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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1837
Page
1
Printed and published by W C McCaussen and L Harper announces subscription rates two dollars per year payable in advance or three dollars after one year. Advertisements follow standard rates. Letters to editors must be post paid or receive no attention.
Notice states all varieties of card printing will be executed at the Union Office on the shortest notice and on the Mest teaconalle teimo.
Poetic fragment recalls a bright night sky as warriors on castle towers gaze upon gleaming light. Spear and falchion flash as they race to defend their lord in a feudal conflict. The chieftain's power rises with the looming battle and loyal forces gather for war.
A religiously toned verse urges no tears for the dead and recalls the transient nature of life. It reflects on mortality, sin, sorrow, and the afterlife, portraying the world as temporary and eternity as the unknown home awaiting all.
Poem by J G Whittier laments fading rural life and old fashioned virtues. It contrasts past farming toil and community cheer with modern fashion, foreign plants, and shifted social norms. The speaker bids farewell to the homely hearth, independence, and simple pleasures once celebrated.
In Goshen the Shaker elders convene to name Father Ephraim’s successors. Adam Colburn and Martha Pierson, long lovers, are chosen as future Father and Mother, their bond tested by age, duty, and spiritual call. Martha collapses as she faces this fate, while Adam accepts a serene but demanding path in the village.
A declamatory piece extols American progress and liberty, urging the nation to embrace arts, science, and a robust republic. It frames empire, war, and the West as foundations for future greatness and the spread of virtue, unity, and free government. It invokes Niagara, Alleghenies, and Pacific seas as divine signals. Knickerbocker.
The Baltimore American reflects on Rome as once imperial and republican majesty now a vast ruin. Sightseers encounter fragments revealing past splendor and present poverty, prompting thoughts on how nations swing from barbarism to refinement and back.
An anecdote recalls La Fontaine on his death bed as his confessor urged repentance. A nurse interrupted, begging not to provoke him, arguing he is more stupid than wicked and that God will not damn him.
Hon. Joan Tyrer of Virginia accepts invitation to deliver an oration at Yorktown on the seventeenth, marking the anniversary of the victory won by American arms at that historic site.
A reflective piece from Trenton Emporium on the dangers of excessive talking across professions and private life. It praises silence and measured speech, citing Franklin and Sherman, warns against divorce court drama, and cherishes the image of a quiet old thinker who speaks only when sure.
The piece extols angling as a leisure that suits any temper, describing the quiet moment of listing catches on the turf by a stream. It notes the sport requires little prep, needs no help, and thrives in majestic rivers and tranquil creeks with scenic beauty.
James H. Lanman outlines a planned comprehensive history of Michigan from New France through Detroit colonization to modern times. He cites scattered sources, aims to document growth, resources, topography, and political changes, and seeks public support for the project.
The passage speaks of a mysterious mood that drifts like a cloud over the spirit. It intrudes in busyness and solitude, affecting the soul with a solemn, haunting influence that can both dull and deepen later joy.
The Mobile Chronicle reports a dinner honoring General Lamar, noting the guests behaved with equal dignity as when seated at the head of the table. The remark highlights the disciplined demeanor of the Texian army or cabinet figure.
A Worcester man was tried for maliciously girdling fruit trees and fined 88 dollars. The judge deemed the punishment light for the crime of high trees, a pun linking the act to a higher offense.
The report lists ships launched for the Liverpool line including the Cambridge 850 tons and Siddons 050, with details of a New York launch on Saturday. It notes James Logan Smith of Philadelphia appointed cashier at the Bank of Chambersburg after Axex Calhoun’s death, and mentions Joan Tuomas, survivor of Major Dade’s band, dying in St. Augustine. A string of brief items covers curiosities, jokes, science wonders, a Paris prison lightning rod, a humor piece about a vanishing evening, newspaper regulations, horse theft gossip, an aurora observed in New Haven and Göttingen, a single-eyed Spaniard’s tennis loss, dinner and supper musings, a pudding tip, and a jailhouse fugitive incident in Albany.
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