30 Jun 1859
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Newspaper
Grant County Witness
Location
Platteville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1859
Page
1
A brief item noting a weekly feature titled Thursday Morning by Israel Sanderson set in Lancaster Wisconsin. The readable fragment suggests a local cultural or literary note with the author and place specified.
Official directory lists president James Tuchewan from Pennsylvania and vice president John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky with cabinet leaders in state, war, navy, treasury and interior. Also names attorney general, postmaster general, and various commissioners and Supreme Court figures amid Wisconsin and Wisconsin area state and county officers.
In a village tale Mrs. Benson mourns a late husband and pursues her daughter Florence’s romance with Charles Markham. A planned elopement leads to mistaken identities and a comic counterplan by Squire Markham, ending with a double marriage as both households wed. A later note discusses soil erosion and willow planting to stanch gullies and aid farming.
The Syracuse Standard recounts a lighthearted afternoon where Miss C a cheerful neighbor and a supper table conversation about hens and eggs leads to a pun about scared hens. Mr P teases she should visit to fix their flock and earn pay from her father.
Essex Banner notes a new article with misfits fit for general use. It claims soles of wood are elastic durable and comfortable and will replace rubbers while turning water away.
Portland correspondent reports three marriages in Corvallis where white men wed Indian squaws. the brides returned to the reservation after protest but were allowed to marry. A second item poses a math puzzle: starting with eight-year age gaps, how long must they live for the girl to reach the man's age at a constant growth rate.
A fragmentary anecdote features Rodgers responding to Hallam with bemused exchanges about greeting and self, including lines like How do you do and Feel of me and see. The piece ends with a sneer as Rodgers cannot say more.
The Milwaukee News recounts a citizen who transplanted fifty cabbage plants and left ground for fifty more. A boy offered him fifty of the same kind at a low price, which he bought only to discover they were the same plants he had just planted. One cabbage head stood ready for sour kraut.
According to Asiantic Researchers a strange practice tests title claims in Mindsostan. Two holes on the disputed spot host each side's lawyer who remains until one tires or complains of insect stings, leading to defeat for the client. The client often bears the fault in this country.
A pedant narrates a story about a scholar named Pat, framing a confused spelling moment as hostility. The tale plays on phonetics with Irish cadence, highlighting a mispronunciation and a quip about saying “hoss” versus “hostility.”
A fragmented 1850s column mixes quips on marriage, jealousy, and poetry with brief notices on politicians, travel, and commerce. It mentions Theodore Parker, J T Weadley, Astor wealth, St Anthony power, and Kossuth, alongside odd anecdotes from New York, Cincinnati, and California in a broad, locally flavored miscellany.
A rustic remedy for damaged trees suggests bark grafts with wax, cloth, and soil. Anecdotes follow of a Quaker chasing his hat, a boy joking about profanity, and a mother coaxing Charlie with candy amid a muddled Victorian tone.
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