30 Nov 1866
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1866
Page
1
Prentice recalls a sonnet praising a memory through river imagery. The speaker likens a youthful pilot to an angel guiding a radiant craft, with laurel blooms, music from a lyre, and a rainbow banner. A sudden illness ends the voyage as waves and starlight endure beyond.
A century old essay surveys the bride’s role and types from sentimental to money and social-climbing marriages. It critiques expectations, mothers influence, and how wealth, status, or poverty shape a bride’s perceived value and happiness across society.
A Cuthbert paper critiques marriage as medicine and wealth, observing the bride as healer and purse holder and noting a minister’s praise of women’s instinct. It discusses the bride’s calm, domestic life and the husband’s contentment, while cautioning men to heed intelligent wives in resolving life’s puzzles.
The article traces music from primitive rhythm to classical forms, noting instruments like harps and flutes persist through ages, while Greek, Hebrew, and Egyptian traditions shaped early theory. It contrasts sacred chant, medieval church music, and later operatic and orchestral growth with a critique of modern tastes and perceived decline in melodic purity.
A scattered 19th century clipping notes Mozart s Requiem as a beloved work and recalls a fictional tale of a daughter Emilie and her father, then abruptly shifts to moralizing commentary. It includes stray lines about optical beams, Southern observers, and a Chicago Presbytery meeting seeking union, ending with a stray reference to Austria and Russia.
A Baltimore letter criticizes a planned article on black religious relapse alleging dangerous new beliefs led by elder African leaders. The missive also reports on spectroscopic astronomy notes about nebulae and the nucleus, education quotes, time and space musings, a Diogenes quote, flogging of five white men in Richmond for petty surreny, and a note on California sentiment over corporal punishment.
The experiment tested Goodrich seedling potatoes and other varieties on poor soil with moderate cultivation to reduce rot. Calico and Gleason showed the least rot, while Prince Albert and Carter were most diseased. Yields ranged from Calico 100 to Deadblows 172 bushels per acre on richer land.
A seed year leads to partial grain and hay yields when wheat or oats dominate. Winter cold or drought can ruin grain and grass, prompting plowing as a retrial method. Overly cautious seeding wastes capital, so feeding a peck per acre is advised to limit loss if future seedings fail. The piece also notes a quip from Sergeant Davy and a remark on earth’s weight.
A humorous recounting by A G A Hartz from the Philadelphia Convention, describing hugs and tears among Union supporters, references to Massachusetts and South Carolina, and a playful look at postwar reconciliation. The piece notes Doc and other delegates, a wedding atmosphere, and lingering nostalgia for the Civil War era, ending with a conventional sign‑off to Brick Pomeroy.
A fragmentary reminiscence imagines ladies packing trunks for travel and an elephant's wife with one trunk, then shifts to a joke about a Newport search and a father, with remarks on secrecy and the oddity of red ink warnings. The piece blends whimsy and social humor in a dated voice.
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