25 Jan 1855
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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1855
Page
1
The Delphi Dollar Journal records pricing terms and publication details for the weekly issues. It notes a weekly schedule and a subscription format with terms for shorter-term readers.
An old man unable to work lies in a corner weaving baskets as his daughter prepares a simple meal. Charles, his son in law, searches for work while the family contemplates joining Mr Whreatly at his house where there is room for all. The old man admits fault and hopes for happiness with the new household.
A speech by Mr. McDowell of Huntington and Wells advocates postponing an election, arguing the will of the people was misrepresented and accusing Senate rules of manipulation. The piece questions committee inaction and links the issue to the State University’s funding amid local political strain.
The Indiana Senate discusses when to elect a U S Senator and whether to postpone the vote. Members clash over timing, legality, and party lines while a law governing joint convention election remains unsettled.
A wealthy Bostonian confronts a family rift over a son's marriage to a poor girl. A daughter pleads, revealing the grandson Thomas Bonner Wheatly, named for the old man, as the scene shifts from a smoky room to a hopeful reunion with the disinherited father. A Nebraska and Western Iowa letter follows, praising soil, climate, and emigration prospects.
A editor who became a military captain faced court martial after attempting to command his troops with a joke about cash in advance. He was publicly ordered to read his own newspaper for a full prescribed period as punishment.
A reader quotes a disputatious line about arithmetic and omens arguing two and two make four while denying any omen based explanation. The fragment reflects a debate over logic and superstition in a dated discourse.
A citizen in Living Ky recounts a strange local family history from Danville Tri county. A widow raised an orphan boy who grew up, married her, and later the girl they raised also married him. The widow died at ninety six. within seven weeks the man she had raised married the girl, then about eighty years old and eighteen years younger.
The text argues religion must abolish dram shops to save society and souls. It rejects passive tolerance and warns that failure to act will corrupt religion, devastate industry, and harm families, urging decisive moral action.
The Secretary of the Treasury cites more than 200 million in bank notes and 241 million in gold and silver in circulation, noting uncertainty about inclusion of bank note redemptions. Meanwhile Detroit hogs sent to Buffalo via the Great Western Railroad show no arrivals, and soap maker prospects are suggested. Dayton merchant Jas. Mix closes his wholesale grocery, assigning to Israel Spencer for creditors.
An Illinois friend alleges Hiram Powers swindled a Greek girl by chiseling away a marble block. A Greencastle house owned by Dr. L. W. Berry burned last Wednesday. Mathematicians estimate the Eastern war costs Allies £60 per minute, about $300.
A concise meditation asserting that human creations arise from nature, viewed as the divine craft guiding design and beauty in all things.
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