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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1893
Page
4
An anecdote about the archbishop of Canterbury while head master at Wellington. The prince consort visits with an equerry as the doctor begins a lecture. After a brief interruption the doctor shows deference yet asserts his authority, declaring he is the boys' headmaster. The tale ends with mutual respect and humor.
The writer notes scarce breadmakers among professional cooks and recalls a stay where village bread was sour and inedible. A London cook, costly yet efficient, failed to master dough rising, forcing a weekly supply train run from a town 40 miles away.
A classroom joke revolves around a boy’s miscalculation of a horse deal, highlighting a misunderstanding of losses. A New York Sun note reports on an Englishwoman hiring 35 Irishwomen since 1885 to recreate a Bayeux tapestry, measuring 227 by 20 inches and depicting 623 men, 202 horses, 505 other animals, and various birds and flora.
A period piece list of home care tips and tonic advertisements. It covers floor polishing with bees wax and castile soap, and weekly to quarterly application guidance. It advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Brown's Iron Bitters as remedies. It also praises Syrup of Figs and Owning Iron Bitters for vitality and digestion.
The Senate discusses converting silver bullion into standard dollars with a cap of 4 million monthly and 200 million total, while Mr. Voorhees and Mr. Mills clash over repeal of the silver purchase act. The House sessions see filibusters on federal election laws, calls for caucuses, and clashes over cloture rules as members maneuver through adjournments.
A mob in Roanoke Virginia killed ten men after a black man named Thomas Smith was accused of assaulting Mrs. Henry Bishop. militia fired on the mob. Smith was hanged and burned along Ninth Avenue as crowds gathered, with many wounded and a coroner’s inquiry.
The president sent to the Senate nominations for William B. Hornblower to the US Supreme Court and James J. Van Allen to Italy as ambassador. House debate covered Cherokee threats, tariff drafting, and sugar bounty repeal. Reports cite Ways and Means hearings, coal interest lobbying, and a Tucker bill rule decision.
The committee set a September 26 hearing for the elections law repeal bill and a final vote on October 10. The yeas and nays were taken on ordering the previous question, passing 175 to 4.
A San Francisco special cites the Japan Gazette of August 26 reporting a great flood in Fifn Ken. Three hundred and more were drowned and many persons laid to rest, with ships and towns overwhelmed by the rising waters.
A Madrid dispatch reports Toledo province hit by violent storms causing extensive property damage and 60 to 100 lives feared or lost as floods drown cave dwellers on the town outskirts. In Leamington Ontario the steamer Byron Trerice tied to Erie and Huron rail line burned at the dock early Wednesday.
Senator John I M Irby arrived in Columbia from Washington in a beastly intoxicated state. He drew a double acting revolver in the waiting room and aimed at a colored porter, then slept, was carried to the governor's mansion, and later left for Laurens in the same condition. The episode drew much comment in the city.
London banks warned of a gang of American forgers capable of erasing handwriting on checks. Other dispatches note Admiral Danielles threatening Rio with bombardment, a trap gun killing John Newman in Yoakum, and Alvo passengers possibly reaching Mompox. Fire at Canton, Illinois theater burned twenty with several fatally injured. Clearing house funds shifted as gold moved. Virginia floods hit Criglersville and mills washed away. Suspects in Mineral Range heist jailed with $14,000 recovered. Brown & Co iron works reopen after a tense stand. Coal mine strikes in Pas de Calais threaten regional industry. Dauphin Island railroad project planned to connect Mobile with Gulf deep water.
After a conference in Chicago Florida and other foreign commissioners, World's fair directors consider extending the exposition period and the deadline into January of next year to accommodate additional acts and exhibits.
The Chicago Evening Journal sold at auction. Dr 8 Farrar bought the paper plant and leasehold in The Evening Journal building for 163000. Authorities report cholera in Hamburg St Petersburg Buda Pesth and Brunswick with cases and deaths rising. A yellow fever death reported in Brunswick and suspicious cases on Jeckyll Island. A gas explosion in Plymout h Pa killed five and injured five. World’s Fair closing set for October 31 with dividends declared. Breckenridge Pollard case unmoving docket with two years likely. New Wilmington to New Berne rail service begun. Ligo fever quarantine at Portland. Typographers elect Philadelphia convention in October. Counterfeiting arrests in Birmingham.
John L. M. Irby came off a train in a drunken state at the Union Depot and drew a double-acting revolver on a colored hackman. He fell asleep, woke, and again pulled the pistol but did not fire. He was taken to a nearby area to recover.
Noted customs from various cultures include the Tartar inviting a guest by the ear, Laplanders touching noses to honor, Java brides washing grooms feet, a China man shaking his own hand, and a Chinese academy of manners. Additional practices cover corpse preservation, Roman thresholds, teeth gilding in Japan, East Indies black teeth, Easter eggs as Hindoo symbols, Peruvian nose rings, Dyak head hunting with a belief in future slavery, Roman mourning customs, color meanings in different regions, and Hungarian marriage rites with a kick.
The Rural World argues debt is not inherently evil but buying on credit leads to bondage and misery. It contrasts purchases of nonessential goods and seasonal machines with the value of farming on credit, noting how associated effort can enable farm ownership and lift people from subsistence labor.
London Telegraph reports Paris medical men debating diphtheria care with petroleum though not original. Dr Lahout cites testimony. Dr Fanvel says petroleum aided pulmonary maladies. American Civil War wounds were treated with oil. mothers urged to use pure lemon juice for affected children for now. Prof Cooper remarks on self-discipline and consequences.
The passage urges a child to wait upon itself and attend to parents by bringing slippers, cane, hat, or gloves and mother’s work basket, thimble, or book. It promotes small offices that fit a child’s powers, fostering pride, habit of considering others, and linked mind and body. It suggests character improvement leads to a more beautiful body and a noble bearing.
A Long Island man fell into a well and, while in two feet of water, retrieved a $20 gold piece. He survived the incident and remains alive and well, illustrating the saying it is better to be born lucky than rich.
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