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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1841
Page
2
Text discusses a journey to Stamford and back to Chippewa and questions a supposed intimate relation with J Kent Morrison. It asserts Morrison's oldest daughter was a young married woman two years later, deserted, then became a paramour of McLeod, denying any such situation in 1837.
The Cass County Agricultural Society held its annual meeting and exhibition last Saturday, the 23rd. A full statement of proceedings and officers for the coming year will be published next week.
The Cass county Agricultural Society's annual meeting on Saturday the 23d showed a creditable stock display for a first effort. The hogs, especially Berkshire exemplars, impressed the writer and urged farmers to join and support the society, as a united effort could yield a worthy next exhibition and county improvement. The piece urges editors to publish agricultural notes weekly to aid farmers and broaden subscriber patronage earned from farming communities.
The article surveys widespread industrial misery across Europe and Britain. It notes Germany and France suffering severe unemployment and riots, with workers driven to subsistence and unrest. English operatives face even harsher conditions, with many trades nearly without work and little hope of relief.
The text describes extreme poverty among Rochdale workers with an average weekly income of 23d per person and many on near charity. It cites Manchester and Salford Mission reports noting widespread unemployment, furniture and clothing loss, and harsh living conditions including sleeping on chaff beds and damp basements. It argues taxes bite bread prices and contrasts European conditions with the United States, urging protections for operatives.
A speaker describes a poor boy who learned to finish daily work before playing and to spend money only after earning it. He credits this habit with later prosperity and urges young men to be industrious. Laziness leads to bad habits, while consistent work earns respect, employment, and usefulness.
The text warns that small dissatisfaction at the start can grow into ruin and misery, pushing you toward unguarded acts and wasted days. It urges perseverance in any vocation to achieve a life of usefulness and happiness.
The jury returned a not guilty verdict for Alexander McLeod after a two hour jury charge by Judge Gridley. Attorney General Hall pursued the case to its close on Tuesday with the court adjourned after the verdict as McLeod left the courthouse with his counsel and Canadian friends.
Paris correspondent notes Daguerre’s near perfected instant impressions by electricity with a remaining haze to fix before exhibition. Also reports galvanoplasty, cement from indestructible material, iron galvanization for ships, and a claimed walking-on-water feat. A farmer endorses mixing salt with ashes for stock, giving details on proportions and observed benefits in cows horses and sheep.
Lewis Cornelius died at Milford in Pike County in his 47th year after illness. He stood about six feet two or three inches tall and weighed 720 pounds before illness and 685 pounds at death. An inch rope lined his bedcord due to his enormous size. He left a wife and eight children, the youngest ten years old, with grown offspring taller than average. The article compares him to Daniel Lambert, noting Lambert reached about 739 pounds.
A historical receipt describes a brilliant whitewash used on the President’s House in Washington. The recipe includes burnt lime sugar rice flour glue and alum with hot water and a sieve strained mix applied warm on exteriors or cold indoors. It claims lasting brilliancy and coverage of about one pint per square yard with scalable quantities.
A Canton report notes Paousting charged with traitorous acts against England faces execution and widespread devastation to homeland areas. An imperial brother to lead 100000 troops against outer barbarians is hinted, with the emperor possibly joining front lines. Lowell dispatches confirm Canton British residents order quiet and a large Chinese encampment near the factory.
Alleged derangement of Colt, the murderer's father, and of Mrs. Adams, the murdered man's wife, is contradicted. The claim is challenged by officials or sources citing lack of evidence or formal rebuttal.
In Boston a German pastor Hohnholz faced a Police Court charge of immorality. Regina Hellmich testified that he enticed her, feigned a marriage ceremony, and kept her in his boarding house before taking her to Salem to spend the night as man and wife. He preached next day, while she believed they were lawfully married.
M Narcis se Cencil, a farmer, and his wife and Mrs MacDonald entered a Rouville Mountain mill to view it. A machine shear trapped the two women in a small upper room. Mrs MacDonald was crushed and Mrs Benoit died instantly.
A speaker argues that teetotalism saves families from poverty by transforming garret dwellers into well provided citizens. He challenges conscientious opponents by guiding them from deprivation to respectability and asking if they would return the people to misery.
A fourteen year old girl Margaret Leece of Rusland village felt ear pain after losing a small gooseberry in her ear. After days she laughed at breakfast and the berry emerged red from her nose, with several witnesses able to corroborate the event.
Messrs Stevens and Catherwood sail from New York on a second Central American exploration with Butler's daguerreotype apparatus to document ancient ruins. They plan about five months abroad mainly in Yucatan and a closer study of Uxmal where Stevens previously spent two days due to Mr Catherwood’s illness.
On a Saturday afternoon five lads ages seven to fifteen were playing near a sand bank by Bel Air road when the bank caved in trapping three underneath. The top two warned others before the collapse, but all three perished. Rescuers worked about forty minutes to recover the bodies. The deceased include sons of James Fleming Charles Grimes and W F Boke, residents near North Gay Street.
The passage extols the steady mechanic who rises from poverty through skill and perseverance, denying fortune’s blind favors and praising industry temperance economy and virtuous ambition as attainable qualities for all. De Joinville has begun a western tour.
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