16 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1872
Page
1
A harebell endures heat wind sun and drought before a boy plucks it and a final rain cannot save it. The poem follows the plant's fading vitality as it pleads for relief and dies, with personified elements failing to comfort.
The narrator recalls a boyhood trek to Ziglag in Ziklag, a coal region near Stafford Connecticut, and his terrifying, comic nocturnal visit to Old Like'em and Mrs Lull's haunted Raven Hill house. A man named Calista looms as a potential threat while the wind and a spectral gorilla intrude, yielding a night of dread and odd humor.
A Boston Traveller correspondent reports massive seal hunt preparations at St John’s Newfoundland. Steamers will carry 150 to 200 men each, with 18 steamers overall this year versus six sailing vessels, raising capitalists’ profits while reducing crew needs. The hunt runs from March into April with 10,000 hunters overall, as ice and winds govern success amid lottery like risks.
Captain Geo W. Case runs a biweekly trading route on the Upper Sacramento river using a $6,000 steamer to serve ranchers along the banks. The mobile store exchanges goods for butter eggs hides and pestries while delivering news and maintaining a thriving Sacramento property and expanding trade. Also notes a medical report from Guy's Hospital London on a burn day dressing first used by Dr Hewson at Pennsylvania Hospital.
The article argues for broad college access for women and careful choices in study. It praises women's rise with science, literature, and arts while cautioning against unnecessary pursuits like mastering French for most American girls. It emphasizes practical knowledge, history, drawing, sewing, and domestic arts to prepare for lifelong roles and safety.
Regents of the Illinois Industrial University urge technical schools for women citing Vassar and Cooper Institute as models. Proposals include arts of design photography telegraphy printing bookkeeping teaching literary work and domestic economy to elevate women’s industries and household efficiency.
The article notes repeated promises of affordable beef from Texas were not realized. Despite Texas cattle abundance and plans to export dressed beef by ship, affordable meat remains elusive as imports did not meet market needs and cheap beef remains unsolved.
A dealer in Newton Massachusetts possessed a strikingly dangerous recipe for making whisky. The formula used ten gallons of kerosene, three pounds of potash, and one ounce of strychnine mixed with water. For gin a dash of juniper oil was added.
A betrothal agreement creates mutual duties and rights, court rules. The Court of Exchequer Chamber in England ruled that such an express marriage contract places betrothment in a defined legal status with enforceable obligations to marry at the agreed time.
The London Daily News obituary portrays Joseph Mazzini as unthreatening in appearance yet marked by a lived history of rebellion. It notes his early studentlike pose, later secrecy, and pale thoughtful face. He spoke rapidly in fluent English with a foreign accent and received visitors in a Brompton Road room filled with books.
Cuddy, shot in a dispute over a girl by a man named Kreiger at St. Joseph, has died. Seventy eight buckshot were recovered from his body. the killer remains at large.
A dispute over shackles and an asylum commitment ends when Dennis Sheridan, a sane young lawyer, tricks Overseer Hoxsie during a journey to the Poughkeepsie Insane Asylum. Sheridan seizes the paper and slips away, but is recaptured and confined while Hoxsie is freed by bystanders.
A displeased prince traps a noble in a high tower and walls the exit. The prisoner’s wife sends a beetle with grease silk twine and rope. The beetle climbs the wall, the man reels up the line and escapes using the rope tied to the silk.
The author argues wind holds efficient motive power beyond sails and windmills and suggests improving windmills or storing wind energy to run mills and machinery when winds fail. He envisions western expansion benefiting from wind power as a reserve energy source for emergencies across the United States.
The article describes the Jordan River as a vast salt reservoir, fed by streams that fill a deep earth basin. It notes evaporation, the river’s 90 cubic yards of water per second, and six and a half bushels of salt daily, suggesting saturation. It also reports Dr. J. H. Salisbury’s discovery of Ohio rock sculptures resembling Oriental hieroglyphs, including a Chinese third-track character from eight centuries BCE.
A collage of short notes covers a sect in St. Louis enforcing hair cutting on women, a woman reportedly guiding a Hannibal and St. Joseph passenger train, a Dutch girl’s boots at a Cincinnati fair, and Huntington Indiana’s smallpox crackdown. Also includes pyramid weighs and labor notes, odd courtship histories, alum uses, a fatal household fire, New Orleans counterfeit cards, a Hartford burial oddity, a Virginia City boy showman, and stock-raising scales in Texas.
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