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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1869
Page
2
A reflective reminiscence with rural imagery of attic dust and rain. The speaker recalls a bygone childhood moment by a trundle bed as a mother sings and teaches prayers. The piece ends with the mother’s memory and reverence for divine protection.
Poem recollects childhood at the village school with memory of the whitewashed building, oak shade, hawthorn hedge, and the strict teacher. It contrasts past fear with present longing, noting garbled lines and faded glory of youth and schooling days.
A long personal reminiscence follows Nannie’s childhood, lack of motherly affection, and a harsh grandmother. It traces her longing for love, an idealized knight, a Boston visit, and a pivotal moment with a stern justice by a cousin and a Mr. Marshall, leading to marriage and happiness. Also features digressions on economy and waste in furniture making and jewelry, then a meditation on a papier mache church at Bergen and the fate of materials in industrial waste.
A critique of waste in American life contrasts excess in food dress and books with industrial efficiency. The piece notes gas lighting industry waste and how chemistr y transform coal tar into thirty six marketable products, including a perfume essence derived from coal tar by druggists.
The article recalls Peter Cartwright’s fifty years as a presiding elder and sixty in ministry, recalling strict plain dress for early Methodists. He narrates a humorous conference incident about suspenders and gallows used as a fashion mockery, with Bishop McKendree and a class leader adding context to the era.
A historical excerpt compares a hero delaying to repair a horse’s broken buckle with daily life. It warns against prayerless quick starts and haste without preparation, arguing that timely, methodical work keeps one from disaster and ignominy. The lesson favors orderly readiness over precipitous action.
An orator speaks on the value of opportunity and argues that opportunity is not a prerequisite for merit. The piece cites Garrison, Phillips, Pound, White, and Kossuth as figures who created or seized chances, while noting that true merit comes from character, effort, and action rather than clamoring for chances. It ends with a reflection that those who create opportunity deserve honor.
A rural family debates borrowing bread, tools, and a hoe, while a missing butter plate reveals a humorous dispute over counts. Mrs Green dismisses a dairy’s “seventy nine platefuls” as an exaggeration, vowing not to borrow from that neighbor again.
The Pittsburg Commercial notes widespread complaints of high freight charges tied to stock watering and consolidation. It argues that watered stock and fewer competitors push prices up, urging Congress to extend protections and regulate internal commerce to curb rising costs.
A Pittsburg paper details Belle Boyd a famous Confederate figure. Her career spans fighting in male attire with her father, leading a blockaded town, perverting a naval officer, various marriages and separations, acting and reform advocacy. Now an inmate in California, described as raving mad, her volatile life ends in pity.
A New York public lecturer argues science predicts a future cataclysm. He cites earth axis oscillations over twenty-one thousand year cycles, asserting colder polar regions and warming at the South will drive immense glaciers to overbalance the planet. In six thousand three hundred years sea waters would rush northward, triggering a sudden deluge.
Jacob Wilmot, an aged man with a weathered look, appeared before the police court. He claimed to travel for observation and critiqued society, laughing at those who misuse power, marry for wealth, or elect a drunkard to office. he was dismissed.
A hotel parlor tale recounts an actress urging a reader to never attend the theatre if unvisited, reflecting on the theatre’s toll on minds and happiness. The piece widens to urge daily kindness, mutual aid, and uplifting words as a heroically Christian duty.
Maxe Home Harppy advocates at home readings declamations pantomimes and simple games as affordable, safe amusements that build love and confidence in children, keep them from roaming to vile influences, and preserve a cheerful household spirit for all ages.
The cross is a sweet burden guiding believers to glory. The writer praises following the Lamb as glorious, noting true devotion surpasses worldly ease. In trials, sins cry out, while prosperity can loosen conscience, yet the cross remains as needful as the crown will be glorious. Rutherford's Letters is cited.
The narrator recalls observing a farrier shoe a horse when the blacksmith was absent. She describes fire lighting, hot shoer nails, and the hoof’s quick, noting the unexpected skill learned by watching. The tale ends with a compliment from the blacksmith.
A fragmented passage centers on Mary and Martha dialogue about Jesus's remark that Mary chose the better part. The text discussesaces of devotion and favors from God, noting Martha and Mary’s roles and the idea that many things exist but only one is essential.
Assigner declares appointment as designee of Hy of Morelsun in Illinois, signed for bankruptcy petition in the district court. Crain Reg 8th District Illinois records status of bankruptcy matter and related designee actions.
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