29 Apr 1846
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Newspaper
Columbus Times
Location
Columbus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1846
Page
1
The speaker bids farewell to old regrets and embraces present joy while recalling past years. March storms yield May sunshine as memories mellow life, embalm past sorrows, and fuel a hopeful, cheerful today tinged by yesterday’s sunset.
Poem reflects on travel through hardship toward a peaceful afterglow. The speaker envisions a traveler who reaches a serene twilight where memories soften the sum of his toils. Parental blessing and hopeful continuation suggest life’s journey extends beyond death into a brighter horizon.
A pale blue eyed boy seeks a helpfully promised place from a man of leisure, brushing coats at a hotel. Rejected, the boy sorrowfully endures poverty until the man dies after a conversion moment and a clergyman visits. Also notes on meat prices in Paris, tax shifts, and Rev J N Maffit preaching in Ithaca.
A Belgian philosopher notes electric light reveals body parts for vascular and nerve study. Dr Polli of Milan reports sea water desalination via electricity. Baron de Hackewitz patents a galvanic cannon casting method with 36,000 thalers price, praised by Humboldt and Captain Foster for Prussia. Reinforcements for Africa include incendiary artillery, wheeled mobility, and suspended caissons to prevent powder loss.
A springtime tale shows a woman inspired by a boy turning a rope wheel to help his mother and gain strength for duty. Another piece profiles Carter the Lion King, noting his fearless control of Bengal tigers and pumas during performances and in private, with witnesses praising his dominion over beasts.
A writer argues that New England farms fail from scattered, oversized plots and neglect of soil health. He urges selling excess land, concentrating use, improving rotation, and investing in soil science and manures to raise yields and profits.
A neighbor improved a common white corn by seed selection over four years, yielding stalks with five to six ears and two ears per stalk becoming common, up from one ear on a stalk previously.
A farmer reports sowing saltpetre by hand on April 6 on growing wheat to avoid soil variation. Saltpetre was applied to every two alternate ridges, with two crops reaped and threshed separately, yielding six extra bushels of wheat and about two and a half hundredweight more straw per acre, at an outlay of 22 shillings. The effect on clover and other lays is said to be astonishing.
Advice urges debtors to state all debts, avoid deceit, seek trusted counsel, and live frugally to restore honor and avoid harming friends. It counsels industry and restraint amid trial, stressing candor over concealment and a calm, methodical path forward. Also notes New York street lighting: about 9,500 lamps, 7,500 oil and 2,000 gas, with oil costs and lamp maintenance sums. Andrew J. Mickle nominated by Democrats. Havemeyer considered for re election.
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