07 Jan 1857
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Newspaper
Beaver County Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1857
Page
1
Beaver Argus announces a printed map by M and J Weyand. Terms include advance payment with price set, paper discontinued and arrears per stated option. Advertisements cost 59 per square of fifteen lines, 25 cents per subsequent insertion. Letters by mail receive prompt attention.
Agricultural columns advise checking hive stock before winter to ensure strong bees. It recommends testing brood, moving winter hives to sheltered quarters, ventilating entrances, and using light snow cover guidance to reduce loss. The author, M. Qrixar, advocates open-air wintering where feasible and stacked shelf housing when indoors is needed.
Historical note describes a home remedy to drive bats from a house. It instructs mixing common salt and black manganese with sulfuric acid and oil of vitriol, adding water, and heating the mixture in a vessel to release chlorine gas. The gas supposedly penetrates crevices and forces bats to flee the attic and cellar.
A New Year greeting unfolds into a lengthy poem where the speaker recalls the old year dying and a vision of its spirit. The vision traces war, poverty, famine, and social inequities, then references Kansas and President Pierce, ending with a moral urging readers to act rightly in the coming year.
The First Judicial District Court judge charges grand juries to investigate polygamy and priestly meddling, noting lack of territorial statute on marriage and urging action against unwed, multiple wives living with men. The duty to enforce federal and territorial law is stressed amid clashes over religious influence and governance.
A St Petersburg correspondent of the Eyingsburgh Journal reports intelligence on Russian military movements. The informant notes the information may contrast with other sources but believes it largely reliable and corroborated by none elsewhere. The letter highlights strategic positions and potential troop dispositions amid ongoing tension.
Reports circulating in St Petersburg claim General Wrjuloffisho commands 56 000 troops ready to enter Persia, while Austrian frontier movements are alleged. The piece also critiques fashion trends with satire on hoop skirts and crinoline, praising practical dress and female attire standards.
The piece argues Mr. Buchanan cannot unite the party’s sections and predicts a new Southern-leaning party will form in 1860. It notes Northern opposition, Southern disaffection, and the Delta and Charleston Mercury urging a Southern republic while Kansas free-state admission is debated.
A satirical list mocks social pretensions of Parisian style and domestic proprieties. It names a fashionable nootmaker, an inspector of ladies bonnet linings, a hurried businessman, a brave umbrella keeper, and a host of fixtures in polite society.
The autobiographical fragment recalls a boyhood in a log-house on a riverside farm, vivid recollections of a great flood, the move to a new residence, schooling via small township schools, and early influences from family, a circulating library, and inherited poetry. It notes the father’s limited resources and emphasis on education and reading.
The Ausburger Allgemeine Zeitung cites Polish frontier communications noting southward and eastward Russian troop shifts. A corps is moved toward Bessarabia and the Black Sea coast while forces near Grodno prepare to cross the Caspian to Persia. Reports from Astrakhan mention a large Caspian flotilla capable of transporting a full army toward the eastern front in short order.
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