02 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1872
Page
1
A lyric from a London paper speaks of a traveling exile sending a token of home. It laments parting from Ireland while cherishing earth from birth as a treasured gift for loved ones and homeland. It imagines future reunions and dream visits to familiar landscapes.
In a North Bend cottage a sculpted hero who bears severe burn scars wins the love of his wife after saving her mother from a fire. A visitor learns the romance, sees the portrait of the disfigured husband, and hears how courage transformed fear into devotion and happiness.
The excerpt reflects on a mysterious sadness that can overtake the spirit in activity, society, or solitude. It notes that its power touches both the weak and the strong, sometimes sparked by a single thought or a memory loud as a death knell, yet it is a tender gloom that deepens beauty after sorrow.
In 1561 Calcutta, Farquhar, a widow with five children, negotiated a strategic marriage with Dr Evans and later with merchant Gilchrist. After a series of public separations and legal maneuvers, Br Evans testified to a promissory note. Lord Romilly upheld the widow's claim to half the estate, despite loss of the note, through evidence from Calcutta.
An analysis of Dodd the parracide, ex Bethlehem inmate now at Broadmoor, focusing on his Good Samaritan painting. The critique notes grave, ascetic style, hints of insanity in the pistol-like oil flask, and parallels with Dadd and Ward. The piece concludes with Dodd’s arrest and lifelong confinement.
In New Brunswick forests lumbering continues through winter as farmers lack other work. Lumberers travel in gangs of up to twenty, build camps, portage roads, and rely on heavy labor, long days, and a diet of flour pork tea and molasses. Wages range from 15 to 25 dollars monthly plus goods, with horses used to haul logs. The piece notes hospitality in camps and details camp division of labor including boss cook and broad-ax men.
A Newfoundland dog named Lion, loyal to Joseph Parsons, protects his owner's yard. He detains a stranger seen loitering there and recovers a hidden chamois skin and water-brush. The thief confesses, crediting the dog’s keen vigilance as the motive for restraint.
A Chicago Tribune account notes a remarkable chessmen set at 48 South Desplaines Street carved by a Chinese expert from solid ivory. Kings measure nine inches, pawns five, with intricate multi layered balls and star perforations. Once owned by Lord Elgin, later by an American collector, now valued around $1000 and shown as the city’s curios.
A Louisville Journal correspondent recalls a Kentucky Court of Appeals case where a gaunt portrait of a witness was used to argue a wife’s infidelity. The husband’s suit for divorce featured testimony that the wife pursued the plaintiff, but the court reversed a lower ruling, deeming the evidence insufficient, and the portrait now hangs in the cloak-room.
Explorations in the Pyrenees reveal traces of a stone age people buried just below the soil. In 1854 Swiss lakes yielded remains of stone and bone tools and rude pottery from submerged habitations. Archaeologists debate whether stations were built on dry land or flooded later, noting hundreds of such sites across Swiss lakes and multiple ages.
The article explains rotational speed varies by latitude from nine miles per minute at St. Petersburg to eleven and a half miles at Paris and about eighteen miles per minute at the equator. It notes Earth’s axis motion, orbital oscillation, and raises questions on matter’s origin and annihilation.
W N Haynie urged California can grow and cure Smyrna figs for U S markets, noting imports cost ~28 cents a pound and potential to yield 150–200 pounds per ten year old tree and 30 000 pounds per acre at 10 cents a pound. J R Johnson backed figs as profitable, with over ten year old trees yielding about $10 per tree yearly.
The speaker argues that lack of patience does not excuse impatience or outbursts. He warns against using natural temper as an excuse and stresses that temptation may be strong but does not absolve responsibility for resisting sin. He notes we can judge actions but not the full extent of inner struggle.
Mrs. E. C. Stanton laments the distress of a sick man describing his appearance and behavior. She contrasts a well-dressed sick man with an untidy, irritable patient whose condition seems hopeless and difficult to care for.
In terse prose the piece recounts Janet Dalrymple of Stair and her doomed match to Dunbar of Baldoon. Lord Rutherford’s disputed love and a fatal bridal night yield Janet’s madness and death, Baldoon’s silence, Rutherford’s childless end, and an 1682 elegy praising a cautious farmer.
James Hargreaves kneels and sketches on the floor as his wife Jenny brings their newborn. He explains spinning jenny drawings while promising a life free from toil and play. The crowd tears the invention apart. Richard Arkwright builds a fortune and becomes a titled industrialist.
Geological study reveals fossil remains of colossal reptiles and flying pterodactyles found in various regions. Whale bones, elephant tusks, and ancient tree rings suggest vast, ancient changes in the world. The text questions what caused these universal disappearances and whether the earth’s polarity shifted.
A collection of curious cases from history noting extreme lifespans and dietary habits. It contrasts drinkers who reached ages like 121 to 152 with non drinkers who lived long without spirits, and mentions unusual lifespans from figures such as Thomas Parr and Pierre Lorton.
City editors across Mexico have organized a professional society with a constitution that requires members to refrain from personal attacks when discussing politics and other inflammatory topics, promoting respectful discourse among newspapers.
The eggs are laid on stagnant water and hatch into wriggling wiggletails. Mosquitoes emerge with weak wings. males cannot suck blood. While biting females disturb sleep, mosquitoes in the larval stage purify stagnant water and reduce disease risk. Linnaeus showed two barrels, one covered, one not, developing differently in odor and impurity.
The survey notes 161 Baptist churches in Minnesota and 200 in Wisconsin, and two thirds of Wooster University students are religion professors. It cites 3 665 Congregational churches and 8 000 preaching stations in the British Empire, while Oberlin reports a fall revival with about fifty converts. Boxed figures show Cincinnati Presbyterian worship valued at 850 000 dollars with 70 000 annual costs and about 20 dollars per member, and Mexico’s first Methodist congregation at La Junta now numbers eleven natives. Wales shows three major denominations Calvinists Methodists and Baptists alongside Independents sharing identical doctrines.
The Stockton Republican reports a flock of sheep four miles from Milton watched by three foxes, one gray and two red. The gray fox appears to lead, guiding the others as they guard lambs from morning till night. A witness saw the gray fox chase a hog that seized a lamb, then the fox retrieved the lamb and returned it to the flock.
A collage of anecdotes and notes covers weddings gifts and returns cases sits of fortune in Harrisburg and Chicago tricks to evade fire limits a Detroit river tunnel progress report and Dubuque youth voyage plans. It also reports weather forecasts public sentiment and a Cincinnati debt collection wagon case.
A long time Great Western Railway of Canada workman proposes a simple locomotive signal system. A red oil silk shade converts the white headlight to red instantly. Train numbers would be painted on a rod before the headlight to help engineers judge approaching trains. Red light would indicate doubt to an engineer.
The piece surveys debates on human longevity, noting that some scholars deny humans as animals while others argue for animal-like biology. It references ancient lifespans, cites Ruseland’s two hundred year limit, and laments modern impatience with reaching a hundred.
Analysis of the Pittsburg suspension bridge cables shows severe corrosion with only 11 of 20 wires remaining at fracture. The 15 year old bridge had been closed over a month due to safety concerns, yet the extent of corrosion was unsuspected, prompting scrutiny of other wire cables.
Alfred Huffy aged 96 died in Brooklyn recently. He commanded the British regiment that guarded Napoleon at St. Helena during the exile.
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