25 Jan 1847
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1847
Page
1
A reflective verse from 1847 recalling a college friend. The speaker cherishes shared days in school, sports, and hillside outings, noting affection and trust. Yet the poem acknowledges the friend’s flaws and the speaker’s wish for moral change, closing with prayer for healing.
A narrative travelogue chronicles St Paul’s Cathedral, the British Museum, the National Gallery, and the Tower of London. It praises the Dome and Whispering Gallery, the British Museum’s vast galleries, and the Crown Jewels while detailing warder life and the Tower’s historic rooms.
Readers recall witty exchanges about sermons and texts, jokes about Irish and African American caricatures, a drowning rescuer paid with a sixpence, and a mock legal exchange. A lengthy note covers Breadstuffs data, Ohio Jew case, a snow plow engine in Canada, Wisconsin gambling indictments, and temperance convention proceedings in Hunterstown with officer roles, resolutions, and adjournment.
A fragmentary page item recounts a solemn lantern image beside a sick bed, then shifts to a Siberian mammoth discovery massed in ice and used as dog food. It notes muscle strength in the deltoid, a Scott quote on friendship, five maxims, and accounts of Count Jana’s horse gift to Mexico and Caleb Cushing’s election as Colonel of Massachusetts Volunteers.
In a House debate on the Ten Regiment bill, Mr. Bemycer of Virginia urged aggressive warfare against the Whigs. He called for war without mercy until the foe sought peace and asserted this as his creed, noting slavery as a controversial point.
Late Jamaica papers report the death of John Crawford Rickells in Spanish Town aged 142, still in good health until two weeks before death. Morals of Matamoras describe a cockpit open three days weekly with a $100 prize bout listed for Sunday December 13.
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