News Notes and Personalities From May 30 1879
William Lloyd Garrison died in New York over the weekend. Reports from Russia mention Nihilist arrests and seizures of weapons. Public whippings occur in Newcastle Delaware. The Czar fears assassination. Osman Pasha’s influence wanes at the Turkish court. An East India marine disaster costs many lives. Covert Bennett and Mrs Jennie Smith convicted in Jersey City for a police murder. The Queen marks her sixtieth birthday. Pigeon racing planned in New York state. A lightning strike destroys a large powder magazine near Brighton Illinois.
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Jennie Smith
Jersey City
Smith
Jennie
New York
Oriental Powder Company
Lrighton
Ill
Salem
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
London
Captain Webb
G. Pearne
Missouri
Experience as a Lunatic and a Tale of Guilt and Return
A Civil War veteran recounts a brain injury from trepanning that splits his mind and drives him to murder his wife in a delirious pact with his second self. After life on ships and in an asylum, a final reunion with his wife reveals the truth and redemption in California.
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Argonaut
Early
Shenandoah Valley
Winchester
Sheridan
Charley
Academy
New York City
Cape Horn
Pacific
California
San Francisco
Charles Harden
The
Law
Harden
Sansome Street
Stockton
Jimmy the Duck Inventor Dies in Virginia City
Virginia City resident known as Jimmy the Duck died. He earned a living by inventing a duck in a box act for crowds paying a nickel a throw. His epitaph recalls his weary bones under the sage and a hopeful resurrection moment atop Mount Davidson with the duck's head popping up.
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Jimmy-the-Duck
Virginia City
Nevada
Jimmy
Mount Davidson
Loss of old fashioned church music lamented by papers
The New York Tribune laments the fading of old fashioned church music praising its quirky charm. It recalls a deacon in a front pew singing in a nasal tone while the sexton’s dog allegedly joins the chorus, and a sleeper waking in a boiler shop.
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The
New York Tribune
the Tribune
Norristown Herald
Quote on music and hand-organ by Uncle Sam
The remark notes how a poet once described music as soothing and contrasts it with the modern invention of a hand-organ. It highlights curiosity about mechanical music in a voice attributed to Uncle Sam.
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Uncle Sam
Sunday School Excursions Promoted by Oil City Derrick
The Oil City Derrick urges families to have children ready for Sunday school outings, stressing prompt arrival to ensure proper participation and organization.
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Oil City
King Humbert and Garibaldi referenced in heated household
Mrs Throstlewaite derides King Humbert for drinking spirits with dubious names while noting Garibaldi as a bad influence. She predicts by age forty five his appetite will outgrow the throne. She recalls a New Bedford youth who died after drinking Tommanferry over twenty three years.
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Humbert
New Bedford
Tommanferry
Hawkeye
Quote on Madame Patterson Bona Partes Refusal of Westphalia Estate
Paris anecdotes recount Madame Patterson Bona Partes turning down Prince Jerome's offer of a Westphalian estate saying it was not big enough for two Queens. She later took Napoleons pension and explained she would not be sheltered by a goose despite an eagle’s wings.
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Paris
Madame Patterson Bonaparte
Prince Jerome
Westphalia
Napoleon
Cider Jug Cork Causes Leg Injury in Middletown Fracas
Two people driving into Middletown on a late Saturday evening heard a loud report. One man was struck in the leg, cried that he was shot, and investigators found the cork from a cider jug had been blown out and caused the injury.
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Boston Transcript
Middletown
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