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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1877
Page
1
A. J. Porter Glenn Porter and others announce legal services in Van Wert County. Practices include collections, partition, probate, conveyance, and general litigation. Offices listed in McCurdy’s block and Heist’s Block with emphasis on prompt collections.
News items note the death of Sophia Fredericka Matilda of Holland at age fifty nine on a Sunday. Other brief items include General Hood’s reported $100000 gain from Louisiana bonds, German emigrants boosting Chicago’s May population by 500, and various international notes on Turkey, Japan, Mecca, and Circassian defeats near Kars. A poem honors Johnny Chisolm, thirteen, who died protecting his father during a mob attack in Mississippi.
Nellie and George Dale face guilt after failing to help Mrs. Grey during illness, leading to her death and a late reckoning about charity and duty. The tale follows Nellie’s social life, family ties, and a warning that good intentions profit no one without action. It contrasts a charitable circle with neglected neighbors, ending with a moral on responsibility.
In 1781 South Carolina near Ninety Six Lord Rawdon plots a bold strike while General Green guards the patriot cause. Kate Heath overhears the plan and races eight miles through pursuit to warn Green, saving the army and earning thanks from the general. Kate later marries Walter Gordon.
The remedy for spring diseases is eatless. Do not starve yourself but begin by not going to the table unless hungry. Then reduce each meal by one fourth and adjust as weather warms to reach no lingering after effects and genuine hunger before the next meal.
A London paper recalls Metz Cathedral and Strasburg Cathedral amid Kaiser's dominion celebrations. It notes the risk to Gothic structures from rooftop fireworks and warns that illuminating sacred buildings for secular loyalty is dangerous and ill judged.
Mark Twain praises a foreign made watch by M Maule as almost human with moon phase, calendar, perpetual time and two stop hands. He notes its repeater chimes hours and quarters and that it could outpace governance, joking the watch deserves voting rights if its sex is right.
The Baltimore Gazette reports ex president Andrew Johnson ordered J Wilkes Booth remains sent to his family. Undertaker John H Weaver was to transport them from the arsenal to Washington. A box contained a skeleton in an army blanket with mismatched boots, a broken leg, and no definitive proof of identity.
The German Government publishes wartime losses in France: 3,919 officers and 60,978 men killed or wounded, with 1,374 officers and 16,877 men killed by wounds. Infantry suffered 57,943 losses, artillery 4,266, cavalry 2,236. artillery casualties 5,084. Notably 12,717 casualties struck heads and shoulders, suggesting high fire or elevated rifle sights.
The former U S Representative from Iowa’s Fourth District plans to leave politics and law and begin preaching. He will deliver a first sermon in Charles City next Sunday then serve at Osage’s Methodist pulpit before joining the Up towa Methodist Conference in the fall. Neighbors praise his abilities and expect further public good from his new calling.
The Russian peasantry appears devout in outward rites yet ignorant of religious doctrine. They perform churchgoing fasts and communion with punctilious care, trust rites for salvation, and die with calm resignation like a man in a sinking ship securing a life preserver.
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