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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1871
Page
3
A long fragmentary poem by Henry Winthrop Gray, Wall Street banker, praising steadfast love and mourning absence. The verse muses on fidelity, longing, and sacrifice amid worldly distraction, with reflections on youth, home, and a future child.
In a rural, melodramatic tale, Agatha Jefferson mourns her uncle’s papers being sold for four cents a pound. After a family rift, Hugh Darwin and Agatha disguise themselves as rag-pickers, recover the hoard, and reveal seven hundred dollars in bank notes, ensuring Agatha’s upcoming marriage while Uncle Philemon dies peacefully and the couple begins a simple life in a small cottage.
In associating with able men we note that each man may indicate a vein of material in his connexions. Blood relationship is an uncertain index yet offers a probability of congenial talents to invite inquiry from the statesman eager to explore them.
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