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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1870
Page
3
A fragmentary alarm speaks of escalating debts and rising interest, warning that more demands will arrive swiftly. It notes that even those currently owing struggle to begin paying as additional charges accumulate, reflecting tense financial pressures.
A poem laments despotism and calls for lifting the downtrodden. It rejects riches won by blood and insists on feeding the people with knowledge and freedom. The speaker denounces tyranny, urges solidarity, and pleads for a peaceful, educated triumph that honors human toil.
In a snowy tale a village doctor helps a traveler through a blizzard to the doctor’s cottage at the edge of the woods. After delivering aid to a sick woman, the doctor struggles in darkness and whiteout on the way home, braving the storm with courage and resolve.
A doctor and his horse Nellie wander in a snowbound night mistaking their direction toward Chestnut Ridge eight miles away. Nellie chooses her own road and the doctor camps with blankets. the dog alerts as Nellie leads them back to their yard by dawn.
Henry Ward Beecher frames self denial as elevating the higher instincts, not starving the body. True self denial arises when one overrides selfish impulses to help others, relieve misery, or honor a rival’s success, fostering brotherhood over envy. No extreme penance is required. everyday choices define denials.
The passage offers humorous cautions and rules for women seeking a spouse, warning that jealousy, beards, and pre marriage admiration may reappear as faults post marriage. It mocks trial-like expectations, urges choosing a virtuous partner with pluck, and ends with a humane note to study nature for humility.
In the Georgia Constitutionalist a tale of General Willich captured at Murfreesboro and brought to Chattanooga as a guest of the Provost Marshal. He recounts his ride to the front, mistaken prigates, and a pistol at his head before marching to Chattanooga. Also notes the death of Hillsboro editor Dennis Hart, 4% native of Connecticut, who founded the Hillsboro Newsorder in 1920 and ran it until about a year ago.
A reflective sketch describes swallows departing at September’s approach and the mystery of their migration. It recalls instances of swallows returning to familiar nests, notes old birds staying true, and contrasts human vanity with animal wonders, urging study of living creatures around us.
In a brisk meditation on how naming shapes judgment, the piece contrasts terms for vice from theft to bribery across cultures, notes auctioneers’ deft phrasing, and recalls a famed attorney whose precise word choices and habit of writing motions on scraps of paper reveal a relentless care for language and memory.
A Boston Journal correspondent recalls Ed ward Everett and Daniel Webster Choate sharing memory feats. Everett stored sermons by memory and used notes only to calm nerves, while Choate recalled exact book locations and even the precise volume needed for a silk manufacture article in a library.
The Nebrew National of London cites six million Jews worldwide. Despite relentless persecution across Europe from Solomon’s era to the present, their numbers have hardly changed. The piece notes the halt of broad persecutions yet observes no large population growth and calls the continued endurance a miracle, awaiting explanation for the differing growth rates.
A Beech er inspired column argues heaven hosts varied roles beyond singing, noting souls retain earthly intellect and social duties. It urges humane conduct, kindness, and integrity, warning against gossip and contraband gossip while stressing character by public and private esteem. The piece quotes W Curtis and reflects on moral tests by those around us. It also notes famine in Algeria reducing cavalry horses, Handcock’s return to Sioux City, and Indian policy, plus a Portland wedding gift broom with a quatrain about using its ends.
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