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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1854
Page
1
Advertising terms for the Athens Messenger outline rates for one square twelve lines and larger, with durations of three, six, and twelve months. Columns and cards priced by size, with business cards at three dollars per year and penalties for arrears. Names of candidates for office charged at one dollar, with advance payment required.
Directory of public officials includes Judge Simeon Nash and Probate Judge J C Frost with offices in Gallipolis and the courthouse. Sheriff J L Kxssincern Clerk C C P and District Officer Joseph M Da Na, plus Auditor Exacia H Moory, Treasurer Samuel Pickering, Recorder William H Bartrett, Prosecuting Attorney Samuel S Knowls. County Commissioners Lorenzo D Poston York Jouy Extorr Carthage and William Mason Amesto. Sealer Exiaxia Moors, Surveyor Joan Ackney Athens, Coroner Branam Mathews Athens, Master Commissioner Henry T Brown. Board of School Examiners Dantex S Daw a Athena W Beep Gotpen Athens I A Dinsmorr Troy.
J. F. Howe lists Washington Street four doors east of the Bank and announces sale on February 1 1854. Robinson & Co. advertise groceries medicines fruits provisions and related goods with millinery and dry goods at Pickering and Carley's Building on Court Street in Athens Ohio.
A poetic dialogue urges the beloved to be themselves not like a flower star or dove. Repeated refrains resist idealized images and press for inner constancy. The speaker contrasts nature’s transient beauty with enduring selfhood and inner power.
A reflective poem recalls childhood joy in blowing bubbles and marveling at light. The speaker prefers a brief radiant existence over a life of earthly darkness, urging not to abandon the bright faith of youth while seeking eternal truth behind the clouds.
Poem excerpt reflecting on the joy of meeting and the sorrow of parting and imagining a store of calm memories to ease grief. Appears to celebrate past pleasures and gentle shadows that linger after departure. Coleridge.
A devoted wife endures her husband’s brutal drunken spell and a deadly fire that nearly kills them both. Rescued by firefighters, he pledges reform after Edith’s steadfast courage and a life saved, he joins a Washingtonian pledge to fight intemperance.
Report of Mr John Wise’s balloon ascent from Crystal Palace New York on a squally Friday. He describes violent ascent and descent with clouds and ocean below, a rough landing near Flushing, gear damage, and a ten foot fall injuring his jaw.
Upham describes a steamer captain rising to an elevated position as departure nears. The captain embodies a nation's rights and dignity while watching aboard families. He gains erectness and a glow of inward emotion, illustrating how noble aims shape outward beauty.
The author extols women's resilience under misfortune, arguing that crises reveal and elevate female strength. He likens a steadfast wife to a vine clinging to the oak, providing support and solace as Providence orders her role from ornament to central comfort in distress.
Two rough loungers near a California bound ship amuse themselves by dreaming of vast gold. One boasts a vision of wealth enough to sink a seventy four gun ship with needles for bags, while the other retorts that even such riches would fail to cover interest on their debts.
On May 11, Jones a 40 year old Franklin township resident in near Pittsburgh Pa attacked his eighty year old mother during delirium tremens. He forced her back into the house barred doors and loaded guns kept neighbors at bay. The scene sparked great locality fear as Mrs Jones’s condition remained unclear and authorities feared her death from injuries.
A campaign paper quotes a rhetorical burst attacking a political figure. The speaker derides the candidate as a Yankee Noo die and ridicules lofty ambitions and reformist aims. The passage ends with cheers.
A young girl returns from camp meeting filled with revival zeal. She continues singing the hymn Shout Shout were gaining ground, and her sustained rhymes often outpace the tune. A dog named Jowler sneaks a bone as she belts out a playful threat to Hallie Hallelujar, a halting verse erupts in the moment.
A fragment discusses epigrams on duty and beauty, citing figures like Paul Luther Latimer Shakespeare and Spencer. It reflects on speaking boldly to one’s era and possessing the fire blood of the time. The line references Mount aero shina at aye as a concluding note.
Report from Cincinnati describes dawn at the wharf with steamboats and a donkey cargo scene, a Rev Mr Canghey sermon at Morris Chapel, and an anti Nebraska meeting featuring Lucy Stone and Fred Douglass. The writer predicts Indiana’s stance on slavery limits and notes delayed local news and farewell.
The Washington election outcome shows Joan T. Towers defeating Joan W. Mayay in most wards, with the Whig candidate prevailing amid administration-backed pressure for Mayay to secure re election. The piece notes federal efforts and partisan push behind Mayay and a strong Whig showing citywide.
The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburgh Gazette suspects the Administration majority ran the Deficiency bill without a quorum. He cites a 2 million dollar appropriation and a 77 to 41 vote as likely faked, urges accountability and asks who will demand a test of that vote.
Western Correspondence from Lopoga Illinois notes a growing anti Nebraska and anti Whisky movement in Montraomeny County Indiana. Conventions are held county by county led by Henry Elsworth Lafayette and other notable figures with a Crawfordeville gathering planned for the 17th. Voters are urged to support independent candidates pledged to prohibition and anti Nebraska.
The Statesman argues that the Nebraska Kansas territory law becomes a political trap for the Democrats. It contends the party shuns the Missouri Compromise issue and warns the public that repealing the act would restore slavery. The piece urges clear confrontation of the live issues before Ohio voters.
The Washington Union praises northern members who voted for the Nebraska bill and notes they deserve gold, a suggestion that salaries from their offices should fund the gold for these votes.
A Tennessee statesman receives widespread praise for opposing the Nebraska scheme and defending the Missouri Compromise. Contemporary accounts from the Philadelphia North American and Cincinnati Gazette laud his eloquence and national stance.
Chillicothe Gazette quotes the Washi Union arguing for immediate U S possession of Cuba as central to future Spain policy. The piece predicts territorial expansion and new slave economies, suggesting two slave states from Cuba and four Senate seats offsetting others, framing it as a smear against the current president.
The Washtenaw Whig warns that slaveholders move gangs of enslaved people toward Nebraska and Kansas to create slave territories. It argues proximity to Missouri and Arkansas aids transport and that territorial officers will enforce slavery, with a slaveholding polity expanding as squatter sovereignty dictates.
The North American notes Whig triumphs signal Philadelphia public sentiment toward the federal Nebraska bill. It states the electoral result expresses sanction or censure of the President and Congress and marks the community’s indignation at administration policy.
The New Hampshire House chose a Speaker with a 156 to 153 vote, keeping the Old Hunker faction in control. Several majority members pledged not to support violators of the Missouri Compact for U S Senators, while the Hunker rule remains largely intact despite a few defections.
In the U S Circuit Court at Columbus Maj Tochman sues for the heirs of General Thadeus Kosciuszko to reclaim lands in Franklin county granted by Congress in 1800 for military service in the Revolution. The lands lie twelve to fifteen miles north of Columbus in the Western Military Reserve. Tochman has already recovered about $60,000 for the clients.
Fragmentary OCR text references a prominent liquor poster in Tuscarawas County and mentions New Philadelphia Advocate. Details are unreadable. no clear events, dates, persons, or actions could be established from the provided fragments.
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