02 May 1853
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1853
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR style text presents a night poem with garbled lines and archaic diction. It references sorrow care and death, dim forms, and pity. The piece seems to evoke memory, fate, and religious tones as it ponders life and mortality.
A fragmented verse contemplates night and memory. The speaker addresses a beloved or celestial figure, musing on rest, dreams, and a calm world beyond the waking scene. Imagery shifts between sleep, stars, and distant voices.
A fragment from a religious discourse extols the virtuous young man who resists temptation, guards against fashion, and seeks truth. It urges moral fortitude, intellectual power, and steadfast faith, praising God’s creation and the weight of personal responsibility amid worldly trials.
Ellen learns from Mrs. Jones that practical efficiency saves time at home. A tale of simple tools, clever tricks, and a kitchen anecdote contrasts hurried, messy methods with streamlined one woman tasks. The dialogue explores domestic wisdom, reading, and daily virtues.
A reflective essay extols religion as a sustaining force for women, linking beauty, virtue, and happiness to piety. It argues moral ruin follows from secular living, praises the consoling power of faith for wives and mothers, and warns against cruelty and vice while urging temperance and tenderness as ideals.
In a remote Tennessee Mountain District, a lone Whig held the Justice of the Peace post for twenty years. At a local election in a distillery yard with a whiskey-barrel ballot box, the Whig gave a fiery speech vowing to uphold Tennessee law, and the crowd, moved by his defense, backed his retention by an overwhelming majority.
A young infidel aboard a stage coach mocks biblical events including Nebuchadnezzar’s madness. A grave Quaker calmly retorts that there is no improbability if the critic is as great an ass as he. The exchange ends with the Quaker’s blunt rebuke.
A boy in Ohio quit his job at Brown’s after a dispute with the employer. He reported that Brown accused him of theft and implied he would evict him if he did not leave immediately, prompting the boy to return home. The exchange showed tension over insinuations of crime and impending dismissal.
A collage of odd anecdotes and short items from a Southern newspaper. It includes humor about prescriptions named for medical clarity, small vignettes of everyday life, a tale of a Washington aide asking for change, a wedding caption, horticultural tinkering with blue dahlias, a tale of May marriage luck, snuff taking anecdote, adventurous Irish boys traveling west, and brief reflections on social behavior and politics. The piece ends with a dramatic shipboard fire incident and a Rome cardinals overview.
Dr Gibbons a 17th century physician, whose brother was a sea captain, received mahogany from the West Indies for ballast. The wood proved too hard for carpenters, but a candlebox and bureau were later crafted, boosting Wollaston’s fame and mahogany’s vogue for grand furniture. An unrelated note recalls a stingy act of misused funds during a relief payment.
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