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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1854
Page
1
The Athens Messenger sets advertising rates for various ad sizes including one square twelve lines or less at $1.00 for three insertions with different multi month options. Business cards six lines cost $3.00 per year, with liberal yearly discounts. Ads without a marked number run until forbidden and require advance payment.
A historical notice lists Jedee Court of Common Pleas and probate details for Simeon Nash, with county officers including Sheriff J T Keasiscer Clerk C C P and District C Joseph M Daw a, Auditor Exiakim H Moors, Treasurer William Gowen, Recorder William H Bankett, Prosecuting Attorney Samari B Knonxes, County Commissioners Lorenzo D Poston Joan Exnarr and William Mason, Sealer Exiakin Moone, Surveyor Joan Ackiey, Coroner Eyuraim Marinens, Master Chancery Henry T Brown, Auctioneer John F Lyon, plus local merchants Picmeming Brown, Perkins Baker, Bailard & Sons, Morrison & Co, and Pickering & Carley building details in Athens, Ohio.
The passage narrates a woman recalling her once joyful marriage and domestic bliss with a loving husband. Betrayal and abuse shatter her life as she watches his transformation into a brute. Grief, motherhood, and a wish for peace follow, with the looming collapse of her fragile health and hope.
A sea faring poem describes a storm at sea with a ship biting through high waves and a frightened crew. The pilot is urged to trust in Heaven as lightning and thunder lash the hull and mainmast bends. Good hope shines like a distant star guiding the ship to safety.
An affectionate Civil War era reminiscence follows Ben Bolt as a brave boy who carries Alice May through a snowy childhood, grows to love her, and returns years later to find her in a quiet grave. The piece traces friendship, memory, and the toll of time on their village.
A collection of health guidance urges rising early and strict daily habits, including bathing, ventilation, clothing, diet, and temperate living. The piece shifts to reports on the Rescue Case at Milwaukee where S M Booth defends aiding Grlover’s escape from bondage and denounces slave-catchers while praising the people’s uprising against slave hunting.
The article presents vast rum whisky and beer production totals from the census, converting the volume into a 40 acre reservoir 6 feet 7 inches deep and into 2 63 495 barrels of 32 gallons. It describes a long pipe flood of liquid, canal-like conveyance, and high costs per gallon.
An Illinois correspondent relays a mock Nebraska Bill claiming the Bank of Nebraska will pay 500 for each slave delivered in Nebraska, secured against foreigners, signed Gen Purse and counter signed Steve A Doubleash. The vignette shows a slave gang crossing the Mississippi under a Baltimore Platform overseer with a whip and squatters’ sovereignty motif.
Natchez reports recount Mr Fillmore reception and his reply to local authorities. He contrasts Lake Erie's frozen harbor with Natchez spring bloom, calling fanaticism a curse on a vast united country. He warns Congress may invite a dire national curse if the Southern faction persists.
In July after passage of the Missouri Compromise Act, Virginia Senator John Randolph warned that the South would remain united from Ohio to Florida to conquer the North again and drive them to the wall, vowing to keep them there.
The Ohio Auditor of State urges laws to dissolve injunctions blocking tax collection from banks and to bar suits by banks over taxes. He also proposes appointing officials to enforce taxes despite court orders, arguing residents may move investments but should still be taxed if within Ohio. The Dayton Gazette comments on policy and warns against retreating from expanded taxation.
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