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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1838
Page
1
A widowed mother weeps over years of love lost and dead in foreign clay. She speaks of mercy and promises the earthly blossom to heaven as a sunbeam brightens the room and the sleeping babe smiles. A renewal of hope follows the child’s awakening and forgiveness.
The speaker argues a kiss is false if it lacks soul and meaning, comparing shallow, fleeting touch to a bee's fleeting visit. A true kiss awakens the heart and summons inner spirits, calling for lasting union as if a wife returns to her husband to settle on his lips for life and nurture a family of kisses.
In a New England village Estelle Lawrence contemplates marriage to Morris, a charming rake. Her sister Louise warns of reform failure as Morris presses his suit. Estelle marries Morris, but his temper and vice destroy their happiness, leading to misery, abandonment, and Estelle's tragic death aided by family revelations.
The narrative depicts Fannon a ruthless Randolph partisan and his mare called the Red Doe a swift loyal companion in bloody skirmishes. When a subordinate attacks Fannon the mare stands by her master in danger and later Fannon’s forces capture a Whig named Hunter leading to a hanging plan.
A sentimental essay on Osceola dying in captivity, where the Indian chief defers to his captive wife's devotion. The piece argues that despite a history of war and betrayal, the strength of a woman's love humanizes the fierce warrior as he dies, his face soothed by her care and tenderness.
Excerpt extols green fields verdant trees and gardens, praising pure dews and bees. It contrasts bucolic landscapes with urban strife and corruption, portraying rural health and life as enviable refuges for fretted townspeople.
The writer reflects on sensory memories awakening boyhood in nature and music, contrasting youth with adult pomp. He cites Hood's lines about pine trees and heaven and praises Chief Justice Marshall for keeping a youthful spirit, noting his habit of playing with local youths near Richmond, Virginia.
A Baltimore Transcript note describes a scene from Prisoner of Rochelle where Corporal Cartouch parries a mock courtship with Leza at a work table. The exchange plays on matrimony, arms, charges, and duties as the pair joke about a lifelong load of marriage.
The essay contrasts farmers as litle kings with urban tradesmen confined by crowds and narrow spaces. It praises farmers for ample homes, outbuildings, and expansive acres, where laborers work and the quiet country air preserves health and happiness. It highlights farm life as superior to cramped urban existence with images of kitchens, fires, and pets in rustic settings.
A Corsican gang leader known for exploits was captured and placed in soldier custody. The condemned soldier faced execution when a stranger named Lam confessed responsibility and sought to die for the escape. The French officer refused leniency and freed the unjustly punished soldier, praising the stranger's selfless act.
A reader named A Young Parmer asks if lime plus buckwheat, oats, and clover can restore a seven-year neglected field. The reply says yes, suggesting plowing, sowing buckwheat, rolling, liming at 50 bushels per acre, overwintering, then sowing oats and clover, leaving two years in clover before wheat, with plastering oats. Lime’s durable value justifies the expense.
An English heiress eloped with her guardian's clerk and was chased by guards until the Dover mall. The couple were found safe as the coach continued to Paris. A passenger mistook the guardian for a sleeping gouty man before learning the truth.
A humorous scene in a hardware shop as a green horn asks for gimlets. The dealer offers many varieties, and the customer insists on gimlets that bore square holes, prompting comic dialogue about the right tool.
A fragmentary line speaks of Massa an oxen with a head todder and fear to report the condition at once. The speaker fears the bore of delays and hints at urgent but unrecorded livestock trouble.
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