23 Jun 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1856
Page
1
A stylized lamentary piece explores inner longing and spiritual vigil. Imagery shifts through personified night, weary travelers, and distant hope, ending with a meditation on eternal light and inner peace. The text presents dreamlike lines with archaic cadence and blurred references to figures and places.
A county incident near Alquing recounts a handsome young man inviting a county girl home after church. He whispered a tender message but smelled of alcohol. She rejected him saying he had been drinking whiskey and could not accompany her, leaving him to face jeers from spectators. The tale is cited as a caution to young men.
A satirical critique argues dress and display harm women's character and men who chase fashion. It ridicules excessive adornment and material vanity, praising simplicity while warning against ostentation and impropriety in society. The piece cites ruined morals, fashion foibles, and a Victorian tone of judgment.
An eyewitness account by Lieutenant Archer recalls Washington at Trenton on December 26 1777 after crossing the Delaware. The march faced a blizzard and ice in darkness as troops moved to surprise Hessian outposts. Washington orders a swift river flank and Pennington column to strike, then leads a bold push into Trenton driving the Hessians from their position and routing them toward Princeton and New Brunswick.
An old resident named Brother P. habitually slipped out before the sermon to reach the tavern, a prank known to the church as routine. Parson B. confronted him from the pulpit noting the distracted timing and arranged for a tavern draw to be delayed, leaving the brother shocked by the trap.
The entry mixes satirical quips, gender jests, and legal recall from a Boston Transcript note, citing a minister in Kentucky who scares listeners with a shrill whistle, remarks on ladies and gentlemen, a Duston Bar member, and a confused legal anecdote about Mr. Potter, ending with admonitions about virtue and forgiveness.
A French traveler in old Boston era asks the route to Cape Ann Gloucester and Beverly. After a comic exchange with a Yankee, he learns the road by straight ahead and turn right, keeping to the saddle and the path, and continues on his journey.
A Welsh celebration in New York featured Dr. Jones recounting a humorous tale of editors. The story centers on an editor in a distant village who fights ramblers by promising a “smasher” newspaper and then uses cunning to outwit intruders seeking the editor. The anecdote ends with the editor slipping away as challengers clash and chase ensues. Also included is a note from Mrs Julia Clark of the Boston Conger in illness, describing her day and a playful request for a “saarpe’s sill” to quell feline disturbances and a hopeful remission from bed.
In a rambling bar room scene a speaker mentions a lawyer Peleg and asks what his fate might be if he persists. The talk touches on risk, character, and social climb, with slang and rough humor reflecting informal urban life and a curious mix of local reputation.
A sobering vintage tale recalls a Swiss child snatched by an eagle from a cottage door. The creature bore him to a high nest where he was killed and eaten, with the jacket left as a poignant, wind‑exposed fixture. Parents and readers are invited to reflect on loss and memory as the story’s editor recounts settlement life and local oddities.
The Toronto Globe cited English papers on Queen Victoria's way of raising her children. The regimen includes early rising, orderly meals, military drills for boys, calisthenics for girls, music, drawing, carpentry for princes, and laboratory work. Religion trains both, with daily routines ending in lessons for the next day. Sporting accidents show gunning and camphene deaths rising in past decades, while the season brings more dangerous burning finishes.
Mr Meriam argues yellow fever mortality in Norfolk Portsmouth rose with storms, citing Dr Barton’s 1855 New Orleans outbreak and a August 20th thunderstorm as decisive. He proposes refrigeration of districts and salt solution to kill vegetation and thus yellow fever, urging practical meteorological correlation.
A traveller in Germany describes a nine hundred feet long two hundred wide vessel built for boatmen passengers and about one thousand people. It carried cattle hogs and other animals and included a shop supplying necessities.
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