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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1854
Page
1
The Athens Messenger details subscription options and rates, including annual and semiannual pricing, and policy on arrears and discontinuance. It outlines advertising prices for one square, multiple squares, fractions of columns, and business cards, with payment terms and deadlines. It notes that advertisements must be left by Wednesday morning and that candidates’ names require payment in advance.
A 1853 Athens Ohio business directory lists Simeon Nash as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas with a Gallipolis residence, plus Probate Judge J C Frost. It records county officers including Sheriff J L Kessiown, Clerk C. C. P., Auditor Jakim H Moore, Treasurer William Gotpen, Recorder William H Barrerr, and Prosecuting Attorney Samart S Knowles. Also lists surveyor Joax Ackiey, coroner Ernaaiim Mathews, master commissioner Henry T Brown, county auctioneer Joan P Lyox, and board of school examiners with several Athens residents. Notaries public named Henry T Brown and others, plus various attorneys and merchants operating in Athens and surrounding towns with addresses in 1853.
A compact verse meditation on living boldly yet prudently. It urges bearing the inner ideal as a guiding spell through life and storms, warning against reckless action and urging thoughtful, right conduct until the end. It frames life as a race toward a noble, timeless reward.
Florence and her cousin debate charity as a rose given to Mrs Stephens’s family brightens a poor room. The gift sparks admiration and a stranger learns of Florence’s past love while a widowed mother and child are helped by benevolent strangers.
A tale in New York on Broadway recalls a poor girl who returned a ten dollar coin to a gentleman who mistook a penny for payment. Her honesty, spoken by a cautious elder, reflects the adage that honesty is the best policy and reveals the mercy of a grateful onlooker.
A London beer carrier in Charles I's reign rises from country origins to wealth through marriage. The brewer dies leaving most of his estate to her. Lawyer Hyde helps settle the estate and later marries her. Their daughter becomes wife to James II and mother to Mary and Anna, queens of England.
Legislation amends section seventy one of the 1852 act on city and village organization. It authorizes the city council to establish night watchmen and election procedures, sets bond requirements, and grants the mayor power to appoint and remove officers. The mayor reports to the city council and may preside in Police Court and duties of a police judge when needed.
An 1834 Ohio act sets fees for constables and justices of the peace across many actions. It lists costs for summonses warrants subpoenas bail bonds and other duties with detailed cents per item and per person, plus daily attendances and mileage. The measure specifies fines for services from arrest warrants to jury trials and ends with publication details and date.
A grieving speaker recalls the death of a beloved child. The poem contrasts solitude and memory with maternal sorrow and a hopeful vision of heaven. It emphasizes family loss and eternal reunion in the heavenly home.
A writer critiques a late Legislature act to ban foreign bank notes under ten dollars. They argue the law misprices currency, reaches unfairly at small traders, and will be hard to enforce, warning it could erode popular government and provoke universal discontent. The piece also derides treasury mismanagement and party rhetoric surrounding Nebraska and Democratic figures.
A chartered New York Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company aims to connect Newfoundland with Ireland by submarine cable. Directors include Peter Cooper Moses Taylor Cyrus W Field Marshall O Roberts and Chaudier White, with plans to reach telegraphic links to all US cities by September. Dispatches may be routed through St Johns or Trepassey until the line is completed.
The Indiana Legislature chaplain offered a closing prayer urging mercy for the lawmakers. He asks divine guidance for wise, temperate legislation and for voters to replace ill morals with sound conduct to ensure future good from laws. The warning echoes Ohio concerns about public governance.
The Ohio Penitentiary inmate count climbs with six hundred six, six hundred seven, six hundred eight, and six hundred nine cited in state papers. Debates touch on deputy warden, kin involvement, and pardons by the governor's secretary amid calls for accountability.
The St Anthony Express reports a prairie fire near St Anthony Minnesota that has drawn crowds to view a blazing eastern horizon. Witnesses describe walls of flame, roaring smoke, and sparks leaping like a vast, untamed army camp as the blaze sweeps across fields and woodlands.
In a speech on the Nebraska bill Hon. Wm Cullom from Tennessee argued the measure benefits neither North nor South and only politicians. He urged placing it on the private calendar and amending the title to reflect a bid to make great men of small ones and sacrifice prosperity on the altar of ambition.
Susan Russell was killed by her lover Edward Avery on the steamer Yankee Blade while en route from New York to Panama. Avery stabbed her, then wounded himself, attempted suicide, and survived. he faces trial in San Francisco after a consul in Rio de Janeiro ordered him forwarded for prosecution.
A historical note recounts Alvin Adams of Adams Express, famed as a carpet-bag carrier to Boston. It traces the rise of a nationwide express service, with offices from New York to San Francisco and Australia, and describes a San Francisco bank run linked to California gold demand. The piece emphasizes public trust, rapid delivery, and the expansive reach of the express firm.
A moral exhortation condemns drinking and drugs for ruining early life. It laments how wealth and beauty fade into poverty and misery under stronger appetites, urging abstinence as the only path to avoid contempt and despair. It stresses personal will as the sole necessity to overcome temptation.
The text discusses delays in light reaching observers from celestial bodies. It references Professor Hitchcock and various magnitudes, noting visible versus telescope-only stars, with numbers implying travel times and distances. The fragmentary prose hints at limits of perception and cosmic scales.
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