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Newspaper
Madison City Express
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1844
Page
1
The Mawson Cer Exrnesy will publish every Thursday and furnish to subscribers with a monthly invoice. Advertising rates: one dister per square for final insertion, twenty five cents for each subsequent insertion. Notices to this office must be paid to receive attention. Paper discontinued until all prayers are paid, at publisher's option. historic verse elements reference patriotism and war era themes accompany the notice.
A garbled historical text fragment depicts a poem like scene with references to a stormy day, a stately tower, and figures named Rory and Kovind. It hints at age and memory, with lines about eyes growing dim and time passing from youth to age 1808.
In January 1796 near New Concord New Jersey farmer Barzilla Bunker, a man of rigid manners, is implicated as a neighbor whose quiet life conceals tensions with Jones Familya an insistent thief. The tale notes scarce dialogue as Barzilla contemplates steps to address stolen hay and cattle fodder.
In a moonless night, Barzilla spies Jones stealing from a rick and sets a hay fire to chase him. Jones flees in terror, burns, then confesses to Mr. Bunker. Barzilla forgives, guiding Jones to a new life, while both men endure a moral reckoning and lasting unlikely bond. The tale ends noting Barzilla’s secret, Jones’s penance, and the Jones family’s continued prominence in New Concord. Orphaned wool trade line closes with 33 20,000 pounds of Minnesota wool sent to market this season.
A Baltimore speaker at a Maryland Temperance Convention argues the cause is Great Good Beautiful and True. He says public opinion now drives temperance beyond mere habit, comparing progress to liberty after Bunker Hill and Declaration. Fragments of a language lesson appear amid the draft.
A tale centers on a horse sale in the South with Monsieur Jarvis the Trenchman claiming the animal is no older than ten. the buyer learns the horse is much older after a horse flesh judge weighs in. Rich dialogue unfolds between the French seller and the purchaser as accusations of deceit arise.
Government plans to test a new war engine built at Hoboken near the ferry landing. A massive cofferdam will house a 60 by 230 foot batterypowered, screw-propelled vessel capable of stealthy movement and heavy armament. Robert L. Stevens leads the project with Corwin handling dam and piers. Construction aims for two to three years with private secrecy. Judge Story urges jurors to their duty to country.
John Quincy Adams was greeted in Washington Pennsylvania with a dinner address by Rev Dr Mc Conaughy of Washington College, followed by a formal welcome by Miss Sarah R Foster of the Washington Female Seminary. Adams praised his mother and family, urged reverence for the female sex, and vowed to support institutions promoting female wisdom and virtue.
An excerpt narrates a Maine muster with cantankerous drill calls and ragged humor. Officers chide, soldiers joke about ramrods and rum, and a laughable parade ends with Reuben A. Brown’s Millicant tale about Millerite doomsayers losing money and facing public scorn.
An extract from a Boston letter discusses insolvency risks for people who live by buying and selling. General Dearborn of Massachusetts is mentioned as part of the foreign and domestic context. The item presents concise, period observations on commerce and economic vulnerability.
In a winter lecture before the Massachusetts House, a speaker warned that 97 in 100 people who buy food fail, contrasting mercantile profit with farming virtue. He touted rural cottages and soil, dismissed urban industry, and recalled Fifteen years in Boston customs. He cited a Madrid bullfight and temperance pledges as part of his broader argument.
The essay extols farming as a noble calling, urging men to cultivate and enrich their land with neat cottages, fences, and shade trees. It celebrates rural peace, family happiness, and the social value of prosperous husbandry as a humane, virtuous alternative to city life, urging readers to respect such benefactors as monuments to communal improvement.
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