16 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1886
Page
1
A poetic meditation on a beggar's child under moonlight. The speaker contrasts sacred longing with earthly poverty, recalling a dreamer seduced by heaven as a sigh escapes parted lips and angels listen. The imagery blends sorrow, memory, and fragile beauty.
Jude D. C. Donnahue recalls a boyhood tale from Kentucky when he and James Fowler drove 325 turkeys from Chirk County toward Louisville. They faced tolls and schemes at Washington Hall, a theft threat, and a chance purchase by Capt. Duvall and Bob Jordan. After a perilous journey they sold the flock, traveled home, and years later learned outcomes for their partners and the tavern keeper. The account ends with Donnahue later practicing law in Louisville and learning of the fates of his companions.
A South End man once in the drug trade filled in at a Boston apothecary shop on Sunday. The owner left for three hours warning of no trouble. The stand‑in sold seven bottles of whisky, three bottles of wine and fifteen cigars with no drugs demanded.
A San Francisco public school teacher learns at 2 PM she is heir to 320000. She calmly says she will finish geography class, discipline three boys, then visit the lawyer in an hour. The tale is framed among brief comic vignettes including a German Americanparently quip about a daughter and toys.
Notes cover hog feeding and barn ventilation effects on pigs and poultry. disease in Scotland and Cumberland. rapid fattening of chickens in dark spaces. dairy profitability from feed. crossbreeding Texas horses. profitable sheep flocks. horse breeding terms. storage of beets and parsnips. recent beef shipments from Buenos Aires. winter fodder for sheep. collar fit for high bred horses. long term tobacco farming near Stockholm. cider quality improvements. seed corn drying. plowing under sap-rich crops. corn root disposal. various brief comments on farming and public figures.
An interview recalls Gen Grant's late illness at Dr Douglas's New York office. He sought hope about cancer risk, stayed with him through his sickness, and hid details from the family. The servant paints Grant as kind, devoted to his wife Julia and family, with periods of pain balanced by calm moments.
The excerpt recalls Lincoln ridiculing party attempts to cast him as a military hero. He recounts the Black Hawk era, notes he fought and bled but avoided Stillman’s defeat, and jokes about rival General Cass’s frontier service while cautioning against inflated tributes. He warns Democrats not to crown him a military hero.
Joseph Lambert, a laborer, was fined 1s 11s 6d under 19 Geo II c21 sec1 for swearing from Strafford to Tiddington. The act fines day laborers 1s and others by social grade 2s to 5s for profane language, with doubles or trebles on repeat offenses. The clerk noted the act had rarely been enforced and asked if being of or above gentleman would have raised penalties in this case.
Eugene Tyler of Adairville Kentucky is described as able to generate electric-like power by rubbing his hands to place them on a man’s shoulders and control him. He allegedly lights a gas jet with an electric spark from his fingers two feet away, and no one has resisted the influence.
A comic exchange unfolds as Dumley and Featherly discuss dinner plans and a misunderstood canvasback duck. The dialogue shifts to a quip about President Arthur's last words, ending with a humorous note about his gaze and singular address.
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