14 Apr 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1856
Page
1
Fragmentary verses speak of sleep and sorrow as the speaker asks why guardians do not watch over their rest. Imagery of breath, pallid forms, and distant dreamlike scenes evokes a melancholy mood. The piece hints at protection, peace, and the desire for brighter dreams.
Fragmented prose extols domestic happiness and spiritual guidance. It urges keeping a joyous home free of gloom, praising a faithful wife, patient husband, and the comfort of daily rituals. The piece contrasts hardship with a bright, prayerful Sabbath and harmonious family life.
In a remote river cabin a dying fourteen year old girl lies as her father keeps vigil. The girl speaks in melodic tones about inspired thoughts and a vision of the other shore while a stranger contemplates her condition and the room grows cold with death. The tale ends with the girl asking about the afterlife and then passing away.
A garbled narrative recounts a town crowd witnessing various odd events. It mentions David Hume being observed by passersby and an awkward wedding prayer moment. Another fragment references prisoners in county jail discussing escape and a damp weather danger note. Names and places are obscured or corrupted.
A long, lurid tale recounts Mrs. Morgan forcing her drunken husband Jimmy to quit liquor through coercive means. She binds him with a sheet and whip after nightly relapses, delivering repeated blows until he swears to abstain, while neighbors recall prior trials, temperance ideals, and community anecdotes about mercy, discipline, and social judgment.
Passengers on a Central road train endure a three hour delay due to fresh snow and drifting. A cabin quarrel over New York’s weather prompts jokes about the Empire State and a schoolteacher’s misadventure with a snow crust. A discussion shifts to comparing mountains and snow depths across states, ending in a relieved whistle as the train moves on.
The article extols the arrival of spring with a focus on bulb flowers and garden tasks. It highlights Snowdrops Crocuses and Crown Imperial as early bloomers, urges readers to prepare beds, and describes planting, lifting, and replanting bulbs for a fuller display after winter.
A writer echoes Senator Waller on how partisan press on both sides fuels state tensions between Bag h and the US States. The piece argues if readers engaged with opposing editorials, conflict might have erupted, yet warns free journals misread their mission by stoking national enmities and inflaming trifling differences.
A mass meeting at Greenwood Hall in Cincinnati called by the Republican Association to nominate a ticket for the upcoming municipal election ended in chaos as the crowd, largely American, became riled. A fight broke out after the chairman was toppled from the stand, gas was turned off, plunging the hall into darkness and benches crashed. After a tense moment the crowd found its way out and dispersed.
Reported anecdote about Mr. Mason the American Minister in Paris observing the charge d’affaires of Soulouque, a dark figure in an embroidered coat. Mason remarks that the fellow appears worth two thousand dollars, judging by clothes and bearing.
A harsh Lapland day finds travelers ignoring a frozen man until one halts to help. The act of mercy warms both man and journey, illustrating charity amid danger and reminding listeners that kindness costs little but yields much.
A Stafford Western Emigration Company party of six to seven hundred from Lowell and elsewhere will travel to the far west. The New York and Erie Railroad will move them to Dubuque Iowa where the site for the colony will be announced. Substantial New Englanders have paid into the treasury about $20,000.
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