12 Feb 1869
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1869
Page
1
From Temple Bar the piece surveys love's miseries across youth and maturity, detailing how early passion fades, the cruelty of social judgment, and the bleak outcomes of imprudent marriages. It weighs constancy, promises, and the dangers of ill matched unions, urging caution and responsibility in courting and wedlock.
A reporter recounts a remarkable pulpit effort by the Rev. Cuthbert Webb formerly of Scott County. The sermon riffs on a misread Bible text from Isaiah and preaches about shaving with a hired razor, mixing humor with harsh moral critique of dissenters and local figures. The piece frames the preaching as a vivid, energetic, era-appropriate solo.
A preacher sermons on biblical thrift and moral economy using a rambling dialect. He cites Genesis to Tribulations and the prophet, urging listeners to pay up as they go, and to hire a razor from beyond the river as a moral metaphor. The talk includes rustic anecdotes, references to Jacob, Ornan, and Absalom, and ends with exhortations to spiritual grooming and charity.
An oblique verse fragment recalls a drowned man, lifting voices to chant a macabre refrain. The lines mention a silver spade, a golden chain, and a bugle horn to send him on air, hinting at ritual mourning through symbolic objects and a haunting broadcast image.
A true incident from an exchange paper tells of a couple en route to a party. The wife pleads to keep her husband sober while he drinks at the gathering. On the way home a drunken man sinks into a swift stream, and the infant is lost to the mother and blamed on the father's intemperance.
A lengthy meditation on a mother's steadfast love and guidance, praising her comfort in joy and sorrow. It contrasts earthly devotion with spiritual sacrifice and ends with a brief note on legal tender doctrine and a Josh Billings maxim about hard work and wealth.
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