10 Jun 1848
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1848
Page
1
A fragmented newspaper ad outlines publication terms paid in advance and per insertion, listing yearly and overdue rates, discounts for yearly advertising, and rates for three weeks and individual squares. The text reflects period pricing and formatting conventions.
Poem urges sparing birds and cherishing gentle creatures and flowers. It links bird song to comfort for farmers, mothers, the sick, and children, suggesting nature as a mercy since paradise was lost.
The writer celebrates brave deeds in Mexico and asks that peace come soon. The poem calls for courage and loyalty to country, hoping the current war will be the final one. It envisions hosts returning with torn banners and a world at peace. Cambridge. WaAveE.
Theodore Hook and a Mr Hatchet share a dining exchange with playful sharp exchanges. Hook quips that a Hatchet table yields only a chop, while the host laments a rare future for such dinners.
Details of General Winfield Scott’s exit from Mexico City on April 21 1848 with army cheers and farewell scenes. The dispatch notes the emotional parting, Scott’s passage to Vera Cruz, and reflections on his campaigns from San Juan de Ulúa to Cerro Gordo, plus later domestic anecdotes and electoral remarks from New Orleans Delta correspondents.
A printer’s error in an English newspaper caused a false abdication tale of the King of Prussia. An excited operator misread a dispatch, first claiming the king had gone to Pot, then correcting it to Potsdam as the dial shifted.
The article notes four new states added to the Union since the last presidential election, bringing fifteen electoral votes. It recaps 1844 results with the Clay and Polk tickets, listing each state and their electoral contributions and totals.
A curious note describes a printer as a creature of paradoxes capable of owning wealth without value and cars without wives or children. He can perform odd feats such as extracting truth while others stumble, using furniture without dwelling, and pressing a great deal without asking favors. He may handle a shooting iron yet know nothing of cannons, move the lever moving worlds while distant from global motion, and sleep on a bed but live on a floor. He remains bound to earthly tasks yet remains free from jail, detesting monks while visiting hell and yet remaining a Christian.
The piece argues that river and harbor improvements threaten national prosperity and urges unified federal effort. It recalls a 1846 47 Chicago convention with leaders like Silas Wright and Lewis Cass, noting Cass declined attendance to pursue Southern votes.
A greedy merchant kept the wage of a tired day laborer and fined him for beer theft after the wife gave a drink. The laborer faced jail but was discharged. the merchant was fined fifty pounds for selling beer without a license, with the informer receiving a third.
The Irishman Poor Tom Steele who attempted suicide by leaping from Waterloo Bridge into the Thames has been set at liberty after examination by Bow Street Police. He gave his word and security of friends to resist despair and thanked those who saved him from a watery grave.
A Paris club scene features an orator calling for thirty thousand heads, laughed down. A pacific hatter reframes the demand as trading heads for thirty thousand hats, distributing business cards to the crowd as humor and wit ease the moment. The second portion cites New York Shaker rules lampooning orderly conduct in various social and legislative missteps.
A Sunday incident in Hadnots Carteret County North Carolina recounts Mr Wilson Chance guiding his son Henry and three Mably brothers Isaiah James and Henry to a bee tree. After eating honey two boys Isaiah and Henry went blind then recovered. James died after eating bee bread. The report urges caution and scientific study.
In Wayne county New York a famed knocking at a house is explained by a man sitting on a bed and moving slightly causing the sound. A skeptic duplicates the effect when taking the bed’s place. the bed is moved and the knocking stops, revealing credulity as moonshine.
A suggestion circulates that birch rods provide the best material for baby jumppers. Proponents cite strength and spring, while critics warn of safety concerns and parental caution.
A moral exhortation urges constant presence of goodness to purify thoughts and actions. It suggests a wife can influence her husband away from vice through love and kindness, transforming the home atmosphere into one of truth and beneficent influence.
A Tuscarora militia parade turned violent as sentries halted revelers causing a clash between Germans and Irish. Dozens injured with serious cases reported. several prosecutions begun. Separately Captain Taylor reports a pirate chase at sea near lat 23 39, long 72 40, by a brig flying false colors.
An erratic madman confronts Mann on a narrow path carrying a large stick. Mann replies with a pun calling himself a double man. The insane man declares himself a mana beside myself and the two prepare to fight, knocking Mann into a ditch before leaving.
A quoted exchange shows a parent pressing for corporal punishment while the son resists, claiming he will try to manage without it. The dialogue highlights tensions between authority and youth independence in a household.
Major Bliss attended ceremonies in New Orleans to be honored by the city, accompanied by his former commander Gene Taylor. The passage notes England’s early glass spinning machines and the first pins from Queen Elizabeth's era, plus a reflective line about enduring pain and regional plant growth cycles.
An Irish washerwoman in Hartford Connecticut received a letter last week informing her she had fallen heir to a large fortune.
A bill in the U S Senate permits Spanish steamers to land passengers and mails at U S ports without tonnage duties. In Altimira Mexico Americans plan if peace treaty is ratified to raise a company and sail there. Also notes a lordly boast by Louis Philipse to Gen Cass about not reading a newspaper for years. France’s metallic currency exceeds 60 million pounds. inquiry into its fate follows.
A playful Victorian joke notes that a young woman attracting a gentleman mirrors a donation to Ireland. It says her heart goes pitty pat when he pays attention, as if sending aid across the sea.
A mechanic in one of the Southern cities constructs a small engine and boiler, 18 inches long, designed to rock a cradle. The device is described as about two women’s power and a notable curiosity.
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