25 Sep 1855
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Newspaper
Delaware State Reporter
Location
Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1855
Page
1
A Life Illustrated correspondent paints a West prairie damsel in full uniform shopping dress. She has taught school for two dollars weekly to fund elaborate fashions including pearls, a gold watch, and a rainbow dress. The piece contrasts rustic praise with humorous sketches of other tales and curiosities.
A quirky collection of short vignettes and old time witticisms includes a steamboat explosion report where the Captain swam ashore and the maid survived insured. Other bits feature a hammer at a Quaker meeting and humorous hat shop banter with terms like subdued mouse eater and enraged rat color.
The report details the Tchernaya line with Turkish Sardinian and French positions on linked hillocks near Balaklava, defensive works, and outposts. Russians attack Italian Sardinian lines at dawn, crossing aqueducts and rivers, with heavy cannonade and repeated assaults aimed to seize hillocks and gain the Mackenzie Road flank, amid fierce infantry and artillery actions.
A California correspondent reports thousands of dug holes by Indians to trap grasshoppers and store a bushel and a half per hole. They estimate potential harvests of fifty thousand bushels in Yuba, Butte, and Sutter counties as winter fattens the tribe. The piece also cites a humorous boat story about boots in bed, noting a passenger’s quip that bugs won’t hurt an old pair.
In Worcester Massachusetts a witness for the defense admitted he directed a letter written by another man. When pressed about the author the witness quipped that it was his aunt. The remark drew laughter as the district attorney sought to confirm who actually drafted the letter.
An assortment of fragmented phrases shows a mix of shop talk and court snippets. Dialogue includes a horse valued at three hundred fifty dollars with bargaining, a recorder referencing a fine for stealing wood from a steamboat Hannibal, and muddled moral reflections on marriage, mosquitos, and common sense with typographical oddities.
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