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Newspaper
Cambridge Reveille
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1850
Page
1
A dark December night tale follows a rain swept journey ending in a cold room where a famine scarred woman lies dead on boards. The speaker recalls the vanished comforts of wealth and love letters as the only possession left and mourns the solitary end.
Poetic description by Mrs. Sarah T Bolton celebrates the birth of a royal heir. The village bells, bonfires, and fireworks mark joy as enslaved millions are urged to share in the revelry, despite poverty. The infant is tended with silk robes and dawn pillows. The king’s succession is foreshadowed.
A stark scene on the moor depicts a hovel where a starving infant is born and endures cold and privation. The pale mother lies shivering as famine and poverty threaten, with bleak imagery of wind, snow, and a dying plea for bread. The verse laments social suffering and the yoke of oppression.
An Albany arrival scene features cabmen and porters crowding the dock. A country man refuses help with baggage and a porter, puzzled, discovers the passenger's foot resembles a feather trunk, prompting comic astonishment.
The letter argues that the Lower Ohio site at Cannelton offers vast manufacturing potential with abundant coal limestone sand stone and timber. It describes a cotton mill and quarry prospects plus plans for rail connections and diverse trades inviting workers without capital to form associations for profit. The piece includes warnings against indolence and moral exhortations.
The state hosts a robust fund plan with 1,460,000 acres valued at 1.70 an acre, a projected 1851 distribution of 106,000 dollars, and about 100,000 children. It details township taxes, Institutes in counties, and 1,430 school districts across 25 counties, noting teacher wages and varied school-house valuations.
A man lamented that his loss of favor came from flattering his beloved until she grew too proud to speak to him. He hints at a moral about pride and affection in a concise witched dialogue style.
Reading and Co New York publish an authorised edition of Mr Webster's recent Senate speech dedicating it to the people of Massachusetts with a formal dedication statement.
In Washington on March 18 1850 Dantel Webster dedicates a speech to the people of Massachusetts. He explains necessity compels truth over approval and expresses a desire to promote public welfare regardless of future opinion.
Amid discontent and disunion rhetoric in the United States, public securities at home and abroad remain strong. European and British markets show high regard for U S institutions, with investors viewing the Union as stable despite Congress debates and extremist threats.
The Postmaster General bans department mailings of letters and newspapers to officers and seamen in the Navy and US officers abroad except on official business. Friends had forwarded private letters via departments, depriving the post office of fees. Thousands of letters in Washington will no longer be sent through departments as before.
Mrs Partington proclaims the union must dissolve amid war talk and political clash. She rails at the idea of a lasting split, questions parental duty in keeping families together, and muses on foreign relations as she recalls her own union with Paul. PathFinder notes the reaction from the South.
A New York Sunday Morning News correspondent recalls a Bleeker Street omnibus incident. A young French woman, shopping with four parcels, struggles to exit as the door keeps closing. She asks the male traveler for help opening the door while lifting her dress.
The Albany Dutchman voices strong support for courting in a lighthearted exchange. He notes courting as an engaging pastime for youths and praises pleasant conversations enhanced by kisses, adding that peaceful sleep after happiness feels soothing, though poems of sighs temper the night.
A folk tale recalls Sir Isaac Newton learning weather signs from a shepherd boy. The boy predicts rain by a black ram turning its tail toward the wind, a sign Newton remarks on before the shower arrives.
Clarkson of the Brookville American calls on readers who have taken the paper for six to ten years without paying to mail a lock of hair by the next mail to prove they are not dead.
A father in training his son tells a Bible lesson joke about Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. He asks who would not sleep with Potiphar’s wife and the boy answers Joseph. The father joked that Joseph was not sleepy, implying moral steadfastness.
A bachelor recounts a near marriage moment after a friend teases him. He explains he asked a girl to see her home from a party and she refused. He notes that if she had said yes he might have courted her and married.
A sailor in fashion finds wigs in style and wears a red wig, surprising companions. Asked why his hair turned red, he explains he bathed in the Red Sea.
A New York senator lauds California as the youthful queen of the Pacific. He praises the state as free and brilliantly adorned with gold, asserting its leading role in progress and national ideals.
A city estimate places the annual aggregate print output at about 69.25 million newspapers magazines and reviews. The paper cost alone reaches roughly 3.6 million dollars for publishing.
The Boston Transcript notes Jenny Lind’s request to Barnum to shield her from overzealous admirers and seek quiet village life when not performing. A parish cleric rebukes a jockey for deception, saying he heard the parson preach in the state prison after a failed bargain attempt.
The quote recounts Oliver Cromwell asking for a faithful likeness from artist Lely, insisting wrinkles be shown to reflect time and experience. It praises his preference for truth over idealized beauty and notes that great leaders should have their minds evident in portraiture.
The boy Stafford whose mathematical genius has attracted attention for early development is described by Prof. Pierce of Harvard College in a committee report. He attended Analytical Mechanics lectures and proved competent at research but his health lags behind his advancing mind.
An 18th or 19th century experiment describes suspending a shilling from a thread in a glass tumbler. The pulse makes the coin vibrate like a pendulum, striking the glass seven times at seven o clock or half past seven, then settling back to the center. The effect repeats if the thread is kept steady and enough time passes.
A rentted brawl erupted yesterday after school between youths from the North and South parts of the city. The clash arose from local rivalry with compromise attempts failing. The North lads fought bravely and inflicted injuries on a Southern boy, nicknamed Senator Foote, who sustained a bloody nose and torn pants before police halted the melee.
The island of Guadaloupe has just elected two negro citizens to the National Assembly in Paris. One, Perignon, served as Governor of Martinique under the Provisional Government after the fall of the French throne.
The first consignment of California gold received at the United States Mint and branches in 1813 to the 15th alt. totals a fraction over 12 million dollars. The value of property including gold and silver shipped to California since the start of the gold fever is roughly estimated at 50 million dollars.
A mysterious intrusion at Nimroud Palace results in the apparent seizure of a chamber filled with shields swords crowns and ivory ornaments. The event is described as wrought by a trance or spell affecting Nimrovuppard or related agents, with no further details on perpetrators or authorities.
A Charleston newspaper reports that the remains of a renowned Indian chief, interred at Fort Moultrie, were exhumed and removed for anatomical purposes the night after his burial. The event stirred local comment and questions.
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