31 May 1860
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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1860
Page
1
The speaker laments a slow dawn and asks when the Sun will illuminate the way. Night and darkness persist as doubts and fears surround the journey. The speaker longs for light, guidance, and plains of peace after a long, weary vigil.
In a west England town a poor family finds a hidden chest of gold after daughter Alice dreams of its location. A damp, cobwebbed room behind a panel reveals the treasure, changing John Thorpe's fortunes to a rise from linen-draper to judge, with Alice marrying into nobility. The tale hints at unseen spiritual forces guiding the turn of fate.
The narrative outlines the death of a famed political symbol in Charleston on May 3 1860 amid claims of poison and dissipation. It recounts his failing fortune and travels from the North to the South, with details of his interment plans in Baltimore and a satirical portrait of political foes. It also features a reporter’s observations of Japanese visitors and their lodging in Willard's, contrasting customs and manners.
A Portage County debating society discussed whether humans are developing or degenerating. The negative speaker argued times are degenerate, noting youths appear weak in body and mind, dress in father bought attire, and groom facial hair, while the crowd listened in a crowded schoolhouse.
A letter criticizes state licensing of liquor as enabling drunkenness and crime. It condemns city police dereliction and argues licensing sustains vice, urging lawmakers to restrict or suppress liquor sales despite legal allowances. The writer defends personal restraint against perceived corrupting influence.
Kentucky funds approved to remove Ellison Williams from Bank Lick Unity church graveyard to Frankfort. Remains to be transported by Kentucky Central Railroad with John W. Menzies and Preston Davis directing transport. Funeral new resting place set amid Rube forefathers lines in verses from the Cincinnati Gazette.
The young Galileo in Pisa watches oscillating lamps and wonders at their timing, inspiring a fifty year path to the pendulum. Later in Venice reports of two glasses suggesting magnification lead him to invent the telescope, changing science.
A New World observer recalls how a New Yorker was invited by a Chinese merchant to visit his home and was feted by hosts and guests. The guest reads a door inscription offering admission for two cents, exposing a comical clash of cultures and pretended hospitality.
The American weighs in on fat park concepts, arguing the concept was never intended for human consumption or breathing as a culinary material. It questions practical use and highlights a clash between scientific framing and common sense in public discourse.
A shopkeeper contemplates ruin in bad times and the printer extols his wares while the public buys from the trader who advertises. The tale contrasts wealth from ads with bank notes and ends with a moral to laugh and grow fat rather than dwell on misfortune. Also a spoof on Diogenes praises mirth and avoiding lean gloom.
A Vienna newspaper carried an advertisement inviting young men of good health to apply for a short engagement at a suburban address. The would be recruits discovered the advertiser was the Pope and the offer a private situation in his army.
Heir to an estate valued at about 380 000 is involved in a dispute at Town City. Legal proceedings concern the succession and ownership of the property. The matter centers on rightful heirs and the estate's distribution.
Information from Washington reports Mr. H S Sanford a secret agent of the Panama Railroad Company failed to secure the annull ment of the Chiriqui Improvement Company's grants or the extension of the Panama Company grant to 99 years. He offered cash of half a million dollars and Granada tax rights on Isthmus passengers but Granada asked forty million to extend term and to relinquish purchase rights in fifteen years.
The undersigned explains how to obtain Democratic documents by applying to Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee in Washington. Submit names and postoffice addresses. pamphlets may require a small payment and will be mailed with the necessary materials.
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