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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1854
Page
1
The Athens Messenger lists subscription and advertisement rates. It specifies year plans, arrears policy, and deadlines, with detailed pricing for one square, two to four squares, and column ads, plus business cards and candidate name insertions. Payment in advance required.
Poetic exhortation to action and progress urging readers to strive daily. It blends motivational verses about perseverance and knowledge with a celebratory autumn scene described by Tex Greciow’s song, highlighting nature imagery and a call to practical effort.
A nostalgic prose reminiscence on autumn scenery and rural boyhood days. The narrator recalls sunlit hills, green fields, and colorful leaves, then recalls chestnuts, nuts, and winter fires with family and a beloved dog and cat, ending with a sobering memorial to the dead.
The article argues Friday is ill fated for major undertakings, citing superstition and fear among mariners and broad public. It notes historical context and hints at Columbus sailing on a Friday, August 31, 1492, to illustrate the omen as a national concern.
The text lists Fridays spanning 1492 to 1776 highlighting Cabot’s voyages, Melendez founding St. Augustine, Mayflower at Provincetown, Plymouth landing, Washington’s birth, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Arnold’s treason, Yorktown, and Adams’ Congress motion, concluding with continued Friday publication of the Woonsocket Patriot.
The passage meditates on time erasing beauty and grandeur as nature cycles from spring to decline. It contrasts blooming flowers and radiant landscapes with the inexorable advance of decay, noting monuments fall, forests fade, and every cherished scene will be marred by time.
An essay on valuing depth over quick page turns, urging sustained attention to content and prior knowledge to read rapidly only after mastering concentration. The piece blends a quotation from Sydney Smith on reading and a humorous aside about Major Mc’s joke involving a missing silver ladle found in a shark’s belly.
The passage notes that a widow's death-like impact on a man resembles an ancient oak fallen. It laments fragility of widowed hearts and cites a Burke remark praising America as a growing force that will outpace England's progress, promising future changes through emigration and development.
The text argues that individuals and nations prosper only when they have clear, decisive aims guiding their actions. Without fixed goals, people drift with circumstances, chasing ill chosen efforts. A steady, honest pursuit of a chosen path, even in humble vocations, yields competence and honor.
The Cleveland Herald recalls a French ceremony when La Belle Poule crew passed by in uniform and, seeing an unknown infant’s coffin, residents uncovered in silent respect. A poor mother and her child’s death move a busy crowd to compassion as naval officers lead by example.
The piece surveys eminent Americans across fields from Washington to Morse, notes humorous literary quips about Irving, and includes a fragment on the Cleveland Herald editorials and a list of entries in a fair or ledger. It references Indiana Free Banks and various classes of livestock and goods in a catalog-like fixture.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, speaking last Sabbath evening, cited estimates from trusted sources that over the past year more than four thousand Americans perished on lakes and rivers. He noted world ship losses reached ten thousand, with long-term averages around three thousand annually. Insurance payouts by New York marine firms last year reached twelve million dollars, while land losses from railroads and other causes totaled eighteen million, bringing total sea and land losses to about thirty million dollars.
The Congressional election yields John McQueen Preston Brooks William Aiken James L Orr Lawrence M Keitt and William W Boyes. Voters favor Nebraska bill. three absent. Delegation and most legislators align with State Rights Catholic and pro slavery views. Some lawmakers favor extending suffrage to poor whites now disenfranchised.
The piece showcases clever rhymes with abbreviated verbs in a droll two stanza finale. A playful tale follows a bold suitor who pivots from pursuit to a thwarted kiss and a lighthearted wedding to a shanty home. The humor hinges on wordplay and comic missteps.
A letter from Hon. Gerrtt Smith denounces late Congress sessions as drunken and wasteful. He recalls voting against the pro slavery bill, describes Lord Elgin witnessing the scene, and contrasts it with Birkenhead heroism where soldiers faced death without panic and with steadfast courage.
The report notes between 900000 and 1000000 in securities retired within sixty days by banks as observers say holders were offered par value within a week and over one hundred thousand bought by the State in gold. It lists election results by districts and counties, including Stanton majorities and a Senate vacancy.
Edward Sandford a leading New York City lawyer, lost in the Arctic, was offered a judgeship when the Court of Sessions reorganized under Governor Seward but refused. His wife and six children live in Paris, where he took them in July to pursue continental education, renting a three year house.
A New York Tribune inspired analysis argues that public misunderstanding of political economy inflates fears of over-trading while the real issue is over-buying. It compares national folly to a farmer unable to cover debts, urging domestic production to balance sales with purchases for lasting prosperity.
Professor Manshetp surveys Ohio coal fields and city consumption. He notes coal costs 20 cents a bushel vs wood at $3 a cord and that dams cost more to build and maintain than steam mills. Ohio coal area spans about twelve thousand square miles with major producing counties listed and town coal arrivals totaling about twenty million bushels. Future demand could double in 2–3 years as urban and industrial use grows.
From a two thousand tree peach orchard near Loveland in Clermont county Mr F G Hill earned five thousand dollars in cash this season The fruit was shipped to the Cincinnati market.
Montreal reports detail a 1850 westward ice journey of forty whites who drew boats and traded seal with Esquimaux on King William's Land. Bodies found over a wide area suggest starvation and possible cannibalism, with muskets, telescopes, compasses, and silverware recovered and sent to London.
Farmers seek quick straw decomposition to avoid feeding or bedding use. Methods include mixing straw into plowed land and covering with earth, moistened straw rots faster, lime or ashes aid breakdown, straw with stock dung speeds rotting, gypsum improves manure but not straw decay, Wayne County Ohio notes.
The Richmond Enquirer denounces Gen Cass for anti Southern bias and repudiates his squatter sovereignty dogma. It argues Cass lacks fidelity to the South and the Democratic party and calls for punishment of perceived treachery to preserve the party’s health and unity.
A historical claim cites Ireland's population dropping by about two million over five years with figures from 1805 to 1851 showing rises to eight million in 1837 and a fall to 6.55 million by 1851, reflecting dramatic demographic shifts.
Instructions mix Gum Camphor three drachms Beeswax Spermaceti and Olive Oil in a cup over heat until a white ointment forms. Apply to hands at night and wear gloves. Healing should occur in a day or two.
An elderly woman defines a real man as cheerful in clothes, abstemious, able to read the Bible, and able to eat a cold dinner on wash days to spare women trouble. Greiner of the Journal demonstrated an improved thrashing machine at the fair grounds, with Galloway helping by turning the crank.
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