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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1855
Page
1
The Athens Messenger announces weekly publication with office on Court Street. Rate card lists advertising options by length and column width, payment in advance, and penalties for arrears. Notices include business cards, political candidates, and yearlong discounts for yearly advertisers.
A short poem reflects on aging and loneliness as youth fades. The speaker questions who will care, listen, and love them when old and friends have died. The verses emphasize fading beauty and enduring need for companionship in later years.
The speaker reflects on swift passing and urges reason over vanity. He notes virtues endure after death while rulers fade, and all earthly power and beauty end in dust as smoke ascends and returns to ash. He laments the mortal fate shared by beggar and king and recalls final rest.
A law tied tale from the Pioneer era reveals a talented yet destitute youth who befriends a reporter at a New York office. The young man, educated and gifted in art and languages, draws the narrator into a life shadowed by drink and tragedy. A forged-note plot and a dramatic chase unfold ending with a desperate attempt to shield him from justice.
A narrative recounts a man’s fall from promise to crime, his wanderings in South America, and his eventual burial in the Lethe of Forgetfulness as he seeks atonement. The tale ends with a survivor’s reflection on time, change, and lasting virtue.
An obscure 6 écalas Morathiae line asserts knowledge as perpetual joy and power as a pageant, detailing fearless exertion in office, exploration of volcanoes, oceans, and earth, and a striving ascent toward the sublime.
A Paria correspondent comments on Queen Victoria praising her dignity and motherly virtues while noting a perceived change in her appearance and the public’s affection for the monarch compared to French reverence for their queens.
A fragment notes a friend who advertised his business and reports the venture has already earned roughly four times the advertising cost. The writer warns merchants to weigh ad spend carefully during hard times, but sees advertising as a potentially good investment when well executed.
The Messingum Co. official The non. W. Searle was appointed by Gov. Medill as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the Judicial District including Mussingum, Mergen and Novia counties to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Convers resignation.
The Albany address argues ninety nine in a hundred Northsmen oppose slavery expansion while the South insists on extending slavery into free territories. It cites Governor Seward denying federal duty to abolish slavery in privileged states and urging restraint against territorial expansion as the constitutional power. New York Courier.
The excerpt advertises an extensive sale of the Diary and Correspondence of Amos Lawrance. It highlights practical wisdom and maxims about character, truth, and habits. The text urges readers to avoid false entries and unhealthy vices to secure better contracts and a healthier life.
The Indianapolis State Sentinel critiques Ohio Democrats for losing to Chase. It faults timid candidates and speakers for avoiding national issues and urges the party to confront fanaticism and bigotry and stand for civil liberty. The paper declares it has no sympathy for the beaten Democrats of Ohio.
An apparent horticultural novelty from France uses a clipped strip from an apple tree inserted into a potato. The clip remains visible for a couple of inches, then roots and grows into a new tree bearing fine fruit. The method is credited to a Bohemian gardener.
A satirical writer ridicules three cent individuals with high salaries and flashy waistcoats. He contrasts genuine taste with spurious pretensions, saying the difference is as big as vinegar to grape juice.
In a noisy mixed gathering the Nebraska Locofoco faction saluted two notable Civil War generals. The speakers contrasted Generals Pierce and another, praising past deeds while noting political divisions within the party. The scene echoed broader national partisan tensions of the era.
A literary sketch recounts John Randolph of Roanoke dying in Philadelphia after bad weather worsened his illness. It notes his last hours marked by pettiness and tenderness, prayer, and a final charge to his servant Sohn, before burial in Roanoke Forest and Virginia soil.
The city buzzes with relief as Dr Kane and companions arrive safe, hailed as heroes for a mercy mission. Neptune and Arctic crews are welcomed at Astor House, while Henry Grinnell hosts the group amid families and friends. A northern life sketch describes bitter cold, wind, and Esquimaux fashion influencing seal skin attire for surviving the polar chill.
The article recounts Esquimaux attire and hair practices, with sealskin jackets and calico robes, and notes music, dancing, and whisky as social catalysts. It mentions a Greenland ball scene, peculiar northern customs, a Cape Alexander clan of seven families, and a harsh method of disposing of an aged child. It also references modest affection toward officers and a daguerreotype of six Leively belles.
The Berlin National Zeitung notes rising prices across Europe for grain meat oil and spirits with scarce goods and fears of breadstuff price increases in spring. The piece cites monetary expansion and overspeculation in North America driving gold and silver away, signaling renewed European demand and a potential price equilibrium as exports rise.
The New York Observer notes the North Star Arctic ship crew at Sheerness endured two winters of six months with thermometer 56 below. They shunned razors for years and a half, using only scissors, and reported no ulcers or sore throats. After acquiring warm clothing, some began to fall ill once the cold affected throats, but no man or officer missed work due to sickness.
The piece praises the Ethiopian monarchs of Abyssinia, noting their simple attire and reformist stance. It claims Africa leads in civilization and even surpasses America in progress, highlighting renunciation of polygamy and the abandonment of arts.
A garbled passage discusses the perceived gap between the powerful and the insignificant, asserting that energy or willpower is the key to fate. It hints that without such determination, talents or opportunities cannot save a person or creature from decline. The text remains incomplete and unclear in places.
The British government has procured a quantity of a gutta purchas sacks used by the American Gutte Pureha Company of New York City.
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