England's Standing Army
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 20, 1885 · United Kingdom
A brief statistical note on the size and worldwide deployment of the British Army in the mid-1880s, scattered across India, Egypt, Ireland and South Africa.
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Jacko the Ship's Monkey
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876
A sailor's reminiscence of a mischievous ship's monkey named Jacko, who stole warmth, food, tobacco, and even the ship's Articles of War, ending his days in the assault on Sebastopol.
Odds and Ends
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Olympia, Greece
Two unrelated fillers of the day: a joking item about an over-named puppy in Vermont, and news of an archaeological find at Olympia.
Importunity in Prayer
Southern Christian Advocate · September 7, 1878 · Jerusalem
A Sunday-school lesson commentary on Luke 11:5-18, exploring the parable of the importunate friend as a model for persistent, earnest prayer.
CATARINO GARZA DEAD
San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Bocas del Toro, Colombia
A dispatch reporting the death of the Mexican revolutionary and border raider Catarino Garza during a bloody rebel assault on a Panamanian coastal town — a violent, half-forgotten postscript to a man whose earlier border war against Porfirio Díaz once drew U.S. Army attention.
REBELS DEFEATED
Daily Inter Mountain · July 13, 1900 · Pekin, China
A brief confirmation, via Belgian diplomatic channels, that imperial troops under General Nieh had beaten back Boxer rebels near Pekin.
The Plague at Pekin
Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Canton, China
A brief dispatch reporting a devastating plague outbreak in China alongside a smallpox scare aboard an American warship — a stark reminder of the disease conditions accompanying foreign military occupation.
The Martyrdom of the Abbé Théophane Vénard
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870 · Vietnam
A devotional account, likely drawn from a French Catholic source, retells the life and 1861 execution in Tonquin (Vietnam) of the young French missionary Théophane Vénard, one of many priests sent out by the Paris seminary of the Missions Etrangères during a period of fierce anti-Christian persecution in Indochina.
Martial Law in Tuscany
Rock Island Argus · May 7, 1898 · Italy
Bread riots and clashes between mobs and police prompted martial law across Tuscany, with anger directed especially at grain speculators.
Arms Feared Landed on Oahu
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Honolulu, Hawaii
A garbled dispatch from Hawaii describes fears that a fresh shipment of arms was being smuggled onto Oahu as part of a filibustering plot, alongside news of a major banking takeover and a push to reform land-title law to attract American settlers.
His Grace on the Irish Bishops and the Council
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 17, 1870
A fragment of a sermon report—badly damaged by scanning—in which an unnamed archbishop defends the independence of the Irish bishops at what appears to be the First Vatican Council, urging prayer to St. Patrick and commending the community of St. Isidore's.
The Road to the Telegraph: A Forgotten History
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · France
A fragment of a scientific chronicle tracing the long and stumbling path from a passing notion of the abbé Barthélémy to the invention of the electric telegraph by Morse and Wheatstone, showing how many decades of frustrated trials preceded the technology that would change the world.
A City of Health
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · Brighton, United Kingdom
An account of a lecture by the sanitary reformer Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, who imagined a fully engineered utopian city — subways, glazed brick, no cellars, no tobacco — designed to slash death rates and radically extend human life.
Chitral Held Against the Enemy
Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · April 21, 1895 · Chitral, India
A dispatch on the besieged British garrison at Chitral, part of the frontier conflicts on British India's northwest border in 1895.
Hygeia: The City of Perfect Health
Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 18, 1876 · England
A fragment of commentary on a Victorian utopian health scheme, imagining a city called 'Hygeia' where government control of housing and habits could push death rates down and life expectancy to fantastical extremes.
Rome's Patience with the Foreign Press Nears Its End
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · April 10, 1870 · Rome, Italy
An editorial denouncing foreign newspaper correspondents in Rome for spreading falsehoods about the Pope and the Vatican Council, reporting that several are to be expelled — a small window into the press war surrounding the First Vatican Council.
Princess María and the Impostor of Don Sebastián
La CróNica · March 5, 1873 · Venice, Italy
A serialized historical romance recounts the exiled Portuguese princess María, widow of King Sebastian, and the mysterious stranger who appears claiming to be her dead husband returned from hiding — only to be seized by agents of Venice's dreaded Council of Ten.
The Conscript's Ordeal
The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger · June 16, 1872 · France
A fragment of a serialized French novel recounts the panic of conscription during the Napoleonic wars, including young men mutilating themselves to escape the draft and mothers urging their sons to defy the gendarmes.
Altered the Play
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · London, England
Playwright W. S. Gilbert goes to court to stop an American actress from changing the staging of his comic opera 'Pygmalion and Galatea' in London.
Captain Lettes Not Killed
The Evening Bulletin · June 23, 1900 · Taku, China
A German gunboat captain reported dead in earlier dispatches from the Taku forts bombardment turns out to be alive and well.