21 Jun 1836
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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1836
Page
1
The notice sets at two dollars per year payable half yearly with an additional two dollars and fifty cents after the first year. No paper discontinued while arrears exist unless editors decide. Ads run three times for one dollar per square and twenty-five cents for each further insertion. Yearly advertisers receive a liberal discount. Country produce accepted as payment.
The piece extols Stony Point and the Hudson landscape from Weehawken northward, recounting the 1779 British capture and Washington’s stealth attack on July 16 with two forlorn hopes. It notes 63 British dead, 543 captured, and honors New England regiments while linking the site to West Point and Westchester’s neutral ground.
A narrator discovers his battered coat explaining his misadventures as the landlady imagines only the garment caused his day of trouble. The coat's reveal sheds light on civilization and human nature learned through wear.
A fierce gentleman accuses a Yankee of being an infernal scoundrel on the street. The Yankee remains calm, quipping that the truth is not always spoken, and the discussion unfolds with sharp witticisms about being called a calf and the bounds of truth in court.
A Rhode Island incident in Providence County shows a Yankee challenged by a local crowd to be flogged using a cow skin. The attacker is dispersed by being doused from a pump as bystanders condemn cruelty. The report condemns similar acts in Foster and notes a fatal neglect case.
A rustic loyalist verse hails liberty and tribute to heroes. The text invokes the Chief of the plough and the Son of the West, praising freedom, paying homage to Andy and Kinderhook, and to Bailie Nichol Jarvie with lines of toasts and farewell Ballad style.
A correspondent recounts Gen. Harrison's conflict with Croghan during the 1813 Sandusky siege. The narrator disputes a newspaper slander, details Croghan's arrest and later release, and narrates the evacuation plan from Lower Sandusky after spying reports and Brock’s letters.
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