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Newspaper
Erie Observer
Location
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1850
Page
1
The passage speaks of little children and their bewildered years as they struggle with changing feelings. It evokes the riddle of youth, beauty surrounding them, and thoughts springing from deep sources, comparing inner mystery to strange visions and temptations.
In a village by Lake Ericy a mob hanged a presumed murderer after a stormy vigil. A young lawyer pleaded for mercy. The victim died adrift in a boat as the crowd faced divine judgment. One survivor later recounted his escape and later life. A former detainee, now aged, roams the lake shore seeking truth.
In Warwick township a pair of wood choppers cutting a rotted tree uncovered three chestnuts near the center of the trunk. The chestnuts looked fresh and sound as if recently taken from a parent tree. The tree's age is recorded as 58 and growth suggests about six hundred fifty years in the wood interior. How the chestnuts survived in a sealed interior remains a curious mystery.
A damaged OCR fragment presents arcing images of moonlight fire and Eden gates. The text mentions a placid scene between love and kin, a sheltered flower, wanderers of the field, and a fairest child. Ponderous, archaic language hints at nostalgia and beauty without clear narrative.
In a perilous episode during the Peninsula campaign, Morillo commanding about four thousand Spaniards with Penne Villamur cross the Portuguese frontier into the Lower Guadiana to strike Seville as Soult moves to aid Badajos. A feint misleads Ballasteros, and a brutal execution order unfolds, including a boy offering to die for his wounded prisoner father, Morillo ordering the ear severed, and a grim display of wartime cruelty amid shifting schemes and reprisals.
Morillo declares a father dangerous to Spain and orders his execution after a boy pleads for mercy. A maimed child witnesses the father's death as the grim question of war's cruelty and its heroic myths lingers.
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