14 Jan 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1871
Page
1
Overland Monthly for January presents a fragment from a western tale narrated by a traveler, pondering whether visions and realities differ. It centers on William Nye and Injin Dick in a frontier setting with a lottery, gambling, and a violent turn, leaving the outcome ambiguous.
In a rural household, Deacon Barnes and his wife Matilda shelter a starving orphan Georgie. The tale traces their kindness, Georgie’s brief return to health, his death, and a later visit by his real father who repays the couple’s charity, renewing faith and prompting a reflection on providence.
A nineteenth century observer portrays Chinese workers as frugal, steady, and nonconfrontational. He describes a fifty two year old miner with three hundred dollars in gold planning to return home after five years in America, and notes gambling, but no drinking or fighting. The piece shifts to a Parisian street scene where a blind beggar tricks a passerby into paying back a double coin, revealing a fortunate master with two sons to return.
The narrative describes reaching an open plain at dawn as the last grim followers stumble away like a belated spectre, retreating into the forest shadows left behind. The tone conveys relief at escaping danger and stepping into light after pursuit.
Charles Allen Perkins former assistant secretary of the American Legation at Lisbon married November 12 at Lisbon to Princess Dona Maria Isabel Francisco de Bourbon y Bourbon. Ceremony at St Louis des Francais with Catholic rites. afterward U S steamship Franklin chaplain conducted a Protestant blessing at the Legation. The bride is a niece of former Queens Isabella II and Francisco de Assis. Notable Americans and Lisbon dignitaries attended a grand banquet.
In Ellsworth Kansas on December 26 passengers detained since December 19 due to a snow blockade on the Kansas Pacific Railway denounce railroad authorities for withholding travel notices and for selling tickets while travel to Colorado remained obstructed. They criticize lack of road maintenance and snow fences, commend Pullman car Wayne and conductors Brinkerhoff Phelps Pierce Chase for aid, and urge newspapers to publish the resolutions. The meeting was signed by all present except one annual pass holder.
A miscellany notes tobacco history, a Cairo boy with whiskers, a Norwich silver shekel exhibit, and a Skowhegan dressmaker ordered to pay damages. Maine bears, sacred music in seminary study, mink season in Canada, and a divorce over baptism spark varied tales. French officers’ absinthe, Mark Twain quip about clothing, and a Frisco crime view lead a digest of urban oddities and scholarly notes.
The Paris police are reformed from military garb to plain citizen dress. The London Standard correspondent notes the change, describing guards as funerallike in pilot coats and dark trousers with a small tri color cockade. The old sergeant de ville appears, his cocked hat and rapier gone.
A correspondent reports a mock eloquent speech during a writ of inquirendo lunatico trial. The speaker feigns mastery of Blackstone and English liberty, while conceding lack of preparation and submitting brief remarks to the court. The parody critiques legal pomp and the confidence of counsel in a humorous, antiquated voice.
Chicago asserts its post office handled more business in the past year than the combined total of its rivals Cincinnati St. Louis Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The claim targets regional mail throughput and asserts Chicago's primacy in postal activity.
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