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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1884
Page
2
A verse vignette from The Children features Hale tormenting a cat as siblings urge mercy. Sister Sade suggests gentler treatment while Hale resists until pleading subsides. The playful tale ends with the cat pulling its own tail in a moment of mischief.
A curious beaver described as three feet long with an eleven inch tail builds a mud and branch dam near a stream. It uses teeth for cutting, a tail like a trowel for mud, and flat paws to dig ponds. The creature’s life cycles from playful summers to winter storage and feeding.
A vignette from St Nicholas details Gregory Bassett a 14 year old seeking a mill clerk job. Mr Lamar deems him untrustworthy. The piece then recounts boyhood mischief crafting cross guns pop guns and air guns with improvised parts and trials. It closes with a historical note on Matilda and William the Conqueror.
A seven pound eleven ounce pickerel was recently caught in Lake Hopatcong New Jersey. Surlice waists are noted as fashionable for young girls in current styles.
A poem by TON Thompson in New Lane Common Wealth mocks alcohol lobbies. It denounces brewers, celebrates drunkenness, and condemns temperance, noting licenses, taxes, and revenue while arguing drink fuels social ills and poverty.
Hon. William M. Evarts at the New England dinner in New York denounces the Liquor League as a dangerous factor in American politics. He warns against combinations of self interest that threaten temperance, industrious virtue, and the public welfare, urging defense of the masses and spiritual health.
George William Curtis recalls Horace Greeley at the seventy eighth annual New England Society dinner in New York. The tale centers on a temperance reformer comment about wines such as sherry and champagne, with Greeley quipping that the devil is the same no matter the name.
Statistics show between 6 am Saturday and 6 am Sunday in 1882 at least 12,254 persons were arrested for drunkenness, while 1,492 were seized on Sunday and 17,977 were arrested for the rest of the week, highlighting the peak hours for intoxication.
The Ways and Means Committee split on the Morrison tariff bill with Morrison guiding the majority report and McKinley drafting the minority view. The majority touts a 20 to 25 percent average tariff reduction, broader free list, and lower charges, while citing revenue effects and the goal of relieving unnecessary taxes.
A committee split shows Republicans opposing a tariff bill claiming no general revision since the 1860s and arguing the proposed 20 percent cut harms labor, manufacturing, and agriculture. The minority condemns the bill as disruptive, unnecessary, and harmful to American industry, urging restraint and further study before any change.
Yeoratt W. Cable weighs 200 pounds. Britain issued 30000 patents last year, 20000 in this entry. Fashionable ladies demand photographs of their cats. A St. Louis journalist spent nearly 80000 in Portland to found a Northwest that no longer exists. The oldest log cabin near Montgomery Alabama dates to 1790s and housed slaves for fifty years. Anno J Weaver of Greenville Pennsylvania killed his daughter after driving her from the house. he had shown insanity and was related to Gen Weaver of Iowa. A Southern Oregon cold spell killed thousands of robins and bluejays.
A snow slide swept Woodstock on a South Park branch near Leadville, destroying all buildings including the station. Eighteen people were trapped, two women rescued seriously injured, one section hand dead, others missing. Colorado winter snows cut transport to many mining towns and threaten spring conditions.
A rock and earth slide on the Parker City Branch Railroad near Pyle Canon Oregon crushed five men who were grading the line. A heavy blast triggered the slide, and the mass struck instantly before they could retreat. Names of victims could not be obtained.
In Philadelphia a bold woman highwayman pointed a revolver at a man in a prominent street at 2 a m and extorted his money before vanishing. In Chicago a drunken Tremont House waiter was threatened by a woman with a drawn pistol in a State and Polk street scare, then robbed of his valuables as she fled.
A Kansas cattle fever scare drives Gov. Glick and fifty citizens to Neosho Falls to unite county voices. Veterinarians Holcomb and Chambord confirm spread, urge culling all cattle and destruction of forage. Quarantine exists but weakly observed. a representative-prayer council pushes Gov. Glick to convene an extra session.
Seven miners arrive at City Montana from the Coeur d Alene district report thousands of prospectors waiting for snow to melt. Three feet of snow blanket level ground and by mid May 40 000 people may reach the area. Majority expected to be disappointed though some rich veins may pan out.
Treasury report shows 1883 exports at 777 million dollars up from 75 million in 1882 while imports reach 637 million, a net foreign commerce gain near 100 million versus 1882. The notice notes shifts in money received and paid and cites a decade comparison. Also mentions Princess Victoria of Hesse wedding dress and reports forty two murderers in Cucintati Jai.
An explosion at the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company mines in Vocahontas, Tazewell County, near the Norfolk and Western line, traps 150 miners and devastates the area. Rescue attempts fail as flames and smoke engulf the shaft, with reports of scattered bodies and a town in shock.
London dispatches report Gen Grahams assault on Qosman Digna at Expt in the Sudan. After a three hour fight, the British captured the rebel position with about 2,400 rebels killed and 160 wounded, while 100 British died and many were shot或. The clash featured close combat as rebels charged with shields and spears before being overwhelmed.
The Chicago Telegram reports no doubt remains that foot and mouth disease has broken out in Effingham County. Investigations in Effingham and at Kine Point in Cumberland show several herds infected. Farmers misattributed hoof ratings to freezing, but that belief is abandoned. The belt from Shumway to Prairie City shows infection and authorities plan quarantine and state veterinarian Paaren is ordered to proceed to the area.
Osman and his soldiers fight as the commander prays. Jeanie Wheatman of Hoosick Falls died trapped between a bed slats and suffocated. Deacon John Corwin of Beaver Dam Wisconsin died from freezing his toe. A Philadelphia youth is jailed for stealing funds to pay for a wedding outfit. Oscar Wilde claims everything in America is twice as large as needed.
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