20 Aug 1878
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1878
Page
1
Burgess Miles is mayor with council members Burgess Palmer James Clark Jr A Hertzel A J Davis P Greenland G L Friday P J Falconer M Spaulding. Clerk R P King Assessor J P Marston School Directors Nesmith King Keelor Wells Henry Ensworth Judges Hodges W C James Constable John F McPherson Jr Public Notaries Ball Noyes Brown Hoffman Ozro Nesmith Auditors Orr Parmlee Hodges.
Train times listed for many stations including Oil City Tidioute Warren and Frewsburg with trains 1 4 daily and 2 3 daily. All trains run by Erie Railway time and connect with Lake Shore and Erie Railways at Dunkirk Falconer and Jamestown via Ominibus line. D Thayer Gen Supt. C A Clute Asst Supt. L T Bishop Agent Warren Pa.
Train schedules list passenger departures from Cincinnati to Dayton Springfield Ibana Marion Mansfield Ashland Akron Ravenna Warren Greenville Meadville Union City Jamestown Salamanca Buffalo Hornelsyle Elmira Binghatn New York Boston with times ranging from 10:45 am to 10:58 pm and late-night arrivals.
A roster of county posts in Warren Pennsylvania shows names for Congress, state senate, assembly, judges, sheriff, prothonotary, register and recorder, treasurer, county commissioners, surveyor, coroner, district attorney, auditors, and the county superintendent. Notable names include L F Watson, C W Stone, W M Lindsey, Lansing D Wetmore, and Henry Brace among others.
The notice lists worship times and pastors for Presbyterian Episcopal Methodist Evangelical Lutheran Scandinavian and Catholic congregations. It includes morning and evening services and Sabbath or Sunday School times plus language notes and holiday observances.
Local fraternal groups list meeting times and locations across town. Laban Lodge No 52 K of H meets every other Monday at the K of H Hall opposite Carver House. Nelson Ensworth is Dictator and H R Bartlett Reporter. Other bodies include Carroll Lodge 102 AOUW meeting Wednesdays at Burgess' store, North Star Lodge 241 AYM regular Wednesday evenings by full moon, and OcidentAL H R A Chapter 235 meeting second Mondays. Also Conewango Lodge 250 IOGT meets Mondays at Johnson's Exchange. Warren Lodge 339 IOOF meets Tuesdays at Allen Block. Kossuth Encampment 98 IOOF meets second and fourth Thursdays at Johnson's Exchange.
The passage presents three guiding maxims Hope Faith and Love to shape character. It urges enduring faith amid despair and treating all people as brothers, spreading charity like sunlight. The poem stresses inner strength and illumination through enduring virtues.
A reflective poem about summer air and the awakening of corn from seed to stalk. It contrasts desolation with renewal, noting the rebirth each spring brings and linking life’s uncertain road to the farmer’s hopeful toil. The speaker refuses to feel forlorn, affirming those who nurture furrows can ripen the corn.
A friend offers timeless counsel for married life focusing on mutual trust, avoidance of secrets, compromise, and steady frugality. Emphasis on not letting quarrels fester, respecting each other's whims, and guiding children by example. Florida’s lumber industry nets over ten million annually.
The columnist roams Saratoga describing dances he calls the steamboat quickstep suburban New York saw mill jump up graveyard saunter and melting Harvard College embrace. He labels each style with origins from the South Louisville Memphis Yonkers New York Boston and Massachusetts.
The Erie Advertiser essay lauds the bright pleasant young ladies who blend cheerfulness with household duty. It urges women to value duty over mere beauty, stressing kindness, industry, and devotion as true jewels of womanhood.
A shy pair meet after three years of courting. The young man asks about cooking and the woman talks of cake ingredients. He misinterprets as wedding cake while she clarifies she means wedding. The exchange ends with their engagement implicit as the couple are published.
A drifting man faced threats from locals in Crawford county as he sought food. At Athens Mills he asked for tools to craft a bracket for pastime, then earned steady employment at good wages. The episode ends with him no longer a tramp.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a speedy cure for consumption and related lung chest ailments. It claims wide physician endorsement, journal approval, and free trial bottles with a regular size priced at $1, offered by Morck & Co.
A quiet crowd watched George W. Hamilton of Fredonia New York compete against J Emerick of Ypsilanti Michigan for two hundred dollars a side at the Driving Park. Hamilton won by a narrow margin after both men jumped multiple times with bells as weights and the crowd noting his cool nerve and final long jump.
A Newark Courier report records a sporting editor filling in as critic for a Philharmonic Society concert. The humorous running commentary describes bugles and fiddles in a mock race style, with references to Landlice Hochzeit, Goldsmark Op 22, and a Beethoven handicap as bets are declared off.
Albany Journal comments on W F G Shanks from the New York Herald who argues there was no battle above the clouds at Lookout Mountain and praises his brilliant manoeuvre in hindsight. The piece defends keeping some cherished beliefs about Civil War events.
San Francisco dray man Kearney arrives in Boston to campaign for James Butler in Massachusetts. In a fiery address he decries “death to the machine politician” and “death to the thieving capitalist” and plans to rally voters to Butler’s gubernatorial bid.
English girl Miss Beckwith aged 15 powers toward world swimming supremacy after a ten mile Thames swim and plan a twenty mile test of endurance She aims to swim the English channel from Dover to Dallas and challenge Captain Boynton for top honors.
The famed marksman Dr Carver starts a western journey that will conclude with a September exhibition in St Paul. He reportedly tires of shooting and may retire. About 75 theatrical troupes are expected to tour next season and will travel by railroad, alighting when trains pass.
A collage of short items notes padded gate tops in Shenandoah for courting, Gillmore's Band disbanding in Europe, abundant drum corps in Pennsylvania, rabbit hunting season opening October 15, and various press quips. Mentions Escobedo's arrest, Gettysburg relic trade, costs of war, and multiple brief notes on travel, labor, politics, and quirky anecdotes.
A speaker, versed in Hoyle, likens human life to a card game from infancy to death. Cribbage through youth ends with hands, tricks, and a final shuffle as church and fate claim the player. Death arrives as a spade rakes in the last stake and Gabriel calls the end.
The lecture business is led by two firms in New York and Boston with the Boston firm handling concerts and operas. Beecher lectured 139 times covering 28 000 miles last year and already set next season dates. Wendell Phillips spoke 120 times and earned substantial income, second only to Beecher and Gough. Mary A. Livermore earned 18000 dollars while touring Europe for recovery. Additional successful figures include Helen Potter and Sim mons of Boston in reform topics. Burdette and James Fields plus Gen Banks and Robert Col lyer kept busy, while Theodore Tilton reportedly cleared 19000 dollars with his own agent.
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