01 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Elyria Lorain Constitutionalist
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1871
Page
1
A bizarre spectral scene unfolds in a moonlit graveyard where skeletal figures gather, talk of decay, and a wandering coffin party clatters by. The narrator meets a coffin carrier and other corpses, each sharing eerie reminiscences of faded grandeur and crumbling tombs.
Henry Welcome, a nineteen year old, killed Perry Russell in Windsor Vermont on October 20 last. He writes a confessional sketch from prison, tracing his downfall from Sabbath school to gambling and drink, urging others to accept mercy and avoid his fate. He laments his mother’s prayers and predicts his own death by execution, pleading for warning to others.
A verbose antiquated column repackages a Cincinnati editorial on prostitution and social reform. It quotes Alderman Stems praising mercy for Magdalene figures and urges compassionate, Christian reform rather than harsh rejection. The piece also includes aphorisms on charity, virtue, and forgiveness, plus an anecdote about a college examination and a report on Ohio election returns across 1868 to 1870, noting Democratic turnout decline and urging renewed organization.
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