11 Nov 1870
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1870
Page
1
A lyric reflecting a speaker’s nostalgia for a nest of birds now grown and flown away. The speaker expresses happiness in their early oneness and sorrow as each bird spreads its wings and departs toward a distant, better country above.
A bitter January train journey unfolds with a young traveler en route to Bayswater for school. A detective pursues a murder suspect aboard the express, the girl leaps to escape, and the rescue ends in her death beside the track. The case prompts reflection on justice and fate.
The Cleveland Leader notes a remark about the Forty first Regiment reunion calling it she, criticizing the person who likened a group of soldiers to a female entity as excessive, deeming it a stretch beyond even references to ships or states. The Holmes County Farmer weighs in on the joke.
Three leading doctors Dr Quiet Dr Diet and Dr Merryman comprise the medical team praised for expertise and patient care. Their reputations span multiple specialties and patient communities highlighting their dedication.
Mark Twain recalls a small man’s funeral where T. K. Beecher delivers a bluntly simple eulogy. The minister reads the decedent’s supposed merits from notes, then ends with the blunt line There is nothing to add let us pray.
A Maryland scene shows Senator Nickers attempting to bypass voter rules by granting one square foot of ground to ninety four Chestertown voters. A newly enfranchised black citizen countered by deeding the same quantity to 150 black residents, creating a decisive shift in the local election and ending Caucasian monopoly on tricks.
Discussion centers on whether the government holds Arlington by confiscation or tax title after Gen Lee's death. The death of Mrs Lee ends a life interest, with tax title keeping the property in government hands. Arlington now serves as a national cemetery, limiting usable purposes for the Lee family.
Jamaca Long Island hosts the nation’s oldest Presbyterian church founded over two centuries ago. Its first pastor Zacharish Walker earned £60 yearly. Since 1689, twenty pastors served, with current elders and deacons descending from the original stock. The old stone church stood until 1813 when a new edifice was built.
A New York dispatch reports McFarland jailed for drunkenness and notes his collapse as supporters abandon him after the trial. It adds a grim line that death carries greater penalty than murder, showing his self deprecation amid a drift from drinking politicians. In Indianapolis a Democratic saloon keeper accidentally records a political note banning liquor sales to a husband, threatening prosecution.
An Iowa family plans to sell their sor ghum mill as four family members died in it over three years and the supply of the product grows short.
Horace Greeley decries easy money schemes while a New Hampshire farmer burns timber worth $10,000 trying to smoke a coon from a log and still claims the critter. A daytime ghost in Fredericksburg, Virginia wears a federal uniform. An obituary notes a deceased Laramie man killed a Digger Indian for missing church.
In Mississippi sixty one of every hundred people cannot read or write according to local literacy assessments.
The watchman and reflector praises Wendell Phillips for his continued bold criticism of public figures, noting his tolerance of harsh rebukes and his status as a leader in the realm of outspoken critique. Phillips is celebrated for attacking Lincoln, Andrew, Grant, the church, and other leaders, maintaining his reputation.
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