14 Oct 1859
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1859
Page
1
An evocative verse fragment contrasts seasons as freet prepaes to pave winter, autumn lingers in a reverie, and summer reflects on the harvest assessing ripeness and yields.
In a reflective obituary style, a minister’s tribute frames a wife as loving and patient through a harsh marriage and neglect. The husband’s self-absorption and iron restraint fade as memories reveal her quiet endurance, mothering, and devotion, prompting a reckoning with past wrongs.
A quoted passage from the Boston Medical Journal discusses Hyrti the anatomist claiming he could tell a drunkard’s brain from a sober one by a single stroke of the scalpel. It describes preserving brains in alcohol to harden them and argues inebriates endure an enduring process before death, desecrating the soul and numbing humanity.
The column cites women’s fashion bravado, buckwheat and corn prices, beef declines, cheese exports, peach sales in Michigan, and a Missouri slave trade trend with a projection of free-state preparations, detailing economic and social shifts of the period.
A Washington letter describes a new Combination Printing Telegraph Instrument that, with its clever arrangement, can print multiple copies of a dispatch as it is received. This promises to replace the old manifold manuscript system and save time up to press, altering reporting and copying of news.
The Hon. Sherrard Clemens of Virginia is in a very critical state due to his wounded limb. He remains at his home in Wheeling as reports on national crises continue to surface across the United States, averaging about nine per week.
A North China Herald correspondent notes opium as a winter crop expanding across Yuown Honan and Che Keang provinces. Chinese growers aim for quantity, not quality, gathering juice from April onward with a blunt bamboo scraper. The piece warns of the dangers of opium and links its trade to India and colonial finances.
The Cleveland Herald contrasts Spartan morality with Ohio Democratic conduct, accusing Democrats of concealing a treasury robbery by Breslin while Republicans exposed fraud. It argues Republican honesty would reveal wrongs statewide, while Democratic honesty keeps the theft secret. The column challenges voters to choose true honesty at the ballot box.
The passage condemns a man who lives wrongly and makes excuses, likening his behavior to issuing fake money and bad bills as Beecher. It emphasizes that making excuses is a mean business and reveals disdain for deceitful conduct.
The Missouri Republican reports rumors of a duel on September 12 1859 between Senator Broderick and Judge Terry of the California Supreme Court. Accounts say Terry was wounded in the throat and may die, with seconds and physicians present and police arresting the parties before any damage.
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