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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1854
Page
1
The Athens Messenger outlines weekly publication details by A. J. Van Vorhes. It lists subscription prices, payment terms, and discontinuation rules, plus advertising rates for one square and multiple insertions, business cards, and notices for candidates.
A list of county officials and public officers with residences and offices. Includes judges sheriff clerk auditor treasurer recorder prosecuting attorney county commissioners sealer of weights and measures surveyor coroner master commissioner county auctioneer school examiners and notaries public with names and hometowns across Athens Amesville Troy Carthage and Hibbardville.
D W Walker proclaims goods sold as cheap as any in Amesville in a May 20 1954 notice. The brief ad states Amesville location and sales emphasis without additional details.
Page shows a collage of local business notices from Athens Ohio including several attorneys at law such as D Culley J T Stanley S S Knowles and W Brown. It lists druggists Pickering & Johnson Perkins & Baker and Pickering & Brown with address details near the court house and bank blocks. Also mentions manufacturers like G Glass tin ware and Millinery and dry goods dealers in the 1853 downtown listings.
G L Banke writes of living for those who love him and true friends. He seeks to emulate martyrs sages and heroes and to learn from suffering. The poet longs for unity with nature and for a future where reason guides humanity and wrongs are set right.
From a Chamber's Edingburgh Journal piece a frail boy nicknamed Francie endures typhus and a long illness. He regains strength yet remains unable to walk, clinging to a hopeful phrase about summer, then triumphs slowly toward walking as autumn unfolds.
A mother recalls a sorrowful year as her small son Francie asks if summer has gone. He finds hope in the promise that summer will return and that faith can carry them through hardship toward renewal.
An essay on the soul's twilight moments when memory and imagination fix on the past. It urges patience, self knowledge, and virtue, warning against seeking forgetfulness in pleasures and promising guidance toward nobler aims and eternal light.
The Albany Daily State Register lauds its coverage of Crosby’s minority report on temperance. It challenges the claim that intoxicating drinks are a gift of God, calling them a human invention that ruined homes and nations. It references Gov Marcy antaloous and a New York State document authenticated by Judge Marey Hall and Silas Wright.
A New Hampshire paper summarizes a German fable about an Angel of flowers who blesses a Moss Rose with moss as a simple charm. The excerpt leads to a verse on the Moss Rose origin and then shifts to a German arithmetic curiosities piece noting magic in the number 9 and related digit patterns.
A puzzle fragment presents two number strings. The first reads 4111111110 with nine ones then zero, the second hints at subtracting a higher series from a lower. The prompt also shows 123456779 as another numeric pattern to consider.
A terse note discusses adding figures of the difference and repeating a set of numbers, including five nines and a sequence ending in 6729, with a plan to meet those figures by 9. The text reads as a procedural or mathematical reminder.
A traveler recalls a river rescue where a boatman drifted toward a bridge and was saved by a rope cast from the arch. The tale pivots to a moral on salvation and the peril of depravity, warning that delaying mercy may seal one’s fate in a second death.
The St. Anthony Democrat notes Minnesota Territory holds about 25 000 people while the U S census lists 6038. expectations of a 10 000 rise seem optimistic as Nebraska fever spreads across the North. New England Pennsylvania Ohio and New York mobilize tens of thousands toward the territories amid fierce debate over slavery.
Remains of Reverend Wm Jackson argue true church glory lies not in stone nor ornament but in divine presence. Words and signs are mere products of the mind and sense, while gospel light and living hearts grant true holiness. The message elevates spiritual beauty over material wealth in worship.
The Ohio Life and Trust Company faces foreclosure as bonds and mortgages totaling about two million dollars mature. The note argues the pullout would remove capital from Ohio, worsening tax burdens and threatening banking viability under current law. The piece condemns state revenue policy and political leaders, contrasting Democratic and aristocratic factions. It cites Pierce and federal actions amid a national quarrel, and adds rail expansion notes and Missouri Compromise repeal debate in Summit County.
The National Intelligencer lauds Senator Edward Everett of Massachusetts for his unblemished integrity, broad learning, and disciplined statesmanship as he withdraws from public life. His departure leaves a void in Congress and the nation regrets the loss of a seasoned, apolitical ornament of the Senate.
The Wheeling Times reports a people’s convention to be held July 13 in Ohio. It aims to unite nonpartisan support against repeal of the Missouri compromise, asserting North and South rights and pledging stiff opposition to dough face advocates in Congress. The effort seeks wide signatures across the state.
Warren and Preble and Butler counties order assessors to list property as written in statute, not as the State Auditor interprets. Cincinnati sees broad opposition to the Auditor’s view. The Ohio Supreme Court has issued a mandamus to an assessor in Circleville to list monies and credits without debt deductions. The court supports its decision and the Auditor's interpretation, signaling potential nonuniform taxation this year. Dayton-Dunton Repository notes only one meeting backing the court and auditor.
Ohio General Assembly passes amendments to the 1831 duties act for county treasurers requiring published notices of tax levies and collection dates across townships, plus optional township attendance days. Also enacted are supplementary acts regulating unauthorized banking and bank notes, with penalties for circulating expired or closed notes and a timetable for redemption.
An 1854 act supplements prior election and resignation laws for justices of the peace. It empowers township trustees to require new security or deem failure a resignation, triggering vacancy procedures. The text also covers city liability for damages from street grading and sets three disinterested freeholders to appraise such damages under oath.
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