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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1895
Page
4
A flashily dressed woman elderly man and a small girl aboard the Belle Isle Dost entertain fellow passengers with grand summer plans and memories. The mother quarrels with the child as the girl asserts they have spent summers with grandma in the country. The scene unfolds with light humor aboard the deck.
The Westminster Gazette recounts Sir Wilfred Lawson advising a laborer to quit alcohol after seeing a bottle. The man empties the liquor in the road, accepts sixpence, and then buys beer in a public house, leaving Lawson pleased but the outcome ironic.
The three bright stars forming Orion's belt maintain constant relative positions yet race through space at immense speeds. Our distance makes them appear fixed and eternal as they whirl around unseen centers, forever shifting their positions.
A steamship is fitted with canning and preserving equipment to cruise the West Indian islands and Florida keys. It will harvest fruits turtles guava and other produce on site and deliver them to southern ports for rail transport across the country. The sailing cannery is expected to benefit southern coast neighbors with abundant fruit and offer profitable prospects for its owners.
A fragmentary historical clipping extols muscular strength and tonic remedies. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestion and sleep, Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative, Kilmer's Swamp Root for kidney and bladder issues, Hall's Catarrh Cure, and Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedies with testimonials from Atlanta. It mentions No-To-Bac for nicotine and other patent patent medicines, plus Home remedies like corn removers and nerve restoratives.
Georgia edged the District of Columbia by six points to win the interstate military match at Sea Girt New Jersey on the third day of the New Jersey State Rifle Association program. Twelve marksmen from each state competed with winds complicating the 200 and 500 yard ranges.
Senator Calvin Brice has purchased the Cleveland Akron and Columbus railroad from G W Saul and Holland stockholders for 500000 dollars. Brice secures 100000 shares and is named president, gaining a strategic eastern outlet for the Akron and Western line.
H. H. Holmes faces imminent trial in Philadelphia for the Pietzel murder. Toronto authorities have been notified and if conviction fails in the United States he may be sent to Indianapolis and then Canada for possible capital punishment.
Major W. J. Willis returns to Nashville from eastern cities for the Tennessee Centennial Exhibition. He brings assurances from Baltimore Boston and New York manufacturers of cooperation as Westside park exhibition space fills. The Knoxville to Middlesboro railroad line sold for 500000 at receiver's sale to F. W. Whitridge of New York.
A suspected 1873 will of General Joseph Holt of Kentucky surfaced in Washington at the register of wills office. The document names Lizzie Hynds and Josephine Holt Throckmorton as heirs with equal shares to be held in trust by Major Charles B. Throckmorton, signed J Hour and witnessed by Ellen E Sherman and W T Sherman. Authorities question its provenance but deem the handwriting and Grant Sherman signatures authentic.
A Dallas county attorney issues a legal opinion on Texas boxing law stating the club may proceed with erecting the arena and plans for the Corbett Fitzsimmons bout. He notes current statutes are vague and that enforcement depends on future prosecutions, while Dallas supporters cheer the glove event and habeas corpus challenge on the Collins Cavanaugh clash.
About 1500 state soldiers encamp near the Lake Angeline mine in Ishpeming Michigan as Chicago workers are brought in to operate steam shovels. Governor Rich dispatches 21 companies of the Fifth Regiment to protect sheriffs and mine owners and restore business after a month of idleness. Strikers and laid off workers oppose the move, creating an alarming standstill risk.
Judge Thayer in Philadelphia ruled the city may take the Liberty Bell to the Atlanta exposition. The decision came in a bill in equity filed by prominent citizens against the city and several city officials seeking an injunction to stop the trip. They argued the appropriation was unlawful and that moving the bell outside Philadelphia would misuse the artifact.
The Cherokee legislature is summoned to meet in extra session on September 11 at Tablequad IT to decide on dispossessing 178 non citizen intruders and selling or disposing of their improvements. Chief Harris issued the proclamation under likely Interior Department guidance. Widespread unease grows among intruders in Indian Territory as the issue unfolds and related sensational reports surface from Quebec.
The article surveys Labor Day observances across the United States with large parades and outings. In New York City unions planned excursions including a Coney Island event. Columbus hosted two rival parades over uniforms and speeches from Patrick McBryde and state officials. Atlanta showcased a major pageant by about two thousand workers from forty unions. Nashville held Glendale Park events with Mayor Guild and W C Pomeroy. Memphis staged the largest parade with three thousand workers and a major East End park picnic led by Judge James M Greer. Chicago divided celebrations with a socialist congress parade led by Kier Hardie and John Swinton and a counter event by the building trades council. Indianapolis featured a gigantic AFL union parade at the fairgrounds addressed by President McBryde.
