22 Nov 1858
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1858
Page
1
A patchwork of rural reminiscences and aphorisms recounts a child's prayer for a dying mother, biblical reflections, and remarks on forgiveness and humility. It weaves proverbs, religious tales, and old sayings with fleeting anecdotes from a faded era.
Fragments tell of a 1812 Kentucky visit by a Metre Prayer minister and Judge Cone, with family worship and a tale of a town drunk, plus a string of tall country quips. A vivid bullfight on a river bridge spawns chaotic tumbles and cheers. Other sketches include an Irishman a foxed by apples and a thrifty tobacco buyer quitting a newspaper.
A humorous scene at a railroad station turns on a merchant’s bet about tobacco, with a Bristol merchant named in the exchange. The piece then shifts to Bayard Taylor’s notes on the Great Russian Railroad, praising stations and bridges yet noting the colossal cost of 120 million rubles for 400 miles, amid reflections on labor, engineering, and expended fortune.
A garbled page offers aphorisms on perseverance and virtue, references to Richelieu, a skewed critique of wealth and love, stray notes about a baby, a Wayne Kentucky brewery, and stray counts of aged residents in Bagervoga Maine. The text mixes moral reflections, humorous asides, and unrelated snippets without coherent narrative.
The Christian Intelligencer recounts dramatic scenes from the Avatrin steamer catastrophe. A passenger’s defiance leads to a moral lecture on piety, while Christians on the ship cling to faith as flames and waves threaten. The account praises steadfast believers on the quarter deck and questions mercy and judgment.
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