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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1853
Page
2
The Fremont Journal reflects on Christmas and the season’s meaning, cites religious reflection on Christ’s birth, and recounts local items. A cabinet shop fire causes modest loss, and a public dispute over a recent fight is discussed with moral commentary. Other notes mention Union School progress, a proposed Night Watch, and regional railroad optimism.
The Journal discusses poetry as a noble art but critiques pretenders who follow rigid rules. It extols true poets who feel nature and beauty deeply, naming classic figures like Shakespeare Byron Virgil Horace and Ossian. It notes a 1853 prospectus for Life and Death and outlines a religious logic quiz, hinting at a forthcoming convention and speaker Mr.
Dialogical excerpt questions whether the righteous go to heaven at death, if they sleep until Christ comes, and whether a preprepared place exists for the Devil and his servants. It asserts that the devil will inhabit the new heaven and earth after the resurrection never leaving this planet.
The text presents a series of religious propositions about Sabbath observance, the seventh day, and whether it was ever changed to Sunday, followed by questions on baptism as a divine ordinance, immersion versus sprinkling, and authority from scripture. It notes the author’s aim to publish an 800 page volume around one dollar per copy, contingent on 600–700 subscribers this winter, authored by the writer of Poetical Miscellany and Worlds Wonders.
Boston reports the Niagara sailed at noon for Liverpool carrying four passengers and 509000 dollars in gold. A ice accident near Cambridge drowned Miss Peck, daughter of Abel Peck. The Whigs seek a mayoral candidate with Seaver denying candidacy. State election returns show 21 Whig and 10 Coalitionist senators, 10 vacancies. legislature will have 40 Whigs and 10 Coalitionists.
The Thulond Company finished a bridge at Marbor Creek yesterday but it was burned soon after. The marshal will serve papers on those destroying Railway Company property. A railroad meeting is scheduled today. If repairs restore the line to Evie and Northeast Railroad, the city may threaten to tear up Western Railroad tracks.
A mob of about three hundred rioters, described as the lowest of the groggeries, tears up the track and burns bridges on the Western road calming travel toward the Ohio State line. Erie Council rescinds actions appointing Moyer and Lowene to meet railroad agents in New York, signaling continued dispute and joint city negotiations.
Eight dwellings on Brooklyn Heights Colon ado Row burned, estimated loss about one hundred thousand dollars. Three wooden houses on Water ington Street near Myrtle Avenue also destroyed.
Cincinnati Market notes firm Hog tonnage with 5500 head at 4 25 and 100000 pounds of clear sides at 69, 100 barrels clear pork at 6 12 75. Receipts up to today reveal a deficiency of 62000 compared with last year per the Price Current.
New York Market report dated December 20 notes sales of 16,600 barrels of flour at various state and regional prices, wheat and corn trading with mixed and yellow varieties, pork and beef prices quoted, and lard around 104 cents. The piece also covers a local Georgia legislative proposal to rename a person, flour prices in St Paul, and mentions emigration effects. It discusses cholera trends in New Orleans and annexation debates over the Sandwich Islands with arguments for and against, plus general 19th century political discourse and a holiday column.
A California map by the State Surveyor General is issued, claims to be the most accurate yet. Report details include Cosumnes Falls, Yerba Buena cemetery encroachments, rising land grabs in Sacramento journalism, and soaring hack rates in San Francisco, plus notes on music uses, a serenade incident, and New York real estate leases and bank building costs.
Letter from Mure Tentinony Loom of New York dated April 85 1851 commends Oxygenated Bitters for immediate relief after eating. User reports stronger digestion and health improvements, recommending publication. Signed by M. Cheury Reed Bates and Austin, with wholesale druggists Buckland Co offering bottles at five shillings.
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