02 Aug 1858
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1858
Page
1
A distorted verse style piece reflects grief and longing for beloved figures. The speaker mourns missing lives, recalls bright memories, and contemplates death, beauty, and faith while the narrative voice wanders through dreamlike images and uncertain fragments.
A reflective piece recalls a child’s tears and a parent’s restored trust as a wandering youth returns home. It likens earthly parental love to God’s mercy, noting penitence brings sweet reconciliation and the noblest steps are those toward forgiveness.
A moral admonition urges restraint in speech and actions. It counsels guarding one's temper, avoiding disobedience, and keeping faith with good name, truth, and character as lifelong wealth.
A fragment discusses fretters as unlovable, likening them to inoffensive wasps and barking dogs that do not bite. It argues fretting does no good, harms only the fretting person, and that authority may be challenged by such behavior. The tone reflects old writerly caution about misery and distress in hard times.
A poor family boy about twelve to fourteen, gathering shingles to aid his parents, collapses from heat while walking home. An elderly man with a gentle manner tends him, cooling his brow and offering liquor, then the boy recovers enough for an express wagon ride home. The same night a 14 year old girl dies, and both lie ill in the same house. the child’s death follows shortly after.
A fragmented 19th century column discusses advice for consumptive patients and mocks medical credulity, noting pleas for air and nourishment over physicians. It then recounts Jefferson and a fly anecdote about independence, with a Hartford railroad jumper and a wife elopement linked to a wagon load of gossip and liquor.
An account of a planned street duel between two Black men in Hoboken described as Lips and Jim. Lips, famed for a past duel, agrees to a bloodless challenge after negotiating terms, with a promise to meet the next day with a second and pistols.
A garbled traveler’s anecdote recalls minister Searl nearly stripped by the congregation while he read Scripture and claimed the devil lurked in his breeches. Other snippets report churchyard gossip, a Mass. town’s baptismal flirtation, and a chef of moments at a party.
A fragment from a periodical recounts Dave Harris aging tales of early Texan hunting with buffaloes and battles with beasts, noting his risky ride, near death, and rare moment of prayer learned from a mother's bedtime prayer. It shifts to ads and social notices including a provocative 20 000 dollar adoption ad and a comic Irish tale in New York, finishing with a string of urban jests and anecdotes.
A country man vows revenge after a pocket handkerchief theft and adopts an old coat trap in the Strand. Amid a crowd he clubs his pursuer, jerking pockets and finally forcing the thief to flee, while the trap backfires as the thief knives the coat and escapes.
A 106 year old Rochester man, John Shunsadosh O'Brian, born in Boston in 175%, claims a remarkable lineage. His father Irish, mother Indian from the Ouvida tribe, he fought in the Revolutionary War, married an emperor’s daughter in France, had eight children, later remarried, and spread Celtic, Turkish, African, and Native American ancestries through his descendants.
Lord Lyndhurst recounts a tale of a respected gentleman of color who was warmly received by a wealthy Qubyu proprietor and trusted without prejudice. An anecdote caps a scene where Rev Dr Morrison overcomes a drunken tester with a Bible text. Other notes cover rattlesnake experiments in Thomasville, London medical views on bleeding, whisky’s effect on bitten dogs, and a flood of alligator sightings in the South.
A fair girl on Race near Fourth Street was awakened by a man in her chamber. He fled as a jet-lit figure, leaving behind a watch, bracelet, diamond ring, and necklace with a note. The father, armed, pursued, and the scene sparked moralizing in the Boston Post about romance and justice.
A California return brings a mixed race Indian girl to an Ohio city orphanage. The child longs for a father she never had as grief, neglect, and isolation lead to a wasting illness and death while her plea for a man named papa remains unfulfilled.
A Princeton resident, Daniel Biliot, reportedly in good spirits hours before his death, used a rope and windlass device in his slaughter house to hang himself. A nearby child assisted, jokingly prompting the act, and Mrs. Fi. found him suspended with his feet off the ground, the rope pressuring his neck. Authorities call the death accidental, arising from a playful burst gone wrong.
A murky obituary records the death of Madame Palosikoff, a charming Russian beauty in Paris, after an incident in Berlin and a rapid decline. Her bracelet mishap led to a fatal illness despite Berlin physicians and friends’ vigilance.
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