13 Sep 1860
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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1860
Page
1
A historical poem reflects on a nameless mortal whose life mirrors universal human experience. It ponders birth, fame, joy, sorrow, love, and oblivion, noting that only the universal human emotions endure while individual deeds fade. The voice contrasts the vast cosmos with the fleeting record of a single man who lived and died unseen.
An ancient Ojibbeway tale of Shawanossoway and Buck-e-e-tick-enow follows a doomed love, murder, and a fleeing bride found dead in wolves. The piece shifts to a critique of Rome’s plebeians, middle class, and the clergy, detailing social hierarchies, corruption, and moral decay across districts and cities.
From E About's Great Work on the Roman Question the plebeians are described as a class split by birth and fortune into nobility citizens and plebeians. The text notes church and state roles, with Benedict XIV and Pius IX endorsing the social hierarchy and clergy treated as ghostly confederates near the Pontifical throne.
In Fort Wayne, August 1860, A W F extols the new Chicago rail link from Aurora noting fastest travel times, dinner at the Summit City, and views of Troy, Piqua, Sidney, and the Miami Valley. He lauds Fort Wayne’s enterprise, water power, mills, rail shops, and rapid suburban expansion, naming leading residents and institutions while recalling early frontier history and Little Turtle.
Sixteen years after Morse’s system began, electricity touches daily life from trains to clocks to news. The piece celebrates how telegraphy links distant events, aids governance, commerce, and even personal moments, shaping modern society with rapid, worldwide communication.
In a recent communication Howard Malcolm states the Burmese retrotrician wells lie near Irawady about three hundred miles from its mouth. Four hundred wells span twelve square miles, each 2.5 feet wide and 300 feet deep. They yield about four hundred pounds of oil daily plus water. Oil arrives in buckets at ninety degrees and has boosted English prices in a few years.
This fragment describes a method to pickle peaches in a strong brine for several days, then rinse and dry them before packing in jars with a vinegar and sugar syrup. The directions call for glass jars kept in a dry cool place and emphasize cleanliness and sequential steps.
Simeon Elderton of Drake died in 1709 aged 104. He was a noted pedestrian in his day and carried his house on his head. Before regular posts, he walked commissions from Northern counties to London and elsewhere with fidelity and dispatch. He built a neat cottage and each journey he brought back stones or materials for his home, sometimes forty to fifty miles on his head.
A man calling himself John Pincent and purporting to be from Jefferson Lodge No 14 New York uses a forged seal and signatures to borrow up to three hundred dollars with a spurious endorsement. Odd Fellows lodges are warned to arrest him and report to John G Waters Center Lodge No 18 Indianapolis. Editors statewide are asked to copy.
The proclamation fixes four million three quarters acres for public land sales in Minnesota in October. In 1853 seven million acres were offered but most were withdrawn due to settler pressure. Last year two to three million acres were offered in the territories with pre emptions omitted as relief. The oldest surveyed lands are first offered. The Kansas Nebraska proclamation covers 7,000,000 acres.
A Southern gentleman at a hotel in Ohio gave a negro waiter a dollar. The waiter’s reply and the ensuing commentary critique abolitionist and Southern gentleman attitudes, noting the contrast between praise and what the speaker views as insufficient true elevation in humanity.
The case Helen vs. Miller moved from Floyd Circuit Court at New Albany to the Indiana Supreme Court. It concerns convict labor in the Jeffersonville penitentiary and rules that prisoners shall not be sent outside prison walls to work, but may be employed on state grounds outside the walls.
The text claims iron scales accumulate around an anvil and are highly valuable for peach trees. A shovel full near a healthy tree may keep it in good condition and even diseased trees allegedly recover with these scales. Iron in any form is said to be beneficial.
A swordfish sword broke off in the hull of the ship Josephine while recoppering the guano packet at Honolulu Sandwich Islands. The weapon passed through copper, felting, and a three inch oak plank, leaving the blade lodged four feet forward of the rudder post. This curious incident was found under the vessel’s counter.
Fragmentary quotation states death frees the unreleased, heals the incurable, and consoles those whom medicine cannot heal or time cannot ease. The line underscores death as ultimate solace beyond human remedies.
A fragment notes that Maxx and associates avoid lying yet constantly plot to craft fatal impressions about facts and character, suggesting continued manipulation of public perception. The passage presents a cautious critique of deceptive influence in discourse.
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