05 Jun 1861
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1861
Page
1
A poetic fragment explores the speaker asking when and how to die and whether to wait for a gradual fading or a sudden end. The lines evoke longing for release, fear of dying far from home, and a wish to meet death with dignity, guided by fate or divine call.
A discussion argues that insects lack pain sensation and can be dissected or eaten without distress. It cites observations of wasps, spasms in humans, and death by neck injury to claim suffering is absent in insects and even in some human injuries. The piece uses informal comparisons to question pain in living beings.
The fragment presents a Civil War era missive from Col Ellsworth describing a river crossing and a tense approach to Alexandria with a note of sacred duty. It also includes a separate Raleigh scandal involving W W Holden resisting a duel and a general miscellany of short items on steers, names, and war updates from 1861.
In Lorain Street, Mrs Kerg and her five month old daughter were found drowned after the mother, troubled by perceived slander, killed the child and then herself. Coroner's inquest ruled suicide by drowning and homicide of the infant by the mother prior to her own death.
A mix of notes on youth drill with broomsticks and a more formal discussion of U S policy. Judge Hann urges confidence in President and cabinet, warns against rushed judgments and stresses national unity amid British strategy and cotton interests.
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