14 Nov 1859
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1859
Page
1
An eight seven written tribute portrays a grandmother as virtuous and aged, likening her to Spartan matriarchs. Family gathers around as illness nears, prayers and reflections rise, comparing her life to Athens and the Seven Hills while awaiting eternity.
The fragment presents autumn as a solemn herald of winter and death. Vivid personifications describe frost as a harsh, diamond-like crown and the season as a monarch preparing for the cold reign. A funeral quiet and somber tone underscores the cycle from autumn bloom to final sleep.
A moral discussion on why unhappy homes persist and how women under social pressures affect domestic life. The piece urges regularity, simple dress, disciplined behavior, and orderly time use to improve home life and marriage. It contrasts harsh social life with a call to acts of kindness and prayer within the home.
The piece condemns a woman who loves or loves another while married as a grievous sin against delicacy and truth. It describes spiritual ruin, deception at home and abroad, and the expiation awaiting such betrayal, contrasted with poetic musings on music and nature.
The Courtur des etats Unis reports Abr Mollard Filums ex president has written to M. Rollin Germain asking how to explain at a public meeting the claim that his steamship, built by Germain, could travel at one hundred miles per hour while carrying passengers freight and coal with a 22 feet draft. Proponents say the vessel would use far less fuel and cost a fraction of current voyages, and experts in the United States praise the breakthrough as epoch making after thirteen years of work.
A Philadelphia banker, a heavy smoker, died after prolonged chewing of a cigar kept under the tongue led to cancerous ulcers and starvation. The case is cited to warn of tobacco dangers. The narrative shifts to a colloquial anecdote about a father and son and a misapplied precept about doing your best.
A rambling tale recalls a boyhood incident with a harsh fox hound. The narrator describes cruel tricks using rocks and a pig bladder with powder, ending with the dog badly injured and the father delivering a harsh punishment. The piece shifts to brief yesterdays from coast sailing and a Buchanan train anecdote, then short jokes and quotes from Philadelphia preachers and a funeral scene.
The excerpt recounts a Texas era note on Henry Clay and Gen Taylor. It details a near cadet appointment for Clay’s grandson, political rivalries, and a review of Taylor’s administration. It also touches on James C. Jones of Tennessee and other anecdotes from that period.
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