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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1855
Page
1
An obscure notice appears from DeWry's Building about a publication rate of one dollar per annum. It mentions stairs and a person named Dottan Jovanat and hints at payments or receipts but remains unclear and fragmentary.
Fragmented poem excerpt recounts a speaker resisting temptation from a shining cup of wine and gold. It contrasts youthful memory and home with the lure of worldly fame and deceit, depicting a serpent in a reflective, mournful tone. The piece laments lost truth and love to worldly winning and Christian allegory.
Westport reports Governor Shannon denounces mob rule while endorsing Kansas laws and Slavery expansion. The piece accuses him of cowardice and claims he serves Pierce administration aims to suppress Free Soil opinion, with critique of Missouri citizen Legislation and election manipulation in Kansas.
The article denounces a Democratic Administration that vows to enforce violent anti abolitionist laws in Kansas. It claims the President supports slavery through mocked legality, promising to lynch and terrorize opponents, with a governor pushing to spread slavery across the territory. The piece frames these acts as a national threat and calls them a legal veneer for mob rule.
The Evansville Journal reports Lieut. Governor Willard denied casting a vote to retain the cider sale provision of the Prohibitory Law. The piece notes prior charges, cites the February 6 1855 journal with a 32 to 23 or 23 to 23 split, and highlights the contentious motion to recommit and table related to cider.
The record shows Mr. Drew moved to recommit with instructions to strike out cider from prohibition. The vote to lay the motion on the table was carried by the casting vote of Lieut. Governor Willard, keeping the most stringent provision in the bill. The article notes old line liquor dealers defended Willard while denouncing the bill.
The Lafayette Courier ridicules the old line platform describing it as a fid dle saddle and a know nothing document. It claims the document does not endorse Pierce Wright Pettit Bright Stringfellow Atchison Douglas or any figure and offers no clear stance on temperance politics or national issues.
The Midway post master Dukes was arrested Saturday on charges of mail robbery. Long suspicion surrounded him as bait drops and careful watching detected large sums taken from mails passing through the post office at Midway, according to the Laf. Gazette.
A humorous exchange pits beliefs between a man and his neighbor. They each claim to share the church’s beliefs, but the dialogue reveals a circular confusion about who believes what. The joke hinges on the smooth self reference of shared conviction.
The piece notes a growing trend of attaching titles to male names across professions and classes. It laments the loss of propriety, sees many men styled as Hon or Esquire as improper, and cites a fiddler offended when not labeled Professor.
A Missouri Democrat correspondent recounts the death of Logan Fontanelle of the Omahas at Wolf River Kansas Territory on August 4. He led a night escape from Sioux pursuers, feigning trails with fires, outmaneuvering them until he died fighting a final stand. A Sioux onslaught ended with Fontanelle slain and scalped amid a war dance.
A reflective meditation on mystery surrounding human perception and knowledge. The author compares a infant’s world to a universe of unknowns, noting how even common sights tease with hidden depths. The passage likens human understanding to travelers in a wilderness facing dim rocks and unseen creatures beyond the light.
A Persian poet extols the heavens as a pen point of God's perfection and the world as a bud from His beauty. He says the sun is a spark of His wisdom and the sky a bubble on the sea of His power, noting beauty free from sin and reflections on each atom.
In a tale from the Second District a woman defends her home after thieves invade. She fights off one intruder with a swift blow and later escapes by jumping beneath her bed as accomplices flood the scene. She notes the nuisance of mosquitoes in her quip. The account is attributed to a Crescent City reader.
A humorous male speaker extols women in a breezy dialect, claiming they are first in love quarrels dancing and dessert, with playful reflections on nursemaids mothers and the care they provide from childhood to adulthood. He praises women’s influence in daily life.
A reflective piece stressing that religion starts at home and the fireside shapes the soul. It emphasizes the family as a holy sanctuary, with the home guiding eternal education and love from the family altar outward into the world.
A Rome Georgia jury verdict mocks a scene with odd phrasing and garbled names. The document claims Abe Johnson seeks payment of a posttrial sum and features surreal wording about licker and hosts.
The text notes that beauty and fame often accompany falsehoods and fibbing tendencies. It remarks that even the prettiest girls may be praised for lies, while a flirt can generate many white lies beyond measure. It urges readers to stay vigilant and perceptive.
A cautionary line laments lack of newspapers and literacy. It voices a rural, archaic warning about Samivel and his father’s marriage to a woman who read none, portraying him as ignorant like a horse.
A thirteen year old girl from Hartford Connecticut is described as a splendid swimmer and diver who boldly jumps into the water from a thirty foot high pier. She is not wearing a bathing dress on the occasion.
A young man obsessed with blue eyes and dangerous attractions ignores rents marketing and medical bills. He focuses only on love and marriage while other practical concerns slip from his mind.
Members of parliament reflect on duty and pay, expressing improved morale and public service motivation amid parliamentary duties. The discussion centers on remuneration's impact on focus and dedication to constituents.
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