27 Feb 1857
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1857
Page
1
A long prose and verse miscellany moves from altered bells and funeral rites to a mother’s confession about evasive promises. It juxtaposes a sentimental tale of a boy and wagon with reflections on 1750s history, science, and a solemn deathbed meditation about dying in peace.
An aging cleric warns youth that character endures while reputation is often false. The piece cites lawyers, politicians, merchants, and forgers illustrating that honesty and genuine virtue outweigh mere appears. It ends with Cromwell’s demand to be painted with wrinkles and truth.
About two weeks after a young man named Clarke failed in Shelby and assigned his affairs he entered the Lunatic Asylum. He later died and was buried, leaving the town to ponder misfortune and fate as reported by the Mansfield Herald.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt laments the gap between educated men who could edit and the few who truly master the craft. It argues most claim editing prowess but lack sustained discipline, apprenticeship, and practical sense, while a true editor sits apart as a rare genius.
Burke urges self cultivation of generous honest feelings and private virtue for service to the commonwealth. He links gentility with public conduct, promotes steadfast principles and energetic action, warns against drifting to fault or neglect, and notes betrayal harms the state as much as enemy action.
Rev Dr Livingstone the African traveler has returned to England after seventeen years in which he served as missionary and physician across Africa. He crossed the continent from west to east and visited regions where no civilized person had been before. On his voyage home he struggled to speak English after long years in Africa.
Queen Victoria donated three hundred guineas to the London Orphan Asylum to secure for the Prince of Wales the right to keep one child at the asylum for life, enabling continual relief of misery and want.
A fragmentary verse piece speaks of comrades, a call not to raise a glass, and longing for solace from ruined fortunes. It balks at drinking to drowned hopes and recalls a noble sacrifice of the smith of Ragenbach, praised as a noble act and memory.
An heroic smith in Ragenbach sacrifices his life to save others from a mad dog. He wrestles the beast, saves the crowd, locks himself in, welds a chain to his limbs, and dies after nine days, hailed as a noble savior and remembered through generations.
In December 1834 in Maine a group at Mr. Putnam’s store drank and played cards around a powder-tinged floor. Charles Hatch led a debate over partners as Barclay sat on a powder keg. Putnam halted an imminent explosion by dousing the powder with water, saving seven men and prompting vows to quit drinking and gambling.
The San Antonio Times reports twenty two camels with about 640 pounds load pass through the city en route to a rendezvous seventy miles away. Dromedaries carry Arabs and Turks in their native dress atop the animals.
At eighty four, Rev Dr Calvin Chapin wrote of his wife that domestic enjoyments near perfection and that her loss makes his worldly life feel empty, noting she made their home the pleasant spot on earth.
The Cumberland Telegraph reports a volcanic eruption in Pendleton County Virginia on Backbone Mountain near the Sinks. On January 1st subterranean fire bursts produced flames and red hot stones rising hundreds of feet. Residents near the crater hear continuous rumbling and fear the mountain trembles.
Washington correspondent argues the President and Cabinet cannot set policy against mass public opinion. The piece cites President Pieres resisting anti slavery forces, cabinet divisions, vetoes overridden, and Buchanan as prudent amid growing opposition and anti slavery influence in Washington.
A fragment reports 1856 rail and lake travel losses with 439 lives lost, 83 injured, 17 steam vessels on lakes, and property damage around 17.9 million dollars. It notes prior year fire losses near 12.6 million and implies widespread accidents across transport modes.
A fragment notes a Bristol blaze and a poor weaver named Thumsae Blast who gave his name to a peculiar suit of woolen cloths in a historic context.
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