11 Aug 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1856
Page
1
Fragmentary verse depicts a bereaved mother and a protective guardian angel guiding a young woman through danger and sorrow. It evokes night, haunting imagery, and distant figures as the speaker pleads for safety, guidance, and solace amid despair. The text blends sorrow with a prayerful hope for protection.
Septimus Presse describes temperatures beyond Earth's surface, noting atmospheric exit at 45 miles and space temperatures of 224 degrees below zero. He details extreme cold effects: carbonic acid becomes solid, mercury freezes, water freezes well below zero, and many liquids would solidify. everyday items would transform under such cold.
An ornate dithering meditation on time, aging, and memory with cosmic references to Arcturus and Quon. The narrator muses on aging, the persistence of stars, and the fleeting nature of youth, warning against despair. The prose voice echoes ancient themes of decaying life and the hope found in continuity of the universe.
Public health authorities urge home measures for summer comfort through proper ventilation cleanliness and diet. Advice covers sleeping rooms airing bed coverings sun exposure damp towels bay water or alcohol for children and moderation in fruit pastry and heavy foods to avoid overload and ensure health.
The text discusses whale blubber texture and oil content, noting thick sections from Atten to twenty and detailing fat content and digestion. It shifts to a moral aside praising honesty, charity, virtue, faith, and steadiness, then describes a prank where youths cook a gliss inside a hat while gazing at girls reflected in a mirror.
A Baptist minister John Lelia recounts a comical tale in which a pig breaks into a lot. The minister describes driving the pig toward a hole and throwing stones to force an exit. The offender listens, finds the hole, and confesses without further harm, ending the vignette with a humorous moral.
An Albany Knickerbocker item recounts a repentant man’s bid for reaffirmation in a Georgia Methodist church. A fervent supporter argues for mercy, recalling grace felt and backsliding past, urging patience and renewal. The anecdote ends with the vote’s outcome implied, framed as church discipline and mercy.
A Boston correspondent describes a Western custom of preaching funeral sermons for any deceased person at times after burial from three months to years. A man with crape on his hat asks a minister to preach his wife’s funeral next Sunday but the minister is unavailable, offering the following Sunday instead. The mourner refuses and seeks another preacher.
An omnibus scene shows Thad emply seated when a plain man and his wife enter. The husband clings to a half smoked cigar, is admonished for smoking, and passes it to his wife. She tries to save it by lighting it at her muff, then in her mouth, before it is finally extinguished. The editors call it a display of wifely care and economy, critiquing refinement of smoking.
A town area tale recounts an experiment with an electric machine to reveal truthfulness among enslaved people and a veteran on a Hudson River steamboat. The incident features a boy confessing to theft after a shock, a wiser older man warning against knowing too much, and a veteran recalling General Washington while a younger passenger challenges him.
An editor reports a visit from Miss Kites and mocks the mosquito menace. Mosquitoes attacked last night as the editor and others swat and suffer bite sleep, joining an anti mosquito ticket in a lively yet rancorous cartoonish setback.
The London Lancet reports about a quarter million people living underground in Britain. It notes Sheffield workers average thirty five, dry needle grinders below this figure. It cites common diseases among tailors, bakers, and painters and details hazards from white lead, turpentine fumes, and heated rooms. It also mentions zinc and phosphorus risks in match manufacture and proposed remedies.
A Dublin report details a singular medical case where a six year old boy suffered eye injury after stones were thrown at a toad. The venom fluid reportedly caused spasms and periods of apathy and tremor, with speech loss lasting ten days and lingering for two weeks. The text also references political mentions and unrelated incidents from the era.
A passenger recounts Cicero Fowler and his wife of Tully surviving a shipboard danger on the Mississippi near Syracuse. Mrs Fowler sacrificed her own safety, tearing a hem to secure a life preserver for her husband and urging him to persevere as the steamer approached to rescue them. The heroic pair were saved with many others aboard.
A brisk survey of rapid scientific and technological gains over the last fifty years. It notes Falcon’s steamboats, the Massachusetts rail line, expanding U S railroad miles, the electric telegraph, electromagnet, electrotyping, the Hoe printing press, gas lighting spread, and the promise of water power. Daguerre’s invention and early colorless discoveries are mentioned alongside new planets and astronomy, with a question about future achievements.
A Cincinnati Times report notes fire department horses become restless at bell sounds and rush to engines. One incident with Fire Company No. 10 ends with a cart wreck and Mr. John Wilson injured. The page also cites a Lord Chancellor report on confinement of criminals and insanity figures, noting thousands housed in asylums, licensed homes, and hospitals with a smaller number of criminals.
A Boston resident once sought royal access at Versailles in a blue coat and white vest with nankeens, insisting his general court attire was proper. The amazed guards barred him at first, then the valet announced “Monsieur le General Court de Boston,” eliciting astonishment and amusement among onlookers and his companions.
Warning about handling guano risking deadly poisoning from organic elements and a reported death in a neighboring county. Also notes army expenses for 1857 totaling about fourteen million dollars and potential reduction to ten million. Includes brief local items about tarred and feathered man in Bua N Y and a distant heavy blast in Hedghead North Wales.
From Frederick Maryland to York and Manchester, barns, grain, and livestock were struck or unroofed by lightning during the recent storm. A steamboat fire on Lake George killed 15, with a dramatic rescue at shore and a young girl’s death noted. Also recounted are warnings to avoid shelter under trees, and a gruesome accident with a mowing machine cutting off an arm and leg. The piece adds geographic notes on Missouri’s size and a quip about New Jersey’s City of Churches.
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