31 Oct 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1871
Page
1
A poem by Henry C. Coorer uses Eurydice and Euphrosyne as speakers to mock mispronunciations and poetic pretensions. It follows a light satirical arc through mythic and literary references, ending with a farewell to Eurydice and Euprosyne.
Porfirii Kapitonovitch recalls a seaside fright story in which a phantom hound haunts his bedroom for weeks. After seeking help from villagers and a Belev mystic, a loyal dog Treasure saves him from fear and a dangerous encounter with a mad dog.
A lyrical voice challenges a skeptic to explain hauntings while recounting a restless pursuit under a bed. The piece blends personal superstition with a formal declaration of disbelief, inviting reader alignment or doubt.
A homemaking guide from Hearth and Home explains crafting cornhusk mats as sturdy, practical alternatives to pricey soft mats. It details gathering and soaking husks, braiding into a circular mat, adding fringe, and finishing with stitching. Regular cleaning steps are provided for muddy mats.
Passengers arriving at Terre Haute on the Evaneville and Crawfordsville Railroad faced a brutal hail storm between Decker's and Purcell's Stations. Hail three inches deep shattered window lights and damaged the engine headlight. Firemen sheltered by the machinery as the storm ended. Upon sighting a large fire near Sullivan the train halted three miles away and returned with workers to extinguish the flames. The engineer then sped past the blaze at fifty miles an hour, with heat scorching the coaches.
The description portrays Strasburg with cathedral backed by clustered houses and a burnt district showing desolation. It notes ruined theatre, museum, prefecture, and library, with Alsatian plains to the south and Baden to the east, near Prussian batteries and French loss a year earlier.
The Philadelphia Price Current reports a new whiskey manufacturing method used by Western distillers that imparts dangerous strength and odor. Panetics acid is added to the mash or product, corroding barrels and producing copper compounds, with the process failing to respond to distillation reforms.
A German inventor Kempelen failed to perfect a talking machine but Prof. Faber and his pupil completed a device that can enunciate many European words with a piano like keyboard and moving lips. Demonstrations show English German and French speech clearly produced along with a natural laugh. Critics call it a remarkable display of ingenuity with limited practical use at present.
An Irish gentleman, Alfred Manders, with a £20,000 yearly property stake in Manders & Co., was confined at Finglass private asylum from April 1869 to August 18 last. His brother and wife initiated the confinement, with no visits during 27 months. After a writ of habeas corpus, Dr. Duncan faced scrutiny as Manders, aided by his solicitor, insisted on testing his mental state. affidavits from two keepers declared him sane.
Wisconsin papers report numerous bear encounters. Neillsville says hunters kill bears daily and a youth trapped three in a week. Loyal youths encounter an old she bear and cubs, forcing a climb to safety. Eau Claire notes Jake Stumm killed a 350 pound bear after a fight. A Norwegian settler killed by a big woods bear is reported in Hudson. Kilbourn City and Plainville residents report multiple bears in the area with another 300 pound, three year old killed at McClatchie’s east of Kilbourn. Bears observed or shot nearly every day across several towns.
A female writer criticizes men more than women for current fashion trends. She imagines a league of all men earning $100,000 and up to refuse marriage to any woman with a chignon, then questions how long such ugly styles would last.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent at Powell's expedition camp on Green River Utah relates a Uintah Ute wooing a White River bride. The jilted suitor pursues with threats while the couple elopes to Indiana amid frontier dangers. The story notes exchange offers for rifles and ponies as the party travels by water craft leaving no trail.
A Sunday school pupil could not recall his home number and was told to bring it next time. He replied the number was nailed on the door so tightly he could not remove it.
A 28-year-old German ex cavalryman in the Western Penitentiary contracted hydrophobia after a dog bite near Lynchburg in 1865. He traveled to Europe for treatment, returned to America, and is now under care in Pittsburgh infirmary where convulsions and barking fits recur and doctors study a new chloral hydrate remedy.
Colonel Forney recounts Dr J C Hall a Washington physician praised for life long service and kindness. A Jackson anecdote shows the President forgets to sign a bill and the doctor receives a signed note from Andrew Jackson with a corrective remark. Hall recalls Jackson’s care for all servants during the smallpox outbreak at the White House.
The Boston Herald reports a Newburyport sea captain claims a cancer on his nose was cured by drinking and applying tea made from red clover tops. The illness was a fully developed cancer two and a half years ago and has nearly disappeared under this treatment.
A miscellany notes rails in Minnesota are under construction as paper car wheels surpass 160000 miles on a Jersey City Pullman, and a Paris letter recounts 24000 francs spent by three American families in one Louvre forenoon. It mentions clocks, science hopes in San Francisco, abundance of smoking in Spain, and vast U.S. fence costs.
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