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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1871
Page
1
A segmented poem titled English Society contemplates frosty scenes in woods and hedges. It describes bare branches, hoar frost, robin song, and the earth waiting for spring with vivid natural imagery and seasonal personification.
In a comic Victorian tale Mrs Marie Wimbush, a young widow courted by two brothers, Tom the doctor and Charles the lawyer, navigates marriage plots and family ties. Mrs Marrables, Matilda, and Brookshank the ardent ointment inventor drive a web of marriages and strategic alliances toward a tangled, humorous ending.
Seventeen years after death Mrs. Marrables, known as Mrs Evergreen, remains scandalously young in appearance at fifty three. Society questions her youth and class, while her granddaughter Carry Wimbush grows rapidly into a practical woman ready to discuss marriage. The Wimbush family relocates to Bournemouth with the Brookshanks drawing social notice due to wealth from Brookshank's Infallible Ointment.
Mr. Charles Brookshank and Mrs. Wimbush wandered away from the crowd as they discussed the language of birds and love. The widow sighed with a purring sense of pleasure while imagining flight and song as they shared a private moment amid the festivity.
Mrs. Wimbush admits harsh words to Tom Brookshank and seeks reconciliation as her daughter-in-law ties the knot with Tom’s brother Charles. The revelation of an apparent marriage plan triggers comic chaos about family ties and generations, ending with Mrs. Wimbush returning home in a tense mood.
In a churchside tale Mrs. Wimbush endures tension with daughter and mother. Six weeks after a quarrel she gathers courage to visit her mother and urges renewal of family harmony, stressing the value of unity.
The article notes the Mont Cenis Tunnel completes a rail line from the English Channel to Brindisi, about 1,890 miles, with Italian and French termini Bardonnoche and Fourneaux. It describes altitude, progress, rock types, ventilation, workers, shifts, wages, and an estimated cost near 160 million francs.
A Strasburg letter to Allgeman Zeitung notes daily gifts of books to the local library and a Coblentz savant’s large bequest. Alsace male residents 17 to 40 face supervision. leaving home risks fines and arrest for self and relatives. Strasbourg courts arrest four for sedition and three for recruiting. a woman singing the Marseillaise faced arrest. Paris reports severe rationing and food shortages, while Paris printers report scarce meat. New balloon navigation tests in Paris show two-wing steering. London Times quotes Paris residents about endurance and hope. Garibaldi’s resignation rumors circulate with criticism of his corps and leadership, while some French volunteers blame Garibaldi for Dijon’s failure.
London correspondent details brutal fighting near Beaugency during the Army of the Loire retreat. Wounded left unfed and unattended, hospitals, cells, and Pension de Jeunes Filles houses crowded with dead and dying. Cold, hunger, thirst, and neglect mark days of siege and assault.
The Saturday Review notes that offering good advice to others requires accepting eccentric taste and a plain conscience. It argues such counsel rarely changes how people reason, as most seek guidance with naive expectations, and blunt commands are largely profitless.
M. Luis Noir argues in the National that Erostatic Globes could aid war by locating enemy movements and by deploying wronauts to maneuver them. He outlines gas filled and heated air systems, suggests bombs dropped from globes could devastate fortifications, and notes five years of preaching without success.
The Bordeaux correspondent notes a cabinet eager for foreign papers to learn the Army of the Loire’s fate, Gambetta’s unchecked power, and a grim, wavering public mood. He reports heavy losses, shrinking morale, and a reluctance to renew fighting while peace appeals grow among the better classes.
A compiled list cites dates for many inventions and first uses across Europe and beyond. Items include violins 1477, printing 1441, gun locks 1517, algebra 1412, city street lighting 1523, and balloons 1729, among many others.
A Roxbury Massachusetts tannery specializes in tanning alligator hides into a tough elastic leather highly resistant to water. Hides are sourced from Green hides arrive from New Orleans and Florida. eight months are needed for tanning. only young alligators yield usable skins as mature hides become valueless.
A historical note examines the Tarantula spider belief in Italy that music and a jig called Tarantula cure the bite symptoms. It concludes the spider is not poisonous, the illness is likely nervous or hysterial, and music may aid exertion but is not indispensably required.
A long compilation notes varied clippings from Maine to New Jersey, including sermons on sin, odd anecdotes about births and lawsuits, humorous misprints, a tragic escort to the gallows in Windsor Vermont. It covers Henry Welcome the Hinssburg murderer executed after confessing his sins and warning youth.
The Hasbrouck will case prompts a New York World note on a dispute over whether Mrs Hasbrouck, left penniless by her husband, is entitled to dower after a claimed divorce she says never occurred. The piece warns that if courts accept the divorce, many spouses will doubt their own marital status and social order would suffer.
An analysis concludes that tight political competition reduces board expenses by about 1 million dollars annually, highlighting cost savings from leaner governance and operations amid competitive races.
The Amsterdam ship canal, begun in 1866 and slated for 1876, rivals the Suez in scale. It will run through two lakes with side embankments, dredge beds, and create 200 acres of harbor via large concrete piers. Three locks will connect to the North Sea, with a channel 88 feet bottom, 195 feet top, and 23 feet depth, enabling large ships. The project, now advancing vigorously, aims to boost Amsterdam’s trade.
The article recounts Samuel Houston leaving his wife and the Tennessee governorship after discovering his bride did not love him. An ambitious family urged the marriage, and Houston’s subsequent exile among Indians gave his wife grounds for divorce.
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