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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1854
Page
1
Athens Messenger outlines subscription prices for yearly or advance payments with penalties for arrears and discontinuation. It lists advertising rates by insertion, square columns and partial column sizes, business card rates, and yearlong discounts with terms for paid in advance and extended hiatus.
Directory lists Judge Simeon Nash of Gallipolis and Probate Judge J. C. Frost with offices in Court House. Other county officers include Sheriff J L Kessmnerr, Clerk C C P and District Clerk Joannin M Da NA, Auditor Exiaximw H. Moone, Treasurer Sawon Pickente, Recorder William H. Bankert, Prosecuting Attorney Samuel 8. Kyones, County Commissioners Lorenzo D. Poston John Exatort and William Mason, Sealer of Weights and Measures Exiakut Lt Moors, Surveyor Jolly Ackley of Athens, Coroner Frauirn Matains of Athens Township, Master Commissioner Henry T. Brown, Board of School Examiners Dantret 8. Dana and W Reep Goipen with I. A. Dinsmore.
Poetic meditation on selflessness and communal light. The speaker declares not to live for oneself but to shine for others as stars and flowers respond to the world, sharing life’s brightness and fragrance with both heaven and earth.
The piece laments a beloved Lilly Dale and Lilly Tate with mournful spring imagery. It recalls wandering under chestnut trees and the sorrow of a heart left lonely. The speaker longs for reunion, asks for tolls of bells, and imagines a peaceful rest beyond.
A Philadelphia post office worker recounts an Englishman who hopes to reunite with his family aboard the City of Manchester and then Glasgow. Letters fuel his joy, but when the Glasgow voyage fails to arrive, his hope collapses and he descends into despair, ending in a lunatic asylum.
The passage cites Bossuet and a sermon on human life as a road toward a frightful precipice. It portrays relentless forward motion despite fatigue and loss, noting fading pleasures and approaching death, with the horizon of ruin and the inevitability of the grave.
The Lawrence Courier recalls Hon. John Davis who mentored the editor in youth. On a vessel deck with loosened sails he gave this parting charge God bless you remember what we said never forget your moruru. The editor notes Davis has since died and hopes he rests in celestial heaven beyond earthly storms.
A humorous farmer’s tale mocks a rooster who struts and cackles as if he laid eggs and raised the chicks. The story likens the bird to lazy husbands in a parish, noting wives do all the work while men take credit.
A rough historical note contemplates the fragility of friendship. The speaker warns of revealing too much to enemies, some to friends, and none to all, fearing future enmity and questioning whether affection will endure. The emphasis is on caution in personal relationships.
The passage describes Turkish burial grounds where tombstones are fat and hollowed to hold rain water. Birds flock to these depressions to drink and sing among the trees, creating a vivid image of the landscape and its natural allure.
A modern writer reflects on children showing self-control born from tender parental care. The text highlights quiet endurance, restraint, and humble dignity in little ones, nourished by loving guidance and holy supports rather than fear.
A collection of moral maxims on merit contentment and social behavior. The sayings compare success to small acts careful helper roles and quiet virtue, noting that true merit lies in patience and restraint while idleness breeds vice and pride often falters despite status.
A Wheeling Times fragment reports a tavern incident on Wednesday where a man drunk and raving emerged, three Irishmen died in a nearby house as twenty others danced around the bodies, while the Circuit Court clerk issued fourteen mandamus writs about liquor licenses for fourteen sellers.
A scanned recollection features Christian maxims on adversity and character, followed by editor Francis P. Blair discussions from a St. Paul excursion. Blair and son oppose Missouri Compromise repeal and push unity against slavery expansion, favor Pacific Railway and Western commercial aims in the next election.
Traveler recounts railroad crossings at Springfield and Decatur, rough river-to-land routes via Terre Haute, Shelbyville, Grand Prairie storms, and praise for Illinois farmland. The piece ends with a lengthy discourse on slavery, the Missouri Compromise, and anti Nebraska views from Democratic and Whig leaders.
A report from Washmeter June 21 1854 records a meeting of Members of Congress who led the Nebraska Kansas bill passage. Solomon Foot chaired with Daniel Mace and Reuben E Fenton as secretaries. An address to the U S published discusses repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the slavery question central to the dispute.
Michigan Central Railroad carried over sixteen hundred passengers on three Detroit to Chicago runs last Wednesday. The trains included fifteen first class cars, four second class and nine third class with all cars well oiled. Weather and travel demand suggest steady immigrant and commuter flow to Chicago.
The Albany Argus asks readers to name a friend of the administration in New York who is not an incumbent or a relative of one. It portrays the faction as a party of office holders with little strength or influence compared to the current administration.
The report notes broad ridicule at the Circus Saturday evening centering on Cholera and its causes. Witnesses describe the crowd mocking the topic as performers riffed on the disease, with taunts occurring near the event site just yesterday.
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