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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1850
Page
1
A poem by Richard Coe Jr narrates a mother forbidding her daughter from walking with Billy Grimes the drover who has asked for her hand. The dialogue mocks the drover and questions the daughter’s pride as she anticipates a ″sweet sixteen″ future with Grimes.
Poem-like verse describing flowers sinking to rest and dew on petals. A silent grove holds dreaming birds as the speaker longs for Mary and a near spring hour of love.
The Florida Indians resist relocation as leaders hide in a swamp. U S troops lack readiness to pursue. The Commissioner of Patents alters hiring procedure for patent applications. fees must be sent with patents and forwarded together to the Patent Office.
The article argues that newspapers educate the public across topics from religion to science and geography. It asserts that steady family papers, with hundreds of distinct articles per issue, shape morals and thought, guiding children to become intelligent and responsible adults.
The piece recalls a duel like incident in a western setting where a stranger challenges a man with pistols after a vulgar dispute. It then questions who truly runs politics and the value of informed citizens, praising newspapers as essential in raising educated families.
An estimated two hundred fifty passengers and crew faced a deadly blaze aboard the Belle of the West as it halted near Florence Indiana. The steward and others battled the flames while passengers were urged to save themselves without baggage. Thirty seven reported missing with fears of up to fifty dead while Florence residents opened homes to aid survivors. Timothy Kibbs, Clark, published a detailed account and listed the rescued and injured.
Report on the steamer Anthony Wayne explosion near Vermillion. Ten steerage passengers and twenty in the cabin sailed to Sandusky with 74 aboard, 35 to 40 killed or missing. Names of confirmed dead and missing crew and passengers listed, with several saved. The vessel, owned by Charles Howard of Detroit, carried $10,000 insurance. accounts differ on onboard numbers.
A southwest storm battered Cincinnati with wind and lightning, blowing chimneys from vessels and wrecking docks. A flat boat near Four Mile Bar sank, drowning three people including twin brothers Bryson of Belmont and George Cummins. One man, Lindsay, survived by swimming ashore. a little girl died from a blown awning post.
Boston report notes Webster’s lawyers have taken a writ of error claiming the municipal court failed to fully certify the order to the supreme court. Major Noah describes a lucifer match manufactory in New York City covering five lots near Thirteenth Street and Second Avenue. The plant runs 104 gross matches daily from an eight horsepower engine with circular saws and revolvers producing 290 000 matches per hour.
The act fixes annual sessions for the Ohio Supreme Court in various counties. If a scheduled day falls on Sunday the court meets the next day. It repeals earlier statutes requiring two annual Bank sessions and previous supreme court timing rules.
The Ohio Repository notes the Canton paper has entered its 30th volume and praises editor John Saxton whose long tenure is highlighted. Readers are urged to support the paper as a trusted local journal with a long-standing editorial line.
Ohio General Assembly acts amend writs of attachment before justices of the peace and judgments and executions. Provisions include sending certified transcripts to common pleas for attachments, replevin procedures, German-language notice publication, chancery proceedings, and vacation injunction powers across courts with emphasis on proper notice and clerk filing.
A 1950 Ohio act sets witness rights allowing adverse parties to examine witnesses and compel attendance, with gradual extensions to benefit-driven witnesses and rules of examination. It also extends forcible entry on detainer provisions to real estate purchases by executors, administrators, or guardians, aligning with prior execution-at-law processes.
This fragment outlines exemptions from execution sales for certain exhibits and curiosities while detailing amendments to trials in criminal cases. It references Benjamin F. Leiter as Speaker and includes provisions on removing a person charged with crime to another county, with police powers affected.
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