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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1888
Page
3
An elderly couple shares a final night as the wife nears death and the husband comforts her with tender words. After her passing, he falters then dies, joining her in the quiet grave as their sixty year marriage ends in a celestial diamond wedding.
An 1850 diary recounts Redfel and companions on the steam launch Naturalist ascending the Grinoco River from Trinidad. They confront hundreds of crocodiles, jaguars, boas, and a giant twenty five foot crocodile, with multiple dramatic escapes and a jaguar attack on a young man ending in a fatal shot.
A South Carolina noblewoman’s daughter, pale and determined, comes to New York to pursue professional nursing. She earns a special medal, serves as chief assistant in the surgical ward, aids operations with discreet suggestions, and plans to return south to establish technical schools and expand nursing for Black communities.
A fragment from the New York Sun shows Grandfather Totter telling the minister yesterday that he will be 2 years old to morrer, and Grandmother Totter retorting that he had no right to such a thing while urging cheerfulness.
A state law aims to curb a surge of nuisance rabbits in Nebraska. Observers report drives of several hundred rabbits, signaling growing concern and regulatory action to reduce their numbers.
The Bull's Head precinct handles about 600,000 horses in work and breeding across New York each year. Dealers sell to surface car lines and farmers, with ponies and Percherons drawing big prices. Prices range from a few tens to several hundred dollars, and the market emphasizes fresh stock and honest dealing.
The orchid trade in England has grown huge with high prices for roots and diverse collectors dispersed across tropical regions. Officers note profits for locals from swamp roots, while risks abound from wildlife, storms, and transportation failures. The Chicago Tribune reports collectors faced danger and loss, yet the trade prospers in many tropical regions.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes walrus hunting shifts from tusks to hides as the main value. Walrus hide yields durable, tough material for emery wheels, boosting prices to 15 cents a pound with hides weighing 500 to 1000 pounds. Oil from blubber and tusks also gain value, signaling a growing walrus industry competitive with whaling.
The article surveys coral jewelry taste across Russia China India and Africa noting preferences for round versus pink coral and high prices for carved interiors. It also mentions a Hindoo cremation elephant with a silver collar valued at 25 060 dollars and Savannah Georgia population data at 73 000 per the new directory.
The New York assay office handles gold shipments valued at about 300000 to 5000 dollars per bar batch. Three clerks and George Spear supervise packing in heavy kegs with wax seals and sawdust to guard twenty bars of gold per container. Each keg weighs enough to require careful handling on steamers bound for Europe, with the process described as routine during favorable trade seasons.
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