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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1870
Page
6
A poem style scene recalls Katie Lee and Willie Grey by a silver brook. The pair share a playful courtship from youth to adulthood with a moral on carrying burdens together culminating in a cottage porch where Katie now sits with a rocking basket.
A family gathers to discuss rain and nature with Lily teaching evaporation and clouds, followed by Lucy’s lesson on a golden key of kindness. Dora learns forgiveness through a door to the heart, and scenes shift to Russian dress and summer gardens showing contrasts of climate and behavior.
A witty spoof on Victor Hugo mocks the Prussian siege rhetoric. It ends by predicting Paris could become Pekin or Porkopolis and likens the city to a sleeping giant that may awaken to fierce action. The verse uses dramatic imagery of transformation and armor to lampoon bravado.
A fragment asserts Anderson Johnson will not leave the party. It states he was always a Democrat and insists he was never a Republican, challenging party loyalty and identity.
Horace Maynard addressed the Tennessee Republican Convention and compared the Democratic State Convention resolutions committee roll to Hood’s army muster. He claimed it would rally for Nashville’s siege now that General Thomas is absent to deter them.
In Stephenson County Illinois George Thompson Clerk records a petition filed Septem ber 27 1870 requesting order and decree to sell the estate of Tenant Peck deceased to pay debts. The lands described include the northwest quarter of the north east quarter of section nineteen township twenty six range seven containing forty acres more or less. A summons was issued returnable the third Monday in November 1870 at Freeport.
Public notice in Stephenson County Illinois that complainants filed a bill of complaint in the December term 1870 and that defendants must appear on the first day of December 1870 to answer or the bill will be taken as confessed and a decree entered. Clerk William Polk and solicitor H C Hype for complainants.
Public notice states that under a September 4 1868 deed of trust Martin J Mayer pledged lands in Stephenson County Illinois to secure two promissory notes totaling eight thousand dollars. With default on interest, principal becomes due and sale is set for October 25 1870 at 11 am at the Freeport Courthouse to satisfy the notes. Trustee Oscar Taylor will conduct the sale with attorney J A Crain.
A fragmented quiz style prompt asks what better action to take this season than to go to a certain event or activity. The text hints at a perplexing question about benefit and a drawback, mentioning astronomy and benefaction in a vaguely seasonal context.
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