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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1838
Page
1
A colonial era notice presents reflections on visiting the Holy Land versus European entertainments. It notes the longing for the sacred land and recalls a poem by La Martine read at Marseilles, offering translated stanzas from the Foreign Quarterly Review.
The sketch, drawn from Hesperian Magazine, recounts hardships of early settlers along Kenhawa and Cole river in Western Virginia. It notes frontier fortifications built of timber, constant vigilance against Indian threats, and tales told by hospitable pioneers encountered by travelers such as Mr M. and the heirs of Tays.
In June of 1778 the fort is overrun by Indians who kill white inhabitants and rescue captives. Mrs Tackett loses her son and survives a brutal journey as her captor Chickahoula, a Cherokee, plans to marry her in the South before later escaping with help from settlers. She returns to Greenbriar amid community shock and relief at her survival.
A six year old child named Atte Gon G oe reportedly drowned in Philadelphia on Saturday. The incident details are limited in the fragment.
Davin Wentworth, famed for his kindness to the needy, loves a wealthy young lady in his hometown. She tests lovers by aiding a poor widow. many falter, but Davin freely gives and even helps establish the widow in business. The couple's bond deepens as she cites his virtue and fate offers a shared future.
A fragmentary archaic dialogue presents Penelope and Obadiah in a spiritual exhortation. The text veers into a biblical cadence with insistence on companionship and union as part of a contemplative sermon.
Neves disapproves of Petticoat Lecturers, saying he has heard lectures enough from that source and ought to know better.
A Baltimore American piece argues for expanded education for women beyond domestic skills. It urges mothers to guide child development with moral and intellectual training, contending educated women lift societal standards and empower families, challenging the notion that girls belong only in drawing rooms.
A Derbyshire Courier fragment recounts an old man swindled by a gypsy with fake necromancy, losing 180 sovereigns and 20 shillings. It follows with a Knickerbocker essay praising sensible, steadfast marriage where character and reason outweigh fleeting romance. The piece contrasts magical manipulation with enduring partnership.
The New York Star notes Wyoming, famed for its beauty and Campbell poetry, plans a monument for Revolutionary War martyrs. Locals petition Connecticut’s legislature for aid, as the town lay within Connecticut and shared tax status with Connecticut troops on continental service.
The excerpt discusses territorial possession by Pennsylvania before peace, excluding Wyoming from Connecticut towns' indemnity. It argues the claim for aid may not persuade the Connecticut Legislature, noting Whig influence, and ends by suggesting Wyoming's need is best symbolized by England's poet.
A reflective piece on separating lovers and the melancholy of longing. It contrasts the vivid immediacy of mutual passion with the sadness of solitary aftermath, noting how shared enchantment fuels belief and how distance diminishes the once luminous union. The author coins love as the heart’s May-day and speaks of faith wavering after the miracle fades.
The passage notes that ugliness often accompanies wit and humor in many figures from history and literature. It cites Aesop, Socrates, Rabelais, Sancho Panza and Rozinante, Hudibras, Ralpho, and Searron as examples, suggesting ugliness as a notable trait among clever characters.
A translated German passage defines a kiss as a seal of attachment and pledge of future union. It describes the kiss as a dumb yet audible language of a loving heart, with imagery of ivory cords, pressed flats, a crimson balm, and a swift exchange of questions and answers.
A Boston newspaper notes an elderly woman has opened a fortune telling shop to showcase her skills and gains more customers than she can accommodate, illustrating business improvement.
The item lists various tidbits from Richmond and Nashville papers including Kentucky counties appointing school commissioners, a senator Majlary resigning, a Mississippi sea port proposal, Volunteer troops returning from Florida and Major Lauderdale’s death, investigations into a New Port Rhode Island murder, and other varied notices. It also mentions a Morrocan gift to Jackson, fashion etiquette fines, snow in New York, railroad labor needs, and multiple regional updates across towns and newspapers.
Insects attack wheat as a small snuff brown fly lays eggs in the hull during flowering. Eggs hatch into maggots feeding on the milky kernels, then mature into a cocoons resembling silk worm cases. To prevent recurrence, thresh field wheat, burn straw and chaff, and winterly flour the grain. The pest mainly resides in straw and chaff, not seed wheat.
The writer praises neighbor Mr Critcher for peach tree health with spring root cleansing, worm removal, ash treatments, and fresh earth covering. They share bacon curing notes critiquing rotten wood smoke, prefer salting in brine, and suggest green wood smoking, lime wash, and dark dry meat houses to avoid rancid flavors and bugs.
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