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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1872
Page
8
The excerpt blends a poetic meditation on a ship voyage with a sermon on family worship. It contrasts distant sea imagery and a gate of glowing portals with a call to keep morning and evening prayers, Scripture reading, and praise as vital duties. The piece urges turning worship into sincere devotion rather than a burdensome formality.
An affectionate ballad praises Daffy a beloved cat with blue eyes a white fur cloak and velvet paws. The speaker recalls mischievous frolics early fits frightening moments and hopes for a peaceful happy life beyond.
Ernest and his father read a lesson in a memorandum book as the boy wishes for each season to last forever. Each season prompts a new desire, then a reveal showing all four seasons exist to provide diverse pleasures. The father explains that only God’s plan sustains the world and urges virtue and trust.
In Louisville a German girl Catherine Melchair settled in Lockport to work for the Sharp family. After the farmer’s wife died amid suspected arsenic poisoning Catherine stayed on then wed Sharp. He died under similar symptoms, fueling rumors she used poison. Catherine later married merchant Batchelor, who also died from stomach pains. A Mason’s circle linked her to all deaths. Batchelor’s stomach poison was confirmed by analysis. Catherine Batchelor was jailed and indicted for trial.
The article notes a trial beginning in Cannelton before Judge Laird on the 29th of the month. It references a defendant described as a modern Borgia figure and mentions Mr Batchelor, known to Louisville merchants, in a context of alleged harmful actions.
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