05 Jan 1856
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1856
Page
1
The Cannelton Reporter lists advertisement rates and payment terms with details for legal notices marriages obituaries and insertions. It notes office location on Washington Street and the publisher J M Beatty as proprietor.
A satirical piece portrays dyspepsia as a savage, quarrelsome force lurking in homes and kitchens. It exaggerates bodily pains and social misery, blaming "dyspepsia" for unhappiness, late-night cravings, and failed literature, ending with a toast to its defeat.
Boston Iran plans to publish Daniel Webster letters with notes. Correspondence shows Daniel supporting brother Ezekiel at college by copying deeds and raising funds. Passage extols a woman as an institution—an angel in dry goods—whose influence boosts virtue, order, and happiness.
The Glasgow teacher Mr. Stowe argues against separate schooling for boys and girls. He cites England Ireland France and convent schools showing separation harms intellectual and moral development and promotes mutual influence enhancing both sexes. He notes coeducation from ages two to fourteen in Glasgow’s Normal Seminary with positive outcomes.
A Chinese man, 45, reports a fame stained past from beheadings to flaying and corruption in China and Egypt. He claims to have served under Commodore Stockton and died by a cannonball on the Nile, now jailed for pony larceny as Recorder Bright sends him to the workhouse for 90 days.
A jumbled item of miscellaneous reflections notes the irony of appearances and manners. A Massachusetts man returns from church and boasts of a delightful sermon, prompting a witty retort about heaven and chances. The piece closes with a maxim on minding one’s own business and steady employment.
A mixed page item features a George D. Frentice poem inviting a lover into dreams with sea moonlit imagery, plus scattered paragraphs from the Meridian transcript and regional papers. It includes abolitionist sentiment, a comic exchange on cotton and union, a Nashville inquiry on the American party, a Detroit drug incident, and moral reflections on weeping and sin.
A pair of well connected young men in Maysville set a camphene lamp under a sleeping waiter at the Parker House to wake him for more liquor. The fluid ignited his beard and neck, heating him for two weeks until death. The accused offer to pay 1200 dollars for the loss of the servant, while no legal action has begun.
The Missouri Democrat reports Sharpe's rifles as a new military weapon, claiming unmatched power and range with models planned for salt pocket pistols and rifles. It describes rapid fire, ease of cleaning, and potential to dominate battlefields, urging Congress to purchase the patent.
A Boston Courier excerpt outlines Nicaragua’s geography and resources. It notes central plains with volcanoes on the Pacific side, rich soils, diverse climate, and major exports like indigo, wood, and hides while crops such as indigo, sugar, coffee, cotton, and cereals are produced, though agriculture is said to be neglected. It also covers a grand Washington monument project with massive dimensions and a height of about 600 feet, plus other global monuments for comparison.
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