30 Apr 1839
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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1839
Page
1
A lyrical poem urges a woman to laugh and sing in the face of grief and beauty. It cautions not to sigh when a roaming lover chooses among flowers, and highlights the allure of melody, smiles, and love as sources of joy.
A long, admiring portrait of a man named Alfred whose extreme quietness and aversion to disruption set him apart. The narrator contrasts Alfred with a bustling world, recounting a life of near-misses and upheavals that never roused him, and ends with a brief encounter with a companion named Jim boarding a steamboat.
On a crowded steamboat Alfred travels toward Newburg and a farm house retreat with companions and lively discourse. The scene shifts to rural quiet where reading and reflection replace city clamor, but a noisy farm welcomes interruptions from Jacob, Simon, and a polytalk parrot.
A compact miscellany excerpt argues national destiny depends more on the mass than elites. It warns vanity in praise, urges steadfast character against aid from the many, and notes moral influence endures beyond death. The piece contrasts swift birds with skeptical science and cites Lord Brougham.
The party sought to verify Sinai's true site and found a wide plain at the mountain foot capable of hosting millions, with Sinai's summit 1,200 feet above the plain and invisible from below, while Mount St Catharine rises 2,700 feet and Gebel Mousa lies nearby, according to Arabs familiar with the peninsula.
The Boston Times reports a plan to thin Court Street lawyers via an auto-do-fee, while the Cincinnati News calls it a poor method. Both papers question any fee based solution to reduce legal professionals.
The passage recalls a monumental ruin seen by travelers from Britain, once a beacon of science and superstition, described as a beacon across Egypt’s deserts and cities. It evokes Egypt’s ancient temples, the exodus toward the land of bondage, and the lonely groves where wisdom dwelt before wandering Arabs.
From L Ellio tt's Travels a distant view shows Balbec on a high platform with six polished pillars supporting a grand architrave. The sun temple features exquisite sculpture, a massive parallelogram inner space, and a colonnade once forty pillars strong, now only eighteen standing with ornate capitals and architrave details.
Historical note describes using lime in ground to preserve wooden fence posts. Lime packed in holes with posts, boards placed around, ground rammed, boards removed, quick lime filling the space to expand as it slakes, claimed to reduce rot and extend post life.
Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society describe lime mortar around fence posts to prevent ground contact and rot. Three to five posts require one bushel of lime. boards around post halves thickness. lime mortar filled with gravel to resist rains.
A Kent passage near Pitcairn Island notes the return of mutineers from the Bounty era. It recalls Alexander Smith alias John Adams leading settlers to Otaheite, their later detachment from licentious natives, Adams’s death in 1829, and the small population of Pitcairn. Whalers trade for vegetables while pigs and goats are scarce. A bell fragment from the Bounty was brought home by Captain Steele, and Harper's Family Library offers a fuller mutiny account.
A Providence merchant known for liberality owned a privateer departing from Providence. After unloading a prize cargo, a hogshead of sugar spilled. A nearby poor woman gathered it in her apron, shouting that she was privateering. The tale concludes the merchant should have rewarded her with the hogshead.
An eccentric Irish amanuensis at Moor Park, poetically praised by his employer, was Jonathan Swift. He courted Lady Giffard’s maid Stella while serving Sir William Temple, a romance that hinted at a genius destined to affect politics and letters and become a lasting literary memory. The Edinburgh Review frames this origin story as a prelude to Swift’s larger fame.
The Bangor Whig editor observes that in Bangor there are no old maids alive now, but a large number of old bachelors are found.
A chaotic Baltimore tale describes Mr. Smith who allegedly drowns and dies a thousand times only to rise again, cutting up his shines and defying Mary Swords by refusing to worry her per a promise. The bizarre behavior ends with a $2000 fine and a suggestion he is tired of handling edge tools.
A Boston paper reports that in an Essex county town the old maids led by a schoolmarm are organizing an Anti-Courting Society. They aim to skip dating and marry quickly rather than spend time courting.
A fragmentary 19th century column presents aphorisms and vignettes on happiness and social customs. It mentions Epimenides, a wedding cake gift, a large unclaimed bank fund, a musk grain, runaway preacher, a near arson at New York City hall, a victorious New Orleans boat race, Niagara Falls accidents, a new life boat, a Victoria anecdote, steam navy models, a pantaloons-less parade order, and various local incidents.
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