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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1855
Page
1
A fragment from an April 1855 Fremont Journal poem titled The Coquette describes a laughing girl dreaming of fate tonight. She glides through hail with summer light in her eyes while suitors whisper of her grace. The speaker notes her artful charm and asks how much value lies in Awwman love.
The Annual of Scientific Discovery notes a sex relation law: male births exceed female by about 4 percent, shifting balance with age. At 20 more females, at 40 more males, near equal by 70. Censuses 1340 and 1850 support it. Beyond 40, longevity favors women. mortality is high for women 2 to 40. Some women live past 100, with 430 centenarian women in America.
Site of London covers 78 529 acres and 122 square miles with about 2 362 239 inhabitants on the last census day. A wall surrounding the metropolis would require four wide gates and four columns to evacuate, implying vast crowd movement across the city. Also notes on a New Hampshire widow interring her late husband and three others in a cemetery with a single monument. Tom Thumb marries in Webster Connecticut, secrecy breached by guests. Judge Kent remarks on avoiding evil by listening to one's wife.
June 15 1855 Fremont Ohio report from Rockville Conn Gazette on Barnum style display of human curiosities and the loss of letters in post offices. It details mail mishandling at mills and offices, cases of money and valuables found, and public condemnation of the exhibition as a desecration, with notes on affected families and the wider debate over slavery politics in Ohio.
The passage blends a poetic meditation on woods with a stark Plymouth accident report. It describes Felix Ross and Ezekiel in a well near a farm, the boy guarding a ladder, a gas-filled air chamber, and the men dying from asphyxiation before rescue. It notes their ages, beliefs, and the community's sorrow, linking nature’s beauty to a grim rural disaster.
In Cleveland the American party adopted a platform on Slavery that alarmed the Slave Democracy. The Statesman quipped of exposing the opposition, while nodding to the contentious Nebraska issue. The commentary likens political rhetoric to Irish soldiers boasting after a capture, forecasting a tense October for Ohio politics.
A contentious extract discusses slaveholders celebrating Wise and Virginia gains, opposing abolitionism, and contrasting Locofoco and Know Nothing positions. It cites Southern triumphs, Northern reactions, and Kansas Nebraska politics, noting the Sag Nichts secrecy in Louisville and a Wisconsin Supreme Court election defining anti slavery stances.
A Doexter of Greenham Mills near Newbury shorn two South Down sheep at five in the morning. Wool processed to a damser colored coat by six thirty that evening. Worn at an evening party by Sir Johe Throckmorton. A wealth of guineas won for speed. the beard of a banquet and a swift tale of industry. The passage ends with reflections on childhood discipline and a notice of LW. Martyn’s death in Shanghai.
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