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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1878
Page
3
A mix of notes reports and anecdotes from Warren area shores recount local business moves temperance efforts weather and transportation. Highlights include S K Hale & Son moving cloth stock to Olean Dr Bartholomew planning a Europe trip and a predicted oil venture near Union City. The piece notes spring plowing a temperance critique and the revival of local industry with carpenters builders and hotel upgrades.
The spring examination series for Warren county runs through March 28 to April 20 in multiple towns with special tests April 27 to May 11. All begin at 9 AM. Teachers must be examined in their teaching district and bring moral-character references. applicants answer prescribed questions and must be present to renew or obtain certificates.
Wednesday dry wind improved roads and forecasts predict a cold summer and winter. A light snow Tuesday and frost Wednesday followed by airborne flakes Thursday morning. The river runs low for rafts, several small timbers afloat near Warren. John F. Davis, Esq. travels in Tennessee with informative letters. Local ads promote McDowell Orr wallpaper and Geo Woods organs. Music classes progress and a Stoneham well shows oil near 700 feet with torpedo planned. Pigeons nest in forest near Marion and shipments to New York and Boston surge. Warren Olean Bradford and Warren rail ties discussed. Philadelphia Erie line favors connections. Stray red Irish Setter reported near Myron Waters home. Warren Hose Co. No. 8 formed for youth fire protection. New Lake View cottages planned. Lake View may incorporate. Poetry contest, Laudanum caution, and Western NY Children’s Home trustees listed. Democratic committee sets dates for state convention with Warren’s delegates.
In Harrisburg, lawmakers adjourn early while Capitol heating runs daily. The writer ridicules blue laws and smoky rotundas, laments wasteful rules, and mocks cremation bills alongside proposals penalizing offering drinks. Politicos from across the state, including Curtin, loom in campaigns as tomatoes and flowers fill markets.
Correspondence from Philadelphia Ledger notes the dissolution of Hewitt and Tilden’s partnership after mutual consent. Tilden criticizes Hewitt’s attack on Hayes and Civil Service Reform, fearing it will widen the North South split and affect party realignments.
The piece lambasts Secretary Schurz and Hayes administration officials as poachers against the public. It likens Cabinet depredations to deforestation, urging focus on government encroachment and public grievances rather than timber crimes. A separate note touts a new catarrh remedy via smoked berries and praises Beecher’s return to favor in Brooklyn and Plymouth church unity.
In Ricamona on March 17 pastor John Jasper of the city’s largest colored Baptist church preached a forceful sermon arguing that the sun moves while the earth remains still as per biblical authority. He challenged grammarians to refute the Bible meaning of rising and going down the sun and warned that belief in philosophers equates to doubting scripture, concluding with a show of hands from all in attendance supporting his view.
A Potville chronicle notes the Pennsylvania Legislature toiled twelve to fifteen hours weekly to pass appropriation bills and expel Bullard. It also recounts storms in the upper Missouri Valley, a dissolved Pittsburgh firm, and various political and social scraps from Washington to Terre Haute, including a morphine death and theatrical quips.
An 19th century style ad touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a purely vegetable remedy for fever and ague and bilious remittent fever. It claims to eradicate and prevent malarial ailments, improve circulation and liver function, and build resistance to various disorders, surpassing quinine in effectiveness.
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