28 Jan 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1871
Page
1
Poem contemplating a child’s view of the new year as a white fair year filled with hope and goodness. The speaker contrasts the fresh year with the year that has passed, expressing love for both and imagining them shining in heaven together someday.
A 14 year old boy narrowly escapes a would be murder and body theft by a ghoul linked to Edinburgh dissection trade. The attacker uses pitch plaster and a belt to bind him, planning to transport the victim for later sale to surgeons. The boy survives but dies ten months later from the shock.
The piece argues that many clergymen must choose between being good preachers or solid pastors. It uses a landlady and soup metaphor to illustrate uneven gifts and notes that churches often value pulpit skill over pastoral work. It concludes that a perfect preacher cannot also be a great pastor, and vice versa.
About 200 postmistresses are now serving across the United States, reflecting a growing role for women in the nation’s postal system.
A Richmond Whig correspondent reports in Buchanan that Rev. G C Thrasher’s home has been haunted for six weeks. Ghostly knocks, sliding doors, moving furniture, and a pale human-like shadow pass by unseen while guards and neighbors fail to spot any intruder, with Thrasher’s son in possession of a pistol during one exchange. Citizens vouch for Thrasher’s upright character as the mystery deepens.
A passage from Alger in Friendship of Women extols the husband as guardian and gentle partner while urging the wife to exemplify gentleness purity and forbearance. It warns that vulgarity or tyranny by either spouse ruins domestic life and that love makes obedience lighter than liberty as grace and harmony create a heavenly home.
A seasoned businessman argues merchants should advertise in their home paper and mail extra copies to customers. He warns against paying tramps for directory cards and claims home paper ads yield more direct benefit and boost local trade as copies reach targeted customers.
A Descriptive account of Paris outside walls as German occupyouts, detailing barricades, observation posts, signals, and siege tactics. Reports Amiens under occupation with prefects, taxation changes, railway reopenings, conscription abolitions, and ransom seizures. Notes on looting, Versailles china thefts, and social shifts in Eastern states including scarce eligible bachelors and rising labor mobility.
The librarian bought 500 copies of a new book and sold about 150 as demand faded, with 50 to 75 copies always in use. Surplus stock could sell on revival of interest if events like Disraeli’s prominence spark renewed demand, since books wear out quickly.
A Lewiston Maine Quaker named David Davis, noted for integrity, bought pasture for 120 after offering 100, lent 40 to the seller, and asked his administrator Wakefield to destroy the 40 note before death. Wakefield burned the note per Davis rule, and the other party later sought payment, revealing Davis’s steadfast honesty.
The Utica Herald reports Edward H. Ruloff convicted of first degree murder for a spree ending in multiple deaths including his wife and child. It recounts a chilling confession to his former counsel detailing bludgeoning and drowning in Cayuga Lake, and notes his sentence to hang on an upcoming March date while highlighting his long criminal career and the death toll attributed to him.
A London correspondent describes von Schramm a seventeen year old German boy who became adjutant in the First Battalion of Queen Elizabeth. Disabled by illness he rode into Le Bourget amid artillery fire and after a daring escape and swim joined his regiment. The ducking cured his sickness and he ate a massive dinner afterwards.
The Ocean floor remains under 13,000 feet in the eastern North Atlantic valley and under 1,600 fathoms along a central ridge near 30 west. Capt Osborn notes no bare rock or abrupt canyons in deep sea, with ooze mud from organic debris spreading like pampas. California in 1870 recalls silk shipment first, cotton crop rise, and beet sugar manufacture milestones.
A worker named John slipped into a barrel of printer’s ink, rising to his waist as the ink clung to his clothing. Laughing colleagues watched as he struggled to escape, then endured an hour and a half of scrubbing before receiving an afternoon off. He spent the time along the canal towpath amusing local boys with his black legs and white body.
Justice Thompson, predeceasing Judge Nelson on New York’s Supreme Bench, was known for heavy drinking. After a night of revelry he greeted guests at court and joked that a gin cocktail had revived his judgment, prompting amused remarks about hospitality and sobriety.
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