. He originated the plan to burrow out of Libby Prison Richmond and was among the diggers who carved the narrow trench enabling over a hundred Union prisoners to escape. Capt. G. Gallagher was one of them.
A writer sends a Providence paper a recipe claiming relief from hydrophobia through raw asparagus shoots, sleep, and perspiration. The note asserts the disease can be cured at any stage of canine madness and cites a man in Athens Greece who was cured after the paroxysm began.
The London Times urges the English Government to settle the Alabama claims and states that the source of friction between Great Britain and the United States should have been removed long ago.
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