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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1856
Page
1
Fragmentary poem recalling a father blessing a son and promising heavenly reunion. The speaker reflects on sorrow, endurance, and the comfort of faith as they endure poverty and toil for daily bread. A wistful meditation on filial love and death.
In 1853 in Scotland two travellers hear a young woman by a hillside spring Lucia Hannah who aids a wounded man, Donald Alleyne. She nurses him, their quiet bond grows into love, social obstacles arise, and after a year apart he returns to claim her as his bride.
A long letter from Rev. Thomas Trusos of London praises Anglo American harmony and religious philanthropy. It lauds William Sears and British readers for endorsing American religious works and urges continued cooperation in Bible, missions, and commerce to uplift both nations.
A loaded dueling pistol confrontation erupts at dinner aboard a river steamer near Natches under-the-hill. A quiet New Orleans merchant challenges a gambler who draws pistols, threats a calm stance, and orders the guns removed by a Negro attendant as the ship’s passengers watch in stunned silence. The scene ends with the gambler disarmed and the old man returning to his meal, a dramatic moment captured in Brewerton’s War in Kansas.
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