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Newspaper
Fremont Weekly Freeman
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1850
Page
1
An 1850 Fremont notice discusses friendship as a serious life choice. It argues observation and experience show we imitate those we love, shaping virtue or vice. It urges selecting mild, generous companions to sustain connections, with reflections on happiness, knowledge, and social esteem. Hawthornaye, Fremont, August 14, 1850.
A fragmentary verse scene shows a noblewoman beseeching a king or lord. She pleads for forgiveness and fidelity as she contemplates fate, love, and the vowed bond. The speaker seeks blessing from a Father and asks for enduring happiness beyond parting.
A mother tells a haunting tale to a child about Jesus dying for them and going to heaven. The dialogue centers on love, salvation, and the hope of reunion, ending with a puzzled vendor and a cryptic remark about engagement.
In a remote Scottish Highlands setting a lord watches as his daughter elopes with a harp player. After the lover is killed, the daughter hides in a convent and the lord is haunted by a lantern-bearing old woman who reappears every third evening. The knight eventually discovers the daughter dead in a cavern and dies beside his loyal hounds, his daughter buried nearby as the lantern light fades. An eccentric New Orleans bachelor and a miscellany of society notes follow in the issue.
A southern correspondent recalls a small farmer whose habits once led him home drunk. His wife urges the pledge. he delays until a near drowning in a well prompts swift reform. She jokes that gradual change failed until the rescue, then hauls him out and he agrees to sign.
A runaway telegraph train near Gravesend was saved by swift actions of a driver and railway superintendent. Telegraphs alerted London. the pursuing engine halted the runaway before reaching Woolwich then London. The incident underscores the line’s safety and the high potential cost if the train had escaped.
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