21 Jun 1849
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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1849
Page
1
The Cambridge Chronicle announces subscription details for Cambridgeport with local agent Ma. Geonos Burr offering delivery and advertising services. The notice lists rates two dollars per year in advance and four cents for single copies, along with advertising terms and distribution commitments.
Describes Upper California from San Francisco bays to the inland Sierra, Sacramento and San Juan valleys, and Buena Ventura, noting terrain, aridity, husbandry limits, harbors, and cattle as the chief wealth. Observes varied climates, droughts, and limited cultivation outside a fertile strip near San Juan and Monterey.
In a natural history aside, Kirby and Spencer discuss spider parental care with a detailed account of a spider tending eggs and lifting them from cold surfaces. The piece then shifts to Martin Brown, a Kentucky longtime legislator jailed for forgery, who refuses exile at Austin's insistence, choosing to die in place and leaving a lasting caution about government crime and personal virtue.
A satirical guide mocks dangerous behavior at fires urging readers to scream, run toward the blaze, kick dogs, and create chaos. It ridicules those who pretend to help by inciting destruction and reckless acts.
A mournful lyric from Cambridge dated June 1849 describing entrancing night visions and a beloved guardian figure. The speaker narrates sleep, love, dreamlike scenes with storms, and a hopeful note that sorrow may yield to light tomorrow.
The passage from an address at Newburyport’s Young Ladies High School, quoted by The Home Journal as Beautiful Extract, urges removing slander by confronting it at its root. It praises the address for exposing careless harm in education spaces and recommends displaying the lesson on wall posters.
The passage urges both men and women to read and reflect on the harms of gossip, slander, and idle talk. It argues words shape character, warns against habitual tale bearing, and praises using speech for charity and truth. It highlights how an active tongue defines social virtue and personal virtue.
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