11 May 1864
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Newspaper
Allen County Democrat
Location
Lima, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1864
Page
1
Horatio Seymour argues against defaulting on state bonds and urges payment in coin to uphold the state's honor. He cites previous resolutions favoring equal treatment of foreign and domestic creditors and warns that paying in currency other than coin would damage credit and breach contracts.
The act to organize and discipline the militia replaces the 1863 measure. It en rolls white male citizens 18 to 45 for personal property tax, with a four dollar commutation due by August 15. The National Guard musters by regiment or battalion in May or June and four other musters yearly, with fines, court of inquiry, and possible jury trial. It abolishes encampments and old units, grants pay from a military fund, exempts guards from highway labor, and enforces strict order at parades including liquor prohibitions.
A garbled miscellany of aphorisms jokes and quips about idols truth listening and manners, with stray phrases about politics and public figures. The text uses broken phrases and misspellings, offering a collage of parlor puzzles and social commentary from a bygone era.
A fragment notes Sage repeats the Miʼitig Law and presses toward freedom. The line hints at indigenous legal traditions gaining traction in a modern context, signaling cultural assertion and fresh interpretation within community discourse.
The meeting of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association featured Wendell Phillips Gar rinson lambasting the Constitution and Union as rotten. He argued no two states ever worked in harmony and predicted a new nation based on independence, without racial divisions, praising Anna Dickinson and opposing slavery, with debate over Negro suffrage and equality. The session ended with a vote on prohibiting slavery being rejected and the meeting adjourned.
A clipped old column presents a rambling comic tale set in a midwestern vibe with characters Bill Lowry George Shuffer and a Portsmouth toll keeper. The humorous anecdotes cover drinking mischief church hints and a misread spell of honor with a pupil’s muffin revenge ending.
A fragment describes a sleeping man who mistakes intruders for little Negroes and threatens with kicks. It then shifts to a tale of an eccentric old gentleman who, while devout at table, bursts into swearing as a visiting captain mishears his grace and quips about his own speech. The scene blends humor and social eccentricity in brief anecdotes.
A singular coincidence links a Massachusetts fasting day with the same Thursday in April observed by those under Jefferson Davis. A local observer notes another oddity: the names Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Hannibal Hamlin and Alexander Stephens each contain fourteen letters.
Professor Bump tells of a frog described as an amphibian on cold water who supposedly invented the teetotal society. The creature walks with a tulip, gives free concerts nightly, provides music for the million, and is said to be a varmint not old when boiled on a gridiron.
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