21 May 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1872
Page
1
A fragment from Harper's Monthly presents a somber meditation on loneliness and isolation. Poetic lines describe flowers pleading, night whispers, day pursued, and a torn heart bathed in tears as the sun and starry charms fade into dew.
The Deacon Flint moves with his wife Martha Pendleton Flint through a comic sequence of moving day misadventures. A Sunday clothing hangout near the gate causes community laughter and a gentle moral about judgment, forgiveness, and shared faith as they endure a lighthearted, domestic trial in their new parish.
Geologists still seek the source of gold. They explain that gold is carried by water and found in streams and quartz. The old gas form theory is obsolete while a growing view holds gold exists in large bodies underground and is gradually exposed by erosion and river action.
In a Boston Superior Court decision, Standish, who sailed from Fall River to New York on Narragansett Steamship, was detained for not showing a ticket. He sued for assault and false imprisonment, winning $50. Judge Putnam ruled officers had no right to detain him merely to compel fare payment.
The Mercury at Hart's Island trained unruly city youths in seamanship during a 1870 cruise to Africa and the Atlantic. Findings included a 3100 fathom Atlantic profile and ocean-ography tables by Henry Draper. The voyage emphasized discipline and practical training, with proposals to favor trained boys in Navy enlistments.
Will Orr, editor of the Crescent, disappeared March 15 after leaving for Sacramento. He later sent letters from Chicago claiming he was drugged and robbed, found in the Sherman House with a physician paid by unknown parties. His money was gone except $20, while his gold watch and cane remained.
A Colorado rancher praises a dog that counts and drives fourteen oxen by voice, correcting itself after driving in thirteen. In Fitchburg Massachusetts a dog that feeds itself after being fed pays for meals by bringing an egg and even the old hen when the omelette is due.
A Chicago court arraigned Mrs. Barbara Rosenheim her daughter Paulina and sons Simon and Barney for disorderly conduct over Sunday piano playing and parlor amusements. The Carpenters next door alleged the noise worsened a sick infant’s convulsions. doctors testified the child would die soon and that ordinary noises could trigger pain. The judge called it an extraordinary case of perceived inhumanity, but the defendants were discharged for lack of a legal violation.
A Buffalo Police Superintendent encounter reveals a man seeking punishment for counterfeit fraud after receiving a bogus letter and a box of sawdust for twenty dollars. The irate visitor is admonished to reassess his expectations and leaves.
The article notes a surge in defective vision among French conscripts due to conscription, comparing to the Civil War era when many draftees suddenly required glasses for weeks.
The article surveys ancient beliefs on lightning depth, notes fulgurites reach 30 to 40 feet, and cites cases from Japan to France. It discusses protection by water and dark fabrics, cautions against standing under trees, and explains wind and air currents guiding lightning paths. It also describes how to judge storm proximity by the flash–thunder interval and warns storm behavior is not fully understood.
Over land Monthly May issue surveys early California life, praising its lack of class distinctions that allowed men to mingle freely. It contrasts barbarism and wealth-driven society with the rough, tranquil liberty enjoyed by Forty-niners amid harsh physical hardships and a placid mind.
A dash of miscellany from a Charlton to South bridge mail bag costs one dollar to send. Reports from Indiana and Vermont note a 72 year old mother of a ten day old baby and a jailed girl in male attire. Tales from Chicago and Tennessee recount moral mishaps and barbershop notices. World notes describe Borneo tribes, South African diamond fields, Japanese currency reform, and a radical thirty foot gauge amphibious locomotive scheme by Mr Burrus aiming to cut freight costs and link East to Lake Michigan with a water stage pass.
The NY World notes Miss Middie Morgan of the Times rose from a failed bid at the Bribbune and Sun to become agricultural editor of the Times. She reports on races and cattle shows and is famed for her vast horse knowledge and amiable manner.
McPherson and Everett of Springfield Missouri shipped twelve thousand pounds of sumac via the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. The cargo will go from St Louis to New York and then by ship to St Johns New Brunswick, totaling about two thousand miles. It marks the first Missouri sumac sale out of state and aims to expand westward commerce for tanning and coloring. The local sumac is praised as superior to Virginia growth with an inexhaustible supply potential.
A gentle school ma’am in Minneapolis flogged a boy for over an hour using multiple implements and finally a piece of wood. She settled the case by paying $20 plus costs.
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