22 Aug 1865
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1865
Page
1
Fragmented sermon-like prose warns there is no death, immortality of the soul affirmed for the righteous and condemned for the wicked. It emphasizes choosing Christ now, as every moment and deed writes a life for eternity, with a stern eternal decree and universal memory of actions.
A recollection from Judge Collins about Burlington Wisconsin, recalling two wealthy families and a poor boy who rose to the Supreme Court. He notes wealth does not guarantee virtue and reflects on education and morals over money. An old farm tale ends with a farmer dismissing phrenology as unnecessary for his brood.
The piece argues conversation as a key knowledge method alongside study and reading, noting its powers to refine thinking, correct errors, and inspire virtue. It warns gossip as a harmful offshoot, urges profitable, instruction aligned talk, and cites widespread reading as a root of gossip while calling for practical literature over sensational fiction.
A coastal voyage tale describes flying fish at Cape Verds and a joke about their size and flight. Jack Lacy explains fish can grow long and fly high, with a humorous misremembered anecdote of a captain swallowing a fish. The passage ends with a quip about a divine figure and mosquitoes saying grace.
A playful domestic scene unfolds with a young couple in quarrel and reconciliation, then shifts to a Port Gideon Herald tale of a sheriff and a widow in Alabama. The Sheriff’s court summons collide with Leap Year flirtation as misread sentiments lead to a comic misadventure in court.
A humorous Civil War anecdote describes Gen Sherman and Gen Howard on a march through Georgia. A medical officer offers a Seidnvz Powder to relieve weariness, prompting Sherman to drink the concocted cup while others laugh at the exaggerated joke and the misread name of witness.
A Waluswan immigrant attends a Wisconsin church where tears arise during prayers as he recalls a cherished horse and old gandree. The piece shifts to a medical claim about tomatoes asserting liver benefits, a future extract replacing calomel, diarrhea treatment, and digestion aid, recommending tomato as daily food in cooked, raw, or catsup form.
A lurid tale recalls a Brazilian snake that slithered nightly into a nurse’s room to feed a baby by biting the infant’s mouth, the ruse ending when an old watcher caught the reptile and it was killed. The piece shifts to a dog story about Fred Cozen and a vigorous countryside watchdog, then to a Paris six-horse folly and a moral about the danger of excess.
A column mixing observations on beauty and intellect in women with moral reflections on crime. It cites Miss Sedgwick and Miss Parfine among others, notes men rarely admired for looks, and surveys rising acts of atrocity, speculation as a potential driver, and a call to inner virtue. Anecdotes about astronomy, cures, farming misfortunes, and social foibles follow with a string of quips and local vignettes. It closes with demographic notes on Indians in Michigan and party nicknames in California politics.
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