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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1859
Page
2
An extended agricultural column argues for saving and reusing manure to improve soil fertility. It advises barnyard management, feeding hogs, building a chicken house, proper privy cleaning, mulching, and ash use, plus purchasing farming literature. The piece cites moral praise for practical labor and cites a California Farmer rebuttal.
A writer in the American Agricultural journal recommends a restraint method to curb a resisting horse. The process involves ropes around the neck and hind pastern, with a ring and a gartered strap under the girth, pulling the horse forward as needed. Repeated trials reportedly subdue the animal, though risks to the horse and handler are noted.
The piece warns Western partners to seize current Ixbor market opportunities as eastern cities show idle labor. It forecasts a spring shift with capital seeking labor, predicting a large emigration shortfall this year and a rebound in Europe, urging caution with a proverb about wisdom.
Professor Mitchell’s closing lecture dwells on unfathomable distances beyond Earth and stars hundreds of times farther than known, noting Herschel and Lord Rosse as pioneers. A celestial ascent with angels leads a man to the edge of the universe where the question arises if there is an end. The vision ends with the angel asking if there is none to the way.
An Erie Illinois town treasurer is believed to have plotting to rob town funds. He left with intentions to vanish and was shot dead by a pedlar during a daring intrusion as three masked men tried to break into the pedlar's room. The discovering robber proved to be the treasurer himself.
Read in Springfield Illinois last week the clerk announced a lecture on the Education of Idiots by Rev Dr McFarland. A string of quips follows with barbed remarks on forgiveness lisping etiquette and gendered flirtation in a rambunctious jumble of quotes.
The Queen's speech fails to address continental politics and French Emperor plans. Markets waver with Austrian and French affairs, while calls for reform in the Roman States and broader political changes dominate commentary. Investors await clearer moves as war motives persist and naval armaments loom.
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