19 Mar 1852
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1852
Page
1
A dramatic monologue recounts a young woman’s dreamlike innocence giving way to despair. Time's passage crushes her roses and friendships, leaving her孤孤 lonely and seeking divine release. The piece evokes Edenic visions, then grief, longing, and prayer for rest.
A fragment from The Marvel explores religion as a tie to infinity and eternity for men and laments a woman’s isolation without faith. It asserts that only a holy soul tie to spiritual faith can sustain love through life’s storms, invoking a Christian mother’s example.
A reflective essay extols friendship as essential to happiness and moral growth. It contrasts true friendship with shallow ties, urges temperance and fortitude, and cites classical and contemporary authorities to urge benevolence, self-control, and wise judgment in living.
A Welsh father teaches a boy named Willy about faith by guiding him to jump from a chest to his arms. The lesson ends with the father equating Willy s trust to faith in God and the saving love of Jesus to bridge the gulf to eternal life.
The Messenger notes Me Dale presenting nine remonstrances signed by Charles Rabes tock and 14600 other Hamilton County citizens calling repeal of liquor prohibitions, including the March 12 1851 law, arguing the new constitution favors trade freedom. Several bills were read for first time and Croxton’s land grant resolutions discussed as well.
A long Oregon letter extols the Puget Sound region as ripe for emigration, predicting vast growth north of the Columbia. It notes mild climate, abundant salmon and game, rich soils for wheat and vegetables, and lower costs for ships’ pilots and towage compared to Willamette country. An avalanche of settlers is anticipated to transform the Sound into a thriving district with new cities, fisheries, and ranches.
Leading facts show the Wheeling Bridge stands ninety two feet high with a clear span of one thousand ten feet and no piers. Ohio floods reportedly reach thirty feet, boats with chimneys up to sixty feet pass at peak floods, seven newly built steamboats raise chimneys to seventy to eighty two feet and seek passage as is. Supreme Court orders suspension of the structure costing over two hundred thousand dollars to accommodate the boats. Plans were published two years before completion and no objections arose until after capital expenditure.
The Supreme Court of the United States is weighing whether county subscriptions to railroads are constitutional. Arguments moved for alternative mandamus to force counties to issue bonds for subscriptions. The Steubenville and Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville lines are also involved in related actions.
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