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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1885
Page
2
The McDuffie County election recorded a law passed by exactly a single vote. The report cites the era of the northwest rebellion suppression and mentions Canadian costs of about 2 million dollars and lives lost. It also notes Rowan County Kentucky’s grim history tied to terms like dark and bloody ground.
Hlanny GarriElp, son of the martyr President, takes a professorship in St Paul School at Concord New Hampshire and plans for Williams College. His brother, youngest in Williams’ recent class, will study law in New York. A glove shop girl was fired over delicate hands, a fact a reporter questioned. Telfair related benevolence includes a new Telfair Hospital for Females to open in autumn in Savannah.
A fragment describes a first class ironclad from a foreign power steaming toward New York to seize wealth. It suggests the bank vaults of Gotham hold vast cash and implies enormous real estate value at stake in the anticipated conflict.
A noted San Francisco attorney declares he will defend no member of the criminal class. He says he will instead aid in sending such individuals to state prison, rather than keeping them free to prey on the community, as he had done previously.
A district reports a man’s scheme to gift a jar of meat extract to a poor woman. He claimed it was cured with seasoning and would charm her. She boiled it for hours without result because she never opened the jar.
About 375 candidates applied for admission to Harvard this year with 218 taking exams at Cambridge. Of those, 162 passed, 96 without conditions, 49 deferred part of their work to the fall, and 7 were rejected. The final class size is expected to be the largest on record.
The article asserts many prominent American writers such as Whitman, James, Twain, Hawthorne and others did not complete college. It notes they gained knowledge and culture outside formal higher education, highlighting a common belief about literary achievement in that era.
A sudden whirlwind near Marietta Georgia lifted David Reedy a short distance as he worked in a field. He described trees shrinking to bushes and the roar of wind like rushing waters before a gentle descent with no serious injuries.
The highest price paid for a painting is cited as 123000 dollars in 1852 for Murillo's Virgin. Official Louvre catalogues note the French Government paid 666000 francs for that picture. The Pope is said to have vast sums for Raphael's Transfiguration or Domenichino's St Jerome.
Edward Lee of Dahlonega courted Mary Bayden for some time but kept his intentions hidden until her mother intervened with a Down in ad they conduct love.
A ragbag of items includes a revival tale about a man choosing marriage amid meddling rivals, a Los Angeles Herald vampire description detailing a 20 inch winged specimen, Gov. Robinson on handicraft education, and Lord Hampber’s wry cab drivers’ dinner lines about stable discipline and riding.
A Cutcaco Mail reporter quoted Pension Agent Sweet as she nears the end of her tenure. She arcly replied that she would not marry until she could support a husband in his accustomed style, noting she has not saved enough and that wine and cigars are expensive.
New Haven News reports a dramatic plagiarism case where the serial At the Red Glove, running December to June, mirrors Temple Bar’s Widow Meland A Story in Twelve Pictures from August 1870. Principal changes involve scene and many character names, with parallel columns shown to verify identical language.
The Rev. Sam Jones, a regularly ordained SM Church minister, long served as manager of a widows and orphans fund and asylum and has become an evangelist. He is about five feet ten, 140 pounds, with a thin face and black eyes, often in a plain black clerical suit. His preaching is his most remarkable feature.
Postmaster Hipps of Lewiston Idaho allegedly ran a money order ruse. He would issue his own order for a local recipient and have Moscow send the funds to a different town as John Doe redirected. The bank would then deliver the remittance to Hibbs, closing the loop in the scheme.
Readable lines describe a vanished speaker and faded canyon echoes along the Gitte River. The garbled text hints at a dramatic disappearance or memory loss with references to Hibbs and Lewiston amid scattered phrases.
Outcry followed by a Reichstag claim that few Alsace Lorraine deputies would speak in debates. Yet recent session records show thirty four members taking prominent part, including four from Lorraine, proving German language use was no hindrance to lively debate.
A woman impulsively took a watch and chain from her belt during the Saratoga Missionary Convention and offered them to the Secretary for the mission cause. Valued at a hundred dollars, she hoped to raise twenty-five. The Secretary advised a delay, took the items, and promised return within three months before selling them to fund missions.
The piece describes an inventor who traps burglars with a phonograph sermon delivered as pincers seize the thief, then notes a humorous exchange involving Senator Hawley and pension claimant Samuel Clemens, who signs as Mark Twain and jokes about a misdirected pension.
The speech, delivered at a July rally in Licking County New York, lauds General Grant as first in war and peace, credits the Republican party for his rise, and argues for tariff protection and party loyalty amid Democratic dissent. It contrasts Grant’s legacy with Ohio Governor’s failure to issue observances.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland sister of President Cleveland becomes first lady by marriage yet gains fame independently for arson literature. Her book George Kot's Essays and Other Studies reached a sixth edition before publication and a seventh edition soon after.
Hon Adlai E Stevenson born 1835 Kentucky. moved to Bloomington Illinois at sixteen where he studied law. He served in state judicial posts, ran for Presidential Elector in 1864, and served one term in Congress starting 1874. A stalwart Democrat with strong health and friend of Vilas, he is described as eloquent and courteous in Monument business.
James B. Kimball, born in Salem Massachusetts in 1836, is appointed Director of the Mint. A Harvard and Freiburg Mining School graduate, he earned a PhD at Gottingen in 1857 and served as Assistant Adjutant General with McClellan Burnside Hooker and Meade. He was a mining engineer and metallurgist, former VP of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, then Lehigh University economics geology professor and President of the Everitt Iron Company.
The quoted passage discusses how every action can be read with two meanings the charitable or the malicious and warns that misreading a good deed harms the doer the action and its author. It emphasizes self-deception in interpretation.
A terse aphorism presents armor as avoidance of danger from gunfire. The comment reflects a pragmatic stance that protection comes from staying out of harm’s way rather than relying on physical armor.
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