23 May 1855
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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1855
Page
1
A reflective verse explores memory and longing as past hours’ songs stir dreaming. The speaker contrasts inward joy with the real world, hearing home voices, loved smiles, and prayers while acknowledging the veil of seeming life. Tears and farewells mingle with music in a nocturnal contemplation.
Descriptive verse and garbled quotes describe countryside scenes and a city, with stray lines about Louisville and Detroit Advertiser correspondent. The text blends spring imagery with incomplete notes and nonsensical phrases, lacking a coherent news item or reportable action.
Orrics the DEWEY'S Building upstairs on the Public Square publishes the Delphi Dollar Journal every Wednesday morning at one dollar per year payable in advance. Shorter subscriptions under three months are accepted.
Officers of the sloop-of-war Decatur report a two week stay with a previously unknown civilization on a Terre del Fuego island. The inhabitants mix athletic, tall men and beautiful women, temples, and a strict priesthood. They describe their ancient temple, diet, and secluded, contemplative life.
An 1840s style discussion credits the Gulf Stream with warming the Atlantic and shaping Britain’s climate, while detailing its voyage from the Amazon, impacts on New York ice-free harbors, and historical sailing routes. It notes the stream’s protective heat and notes on voyage times from Europe to New York. Also included are moral meditations on death from Albany Register and the Feb May 2 date context.
A Woods town lodge hires Mrs. K to clean their room while a guardian hides a billy goat in a closet to tempt her. He hints the closet contains lodge secrets, tied to Masons and Morgan, prompting her curiosity about the forbidden space and its mysteries.
The Berlin press recounts the final illness and funeral rites for the Russian emperor. The body lay in state in Princess Olga's chamber, embalmed and veiled in gold cloth. Three priests planned the mass while immense crowds filed past and mourned, kneeling before the coffin as the Empress prayed by the grave.
The passage notes a medieval law under Henry V that punished reading Scripture in the mother tongue with forfeiture of land, cattle, life, and heirs for heresy. It contrasts this with a later revolution in public opinion, with Scriptures translated into many languages and widely distributed worldwide.
A collection of riddles and wordplay about ladies, a kiss, a gallon, bare versus bear, bedstead versus bugggy, music and vegetables, Noahs ark, Napoleon, a scolding wife, and wagons. The humor relies on puns and double meanings with quick punchlines.
An odd, incomplete line compares girls to peaches and hints at nearing ripeness. The text is cut and provides no clear event, names, places, or dates. It reads as a stray opinion or fragment rather than a reportable item.
A succinct adage notes virtue and honesty attract praise beyond genuine practice, warning that appearance often exceeds actual conduct. The quote underscores a moral gap between talk and action without naming individuals or events.
A Black man attends a Portland church and faces hostility over his pew. The neighbor insists on knowing who owns it, mislabels him, and learns he is a Haitian and a valued correspondent worth a million dollars, prompting an introduction.
In a shipboard exchange a captain asks about the length and kind of wood being cut. The chopper replies with casual confidence that the cord wood has been cut to four feet, prompting the captain to inquire further about the timber type.
A narrator asks an old man why his beard is darker than his gray head hair. The elder replies that his beard is twenty years younger, explaining the difference in graying between beard and scalp.
A man visits a piloting office asking for a newspaper to read, explaining he enjoys newspapers but neighbors refuse to share. The incident highlights a desire for reading material amid local stinginess.
Mrs Partington laments rampant bleeding in California as newspapers report another vein opened, reflecting public alarm and sensationalism in the era.
Sally Jones compares her first love to a tunnel with a train of cars rushing from both directions, describing the overwhelming sensation and emotional rush.
A woman reported her daughter suffered severe erysipelas. After using a cranberry poultice recommended by a New Haven editor, the disease halted and a second poultice cured it.
Oresteés A. Brown son, a noted Roman Catholic writer, lectured in New Orleans. The Creole reports his view that the church must become arbiter between state and subjects, guard individuals with a flaming sword, and construe constitutions to determine centralized power limits and its duties.
The Albion Spirit reports A. J. Davis the seer will marry Miss Robinson, former wife of Mr. Love and mother of two. Enamored at a Woman's Rights Convention, Davis and allies pursued a divorce for her, and they have reportedly succeeded.
In a domestic exchange Mrs Feazle asks for a five pound note to buy a dress. Her husband, recalling a quarrel, refuses then proposes a ten pound note as a compromise. The couple's playful banter shifts the offer from denial to a larger gift.
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