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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1859
Page
2
A reflective poem speaks of crossing a river to the unseen shore where loved ones await. The speaker recalls family memories, fears the final voyage with the boatman pale, and imagines a peaceful reunion on the other side as the angel of death carries them.
A Chicago Advocate article recalls a pastor family’s frantic vigil when their toddler wandered away. After hours of searching through streets and alleys, a German helper found the boy and returned him to his relieved parents, refusing any pay, saying he understood a parent’s fear.
An excerpt describing Russian winter wolf and bear hunting. Hunters in a troika pursue wolves driven by squealing pigs, with a Snow Eater middle horse and Furious companions. Prince Repnine’s elk hunt memory follows, detailing a large sleigh, local drivers, double guns, and a moonlit prairie chase.
Prince Repnine and Ivan drive a sleigh through a wolf pack on a snowbound steppe. Numbers swell to thousands as wolves close in, horses race home, a few riders survive. They escape with two hundred wolf remains found next day.
The act to regulate city theatres prohibits admitting any minor under fourteen to evening exhibitions unless accompanied and in the care of an adult. Violations carry a misdemeanor conviction with fines from twenty five dollars or imprisonment from ten to ninety days per offence.
A Paris correspondent reports a rising sect named Transmigrationists in France. They claim a Christian creed with universal morality extending to animals and believe post death transformation into animals serves as purgatory. They note rapid growth in Germany.
The passage presents a quotation about moral self-loathing and awakening conscience, attributed to Timothy Titcomb. It discusses the idea that sleep separates people from the awareness of their own meanness, implying that without sleep they might die of self-contempt.
A Western village sought a schoolmaster. A pompous applicant bragged that cream with tea makes tea angles obtuse, by globular particles. He was elected.
At the Farmer's Club of West Cornwall Connecticut a member urged silence during milking. Another said he dismissed a man for talking and that milk production rose in three days to match the owner's wages. The Memphis Appeal editor toured Vicksburg and admired china roses birds and flowers in fall rooms and gardens.
A Cincinnati express on the Erie road derailed near Narrowsburgh after heavy snow drifts. Fireman Bell was killed instantly, engine and baggage car damaged, passengers unhurt beyond minor bruises, train rerouted after two hours as telegraph orders summoned a new engine. The man describes the crew's prompt and cool response.
An incident at Timber Creek in Fannin County Texas involved a mob dispersing a Texas Conference of itinerant ministers from the Methodist Episcopal Church North. Bishop Jones led the service as horsemen entered, threats were made to end meetings, and the conference chose to disperse to avoid violence.
A March 22 earthquake devastated Quito and surrounding towns in Ecuador, killing 2,000 to 5,000 people and collapsing or severely damaging churches, convents, palaces, and civic buildings. Property losses are estimated at three million dollars as residents struggle to rebuild.
Sara Witt O Brizy was greeted publicly in Milwaukee on Wednesday with a large crowd at Newhall House. Jonx Honan read a long address, Mayor Paes introduced him, and O Bries spoke of loyal Irishmen across regions while criticizing English rule and urging support for Ireland.
From Texas reports a quarrel at Bonham on March 30 left John Milton Crane editor of the Bonham Independent dead. Crane’s varied career included founding papers in Missouri and Texas and hotel-keeping before his untimely death.
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