26 Oct 1877
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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1877
Page
1
A Canadian priest sued a young man for a wedding fee set at 15 dollars but lost the case, with the court finding the youth received no appreciable value. The piece, by Nathan Durner, also reflects on fate and honest daily labor, and comments on public life including Mr. Tilden.
Local ad promotes first class tailoring and new stock at H V Olney's No 10 South Washington St Van Wert with a large ready made suit selection and cheaper overcoats, underwear, hats, gloves, trunks and travel goods. Also notes varied items and prices and urges patronage.
A Clinton Massachusetts man recalls his parrot alive thirty years in the family, aging to about ninety, once talking only the name Harriet. The article shifts to a political scene with a quiet bid in Congress to aid Confederate veterans and a note on Miss Bailey and family life in Portsmouth. It closes with a tearful reminiscence of a grandmother recounting hardships after war, and a tragedy of a young woman named Nelly who drowns with a lover in a boat accident.
A speaker urges a toast to women with wine, but a woman pleads to honor women in tears not wine. She cites the drunkard's harm and asks that the toast pledge no woman, noting wine has only brought heartbreak, loss, and shattered households.
A Nevada writer reports curious noises near abandoned Truckee District mines. Investigators find magnetic iron flakes in rock beds moving with wind aided by a mountain slope gait, producing a tinkling, harp like sound across the rock bed.
Ozra J. Dodds left Washington with a presidential pardon for ex detective Jim White, convicted last winter of procuring repeaters for Tilden Banning and Reform in Cincinnati’s election. Hayes granted the pardon citing sympathy for White’s destitute family. The item notes broader corruption outside prison and mocks Indiana papers on Valparaiso horse theft boast.
The text argues philosophy is valuable by noting how it enables a man to justify buying a newspaper for a penny and a cheap cigar for five cents, highlighting thrift and thought in everyday purchases.
A tramp nears a back door and asks if buckwheats have begun, indicating a probing, uncertain encounter through a readerly fragment.
The Louisville Courier-Journal relays grim tidings from Ohio including Columbus Cleveland Toledo and Sandusky. The piece laments calamities and the fall of leaders, with colorful regional invocations and names drawn from the era.
Representative Harmer of Pennsylvania had a long interview with President Hayes about the political situation. Hayes said the order was misinterpreted and aimed at stopping self serving office holders while letting citizens vote. The discussion touched on reform and party unity amid efforts to influence conventions and force action in party interests. The Memphis Avalanche commented on William Allen and Susan Anthony in editorial terms.
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