20 Nov 1861
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1861
Page
1
A Hinsdale New Hampshire poetess, aged about 24, gains national notice for her poem Over the River. The piece, widely published, blends simple thought and strong language as a young woman who has worked modestly in the mill faces hardships yet is praised as an American Poetess.
The text extols a home filled with neatness and elegance, arguing comfort, usefulness, and tasteful arrangement as the basis of good living. It shares moral anecdotes about Grandmother Granby, reflects on artful hands and daily decor, and weaves in period musings on virtue, piety, and cheerful, orderly living.
The Rochester Times notes a gossip item about a Buffalo couple living with two or three boarders and a servant girl. The servant quits after claiming the master visits her room at night through a window. The wife swaps rooms, sets a trap, and discovers the intruder is not her husband but one of the young male boarders, who flees in embarrassment.
A correspondent in Down East recounts a sleigh ride with a pretty girl halted by a Methodist minister asking to tie a knot. A young lawyer joins, the knot to be tied relates to keeping a horse’s tail from snow. The minister’s reaction and the five dollar fee mark a comic, knotty first case.
An assortment of garbled remarks on ascart reading, deranged youth and pistols, a camp dictionary of war slang, insults toward John C. Breckinridge, and a harsh exhortation to shoot. The piece blends sensational imagery with commentary on Army life and political contempt.
A young Western county lawyer, McKay, tries to harass three magistrates after they refuse to commit a larceny suspect. He jokes for a fine, but a brutal retort ends his swagger. Later items joke about manners, soap, bullfighting, and a naval testing of shells, all with quick quips and odd anecdotes.
A mysterious shooting on a Grand Trunk Railway night train between Detroit and Ridgeway leaves a man dead after a man calling himself McDonald fires three shots at a stranger beside Mr McLeod. The assailant coolly claims the revolver and hints at Canada as the place to uncover the truth. Also noted are social columns and scattered war dispatches: General Scott’s confidence, McClellan’s cautious tone, and British and European figures seeking Union service amid Civil War tensions.
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