madman on a train, cicadas

1885-06-17 -

  • Major Ragland’s tobacco seeds
  • The Bull Durham
  • “Thorns in the Flesh,” confederate sympathizer fiction sold Amway-style
  • Julius Lewis & Co selling “Pratt’s Astral Oil”
  • Madman on a Train
  • A Horrible Possibility Suggested (eating canned cicada)
  • Duty Before Affection
  • Henry Ward Beecher in town giving a sermon on evolution