Visit to the Widow of Marco Bozzaris in Missolonghi
The narrator meets the widow of Marco Bozzaris and her two stately daughters in Missolonghi. He describes the widow's dignified mourning in black with a Madonna veil, notes the Grecian beauty of the elder daughter who speaks French, and recalls promising to send a tribute to America in memory of Bozzaris.
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Marco Bozzaris
Constantine Bozzaris
Bozzaris
Greece
America
Missilonghi
Bozzaris Widow and Daughters Share Private Interview
The narrator recalls writing to a friend to obtain Halleck's Marco Bozzaris and send it to a Paris banker. Halleck declined, then provided a new edition of his poems. The author notes the widow and daughters of Marco Bozzaris appear in the book, justifying publicizing their private interview as world property.
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Halleck
Marco Bozzaris
Paris
Bozzaris Poem Recited Amid War and Homeland Pride
The excerpt presents a lyrical tribute to Marco Bozzaris with notes on a midnight dream, heroic deeds, and Greek resistance. It evokes the fallen hero, his comrades, and Greece as homeland, praising freedom, fame, and sacrifice through elevated, bardic verse.
Mariscrouch and His Wife in Marlborough Portrait
The London and Westminster Review contrasts the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, noting his cold, calculating nature and his wife’s avarice tempered by generosity. It portrays Marlborough as aged and decaying in mind, while the Duchess grows more contemplative as she ages, highlighting a stark character contrast within the couple.
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Marlborough
London and
Westminster Review
Wife's dinner lesson ends in laughter and virtue
Zachariah Hodgson buys a codfish and his wife multicoats it with boiled fish fried fish and even a large portly frog. The table scene shifts from scolding to comic relief as the wife serves a chowder and a surprising frog, prompting a hearty laugh and a moral about virtuous women. The piece ends urging men to seek female friendship as a shield against vice.
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Zacharia Hodgson
Zachariah
Weems Fiddles To Aid Wedding In Old Baltimore Tale
The Baltimore Sun recounts an anecdote about Rev S L Weems, famed biographer of Washington, who privately sold books and once offered a wedding ceremony. When a dance needed a fiddler, a curtain concealing a violin appeared and Weems revealed himself fiddling for the merriment of the couple. He is praised as eloquent, honest, and versatile.
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S. J. Weems
Mr. Weems
Baltimore Sun
Laws of Divorce in England Bill Implemented
Mr. Sergeant Talford introduced a bill in the House of Commons that passed by a large majority. It aims to empower courts handling divorce cases to dispose of child custody by sound discretion. Previously, decrees of separation could not regulate guardianship, allowing a wife to be provided for while the husband denied access to his children.
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England
Sergeant Talford
House of Commons
Felon Mar Convicted Of Larceny At New York Sessions
Felon Mar, a female thief, was convicted of larceny at the New York Sessions on Tuesday and sentenced to six months in prison. The record notes the case amid broader commentary on theft and virtue in the era.
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Felon Mar
New York
Tuewlay
The Editor’s Burden The Graphic Life of A St Clairsville Editor
A historical reflection on the Editor stakes and perils in the St Clairsville Gazette’s pages. The piece, describing constant labor, opposition, gossip, and the pursuit of moral balance, ends with the editor’s fleeting fame and unpaid debts.
Various World and Local News Items From Havana to Ohio
A collage of brief notes on abolishing corporeal punishment in Havana public schools, debtors in England to be released by Oct 1, Selden Sing Sing Prison in New York houses 847 inmates including 50 women, Kemper College opening in St. Louis, September storms hitting Velasco and Quintana Texas, Chambl y barracks burned with one officer dead, Philadelphia and Baltimore fire companies counts, Mobile bricklayers earnings, General Houston denouncing land speculators in Texas, Missouri Synod meeting in St. Louis, Ohio election tally 205000 votes, Paris steam carriage trials, Delaware river oyster pearls including a $140 editor valuation, Sandwich Islands papers received in New York Evening Star, potato prices in New Orleans, railroad survey near Chambersburg to Pittsburgh, Cahokia Illinois church built 1698, Mississippi River levies merchandise backlog, fatal whip blow at a St. Louis coffee house, John Merel named Swiss consul for Louisiana and Mississippi in New Orleans, San Augustine Texas to Natchitoches Louisiana stage line, Methodist church growth in Ohio, Texas emigrants sailing from Kennebec, London American interests paper planned, Dayton wronaut Clayton ascent, chestnut trees tallest North American timber reaching up to 100 feet.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Mobile
Samuel Houston
Texas
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St. Louis
Ohio
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Delaware River
New York Star
England
New York Evening Star
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New Orleans
New England
Chambersburg
Pitsburg
Cahokie
Ilinois
Mississippi
Ohio Rivers
Kennebec
London
Clayton
Wronaut Mechanic
West
Dayton
The farmer and family toil in harmony and industry
A vivid panorama of rural life shows a farmer and relatives working from dawn to night. Daughters and sons join chores, bees and livestock support daily sustenance, and grandparent wisdom anchors a domestic economy. The passage links industrious farming to national virtue and future greatness.
Speculators Offer to Buy Maumee Town for Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
Two West men stroll Maumee and discuss buying the town as a business site. They propose fifty dollars down with remaining payments of three, six, and nine thousand, then balk at paying less. The Trojan observer notes the town may not become a strong place.
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Maumee
Peddler Promises Silver From Brass Watch Case
A Baltimore Transcript anecdote tells of a pushy street vendor selling a city themed composition. He proclaims his brass watch case will turn to silver, prompting a country man to offer a shinplaster bill hoping it would turn to silver as well.
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Baltimore Transcript
Hopeful Heir and the Wedding Dilemma
A father urges his son Thomas to wed Susan Tompkins, insisting on a timely marriage. Thomas, distraught, resists the match while lamenting a forced arrangement. The Connecticut Courant notes a mulberry fever and high prices for tobacco tears, with a local grower selling 1,000 trees for $700. average tree length about 84 feet.
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Susan ‘Tompkins
Thomas
Susan
Connecticut Courant
Hol
Fall Ploughing for Spring Cultivation
The notice urges ploughing stiff clayey grounds seven inches deep and furrowing nine inches wide this month and next. The furrows should be laid at about 45 degrees to maximize benefits from winter frosts and snows, yielding better spring cultivation and reducing spring labor.
New Corn Variety Found in Tea Chest by Grant Thorborn
Grant Thorborn of New York markets a corn variety discovered in a tea chest. Seedlings sprout in two to four branches like a small tree with ears at the branch tips. The large white flint twelve row ears run ten to fourteen inches long. Planted May 10, ears ready July 10.
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Grant Thorborn
New York
Four Hundred Passengers Arrive in New Orleans on Monday
Four hundred travelers reached New Orleans on Monday the 20th amid steady harbor activity. Officials noted smooth embarkations and no incidents as ships discharged passengers and cargo alongside the riverfront.
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N’ Orleans
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