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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1884
Page
2
On a calm June day I observed two lovers on the shore. The couple spoke little yet shared a vow of love as the ocean whispered around them. He asked her to marry him and she replied with a brave, bashful yes. Their kiss sealed a tender moment I watched from afar.
A fragmentary dialogue shows Napoleon Bonaparte scolding Josephine over beef and market choices. The exchange escalates with playful threats and sharp banter about domestic authority and cross-continental rivalries.
A Virginia writer describes a stunning social beauty in lavish hyperbole. He portrays her complexion, eyes, lashes, hair, and grace as celestial and irresistible, claiming even Raphael’s ghost could hardly depict her transcendent loveliness. The portrait blends mythic metaphor with adoring prose.
A lively widow with many admirers invited public wedding plans a year after her husband's death. To keep the guesswork, she vowed a night ceremony in a barn with the bride entering from one door and the groom from another. At least 200 guests attended the dark ceremony.
After a wedding exit the crowd claimed four men including a widower and a bachelor each swore they were wed to the widow. A £100 settlement settled the matter though one young man remains adamant he was married in the big barn. The bachelor is dead and the case remains unexplained.
A venerable elderly woman and a seventeen year old girl faced rejection at a prestigious New York restaurant after dark. They had lost money and planned to send a messenger for a homeward aid. staff refused service claiming it violates rules for ladies without male escorts. The writer calls this a civilizational burlesque and notes similar refusals in major hotels.
Excerpted from the American Queen surveys historical gender dress shifts. It discusses men wearing ruffs, muffs, plaits, earrings, and fans in Elizabethan times and contrasts past masculine fashion with later periods marked by fripperies and fineries.
A gentleman tells a young music student he looks forward to hearing her sing. She replies she would sing now, and he offers the song called Some Day. She jokes she will sing another day with more leisure, as noted in Musical Record.
Iowa and Ohio reports detail delegates chosen for the Chicago national convention with Tilden leading in Iowa and McKinley leading in Ohio. Resolutions honor union service, tariff principles, and party platforms, with numerous district delegates named and calls for reform in future conventions.
The Michigan Republican State Convention met in Grand Rapids with 610 delegates. Roswell G. Horr was temporary chair and later permanent chair, E. T. Bentt served as secretary, and M. C. Burch was named permanent chair. Delegates-at-large contested, with Wat son and Atwood nominated. Watson, the first Black Michigan delegate to a national convention, won the ballot. Burrows faced Conant in the final round. Moore, Koon, Turner, and Robey elected alternates. Resolutions reaffirmed Chicago delegation plans and core principles.
At Jackson the Mississippi Republican Convention named at large delegates Branch K. Bruce James Hill J. M. Bynum and FR. T. Beck all pledged to Arthur. Fourteen district delegates were chosen with thirteen for Arthur and one for Logan. seven district delegates are Negro. Ex Senator Bruce addressed urging no instruction to Chicago delegates. Green C Chandler J R Smith were named for Congress. Other districts to nominate.
At Richmond the Republican State Convention opened with Col. William Lamb as chairman. Mahone led the delegation, with eighteen district delegates including four colored. A motion to support Arthur drew near unanimous disapproval, while Mahone's group backed unity with the national party. The platform renames coalitionists as the Republican Party of Virginia and favors free education, surplus education funding, and protective tariffs, ending with support for Arthur's nomination at Chicago.
Col. C. S. Emerson presides as 312 delegates attend the Maine State Greenback gathering in Lewiston. Ex Gov Plaisted leaves after failed fusion bid. Rev Dr Eaon wins governorship offer. The party adopts a platform endorsing Supreme Court rulings, government control of railroads and telegraphs, a federal income tax, and bans child labor. Delegates nominate candidates and instruct to vote for Benjamin F Butler.
At Huion the Dakota Republican Convention presided by W C Plum and Fargo adopted a resolution in favor of Blaine for President and in favor of his vice presidency with delegates urged to vote for them if nominating. K Nelson Pembina and Col J L Jolly Key elected delegates to Chicago. Byron E Pay Brookings and Robert E Wallace Stutsman as alternates. Resolutions endorsed Arthur's administration and urged Blaine, division of Dakota, and south admission. Northern delegates won a tight contest for control by a slim majority.
Samuel Fessenden led the Hartford Republican Convention expressing no personal presidential preference while naming prominent contenders. Hawley drew applause and the delegates favored Hawley, with eight district delegates opposed. Resolutions praise President Arthur and vow Republican support for the Chicago nominee.
The Tegational party of New Jersey convened in Trenton to elect delegates at large for the Indianapolis convention led by E. E B. Potter. Delegates Benjaman McCallster Gloucester R. W. Terlinde Union D. A. Hopkins Essex and George Lanigan Hunterdon were chosen. The group planned a platform aligned with the last national convention and all delegates support Ben Butler for President.
The Tennessee Greenback convention in Nashville largely attended nominating N. J. Buchi pan of Fayetteville for Governor on the first ballot. The 1880 national platform was reaffirmed and Indianapolis convention notes were uninstructed but seen as favorable to Gen Butler as presidential candidate.
A well dressed man described as Goggo looking was seen on Broadway New York spraying people’s clothes with a small concealed can. Police are investigating the incident as a possible public nuisance.
A cyclone centered near Jamestown Greene County Sunday evening left two thirds of Jamestown ruined. Six people died including Stella Jones and local residents. The storm damaged farms, mills, homes, telegraph lines, and threatened surrounding towns such as Dayton and Xenia with extensive property loss and injuries.
Mr Ninjymo head of the Bureau of Statistics reports on the March 3 1882 tariff act showing an average 6 percent drop in ad valorem duties with varied changes across imports. The seventy two page document summarizes rate shifts for wool textiles silk glassware and spirits and notes sugar iron and wool production trends in the United States.
In Marysville Common Pleas Court 220 cases are on the docket including 30 divorces and 9 damages suits totaling 75000 dollars. Post mortem shows Bellefontaine resident Mrs James Harrington lived seven years with a crushed neck. London area man reports two horses stolen. Lancaster elder George Smyth dies at 85, longtime Knight Templar. Milan saloonist Sickenger scandal and suit filed for 2000 dollars. Cincinnati grand jury probes riots art-bouse fire and Berner jury tampering rumors. Nelsonville death by suicide publicized. Macksburg wells yield oil. Laing well shot producing about 100 barrels. Penitentiary managers plan East inspection tour and uniform changes. Towns report post office box thefts by two eight-year-olds. Cleveland police seize 208k worth of goods from fake Columbus firm. Warden appointments and salaries fixed. monthly meeting set. Mrs. Charles Lacy fatally burned in Painesville while kindling coal oil fire.
Fragmentary notes reference officers in the German army wearing corsets singling out 2BERT SPENCER for Austra 1 and a predicted Lon ae earthquake around May 20. Also mentions EF BUSHYHEAD of the Cherokee Nation with illness and a British reading aid room for clerks openings.
A Baronron Georgia postmaster has held the position for forty years while other oddities appear in this brief. The text notes a California workforce of Chinese house servants and mentions a Dakota Territory mayor earning one dollar per year. It also references Exastus Crowe adding a son named Sy and an Arkansas grand jury indicting a Justice of the Peace over a clarionet incident.
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