20 Dec 1860
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Newspaper
Altoona Tribune
Location
Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1860
Page
1
A vehement poem urges dissolving the union, warning of bloodshed and catastrophe. It contrasts revolutionary violence with patriot fathers, invoking Gates and Nero while asking hills and rivers to cry, and laments a history of bloodshed if the Union breaks.
A neighbor child, sleepwalking after a playmate's loss, wanders to the narrator's home at night. The speaker and wife calm the intruder, learn the grave clothes were night garments, and recount nearly leaping from a window in fear of a ghost.
A Judge recounts a spectral visitation after burial of a beloved child. The family sees the child in grave clothes with sightless eyes walking the room, prompting fear and wonder amid a sorrowful night. An embedded Alabama humor piece follows about Jake Williard’s ill fated rescue attempt at a dry well and a prank by Ned Wells.
A governorish anecdote recalls a clergyman criticizing spending time on Sunday social visits then inviting the speaker to spend the evening with the deacon's daughters. The tale highlights cautious stance on propriety and political influence.
A quirky fragment describes social perils and choices at a doorstep and in travel. It sketches the dilemma of knocking or pledging apology, the dangers of crossing roads, damp beds, and awkward entanglements with heiress errors and forced drinking choices.
The tale unfolds near Montgomery Alabama where a jovial landlord Ford keeps a crowded house until a bitter pre-dawn visit by three lawyers from Montgomery. They seek shelter and a bed for the night but Ford explains it’s nearly morning. only chairs and a fire can be offered. The lawyers, exhausted, endure a night by the fire and rise to a breakfast that reveals no guests but themselves. Ford’s quip about asking for beds proves sharper than their legal edge as the dawn arrives.
The piece cites Hall's Journal of Health describing cramps as severe pains from thick impure blood pressing nerves. It advises rapid hot water treatment and brisk rubbing of the cramped area, with the helper’s quiet, confident manner aiding relief and reducing agitation.
An army anecdote shows General Jackson defending soldiers who prayed in their tent. An officer reports they were praying after previously ringing. Jackson questions if praying is a crime and urges the officer to join them in prayer.
In Cincinnati a five year old girl was escorted home from the street to a cellar in a dirty alley. A drunken nearly naked mother lay on a straw pallet with a son and daughter nearby. A known fighting character and wife occupied the apartment. In a second hovel, frost and mud narrowed room around a stove where four women and four men, strangers, drank heavily while their husbands were jailed for drunkenness.
A couple of youths asked Esquire F to unite them in matrimony on a Thursday evening. The bride, after a long call, declared they came from Colombia county to attend a fair but sought marriage so the groom could sleep with her. The event was noted in the Madison Wisconsin Patriot.
A partial archival line hints at sentiment and line imagery, but the text is garbled with missing words. It appears as a fragmentary reflection or verse snippet without a clear event, date, or identifiable subjects.
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