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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1839
Page
1
Published by Lasselle and Dillon rates set at two dollars fifty cents per year in advance, three dollars at six months, or three dollars fifty cents at year end. Terus advertising twelve lines for one dollar, continued at twenty five cents each.
Translated from the German of Seria in the Dublin Magazine. The poem exhorts happiness through nature and virtue, urging courage, purity, love, and action. It envisions triumph over sorrow, endless hopeful effort, and cheerful resilience amid fate, urging steadfast faith and joyful endurance.
A portrait of rural romance where chance meetings between workers like John and Mary spark early affection. The piece notes how farm life blends work and social bonds, shaping expectations of marriage and the unfolding of love amid gossip and curiosity.
A Philadelphia Ledger item lists curious biblical statistics including middle chapters and verses across Old and New Testaments. It notes the middle book as Proverbs and identifies specific chapters such as John 29 and Acts 17 17, with counts of words and letters.
The piece notes St Augustine Florida as the oldest town in the United States by over forty years, founded before Virginia’s colonization. It mentions some houses dating back more than three centuries, with several houses over three hundred years old.
Mr. Clay was welcomed in Buffalo on the 17th with reception by H. J. Stow, city Recorder. He delivered a formal speech praising wartime events, internal improvements, and national policies while signaling possible retirement and gratitude to the city for hospitality.
A Marseilles journal notes May as deadly for the Bonaparte family. Napoleon died May 5, 1821, Paulin Borghese May 10, 1825, Cardinal Fesch May 13, 1839, Caroline Bonaparte May 18, 1839, leaving no surviving sister of Napoleon. Living brothers are Joseph Louis Lucien and Jerome. sisters Eliza Pauline and Caroline are mentioned with Lipona title.
A London paper lauds Taglioni noting she personifies lightness and beauty beyond other emblems. The text compares her presence to a feather from a Paradise bird, a rose leaf on a window, a butterfly on a carnation, and a swallow skimming a lake.
A new Chinese sago bread creation shocks Edinburgh bakers as a cheaper, lighter, easily digested loaf. Experiments show sago-fed calves and pigs fatten well while the bread, mixed with three four parts wheaten flour, gains praise from Dr. Andrew Combe for its palatability and lack of sourness. The bread drew over five thousand applicants to the first sale, with sago priced around 21 shillings per cwt through brokers.
The text argues the early morning is the most advantageous time for physical and mental work. It cites Sir Walter Scott on finding ideas at first waking and notes improved bodily strength before breakfast, recalling lifting an anvil in youth.
The article discusses betting on elections as immoral and injurious and suggests enforcing penalties under a late Pennsylvania law. It proposes disfranchisement for bettors as a humane restraint during high excitement and cites inspectors and election judges to reject votes from those known to bet.
The text argues industry creates value without cost and frugality yields steady wealth. It contrasts diligent workers with idleness, warning poverty follows idleness. It likens religious talk to auctions signaling bankruptcy and defines happiness as a virtuous life with temperate use of outward goods.
Captain Marryatt recounts a stage coach bonnet swap between two strangers, Miss Plush and Miss Pink. The Plush bonnet is traded for four dollars plus another bonnet worth five, with playful bargaining about rain, value, and bank terms as Pink pockets the balance.
A farmer advises Tyson on buying a horse and explains how to judge age by teeth. He details tooth changes from ages two through seven, noting variation with breed, upbringing, and feeding.
Extract from Curtis on good Health urges yearly country trips for refreshment and relief from worry. It argues affordable land and water travel makes such jaunts feasible and could save money by boosting health and energy for work.
In Liberty County Georgia a northern company has filed suits for a large tract of land across Liberty and neighboring counties. The claim rests on head right grants issued by the state around 1793 to 1794.
The Huntsville Advocate urges North Alabama citizens to rally for Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river noting cotton above the Shoals sold short while lower river regions earned 13 to 15 cents per pound. It warns losses this season may reach 200000 to 300000 dollars without a market reaction abroad.
A student late at night kept a kettle on the fire to stay alert. When a thief broke in he blocked the wall opening and seized the intruder’s legs. He poured boiling water on them, the robber shouting for mercy. The student calmly said to wait until he finished pouring.
The farm of the famed Roman Cincinnatus reduced to four acres after he pledged three others as security for the thrifty Curius. Curius, a three time consul and triumphant victor, refused a fifty acre grant, deeming himself content with seven acres and a bad citizen if he sought more.
The New York Star notes Green Bay Illinois as one of America’s oldest towns, begun about three years after Philadelphia. It formed part of a French chain of military posts toward the Mississippi, aimed at linking northern and southern possessions and restricting English expansion east of the Alleghenies.
A New Orleans Bee tale describes a traveler who left New Orleans on the steamboat Diana and reached Louisville in five days eighteen and a half hours. He stayed thirty hours in Louisville and then returned to New Orleans on the steamboat Compie in four days and a half, disclosing a total journey of about three thousand miles in about eleven and a half days.
A solicitor famed for a long sharp nose warned a lady he would file a bill to settle a dispute. She retorted that she need not rise to the insult as her own wit was sharp enough already.
A village preacher on a sultry day vents at latecomers who shut the door after entering. He condemns their behavior and quips that if he preached in a bottle they would put in the cork.
Four planets have been visible every clear evening for some time Venus leads in the west while Jupiter and Mars appear in the southwest Saturn sits to the southeast. A short distance east of Jupiter lies Spica in Virgo and near Saturn toward the horizon is Antares in Scorpio.
A Baltimore woman returns a found check worth 35009 dollars and receives a one shilling reward. Reports note heavy rains in New Orleans for days. President and Mr. Forsyth plan a tour near the divide of British and American possessions. Bridgtown NJ sells mulberry trees at 62.5 cents each. Easton Army purchases 15 horses for Camp Washington averaging over 100 dollars. The Quincy Railroad in Massachusetts is cited as the first U.S. railroad, followed by the Leigh Company's line from coal mines to Mauch Chunk.
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