05 Apr 1850
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1850
Page
1
The Athens Messenger Announces weekly publication by N H Van Vorhes Co. on Court Street opposite the Public Buildings. Subscriptions are set at 1.50 yearly in advance, 2.00 if not paid within four weeks. Discontinuance requires notice to editor to avoid a new engagement. Clubs offered liberal deductions.
The notice outlines ad pricing for single and multiple insertions, with $1.00 per insertion and 25 cents for each additional insertion. It notes a year loyalty deduction, automatic continuation if insertion numbers are not shown, and charges for candidate names. Ads should be prepaid and submitted by Wednesday morning.
A lament celebrating the motherless, praising a mother’s love as unmatched. The speaker laments no gentle form or voice to soothe their pain and asks divine aid for those who walk without a mother’s guiding ray. The piece contrasts earthly affection with a mother’s pure care and pleads for mercy on the motherless.
An impoverished lawyer wanders the street in tattered clothes and laments his lack of cases and briefs. He finds a metaphorical opening in a hole, then a coroner's inquest reveals the deceased had died from remorse, lamenting the profession’s limits and his own misfortune.
A miscellany piece extols maternal devotion describing a mother’s lifelong care and sacrifice. It also argues that mechanics are the most substantive professionals, citing Arkwright Fulton Watt Franklin and others as the driving force behind progress and liberty. The excerpt ends with notes on nurseries and nutmeg trees observed in Singapore.
The passage extols a mother's steadfast love as constant and healing. It urges remembering mothers with daily kindness, attentive regard, and frequent messages, noting mothers grow lonely as they age and deserve continual comfort beyond holidays. It emphasizes that true kindness consoles and sustains a mother through trials and time.
An exchange recounts diverse year commencements from autumn equinox in Chaldea to January in Rome and the 1st of January reform in Britain. It notes Jewish spring ecclesiastical starts, Chinese new moon in Aquarius, Mexican eighteen months, Abyssinian year on August 26, and Gregorian reform of 1582 led by Pope Gregory with Lewis Lillie’s aid.
A scanned broadside combines the Pilate sentence alleging Jesus’ execution with a Minnesota territorial report. It quotes a mock trial verdict in Jerusalem, then shifts to Henry S. Foot’s climate and soil briefing, detailing Minnesota’s geography, resources, rivers, timber, pine, agriculture, population, and frontier prospects.
Prof W W Mather writes of three railroad projects proposed to pass Chillicothe, Belpre and Cincinnati Scioto and Hocking Valley and Iron Railroads, linking Cincinnati to Richmond and Parkersburg with rich mineral regions and future furnaces, salt works, and coal and iron transport potential in 1850.
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