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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1850
Page
1
The Athens Messenger announces its weekly publication from Court Street opposite the Public Buildings. The office location is listed for readers seeking the paper or notices.
The notice outlines ad pricing for single line to three insertions at $1.09 per extra insertion with a possible annual deduction for frequent advertisers. It states rates for listing candidates at $1.90, advance payment required, and Wednesday submission deadline to ensure inclusion in the next issue.
Fragmented poetry recounts biblical sites and Jerusalem’s grandeur, contrasting ancient ruins with enduring faith. It also recalls Leigh Hunt’s touching address to his ill boy, describing sleep, tears, and a father’s sorrowful vigil beside his child.
A Cherokee letter dated Honolulu January 1 1850 recounts an old printer friend’s travels from New York in 1846 to California with Gen Vallejo, gold digging, publishing in California, a wreck at Honolulu, and marrying the chief’s daughter. The piece recaps mining, printing advances, coal bed geology, Henry Clay’s 73rd birthday, and political commentary on California, New Mexico, and slavery era politics with church impacts.
The narrator recounts a shipwreck near Honolulu where a gale drove the vessel ashore. He survives with gold dust and coins, then accepts the chief Kanni’s offer to live among Kanakas. He marries the chief’s daughter Niaara, purchases a log house, and plans a future in the islands while joking about Henry Clay and annexation.
The act sets procedures for the U S census with Marshals and assistants, pay rates, penalties for non cooperation, and schedules for population and production data including slave inhabitants and agriculture. It fixes June 1 as the enumeration date and allocates 150000 for preliminary expenses.
Fragmentary historical text outlines guardianship powers over mentally incapacitated individuals and authority to authenticate records. It references approval from the state Senate and Governor, and cites penalties for keeping houses used for prostitution as public nuisances with fines or jail terms.
The passage cites the twenty-first section of the act relating to wills and the seventeenth section of the act to provide for the safe keeping of idiots lunatics or insane persons and their affairs. Benjamin B. LeVter and Charles Converse are named in the document.
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