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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1838
Page
1
A fragment from a note book reflects on poetry and science, quoting Gray and Milton on blindness and ecstasy. It cites Lucretius and Lucretius style lines, praises an emerald isle panegyric from John Leyden, and hints at further communications to come.
In a serene April eve Maltravers and Alice share a tranquil moment beside his cottage. news comes of his father’s illness from Lisle Court, shattering the couple’s peace as Ernest upon hearing the tale tears up and departs, leaving Alice stunned by his farewell, cold and estranged.
A long meditation on cosmic change and immortality argues that final oblivion may yield new beginnings. It contemplates the heavens as an instrument for spirit to learn its origins and, though all may pass, memory and meaning endure beyond the grave. The Peruvians Pompeii story follows with relics from Guarmney near Truxillo, including two unusual clay vessels and a boat-call feature.
A reader collects a fragment from an English periodical describing a fine woman. The prose highlights modesty and evolving sensibility, with ornate phrases about beauty and a cultured gaze. The note explains the author hopes editors value such Orient pearls amid forgotten literary curiosities.
Ernest Maltravers praised for high reputation as readers are invited to judge a chapter on love and music. A newspaper interrupts the sentimental dream, illustrating real life with its changes and fluctuations as Southern Post urges readers to read and judge.
A column extols the influence and purity of woman citing Barret Ledyard and Mungo Park, praises Southey and Esdras, then reports a jailbreak in Washington county jail where all inmates escaped.
A letter quoted in Lockhart's Life of Scott warns a friend about dawdling and urges strict daily scheduling. It extols completing each task promptly, reserving recreation after work, and maintaining regular, precise time use like a Dutch clock. It cautions that neglect breeds piling duties and erodes decisive action.
A Mirror item notes that youthful pulsation rates rise with affection and tells of a young man in the city who pries into a beloved’s room to gauge heartbeats. It mocks the physician’s crude method and urges readers to beware the young doctor’s curious practice.
The passage argues that devotion sown in a child rarely dies. It may seem quenched by life, youth, or vice, but resurfaces when the person matures or faces misfortune. The core idea is that true devotion endures and reemerges despite temporary suppression.
The article recounts Garcia, a famed Mexican singer, who was robbed by banditti who knew him and forced him to sing as they plundered him. Despite enduring the assault patiently, he could not forgive the humiliation and warns that true friendship requires tolerance of faults but not complicity with crime. The piece closes with a reflection on judgment and loyalty.
A 1840 era miscellany notes flood effects at Montreal with eight foot waters and property loss, reports drowned youths in Berkshire Mass, and mentions steam links for the West Indies. It recalls Captain Perry, Knowles plays, Morse telegraph progress, and ends with a Jacksonian tribute praising Andrew Jackson as democracy's pillar and a call to renewed national vigor.
A local newspaper note hails a 17 year old author from this place for his patriotic spirit. The writer, still young, is praised for capturing community pride and youthful national sentiment in his piece.
The narrator describes a single captive in a dungeon to portray confinement and hope deferred. The man’s body shows long neglect, he has seen no sun or moon in thirty years, and keeps a notched stick tallying days while iron chains bite into his soul, drawing the narrator to tears.
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