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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1871
Page
4
The text argues that fear should not drive accusations against children based on past habits. It emphasizes examining witnesses cautiously, allowing the accused to explain, and maintaining impartiality. It warns that rash judgments harm children and can ruin them for time and eternity.
Thompson, a Frankford, Missouri native, is arrested in Hannibal on a Washington county warrant for the murder of tin peddler John Krippen near Ripley county. The victim carried about $700. Thompson allegedly fled after the shot and later muttered in sleep about the crime. A $1400 reward awaits delivery to authorities.
Three Fiji Islanders reached San Francisco hailed as the first from their race to visit America. Two men are tall and sturdy with dark skins and keen faces, while a third, a dwarf of about four feet, led by example as former Livoni war chief. He survived a ritual death sentence after defeat by Missionary natives and now joins others in land customs and war dances with feathered adornments and boar tusk necklaces.
Four weeks after a Holland family settled in a Detroit cottage, the husband fell ill with chills and fever. His wife, under the claim of curing him, subjected him to bizarre rites including ashes, bricks and strict room darkness. Neighbors and doctors were kept away, and the wife allegedly forced the patient to physical positions and dangerous practices. A doctor finally attended as the man weakened toward death and threats were made against interference.
In Harecourt history John Bunyan, aged about sixty, visits Independent Deacon Stradwick on Snow Hill. Ill after riding in rain he lingers ten days at Redcross Street, discussing sin affliction repentance and Christ. Fragments of conversation are later published.
In a Christian Union piece on Ohio education, Hon. E. E. White exposes how ward schools in Philadelphia stress exam results over real learning. Teachers train for brief test prep, harming thorough culture and rewarding four days of cramming over five months of work.
A wager sought to prove a man could make one million pen strokes in a lunar month. He aimed for 28 days, averaging over 41,000 strokes daily by skipping Sundays. On day twenty three, the goal surpassed by a few thousand, with assistance to keep the wrist active. Weather forecasting humor follows, noting Old Probabilities in predicting daily conditions.
Last Tuesday evening residents of Winnemacca report a huge winged creature, possibly a condor rogue, weighing 70 to 100 pounds with a raven color and white wing tips. Onlookers heard exclamations and watched it perch on Mrs Collier's house before surveying the area.
Western and State flours steady with active trade. Rye flour and corn meal in strong demand. prices rising. Groceries, coffee weak, sugars down, molasses dull. Live stock: beef at 9 to 12c per lb native cattle, Texans 8 to 9c, hogs 6 to 7c dressed, lambs 7a 8c, Ohio hogs 4to.
A skeptical publisher reports extensive testing of Dr Walker’s Vinegar Bitters from California herbs. They claim the tonic treats Dyspepsia Liver Complaint Chronic Constipation Fever and Ague Bilious Intermittents Scrofulous Blood Incurable Consumption Debility Rheumatism Headache and Kidney Diseases with strong local testimonials and personal observation supporting its remedial reputation.
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