05 Dec 1865
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1865
Page
1
A poetic fragment urges spreading the germs of beauty through sacred spaces and nature. It extols planting grace in heart and temple, honoring God who shaped the world and sanctifying summer and life. The verse envisions beauty blooming despite deformity and mortality.
A long, collected excerpt blends admonitions against idleness among youth with parables on temper, kindness, and self-control. It weaves tales of echo voices, happy homes, and a domestic humor piece, urging school attendance, cheerful conduct, and self restraint, ending with moral reflections and light anecdotes.
An Indianapolis correspondence describes rapid divorces and remarriages among the city’s young women and men. It notes a teen daughter from a prominent family eloping and divorcing after two months, alongside a pair who married and divorced three times within two years. The column frames this as a commentary on loosened morals and wartime social upheaval in Indianapolis.
Bulwer argued that poverty is an idea and that wealth does not guarantee happiness. He noted that some with ten thousand dollars yearly suffer more from debt than those earning three hundred. Those with artificial wants feel pressure from high income, while a daily wage earner with no debt may be happier. He claimed many rich people live beyond their means, finding less peace than working people.
An Ohio Society secretary visited Germany noting fields without fences where land is forested and crops thrive to the roadside. He describes cattle and livestock kept in stables or under shepherds, with sheep grazing across hills while no roaming animals are seen. The piece blends travel observations with quips about wealth, journalism, and social sayings from various sources.
The Atlantic Monthly piece praises Hamilton as a prodigy who mastered finances by twenty three and held roles as soldier, lawyer, congressman, and statesman by age thirty three. It likens his precocity to Roman greatness while noting his self-made rise without aristocratic fortune and his enduring influence on American governance.
A disastrous Meadville fire destroyed eleven stores on Water and Dock streets, with loss estimates ranging from 150000 to 175000 dollars. The blaze, likely incendiary, hit prominent firms including millinery shops and the Journal printing office. The rest of the column discusses Georgia wealth losses from emancipation and opinions on free labor cotton production versus slavery era outcomes.
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