22 Jun 1865
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1865
Page
1
Mark Merriden records every small expense to curb his bachelor pleasures and petty temptations. Ben Sanford, a charming but impractical lawyer, grapples with bills, longing for marriage and a steadier life as Mark quietly uses a ledger to transform both their fates.
Mark Merriden, a fashionable shopkeeper, faces a conflict between social pleasures and married life. Entangled by a pretty wife and rising status, he contemplates a sober shift as Ben Sanford urges a bolder frolic, while Mark weighs duty, finances, and reputation.
Rev Sidney Smith lived frugally and gave largely to the poor, befriending Earl Grey and other notables. He built an simple parsonage, studied medicine, tended the sick, and ran a 300 acre farm while supplying the needy at his own cost.
A Boston Transcript excerpt notes a local gentleman with a taste for canes adds an ebony stick with ivory head and three medallions showing flying cupids. The piece, from Robert E. Lee’s house in Richmond, was confiscated by Union troops during the occupation as war loot. The owner may reclaim it by requesting service and returning it to the proper authorities.
A Rochester Democrat letter mentions Jeff Davia in an odd jail cell scene where he peers at flies on whitewashed walls and speaks loudly. A carriage seat moment shows a boy giving his seat to an old man, highlighting respect for age. Also quoted advice urges calm, and notes Albert Pike as possibly writing rebel history.
A London Telegraph report details on ship Great Eastern preparations for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable. It notes improvements since 1865, meticulous insulation tests, and the use of the Thomson mirror galvanometer. Immersion will begin after shore-end laying, with a small vessel assisting offshore near Ireland.
The article describes splicing conductors over long stretches sometimes up to thirty yards. Gutta percha layers are applied and fused with warm irons. A test uses an insulated vessel of water to detect any current leakage from the joint as electricity passes along the cable.
The article details stamp production from engraving dies to steel plates, printing, drying, gumging by girls, and final perforation. It notes daily outputs, wattage of stamping, and strict quality checks, with denominations and annual usage figures including 216,000,000 stamps last year and a projected 20,000,000 increase. The red 8 cent stamp is most in demand, followed by penny and other values.
Army and Navy Journal notes Grant and Sherman, both West Point graduates, attend the cadet examination. It recalls their poor class standing and late-blooming scholarship, cites their strong points, and records classmates and contemporaries. It also mentions calls to increase cadet numbers and includes unrelated antiquated anecdotes from the era.
A reader laments Union soldiers starved in Confederate prisons. The writer insists on naming prison officials, condemns their crimes, and urges mercy and reconciliation while demanding accountability for atrocities. The piece ties to Civil War memory and Christian duty.
The Philadelphia mansion presented to Lieutenant General Grant is 22 feet by 105 feet, four stories high with sandstone front and an upper roof window. It features elegant interiors, a grand hall, a dual staircase, multiple bathrooms, a 17 by 40 foot parlor, luxurious furnishings, a marble mantle with a historian clock, a Bible on the table, and a well-equipped dining room with silverware and china sets. Second and third floors boast costly rooms, velvet carpets, Jenny Lind beds, and brass or brass fittings, with cost to interior about fifty thousand dollars.
A Victorian style meditation on dead figures and lasting influence. The cedar imagery asserts usefulness after death, linking Luther Calvin Knox and others to ongoing reforms, missions, Sabbath schools, and philanthropy through enduring memory and virtue.
An exposé describes embalming as removing blood, extracting organs, and injecting chemicals to harden the body, leaving only an outward shell. The piece notes the method is relatively recent, used only a few years since the war began, and questions how long such bodies remain unchanged.
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