12 Oct 1877
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1877
Page
1
A mosaic of notes from William Burgman’s estate report, Kellogg Cary Opera Troupe concerts in Boston, temperance meetings, political takes on presidents, lynching mentions, bans on dogs in churches, a cremation fire in Toronto, and diverging tales from Plevna, pigeon cruelty rulings, and a raging schoolhouse fire scene.
Arthur Musgrave, British attache in Madrid, reunites with Marie Orloff after a Moscow misadventure. Demetrius Vassili schemes trigger a police trap. Pope John is unmasked as a rogue in disguise. Count Orloff frees Musgrave after a socialistic plot is thwarted by imperial authorities.
The piece argues automation and mills reduce skilled labor demand while boosting output, urging a shift from factory work to farming. It notes New Hampshire farms underproduce for consumption, urges food production as a remedy, and calls for new work opportunities amid unemployment and urban surplus.
A discussion on how honey changes from clear syrup to crystalline sugar when exposed to light. Experiments by M Scheibler show strained honey crystallizes in light while dark stored samples stay liquid, suggesting light acts as a photographic agent. Bees thus keep hives dark to protect their food supply and the hive's young depend on this liquidity.
A London sourced reflection on American prowess amid a laboring-class chat. The bishop’s defeat is debated as folks joke about Yankee gunplay, hunting, and marksmanship, comparing rapid-fire shooting to odd feats and irreverent humor.
Apothecary Major Ballard of Cherchell Hospital in Algeria finds Barbary figs yield alcohol in profusion and high quality. One ton and a half of wild figs produces about sixteen gallons of colorless alcohol at eighty five degrees with kirschwasser flavor, more than beetroot which makes only fifteen gallons for the same weight.
The Salt Lake Herald describes Truckee as a thriving railroad town and starting point for Lake Tahoe. It notes a fourteen mile canyon road with Sierra views, a trout fish farm, and the ladder like Truckee River outlet to the lake, with Tahoe described as ultramarine, six thousand five hundred feet high, never freezing and full of small steamers.
A Cincinnati Times report recounts a San Francisco case of a wife facing suicide with corrosive sublimate from family meds. She experiences bliss and visions of paradise before her husband interrupts, noting the bottle labeled ten dollar brandy. She ultimately decides to live, insisting she found paradise.
Last week Squire John Cahill held a court at Knoxville and issued severe rulings comparable to the famous Judge McManama. He warned the assembled defendants that respect for the court would be demanded and threatened firm measures if not observed.
A child describes gossip as when no one does anything and someone goes and tells about it. This remark frames gossip as a passive action followed by disclosure, highlighting attitudes toward silence and commentary in social settings.
The speaker recalls poverty as a looming foe that steals food and chills the night. He describes crouching winds and hunger pressing on him, yet he faces the hardship with resolve, fighting the fear that poverty brings and vowing a lifelong struggle for victory and right. The tone is defiant and stoic as the speaker rejects disgrace and asserts personal dignity.
A Scarre resident recounts Mr. Hubbard, who saved daily to quit smoking. Starting at eighteen, he added companions’ savings monthly, grew his fund to about 15,000 dollars, and used it to buy a Greenwich hill site with a fine view of Long Island Sound and a comfortable family home.
A city visitor recalls episodes from the President Hayes journey from Cincinnati homeward. At Lynchburg General Early refused to greet the President and claimed Hayes should visit him. In Charlottesville the President visited Monticello and Jefferson’s tomb. At Orange Court House a rebel yell greeted the departing train, pleasing the President with its good faith.
Professor Latti of Rochester University reports tests on forty city wells show surface drainage and lead sewers raise impure salts to 16.78 grains per gallon well above healthy levels. He doubts any pure water source remains in Rochester.
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