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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1878
Page
1
A miscellany from The Inter Ocean notes revived fascination with an old clock its warning chimes echoing through memories. It also recounts railroad deaths in Ohio, temperance pledges in New York, a St Louis starvation rescue, Colorado mines, and various political and social jests as readers face daily realities.
Horatio Brown, a lazy but bright farmhand, woos Gazena Hartman after clashing with his stern father. Gazena rejects pretension, defies arranged status, and the couple marry with family peace secured when Horatio earns a fifty cent reminder to hang himself but keeps it as luck. The wedding cements a modest cottage on Hartman land as a shared future.
A desperate man enters a courtroom seeking work as a juror. He claims he can influence juries, promising to secure a desired verdict for half price. He recounts rough methods and boasts of forcing verdicts, including a past murder case in Trukee. The judge tells him to return later for a possible vacancy.
In a Christmas Eve mix up at the Peabody Hotel Memphis, Captain Ahrens miscommunicates a supper order, asking for twenty seven suppers after the operatic troupe’s concert. The steward misinterprets and charges for twenty seven rooms instead of twenty seven suppers for the 27 members of the troupe.
Sir Isaac Newton explains a fine globe to a skeptic who claims the world came by chance. The man asks who made it and Newton replies Nobody it happened here. The exchange reveals his belief in a divine creator and order behind existence.
A sketch of Barnum’s life notes a fire disaster that destroyed about one and a half million dollars in eight years. Yet he remains active in business and announces plans to tour next year with a highly comprehensive and entertaining combination.
The Rev. Earl Cranston at St. Pauls M E Church argues Americans are not overworked, contending businessmen face mild strain while the real burden falls on women who labor at home. He cites sunlit scenes, kitchen toil, and the harsh lives of the hungry to counter the common claim. He warns against overindulgence and emphasizes rest days.
A long narrative recounts the fall of Hor nus the flag bearer at Metz during the Franco Prussian War. It details the heroism of the color guard, the surrender of the army, and Hornus final quest to recover his flag despite orders to surrender the regimental colors.
A broad plea condemns rising crime across the region from the Alabama border to the Mississippi, lamenting kidnappings murders and terror against families. It denounces complacent officials and questions the integrity of those in power amid election season rhetoric.
The Acapulco deer inhabits western coastal Mexico and is regarded by naturalists as a separate species from the common deer. It features a small thick head, bright eyes, erect neck, compact body, short tail, and short antlers with base snags. Its color includes black face, white chin and underside, and dark chestnut back and sides.
The Baltimore Sun reports England under Dr. Davis of Maidstone asylum using blue glass lighted rooms to treat mental illness. Within three days patients show rapid changes including reduced hysteria and improved self care. Similar trials occur at Berndorf near Coblenz, Germany.
The piece denounces Americans as an inferior and contemptible race and urges harsh pride in Mexican dignity. It mocks extradition demand for the Rio Grande City jail incident and warns against further perceived Yankee transgressions while praising Mexican restraint.
The Carrier's Address by John G. Whittier for the New England Review, dated January 1, 1831, was found between leaves of that paper in Hartford Connecticut and republished in the Hartford Courant. The piece reflects early Quaker verse and links Whittier to editor George Prentice and the Review.
Senator Beck Justice Harlan and ex Secretary Bristow were sworn into the Supreme Court Bar as Chase served as Chief Justice. The three high men weighed over two hundred pounds each with one nearing three hundred. They felt the solemn oath before the full bench and later rose to high offices—one a Justice, one a Senator, one a Secretary of the Treasury.
A passenger named Paul gave up his seat to a woman returning from Corinth, provoking him to mail Timothy about not allowing a woman to teach or usurp authority. The piece mocks women riders who think the car is never full.
Not what people gain but what they have makes them rich. Not what they read but what they remember makes them learned. Not what they profess but what they practice makes them good. Not what they appear to be but what they really are fits them for life's mission and destiny.
The note argues that babies are spanked too rarely and praises the power of discipline. It frames spanking as a noble masculine act and a source of personal grandeur for the enforcer, depicting it as the hand that chasteneth.
A reflection notes nature grants humans two ears to hear, asserting it is wiser to listen than to speak, emphasizing the value of attentive hearing over vocal expression.
Twenty three Chicago ministers spoke Sunday about hell and the prospect of eternal punishment, delivering sermons that emphasized judgement and the afterlife.
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