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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1854
Page
1
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The listing details the Court of Common Pleas Judge Simeon Nash and Probate Judge J C Frost. It names county officers including Sheriff J L Kissinger Clerk P and District Clerk Josefa M Dane, Auditor H Moores, Treasurer Samones PickerinG, Recorder William H Barrett, Prosecuting Attorney Samuel S Knowls, County Commissioners Lorenzo D Poston Joan Exhorr William Mason, Sealer Eiaximi Moonrr, Surveyor Joan Ackiey, Coroner E aram Matrurzas, Master Commissioner Henry T Brown, and School Examiners Dante S Dana W Reep Govern J A Dinsmore.
A nostalgic poem recalls the mill on the hillside where lovers visited in summer. The miller, a patchy old coat, and the beech trees are described before a later shift to a dark factory looming over the sky. The stream dries, the riverbed widens, and the old mill’s memory lingers as a sprig is sent to remember a lost love.
A lively horse applauds a train era escape as Ardus notes the animal eats water and wood not fodder. The creature boasts tireless spirit and disdain for railways while the pair depart, the old horse laughing and the meadow scene fading from view.
A December scene shows Dr. Warton teaching children about charity and faith beside a warm fire. He recounts a cold night visit to a needy family, stressing that healing and care should be given without payment and that Christmas embodies giving and compassion.
A neighborly charity tale follows the Robinsons in peril as breadwinners vanish leaving Mrs. Robinson and two children in cold poverty. The community rally arrives with wood, food, and prayers as the sick girl Sarah nears death and the absent husband returns to comfort his family at last.
The American Agriculturist ponders why irons are called sad in image of helpless toilers. It links to housewives worn by ironing chores, sickness, and poverty while dreaming of a future machine to ease domestic labor and spare the tears of children and mothers.
The passage argues that wives gain equal interest when joining a partnership and deserve access to family affairs. It condemns husbands who withhold information and asserts that shared consultation would boost prosperity and happiness. It warns that lack of unity and trust leads to unpeas antness and unrealized domestic felicity.
In a late speech Benton laments his career in Congress and the vanity of power. He recalls thirty years in office, a wearying name, and questions what gains remain while family ties and mortality press in. He invokes undertaker imagery and mournful scenes of graves and gravesites.
The world’s largest flower, Railesia Arnoldii, was found in Sumatra by Sir Stamford Rathes and Dr. Arnold. It grows parasitically from a vine stem, lacks leaves, and reaches a diameter of 3.5 feet and a weight of 51 pounds. Its brick red color, odor, brief life, and dioecious structure with a horned central excrescence are described.
A brief excerpt recalls how Napoleon paused amid a battlefield to hear village bells, softened, recalling childhood innocence at Hirentz. He wept, dismounting and sitting beneath an old tree as Rapp notes, and a rock split with living waters bursting forth.
The piece offers a playful meditation on aging and change with humorous dialect jests. It juxtaposes leaves falling with personal decline and includes a muddled exchange about birth, age, and a burned building, set in rustic speech and memory.
In a recent letter to the Boston Bee an experienced brother editor notes Sam is currently in the country recovering from fourteen years in editorial life amid worn eyes a bent back and frail nerves with little to show for his efforts.
The State Journal contends the Gadsden treaty grants payseven million under six month ratification rules. It claims the lands are worthless without population and fail to aid a Pacific railroad, alleging a fraud on the country by a subservient administration majority and inaction on funding.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes rail routes promising breakfast in Cincinnati and dinner in New York while a lake shore panorama rolls by. It highlights the Little Miami railroad and Lake Shore lines, with punctuality praised and fares listed: Buffalo four dollars, Niagara Falls four fifty, New York via Buffalo railroads eleven fifty, and Boston fourteen dollars.
Workmen uncover a rotten plank buried in a vault that imitates hickory and granite. Inscribed on the granite side is a political resolve opposing slavery agitation, later taken to Washington and examined by President Pierce and Senator Douglas, among others.
A fire at the P L Howxett distillery in Lockbourne destroyed the upper story building and its stock, with total losses estimated at 50 000 and insured for 22 000. The canal bridge burned, 40 000 hogs at the premises were saved or driven to market, and the cause remains undetermined though thought accidental.
The dispatch says Prince John Van Buren will depart for Europe on the first proximo and be away three or four months After a stint with a noble friend in Scotland he intends a lie in St Petersburg and Constantinople Before that he will visit London and possibly dance with Queen Victoria As a favorite of Her Majesty he may learn allied cabinet secrets and be profiled as a special correspondent by a newspaper The note mentions Mariain Van Buren and three of his sons remaining seedless Lindewald cabbage and Mr Smith Van Buren
The Maine Liquor Law passed the Connecticut House on the 15th inst by a large majority and cleared the Senate the same evening by 13 to 1. Meanwhile news reports cite over 75 cattle dying near Montpelier Vermont from mad dog bites.
The Springfield Mass Republican notes Liberia’s transformation from a slave trade coast to a developing colony. It highlights rising commerce, imports over 100000 dollars at Cape Palmas in 1852, and total trade over 200000 dollars, aided by Colonization Society efforts. Emigration may grow next Fall as free passage and homes are offered, with 390 emigrants planned from Baltimore and Savannah.
A Scotts burgh paper reports a whale story in the Umpqua River with a monster whale seen near Umpqua City. It also notes herring growth, Oregon statehood push, land grants, a Sacramento to California railway idea, failed attempts to raise the steamer Oregon, Captain Shields plans a Willamette light steamer, and good crops in the Willamette Valley.
A contemporary lauds a local paper for its vigilant support of the town’s interests and its role in fostering enterprise and improvement. The speaker notes the paper has labored long to uphold those who built the town and calls for its recognition and gratitude.
A late item notes the sale of land about two miles from St Paul at 275 dollars per acre, compared with 30 dollars per acre a year ago, signaling a sharp price rise in the market.
A compact remark compares printer's accounts to faith calling them the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The line echoes a biblical sentiment on financial records and uncertainty.
The piece recounts a Rock River excursion with Cleveland Herald editor reports from St Paul Minnesota. It notes the city on a bluff near the river with a 46 000 Capitol brick edifice, population rising from 5 000 6 000 to 30 35 thousand whites, scarce natives, new buildings and eight churches. Land values run 60 to 100 dollars per front foot and $100 to $140 per acre nearby. The city is described as the geographical center of North America and a commercial gateway with 2 070 miles of navigable Mississippi reach.
In 1845 Massachusetts produced 3 768 160 pairs of boots and 17 128 152 pairs of shoes valued at 14 799 140 with 27 199 men and 18 678 women employed. By 1850 male employment surpassed any trade and doubled cordwainers except in New York. Boots and shoes are made through staged labor from cutting to finishing. The trade in Boston is estimated at 3.9 to 40 million annually, with 160 wholesale boot shoe and leather dealers listed in the Almanac.
Michigan Free Democracy held a Kalamazoo convention on the 21st to unite anti slave power sentiment. They resolved to pursue a distinct statewide movement, withdrawing their ticket to support a joint anti slave power platform and appoint a sixteen member committee to organize the effort.
A clipped exchange offers a home remedy advising immediate warm water wash of a wound and drying, followed by pouring muriatic acid into the wound to destroy the salivary pathogens and counteract the fattening effete. The fragment presents a dubious and dangerous instruction lacking medical validity.
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