23 Jan 1845
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Newspaper
Guernsey Jeffersonian
Location
Washington, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1845
Page
1
A humorous verse scene describes a speaker who laments many admirers who never propose. Mr. Riley visits nightly for supper and to dose, smiling and sighing as others fail to pop the question. The speaker ruminates on being poetized and paragraphed while suitors vow yet do not propose.
Rolf crafts a comic ruse provoking chaos at the Golden Eagle as he feigns misbehavior, prompts a mad scramble by staff and guests, and ends by paying for breakfast to secure future patronage from the landlady and innkeepers. The scene features Boniface, the landlady, and a visiting baroness, culminating in Rolf’s calm exit with a purse and a pledge of support.
A Raleigh area tale describes Ben Sykes stealing a license to marry Sally to Gretna squire Moody. Sally’s suitor Bill Patterson challenges Ben, is beaten, and the license is used to wed Sally and Ben. Moody pronounces them husband and wife amid quibbles over the license.
A London Magazine piece based on Rev Leigh Richmond's account recalls the Duke of Kent's deathbed moment with the infant princess. The chaplain prayed that if she became queen, she would rule in the fear of God, then asked for the child to be removed. The royal child later ascended the throne, and many foresee the fulfillment of that benediction.
A temperance meeting in Ta Lock Tavern Pa features an old distiller turned teetuaker claiming to have taken one hundred seventy dead rats from a whiskey refiner. A fiery Whig and a Democrat quarrel over foreigners ruling, Irish Democrats preferred to British Whigs. A clergyman and a skeptic clash over knowledge of life after death with a sharp retort.
Historic sketch recalls Col Isaac Hayne of South Carolina and his 1781 execution by British forces. His wife died in war’s hardship and his eldest son accompanied him to the gallows. The boy's distraught last witness endures a devastating farewell and dies insane shortly after.
The Goshen paper notes poultry as farm stock value with a farmer reporting 80 to 100 hens producing 7 080 eggs in 10 months, about 11 dozen per dozen and roughly 70 dollars. eggs may be half to two thirds more profitable than pork. A Port Carbon shoemaker, Iver Hoover, is told a German will left Schafler one and a half million dollars, making Hoover the heir to a large fortune.
A farmer reports a simple cheap method to protect grain by placing garlic in the bottom of grain stacks. He notes that since adopting the practice, vermin problems have ceased and previous stacks yielded many rats and mice when broken down. The item urges readers to consider the method though unsure how widespread adoption is.
A French inventor named Jona, living in Poland, has devised a new horse shoe or sandal that covers the entire hoof with smooth iron, requires no nails or screws, and is said to be lighter and cheaper. The Emperor rewards him with fifty thousand rubles and a patent. The method reportedly restores damaged hooves quickly and is being adopted across Russia. The article also comments on widows, noting young widows’ attention to dress and their social charm, and questions why a second wife may be better prepared for the second marriage.
The trial of W S Moore, the man who fired a pistol in the House of Representatives on April 23, ended in a verdict after a crowded session. He was found guilty of assault upon William C McCausten but not guilty of intent to kill, and not guilty on the second indictment regarding John L Wirth and Joseph Bradley.
A coffer dam around the vessel at the foot of the Dander berg mountains on the Hudson River is nearly finished. Water will be pumped out around February 1 using a steam engine at 36 barrels per minute. A recovered gun suggests an old vessel. Elderly workers are engaged in the operation.
A Harmess Kearback notes a dispute over Mr. Clay’s postage spending quoted by Whig papers. The Lexington post office reports total postage received in 1844 as 9 990 98 dollars, slightly less than claimed, prompting no further comment.
For dancers we publish a cotillion guide detailing couple positions and figures amid lively instructions. The Mills shop at Wheel ing faced repeated burglaries and a self-inflicted chest wound from a pistol trap, leaving him critically injured. The Lexington correspondent quashes Mr. Clay comeback claims, declaring his public career finished.
A collage of brief items notes political loyalties and figures, local curiosities, economic data, and human interest quips. It mentions federal papers backing President Clay, a Boston bell, canal plans from Mad River to Dayton, wheat storage in Chicago, slave and non slave state church counts, presidential progeny notes, state constitutional politics in Illinois and Louisiana, tea consumption, a slander verdict, a long rattlesnake in Evansville, candidates in Tennessee, bets on Cass, snuff jokes, cheap manure methods, peach tree care, modest ladies, marriage jokes, French language reluctance, and odd household remedies. It preserves a bustling, miscellany tone with many named places and persons.
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