19 Jul 1867
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1867
Page
1
At Paddy's Run Kentucky a freedman leader rebukes mob violence and urges education wealth and property to secure rights. He cites Douglass Langston and others and condemns Kentucky’s lingering rebel influence while calling for loyal union action and equal suffrage.
Old farmer memories recount Daniel Webster visiting Blandford during a fishing trip He entered a tavern where thirty to forty leading locals gathered He called each man by name as he shook hands and invited all to drink with him The anecdote highlights his memory and personal charm in ante constabulary times
The New York Tribune asserts General Sheridan upholds Congress and the nation, stronger with political backing than as Shenandoah hunter. He is praised for opposing mob leaders and factions against a presidential policy, with allies determined to keep him in command amid calls for removal.
A Scotch emigrant passing through Milwaukee to Minnesota with his eldest daughter known for extraordinary beauty meets a young Scottish countryman. They converse about home, then the father invites the suitor to visit. The couple is betrothed within hours and marry soon after, embarking on a wedding tour.
A man in a tavern plans to obtain tomorrow's provisions by deceiving a drunken patron. He bags the drifter for a resale to a renowned resurrectionist, but the plan backfires as the man inside the sack remains alive and the buyer reacts with shock and anger.
Ex rebel General Jeff Thompson writes to George D Pren tice approving Longstreet's reconstruction letter and asserts that Confederate ideas are obsolete. He proclaims white men in the South should accept citizenship under current law, obey laws, and use electoral power to shape favorable laws, hoping for restored confidence and plenty.
Beecher extols locomotives as a symbol of industrial virtue and human potential. He praises engine crews for care and discipline, suggests future humans might resemble machines, and envies their meticulous maintenance of iron and lubricant. He recalls observing engine repairs and wishes people treated their bodies with the same care.
A Cleveland couple separated after years of dispute. The husband hid $4,200 in government bonds in his vest, but the wife, aided by a confidante, stole the money while he slept. She fled to Indiana with nearly $4,500 in interest as their quarrel escalates toward divorce and possible flight.
The piece imagines a child born in Mammoth Cave who cannot grasp the world above. It contrasts cave life with springtime sunlight and greenery, suggesting that coming into the bright outside world would reveal the hollowness of cave dreams. The author compares earthly life to emerging from a cave into eternal summer.
Mrs. Roldoff of Ozankee Wisconsin eloped with Jacob Kalbee. Roldoff caught them in Milwaukee, recovered valuables, paid his wife $40 and told her to go to the devil. She later went to Chicago. Grant’s lost speech at Wheeling mocked Boreman’s rain-soaked address. In Muncie two men agree to trade wives once divorces are ready. Each wife takes a child. India holds about a million and a quarter in the Treasury.
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