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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1855
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising terms for The Decent Dollar Jovenal including rates for one square ten lines for three insertions and longer spans. It notes prices per year and half and full column durations, with ads continuing until forbidden at the advertiser's expense if no end date is given.
Poem fragment laments longing for a beloved as stars illuminate the night. The speaker asks the beloved to bend eye and heart, imagining thoughts as waves and dreams guiding through sleep. Refrains of sacred thoughts surpass daylight, likening the beloved to a star and angel.
Linda Ray a bright and beloved young woman near forty in the April tale appears promised to Slo cum, an embryo lawyer of modest means. A stranger rescues Linda from a runaway horse and she falls under the spell of the handsome stranger. The suitor disappears, Linda faces a moral test and wedlock nears. Slocum inherits wealth from an uncle, travels to Europe, and returns to find Linda married to the uncle who posed as the rescuer. The twist shatters him and ends in a grave fever.
The Countess of Westmoreland, daughter of London banker Child, inherited wealth on a condition she marry a mechanic who had served seven years as an apprentice. The Earl of Westmoreland married her, waited seven years, learned saddlery with Mr Polloc, and proved his skill, securing the fortune for the couple.
An Irishman appeared at the Chillicothe, Ohio polls with papers to vote but was challenged. He left, returned with documents, and the judges found the papers to be a dummy from the New Jersey Penitentiary, prompting silent laughter from the officials.
The National Council report details a sharp North versus South clash over platform adoption. Northern delegates, led by Henry Wilson, Wythe Gardiner, and Colfax, rally to unite with firm resolve, while New York’s delegation is portrayed as treacherous. A late-night council row over a leak ends with exoneration, and Indiana and Ohio emerge strong in support of the majority platform.
The Evansville Journal asserts Indiana free banks remain sound with almost no suspended notes in circulation. The Auditor of State plans to redeem circulating notes at par after July 1 for banks with securities other than Indiana stocks. The paper warns current circulation is small but should expand as crops mature and confidence returns.
Arrest of Richard Miller for intoxication led to a Liquor Law trial behind the mayor. Martin Hughes fined fifty dollars after testimony about a drinking house behind Hurley House. John Lynch also fined fifty dollars. The West and its People notes praise from Mrs. E Oakes Smith Bayard Taylor on western character plus a humorous anecdote about a farmer and a wily landlord and a lawyer’s advice.
The first Evansville case under the new law saw Dr. Woolsey arraigned for selling 10 cents worth of alcohol. The court ruled lack of intent to violate, fine $20. A nearby druggist narrowly avoided arrest on the law’s first day. Druggists warned to beware.
The Reporter editor Edmund Burke harshly denounces Mr. Pierce as a third rate New Hampshire County Court lawyer and a pretender to national leadership. The Bloomington Newsletter names Henry A Wise of Virginia as its presidential candidate in a related note.
Barnum announces his candidacy for the United States presidency. He declares a platform aimed at reform and progress, and signals intent to seek the Republican nomination amid a crowded field and public curiosity.
The Chicago Journal details Rev. Father Cavanaugh’s drunken escapade Friday night. After causing a disturbance at the Matteson House and Tremont, he was detained by officers Noyes and Melvin and fined $10 plus costs, or $13.50, for his spree.
A severe shower of rain and hail struck a Louisville Courier report in Shelby County Kentucky on Monday afternoon. Trees were uprooted and fences washed away as floods swept through the area. Damage is estimated at 100000 dollars. In a Bagdad railroad cut water ran above the car tucks as rails entered the flowing flood. Capt Taliaferro and others noted the storm lasted only a few minutes yet filled gullies and dry stream beds with three to four feet of water and hail drifts five to six feet high.
While the Erie railroad was built through Allegany Reservation a Moran child was born bearing undeniable marks of mixed extraction. The dusky grandparent received fifty hours as settlement and celebrated with a rhapsodic remark praising the baby and the fifty dollars, calling the infant a fine baby and noting the engineer portion.
Mrs Partington declares in a satirical aside that a resolution between the United States and the South will come before the Kansas issue is settled. A French proverb warns that worldly noise drowns divine thunder. The text advises clear bargains when buying, hiring, or postponing disputes.
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