10 Sep 1874
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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1874
Page
1
Germany aims to bolster military prestige by expanding rail logistics. By improving rolling stock, adding third class carriages, and creating massive cooking sheds at key junctions, the army would move and feed troops without overtaxing railroads or high end catering. The note highlights ample finances and criticizes U.S. Congress interference.
The Post Office Department moves to replace old mail locks with new combination locks on street boxes. Each city district will receive unique lock combinations and numbered keys, with custodianship and proper use strictly enforced. Following Joy's murder, several route agents in the South seek leave or quit routes. Postmaster General Jewell has cancelled the pen knife contract issued at New Year intervals, a practice dating from quill writing.
Dispatch from Col Miles received by Gen Pope reports a seven day chase of hostile Indians from Sweet Water to the headwaters of Red River. The 500 warriors attacked but were repulsed as cavalry artillery and infantry closed in. The pursuit covered 65 miles in two days with the Indian line of retreat littered with abandoned property and broken animals.
The article notes European and American locomotives show growing boiler pressures. English engineers seek simple, reliable parts and precise workmanship. Previously fifty psi was high, now 120 130 psi is common, with some cases at 180 psi.
The passage compares locomotive speeds and design across nations. France favors heavy, high-tractive engines with many driving wheels but light axle loads. Germany builds slower engines, Belgium adopts a middle approach, Russia mirrors German-English styles, and America emphasizes faster speeds, accessible parts, road lighting, wood-fueled furnaces, and four-wheeled bogies for stability on rough tracks and sharp curves.
A dispatch from Bismarck reports fifty experienced miners and hunters will depart in about thirty days for the Black Hills. The party will know gold color and Indian habits, be skilled at evading the military, and can live as the red men do with minimal supplies.
A well dressed man posed as a cattle dealer from Washington Davis county Indiana and bought a $100 solitaire ring at T H Riddle on Main street. He paid in a sealed money package that contained only paper slips. He exchanged the envelope twice and fled, leaving no real funds. A second jewelry store suffered the same scam and others attempted similar. the suspect vanished.
The Opelousas Journal notes two remarkable trees in Calcasieu Parish and Mallet woods. A white oak, two and a half feet dia, contains a pine limb passing through its trunk, with the tree growing around it. Another oak split into two prongs that later unite into one stem, allowing a man to walk between them on a land boundary.
A colored man named Williams, selling matches on a Baltimore street, was arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct after allegedly resisting Police Officer Lawrence Ward. He bit Ward’s arm, took the club, and struck him with it, while Win Wittz helped subdue Williams. Williams allegedly posed as a blind man bluff.
A laborer digging a culvert at the corner of Nineteenth and Main unearthed a live fish about six and a half feet deep. The minnow sized creature, described as airwife, drew a crowd before its decay after a blow from a pickaxe. The old resident recalls no prior digging at the spot. Where the fish came from remains a mystery.
A Mobile Register tale recounts a jilted youth who returns a diamond engagement ring, then unknowingly tosses it into the river. He watches the ring sink while debating suicide, and onlookers fear a catfish swallowed the ring. Crowds flock to fish for catfish and dissect catches on the wharf.
Eyewitnesses describe late night fishing and a vast search for a missing ring. By dawn a crowd of Black market buyers surged the market gates, eager to buy any catfish and related fish as detectives and locals scoured stalls without locating the ring.
The message pledges to maintain the old firm’s reputation by supplying top quality items from leading brands, applying a strict one price system for equal business terms. It invites patronage, urges customers to compare prices, and notes N.E. country produce accepted with high quotations offered.
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