Reports from the Mississippi Delta describe widespread cotton worm damage across Yazoo and Mississippi deltas. Planters urgently order paris green and London purple as infestations force druggists to struggle to fill calls from Red River Louisiana to Shreveport and Monroe.
The sixth annual meeting of the National Association of Letter Carriers began at the Bourse building in Philadelphia. George A. Bartel and John T. Bailey welcomed delegates as President Cowden of Cleveland called the session to order. The credentials committee reported 508 of 528 votes represented. Delegate Atkinson urged legislation to raise second class carrier salaries from 850 to 1000 dollars annually.
At the Western Passenger Association meeting in Chicago on Tuesday a resolution set special rates at 75 percent of the regular fare each way for the Atlanta exposition with dates to be fixed by the chairman. No lower rates will be set before an October meeting, where a further reduction is expected. Western lines say they have acted prudently for this month.
The Gloucester fishing schooner John E McKenzie arrived at St Johns on Monday morning from Greenland and reports the Peary expedition steamer Kite at Holstonberg July 15. All aboard are well and the Kite picked up Professor Dyche. The Kite sails north toward Peary headquarters with a clear coast and expects a favorable passage to its destination.
Mexican operators who worked Sunday refused to work Monday for The Mexican Herald. The English daily began last Sunday and printed Monday, with workers rebelling against continuous labor. The paper aims to publish daily all year, but securing willing operators on consecutive days is uncertain.
The Clyde Steamship Company schedules a Bruns wick Georgia to Philadelphia service starting the 15th instant with weekly trips. This gives Bruns wick two direct eastbound steamship lines including Mallory to New York. An official St. Petersburg report notes 2025 cholera cases and 118 deaths in Volhynia from July 11 to August 17.
The Kaiser will use three Transvaal zebras as a royal troika before the Russian carriage team. The animals, installed at the Neuss palais, are carefully exercised by an expert driver amid past near misses and ongoing preparations of russet morocco harness.
A 19th century observer recalls Noumea New Caledonia as the Siberia of the Pacific with forced labor camps, chained prisoners and gendarmes under harsh French rule. He notes tropical disease, punishment for minor crimes, and wandering elderly ex-prisoners without work. He also cites German cannon-maker Ksserr and Romanian alcohol magnate Marinescu-Bragadir paying large taxes, tracing modest origins to early careers.
A column offers household hints from cleaning bottles with shot or potato to purifying water via cinnamon for typhoid risk. It suggests orange preparation as a dessert, lemon and glycerine for skin care, and repurposing old umbrella frames for plant canopies. It notes U S stamp usage at 12 million daily.
J Stone of Palmer Florida recovers from rheumatism after years of pain. He swore an affidavit praising the pills and urged others to try them. He says seven boxes aided his condition, but a later course worsened before a final recovery. Pills sold nationwide for 5 cents a box or 2.50 for 12.
Scientists warn that water and gravity could power civilization, with trees as major water lifters. An oak with 700,000 leaves may lift about 123 tons of water over five months, feeding clouds that help Niagara’s flow. Preserving forests is essential to prevent economic decline.
German manufacturers pursue a method for multicolored wood pulp mosaics using heated molds and pressure. Heat softens shellac, cement hardens, and the mosaic forms tightly with wood particles enabling rapid removal from the mold. The cooled mosaics resist moisture and temperature change better than natural wood and are claimed to be very durable.
The article cites general railroad statistics showing 1 890 railroads employing about 900 000 people and states one in ninety Americans earns a living from railroads. It notes 500 000 000 passengers carried in 1890 and eight hundred million tons of freight moved, with 35 000 locomotives and over 1 100 000 freight cars. It adds 230 000 miles of tracks, 176 461 miles actual, and 515 workers per 100 miles of railroad.
The Fifty third Cox College session in Manchester Georgia shows strong patronage with many new registrations and high returning attendance. A 30 member faculty from Europe and America, modern buildings and facilities, and the Exposition provide strong appealing factors for education of young ladies.
A scientific note explains how lightning heats air to create a blast and how straight sparks produce short claps while crooked paths yield multiple sounds with rolling echoes. The piece describes thunder’s sequence and the accompanying cloud echoes.
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