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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1868
Page
1
The piece tells of a wounded soldier bidding farewell to his severed arm. The surgeon’s care leaves him in bed in painless sleep as he remembers past deeds. He speaks through tears of the arm that served in sun and shade and must now part from war as dreams of glory fade.
A Tribune essay questions the idea of abandoning uniform units like yards gallons and tons after a civil war. It argues elastic measures compound debt and threaten fair trade. The piece mocks a mutterhead proposing continued drift from standard standards as unwise and unethical.
A large party in Warren Vermont aimed to hunt a bear but instead cornered a black yearling calf, ending the pursuit in an unexpected game encounter and lighthearted local amusement.
John L Seales writes that a 29 foot 8 inch monster snake was shot killed skinned and stuffed by two men on July 13 at Triune Tenn It measured 30 inches in circumference 17 inches near the head and had a ten foot tail with an alligator like ridge The head was two decades across armed with teeth and tusks It bore a bullet hole and neck dent The creature was spotted diamond patterned and bluish beneath The specimen will be shown in Nashville and other cities before being given to Andrew Johnson.
In a Philadelphia Sunday Mercury feature dated July 19 a radical challenged Governor Seymour prospects by offering to bet on states carried and the next president. The writer counters by proposing thirty states for Grant and a larger implied wager, inviting a reply from Mercury.
Prof Coppee recounts Arnold’s 1770s plan to surrender West Point to the British. Washington delays, Arnold flees to the British via Beverly, Tellers Point, and the Vulture. Washington arrives to discover the treason with papers from Andre’s boot, leaving Knox and Lafayette in doubt.
Report on a Seymour Blair ratification meeting in Brooklyn described as an immense affair. Key speaker Hon. S. S. Cox urged paying the debt in lawful money and warned against issuing more irredeemable greenbacks. He advocated moving toward gold and silver standards to raise national credit and aid bondholders.
A Buna subscriber offers a Copperhead reprint with forged Webster quotes. The Chicago Republican notes the denial of any authentic Webster words resembling the passage and accuses pro-slavery scribes of repeating a falsehood.
A French journalist quips that a British captain once landed on a sleeping whale mistaken for land. The whale swam away with the party, but all English maps called the spot Harris Island. Another line notes that scratching a Democrat reveals a rebel beneath.
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