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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1885
Page
6
The Shakespeare Birthplace trustees wrestle with excess funds and unclear use. The London Times mocks Hugo for a personal judgment on Tomjimjack and La Premiere dé la Quatrieme as English names and translations, while an American cashier contemplates escaping rustic Canada.
The passage portrays Victor HoGo as convinced of a future reunion with friends, and certain of eternal existence since antediluvian times. He feels his soul carries thousands of hymns, dreams, and poems never voiced, giving him a sense of timeless permanence.
The account describes Gernonimo as a key Apache leader aligned with Cochise and Victorio in raids and massacres. It notes a farm near San Carlos, says he could not endure peace, and brands him an excessively bad Indian.
A Darien Georgia jury cleared a colored clergyman of an offense, prompting exclamations and a hallelujah chorus from attending colored women in court. At Mount Airy Maryland a telegraph operator was swarmed by bees settling on his head, causing severe stings and a fainting spell.
The article surveys famous deaths in office and illness among U S leaders, discusses locust myths and a Chattanooga accident, recalls Victor Hugo and Fra Diavolo, comments on humane treatment of animals, cites a dangerous asylum escape, and analyzes railroad construction and Grant Hugo conflict with French sentiment, ending with Grant’s 1871 message about Franco German relations.
A quarrel at Islip between younger single women and older members erupts after a pastor change. The unmarried faction pushes for another single preacher while the older group wants a married minister. The election chose a married minister but the singles refuse to accept, provoking a clash that includes an uncooperative organist and a deprived pulpit.
A spirited contest at the New Orleans Exposition awarded the top honors for saw mill machinery to Pennsylvania firms. Expert judges chose winners across eight categories including circular saw mills head blocks and carriages lath machinery and sawdust conveyors. An Erie firm won all eight gold medals for the state.
The Pall Mall Gazette opens its review with a sharp jab at the new work by Mrs. Custer widow of General Custer. It claims the line Boots and Saddles is a godsend to a world cursed by English dullness and stupidity. The phrase echoes earlier 19th century journalism by Leigh Hunt or Shelley.
The French caricaturist Andre Gill, who died recently, spent years in a lunatic asylum. While confined he drew two stark sketches for La Nouvelle Lune, one a self portrait in madness and the other a chained man in a cell with revelers and a banker with gold above. He was discharged after showing signs of cure and soon painted a grim image of a madman in cage.
Joseph Smyth the Dublin killer and informer who signaled James Carey and his men in Phenix Park has died. He and his wife were sent to Australia then London where Smyth died a drunkard. The piece critiques Nevadas anti drinking law and laments failed reformers.
A Washington special describes how cabinet members Bayard Whitney Endicott Garland Manning Vilas Lamar interact with visitors. Bayard disposes quickly or delves in detail, Whitney appears sharp and candid, Endicott formal and suave, Garland genial and humorous, Manning laconic and efficient, Vilas engaging yet brisk, and Lamar patient and indulgent with crowds.
Illinois Legislature passes a Chicago centered election reform. The act requires county authorities supervise elections with precincts capped at 450 voters and four o’clock closing times and mandates registers for voters. It outlines precinct canvasses, duplicate returns and tallies and penalties for infractions.
General Sheridan unveils a curious recipe featuring young pigs tails fried in oil seasoned with cayenne and edged with grated celery. The text notes a fanciful French name is still missing while a garbled line attributes an eagle kept in Central Austria dying after 114 years.
A mob in Elkhart Texas hung Andy Jackson his wife Lizzie and three men Frank Hayes Joe Norman and William Rogers after a Black woman Mrs Hazell was found murdered and repeatedly assaulted. Coroner and local authorities faced a mass arrest and a swift extrajudicial lynching.
The Times notes within Chicago's central business district most property is locally owned with mortgages under 5 percent. Earlier, non residents held a quarter of the area and most of the rest carried heavy mortgages. District buildings exceed $100,000,009 in value. In New York, Nathanial Sands owes $142,662 to the city for funds paid during the Twed era as municipal bond commissioner.
The French warship Isere carrying the Bartholdi statue was escorted to Bedloe’s Island New York on June 19 in a grand naval display. One hundred steamers and yachts lined the harbor as crowds cheered Long Island and New Jersey shores. The ship dropped anchor as cannons boomed and bands played, then officers landed and were escorted to a city banquet hosted by Mayor Grace.
The effort to build the Statue of Liberty began about ten years earlier with a group of French enthusiasts forming the Union Franco-Americaine de France. They celebrated a 1875 banquet in Paris to launch subscriptions, with Paris contributing 2000 dollars and France eventually raising 250000 dollars for the project.
Springing up from New York Bay Bedloe's Island offers an ideal beacon site guiding mariners and symbolizing liberty for arriving immigrants. The island spans four to five acres and will become a public breathing space once beautification by the Pedestal Committee finishes and government returns it. The pedestal foundation rises ninety-one by sixty-seven feet at base and top with a fifty two foot ten inch height set on gravel and lime.
A 151 foot statue of copper and iron rises on a pedestal totaling 182 feet, with an elevator and stairway running from the base through the statue to the torch. The ascent passes through the arm to the torch where a fifteen-person balcony awaits, crowned by a vantage above Trinity Church. The height combines base foundations and pedestal to place the torch above city landmarks, offering expansive harbor and city views.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, born in Colmar, rose to international fame with the Lafayette statue gift to New York in 1872. He won a Centennial medal for bronze works and holds the Legion of Honor. Meanwhile in Washington, Secretary Manning extends a four year lease on the Bay house. News items touch on theater and picnic fare norms, and a remark on veterans with lost limbs.
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