29 Mar 1860
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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1860
Page
1
From the Ladies Repository a poem by Sirs Baglor Guswarn portrays a woodland maiden Madelin. A dying mother blesses her as she grows from a forest beauty into a hoped for wife. Dreams of love are whispered, vows spoken and broken, ending with Madelin’s sleep in a shadowed, dreamlike land.
A trapper on the western plains witnesses a buffalo herd driven by prairie fire and an Indian ally. The trapper reveals he is Hiram Ford, believed dead, seeking his son Paka who was with the Dakotas. After a dramatic confrontation and pursuit, Ford reunites with his son and betrothed, then they settle in St Louis. The tale explains Ford's fireproof oil-cloth suit via cemented armor.
The piece argues that eloquence suffers when public taste favors long speeches. It praises compression as essential for persuasiveness, citing Cicero, Demosthenes, Mark Antony, Shakespeare, and Lady Macbeth to show that strong language should be brief and impactful. It condemns long orations as artifice and declares concise expression superior for genuine conviction.
A report from Harrisburg Patriot recounts a quarrel near this place over oats. Mr A offered to pay forty cents a bushel with permission to tramp the grain in a half bushel. The farmer loaded a half bushel then the man tramped, emptied the bag, and left the oats unfilled. The farmer claimed the deal fulfilled and warned he could tramp all day.
The Superior Court of New York has confirmed the referee in a divorce proceeding involving Mrs. F and the Forrest case. Details are limited in the readable fragment.
A reader letter describes oil springs in Trumbull county with greasy rivers and dancing doughnuts fried in jets of oil, plus local amusements like greased pole climbs. The piece also presents a scientific note critiquing theories of how flies cling to glass, detailing Hooke and Blackwell experiments on insect feet and adhesive secretions.
In Philadelphia the Zogara fever is described as raging with new appearances. The original has left the city for Boston with Cook's Royal Amphitheatre. A City of Nations debut is slated tonight and a warm reception is forecast. Three Zoylitas join the group, all described as either male or female, drawing attention across the venues.
C C Graham reports to the Royal Asiatic Society on five ancient desert towns east of Hautan, with white stone castles and inscriptions in unknown scripts likely related to the Hamy alphabet. Copies of impressions are urged for Orientalists and scholars. A second note mentions whales supplying oil for the northern lights.
A coffin carrying Ja cob Sanders known as Old Jakey broke free from a wagon after a wreck near Hog Neck. The shattered coffin revealed him alive prompting escape by mourners before he recovered and was carried home. He later appeared well and joked about dying soon. Sanders, nearly seventy, was a former Tennessee slave.
A lament in verse about parting from Maud Mae and a future with another lover. The speaker recalls shared summers by the sea, daisy walls, blue eyes, and Arcadian dreams, imagining a distant new love while bidding good night. The tone is romantic and elegiac with repeated motifs of love and fate.
The Couserie Russe details a tale of Miss Tarakanoff, claimed Elizabethan lineage, and Orloff’s feigned disgrace seizing her. Plans to marry, voyage to Naples, arrest aboard a Russian ship, and Cronstadt captivity mark her last sighting. A chilling year rumor claims her skeleton was found walled in a palace closet.
New Orleans New York Herald correspondent outlines the KGC's rise from Mississippi origins in 1854 to a network claimed in seventeen states. The order aims to march on Mexico to support Juarez, with two divisions planned to confront Miramon forces and to secure Vera Cruz, funded by substantial regional contributions and a force of about two thousand in New Orleans.
A columnist named Miss Kate L. E. extols kissing, calling it a sensible haven and life’s sweetest enjoyment. She praises rich hearty kisses from rosy lips as lasting a day and contemplates kissing as an admirable, well valued custom.
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