06 Jan 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1856
Page
1
A garbled narrative recounts a green tree that grew crooked after harm by a little fellow, contrasted with a hollow fashionable woman and a benevolent child. It reflects on innocence corrupted by pride and the weight of conscience, urging self-scrutiny and repentance. The text riffs on humility, vanity, and moral consequences across several vignette-like scenes.
A collection of moral anecdotes extols kindness over harshness. Examples include a horse buyer’s brutal beating failing to cow a horse that—after a kind word from its old owner—responded. Tales of motherly affection preventing cruelty, and comic misadventures in politeness and miscommunication illustrate that gentleness yields better outcomes than force.
A surreal schoolyard scene unfolds with a ten year old boy challenging a master and a ministerial figure, demands dismissed, and a crowd observing. The passage interweaves odd phrases about a cabbage of men and a dog trail, ending with abrupt, puzzling violence.
A long discourse on ministerial fault finding compared to family governance, arguing that harsh rebuke in sermons damages church authority. It warns against angry, accusatory zeal and urges gentler correction, patience, and charitable persuasion to reform believers while noting the dangers of lax religious zeal.
A Hudson Bay Company led expedition under Messrs Stewart and Anderson, with 14 men, reached Fort Chipewyan in 1855 and pressed north to Buck River aiming to locate Franklin expedition survivors. They traveled via Peace River to Great Bear River, endured numerous rapids, and returned August 6, reporting signs from Esquimaux of Franklin relics and the deaths of the lost party, including Sir John Franklin. They found a fragment of Franklin gear and the Terror bow, but no intact bodies. The voyage clarified the fate of Franklin’s men and marked a final end of the mystery.
A lively item recounts a humorous Courts and a sharp rebuke at a party where a woman tickets a man for her honor. It also notes a shipment of government silver valued at one million dollars arriving in Pittsburgh in a misdated event. An elderly bohemian is described as a tragic figure from Warren County traveling to Pittsburgh by a long-ago route, aged 97.
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