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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1854
Page
1
Weekly newspaper notices list advertising rates including one square three insertions at 3 00 with additional costs for longer columns and half and quarter column ads. Terms require advance payment, penalties for arrears, and automatic discontinuance rules. Names of candidates incur a 1.00 fee with payment in advance.
Listing of county officers and officials with names and offices in public buildings. Includes Sheriff J L Kyssincer Auditor Etiaxia H Mooxy Treasurer Samurs Picker, Clerk C C P Josreru M Da NA, and Prosecuting Attorney Samcrr S Knowes. Also notes Surveyor Jon Ackley and Coroner Ferramant Martins plus School Examiners Danstex Dana, W Reep Gorpen, I A Dixsmore.
A fragmentary verse piece echoing themes of departure and mercy. It blends lament for a daughter leaving home with calls to a mother and widow to endure with gentleness as nature cycles through life and death. The texture imitates poetic sentiment and archaic diction.
A fragmented excerpt from Longfellow evokes endurance and courage as a shipswrecked man gains hope from a fellow passenger. The lines reflect life lessons about sublimity through perseverance and shared sorrow.
A shipboard tale follows Mittie Wythe Hamilton a blind girl found by Captain and a friend after being separated from her missionary parents in India. Mittie grows in a southern city educational home and later reunites with her long lost mother in America, returning to family life as a beloved sister and daughter.
A fragment from the Fronto Reg column reflecting on hope as a daily force in children, youth, and aging. The speaker links hope to activity, future effort, and moral vision, contrasting earthly cares with a broader, spiritual horizon.
A devotional harvest verse expresses gratitude for sun and rain guiding crops to ripen on the fields. The speaker thanks the divine for labor, sustenance, and the golden grain's abundance, asking blessings on the harvested store.
The tale recounts Abraham's instant anger at an elderly stranger who worshiped fire and refused blessing, ejecting him for not honoring God. God later questions this, reminding Abraham the man endured a hundred years without worship, and Abraham repents by bringing him back for hospitality and guidance.
A reflective passage extols tears as powerful and sacred, not weak. It argues tears at deep sorrow reveal love and contrition, and urges kindness to the grieving, noting tears elevate both women and men and mark humane depth and affection.
A Vermont note recalls snow on the Green Mountains east of Burlington with distant white peaks. The piece urges decisive summer plans and suggests practiced actions become easy, forming habit and natural behavior as a pathway to virtue.
Mies Dexia A Weseren eloped from Kentucky weeks ago and was rearrested on a charge involving enslaved people. She was taken to Madison on Saturday to await the result of a writ of habeas corpus. She gives Kentuckians trouble and resists suppression despite Florida ties.
Epistle from Laraverre Indiana July 2 1854 describes crops in Boone Putnam and Montgomery counties with corn behind but catching up. Wheat praised at high prices. Nebraska and Anti Nebraska meetings surge. John Petit praised then heckled by Dan Mace and opponents at court house. Temperance and anti Nebraska sentiments rise with delegates to Indianapolis convention. Weather hot, 104 Fahrenheit, corn and wheat prices noted.
In Urbana on Saturday, two men jailed for liquor offenses were discharged by Chief Justice Corwin in habeas corpus. The judge reportedly denounced the law, questioned its passage, and argued government has no right to regulate drink, asserting liberty and habeas corpus trump the statute.
The piece argues a law restricting liquor licenses may be unconstitutional for not following three readings, cites Ohio constitutional provisions, and urges judicial discharge of relators. It notes judges Swan and Andrews’ involvement and critiques legislative processes and enforcement.
The convention adopted resolutions urging that Drawing be taught in Ohio public schools, instructing the Executive Committee to report a plan for Normal Schools under the Association, and authorize fundraising activity. It also urged a statewide geological survey as proposed by Hon. J. H. Scott to aid resource development and state wealth.
The Concord Reporter, voice of Burke Democrats, condemns federal interference in state affairs. It accuses the national government of dictating senatorial choices, sending agents to sway the Legislature, and corrupting lawmakers with hired operatives from other states.
Cc C Hazewnts, once editor of the Ohio Statesman now in Massachusetts, is named to a committee drafting a circular for freedom friends. He opposes the administration and Slave Aristocracy, signaling a new party emerging on this issue. The piece hints at dark clouds for the Slave policy in three states.
The piece notes Senator Donen from Iowa faced criticism for opposing repeal of the Missouri Compromise and facing re election. It describes a Keokuk convention with anti Dodge forces winning and accuses those who backed the policy of a huge swindle. A letter from Senator Wade cites duty on a possible repeal of Ashburton terms and asserts support for liberty and humanity.
An 1869 era note details a Beieto area field below Columbus with 160 acres of bottom land. Fifteen plows and three cultivators run by eight men and twenty five horses keep fields weed free. Twenty five German girls hoe for 62.5 cents per day while men earn $20 a month. The text references wages and scale of work in a frontier style account.
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