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Newspaper
Cambridge Reveille
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1850
Page
1
A dark verse by John G Dunn portrays an undertaker haunted by a restless spirit foretelling who among the living will die next. The poem cycles through feared fates of neighbors, a street maiden, a child, and the self, ending with the undertaker's own doom as disease closes in and he joins the list of the dying.
A speaker yearns for a rustic mountain home with trees reaching the skies and a river valley scene. He rejects city pomp for simple happiness and health in a humble cot beside rivulets, praising Acacia, tulip, and rose and the freedom of the countryside.
The True Union reprints an anecdote about a Mexican War veteran named Twiggs whose snowy hair and a facial eruption led to a home remedy. A mixture of lac sulphur sugar of lead and rose water allegedly restores original hair color without dyeing, applied to the hair twice daily for a week or more. The tale mentions widowers seeking advantage in Washington and claims the recipe works on roots.
A Dutchman responds to being asked to help pay for a village lightning rod by noting he helped build a house for de Lort and if it is damaged the owner must bear the risk. He implies responsibility lies with the builder or owner for future actions.
Daniel Webster explains that Col Monroe's 1849 proclamation in New Mexico was issued under an order from the War Department and aimed to aid the people in forming a civil government. The letter clarifies that the United States cannot settle the Texas New Mexico boundary and that Congress must decide such questions, while supporting the inhabitants' rights under treaty. The President seeks peace and urges calm cooperation between Texas and the United States.
At midnight the crowd gathers on the Smithfield Church steps as a loud cry splits the night. A young man lifts the hog by its ears and drags it free from under a gate, a scene witnessed by several distressed bystanders near the Smithfield road.
A playful verse laments women's changing roles from wo-man to woo-men and whim-men. It contrasts Eve and Adam with marriage, love, and folly, noting how wives’ spending trims husbands’ pockets and invites social judgment.
Letters from California confirm the deaths of David B. Woods and James L. Russey. Reports describe two white men found near Bear River with wounds from arrows and signs of heavy decomposition. Histories suggest the pair were missing miners, with Eastland and Pritch el letters noting burial in Bear River and a grave on the riverbank.
A New York youth hired as a clerk in a Broadway crockery shop is sent on a delivery run with a cart of china. He flees after a mugging incident, crashes into a lamp post, and returns home exhausted with shattered wares, yet he is promoted.
In 1682 the island that became New York City was bought from Native Americans for sixty guilders or twenty four dollars. If that sum had earned seven percent compound interest, by 1850 it would total sixty five million dollars, meaning twenty four dollars invested then would exceed the value of the city after expenses, proving the land was not cheap.
A tale recalls an Irishman fishing and catching a large turtle. He hides it in a servant girl’s room to surprise her. The next morning Biddy exclaims she has the devil, prompting the master to ask what devil. She answers a bull bed-bug that has been eating the children.
Poetic meditation on the sea as a vast, shoreless, timeless expanse. Generations pass in the gloom while humanity’s footsteps fade into the depths. The sea remains constant, living as one all encompassing space without a shore.
A City Item reflecting on the profitability and refinement of refined women, praising virtue and gentle influence to persuade men toward peace. It argues women should be companions and friends who elevate minds and hearts rather than objects for idle pastime, asserting respect and moral worth.
A philosophical reflection on mental liberty born from universal humanity. It argues freedom as self-directed, unraveled by sect or circumstance, and maintained by an inward, immutable principle guiding personal improvement and deliberate espousal of virtue.
The passage asserts that love is natural to women and cannot be suppressed by imprisonment conversion or coercive pressures. It compares the futility of forcing affection to a Greek Slave and a hollow Davidov, underscoring enduring female devotion to romance and beauty.
A Sunday School teacher questions a class of girls about influence on character. Miss Caroline replies with humorous honesty that she would have been an orphan without her good father and pious mother.
A fragmentary excerpt portrays a controversial ritual with vivid comparisons to kissing and ceremony. It contrasts carefree behavior with strict policing, hinting at tension between tradition and individual expression, and ends by implying a loud, disruptive public reaction.
Judge Thompson of Worcester Massachusetts could not attend the Fitchburg citizens celebration but sent a toast denouncing slavery. He praised the only tolerable form of slavery as one where a woman holds captive a man, noting the victim hugs his chain and the tyrant who imposes it.
The old man, asked by parson A whether he had treasures laid up in heaven, responds with a doleful look that he surely must be there, for he has none laid up on earth. The line reflects a worn humor and a resigned stance on wealth and afterlife.
A mother tests her child with a catechism question about the fiery furnace. The boy promptly answers that it was Dr. Parkman, revealing a humorous mishearing of the biblical tale.
In New York a couple of editors investigated a playful but splashy attack, discovering someone hurled a basin of dirty water from a high window. No serious harm reported, case noted as a local oddity.
A young urchin quotes illustrated with cuts as he uses a pocket knife on leaves in a grammar lesson. The schoolmaster repeats the phrase while tapping the urchin with a cane, highlighting a harsh disciplinary moment.
The passage presents arithmetical toasts praising virtue and social values. It wishes fair daughters of America to add virtue to beauty, subtract envy from friendship, multiply amiable accomplishments by sweetness, divide time by sociability and economy, and reduce scandal to its lowest denomination.
A juvenile quips about pi with a yoke of steers pulling a bob sled. The elderly dame corrects, saying it should be a pair of gentlemanly cows attached to a Robert sleigh in refined terms.
A brief dialogue features a loafer asking about his eye strength and a gentleman replying that his eyes are in a weak place, delivering a concise wordplay moment.
The question asks who first introduced salt provisions into the navy. A playful line answers Noah, implying he took Hum into the ark, tying salt and provisioning to ancient myth.
Cholera has nearly vanished in Cincinnati as a curious boy questions his father about the material of the board of health.
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