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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1838
Page
1
An archival note records that printing and publication duties were handled by W C McAuslen and L Harper, indicating the publishers involved in disseminating the era’s newspaper content.
An aged German smuggler lures his daughter on a perilous night trek to ferry goods along a frontier path. As they hide in a rock cavern, pursuers close in and a deadly volley shakes their desperate escape, leaving the girl unable to move and the father fighting for both their lives.
Accounts describe a smuggler’s fatal act when he saved his life by throwing his child into a chasm. A cry of So help me God accompanied the plunge as the body tumbled into the torrent. Pursuers dropped their weapons in shock, the smuggler securing his pack and vanishing.
A historical column describes Circassian girls sold into Turkish harems with guarded benevolence and potential marriage prospects. It contrasts Circassian allure with Greek male beauty, noting aging, physical decline, and fashion changes in Perote shops, amid a satirical view of pilgrim-era stereotypes.
The essay argues geology and astronomy deepen religious awe rather than oppose it. It contends science reveals tremendous cosmic forces and celestial mechanisms, while urging harmony between sense, science, and devotion as observers ascend from induction to creation’s vast scale.
The passage speaks of Orion loosing its hands and rays cross paths in outer space, tracing floods of light from system to system. It notes how grand and sublime these conclusions feel, yet humanity sinks back to earth, worshiping the stars with childlike wonder.
A historical(?) treatise discusses how animals move in diverse ways from shellfish to birds. It notes the Pholas can perforate marble, oysters open and close, crabs move sideways, waterfowl swim on their backs, and that man imitates many motions though not flight. It lists bones and muscles counts and heart pulsations per hour as context.
In a Bayle summary from Lacedomon, Mopesty and Icarious fail to keep Penelope from Ulyssus. Penelope, torn between her father and husband, signals a plan to join Ulyssus to Ithaca. Icarious reads her thoughts, and, deeming her choice clear, supports her departure and erects a statue to Modesty.
A small Italian town witnessed Othello end with a staged dagger scene turning real when Desdemona collapsed. The actor, a jealous lover in disguise, killed the actress during the terminal moment and fled before authorities found him. The audience acclaimed the scene as the curtain fell.
In Bartholomeo's voyage to the East Indies, he notes Calcutta's heat is such that clerks writing letters must sit naked, submerged up to the neck in large water-filled vessels while slaves pump cold water from a well to keep them cool.
A 19th century inscription praises virtue in watching over an aged parent and the nobility of filial tears. The lines attributed to S. Julian highlight calm guardianship as beauty and innocence as tears mirror sorrow and reverence.
A reflective poem about choosing solitary life to cultivate inner thought and beauty. The speaker seeks to become a higher creature, perceiving love, grace, and perpetual goodness as the core of true fulfillment.
A lengthy political analysis argues against a government controlled bank and for gradual debt reduction. It warns that tying banks to the state could create a despotic money power, favoring the strong, especially Biddle's Bank, and urges cautious, time‑honored measures rather than coercive resumption.
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