03 Feb 1857
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Newspaper
Mount Carmel Register
Location
Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1857
Page
1
The Mount Carmel Register, published every Wednesday by T. S. Bowers in Goforth's Building Main St, lists an annual subscription of 1.50 if paid within six months. a 2.00 rate applies if payment is delayed. Readers who do not object are presumed to wish to continue and discontinuations are at the publisher’s option.
Dr Gibson recounts the Italian surgeon Andreas Vesalius love and ambition in Seville. Vesalius confronts jealousy and suspected infidelity of Isabella Van Steenwyke, daughter of a Harleem merchant, with planned drastic retribution after a forged warning. He secretly returns to his Alcazar laboratory to enact his vengeance.
A man is lured by a forged note to meet at midnight and vanishes near Gundalquiver. Isabella and Vesale suspect murder as Don Alvar is believed drowned. Vesale poisons Isabella with misused wine. she reveals truth on deathbed and dies as her heart stops and Andre sorrows.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes the use of chair frames and entrails in manufacturing. Wrappings and innards are described as being repurposed into sausages and stuffed chairs, with remnants stored in parlors and drawing rooms.
A poem recalls Ben Bolt and Sweet Alice laid side by side at rest. Lovers’ memories, spring flowers, and visions of heavenly peace comfort the mourners as they promise to gather moss and mourn together by the grave. The piece reflects enduring love and sorrow in a rural burial scene.
A patient with a two year sub maxillary gland swelling sought surgery but resisted. After a physician endorsed a dead man’s hand touch as safe, the woman applied it repeatedly and the lump vanished, illustrating mind body influence.
An aged Connecticut clergyman once shouted to a mostly sleeping congregation about beef prices in New Haven to wake them. In another tale youths laughed in the gallery, and the old preacher warned them to quiet down or wake the people below. A New Hampshire story recalls a parson admonishing a deacon not to snore to spare his wife.
A fragment reflecting on female purity and modesty. The text contrasts women and men in death and cleanliness, citing classical law and the Life of Agrippa to claim women remain clean while men are inherently unclean even after washing. It blends moral critique with gendered stereotypes.
A Boston Times report recalls a young Albany woman insulted by a man who planned an encounter on Monday near the Reservoir in Eagle Street. Her brother, dressing in her clothes, confronted the offender in petticoats.
The New York Post denounces an embezzlement claim involving a large sum raised to aid Kansas emigration of free state men. Funds are said to have been diverted by agents to land speculation, provoking strong denunciations in the anti slavery paper.
F D Preston of Richland elected as Chairman of the House Committee on Claims by Speaker Slimes, with Dr Leib named Clerk of the House. Report says Democrats hold a working majority in both Senate and House. Preston described as experienced and loyal, from Olney, with ties to Illinois state service.
In Monticello region a sleigh with two horses veered off a road and buried a man, three women, and a child in eight to ten feet of snow. all died except one man found near his home. Nearby near Lyons a sleigh with sons and a youth vanished in a blizzard. they huddled in a corn shock and survived with frostbitten limbs while animals endured the storm.
Washington news reports a tragic fire claim as Mrs. Daniels wife of the Supreme Court judge died after being fatally burned while undressing. The 35 year old mother of two, daughter of Dr Harris of Philadelphia, suffered for eight hours before succumbing.
The New York correspondent reports Lorenzo B. Shepard Esq once declared dead was found missing from a vault with the coffin disturbed and the shroud torn and bloodstained suggesting he may have been buried alive. Mrs. Shepard ordered the remains moved and witnesses found the body displaced and bloodied fueling horror and disbelief.
The passage extols a man who writes speaks and acts without fear from a strong sense of right and wrong. Even when opinions differ from the world his garb embodies true manhood and noble nature.
A Maine Farmer article notes long standing discussion on crop rotation and presents a practical four year cycle observed in Ontario. It advises high manure, Indian corn, then barley, plough under stubble, sow winter wheat with clover, harvest wheat next year, harvest clover the following year, then turn clover roots under and repeat.
At the Paris agricultural exposition a new wheat hul ling machine claims to cut nutrient loss from twenty percent to four percent while producing a smooth polished grain. Inventor M Besnire de la Pontenaire says applying it in France could turn a seven million hectoliter deficit into a three million surplus. hull cost is about four cents per hectoliter.
The piece urges farmers to prepare crops now to double feed capacity and manure output, claiming an acre with manure and cultivation yields significant hay and carrots. It estimates costs of cultivation at 40 and hay value at 25 cents per bushel, presenting a profitability calculation.
A recipe outlines mixing Indian meal buttermilk waiter butter sugar and eggs in equal measures then boiling in a covered tin mold for three to four hours. Suggests oyster can mold and serving with sweetened cream or butter sugar with currant jelly. notes fruit improves the dish.
Mr. G. W. Coffin of Duchess county New York after six years of trial believes seed corn is best from the small end of the ear. With careful selection of ears well rounded at the little end yields increased up to 22 bushels per acre. The finding may seem minor but tests cost little or nothing to begin.
A Bangkок based junk captain reports a typhoon on August 12 near the Chusan Islands. Twenty two ships bound from Shanghai to Temtsing faced a northwest wind that shifted south, sinking seventeen vessels and dismasting five others. About a thousand sailors perished before rescue by a steamer saved survivors from drowning and starvation.
A literary fragment describes a bright bird symbolizing hope that arrives in dark times. It sings sweetly when spirits are saddest and the weary soul longs to pass away, restoring the heart’s steady fibers.
The report lists several recent U S Senate elections. James S. Green wins Missouri for a short term ending 1861 with 89 votes to Benton 34 and Kennett 32. Polk becomes Missouri long term senator. S R Mallory reelected by Florida legislature. Z Chandler Republican elected by Michigan legislature. Limon Cameron wins Pennsylvania on first ballot 67 to 59. Broadhead and Hamlin noted as governor seat holders and Maine long term senator.
A brother editor recounts families with unusual naming schemes in Detroit and elsewhere. One family's children bore sequential and punny names like One Stickney and Flist Stickney, while others used Addenda and Supplement. A Pennsylvania family named a son James Also and a third William Likewise, illustrating playful, unconventional naming practices.
The Sault Lake mail bearer at Independence Missouri reports unusually severe Plains weather. Snow likely twenty two feet deep in gorges. A South Caroliniana party near Fort Kearney suffered frost bite. one man lost both feet and others risked death from freezing.
The Roxbury St Nicholas Skating Club gathered at Power's Pond on a Wednesday evening. Members lit tar barrels and set off fireworks, lighting the pond as ladies and gentlemen enjoyed skating and musical performances.
Mr Cameron and his competitor Forney both started as printers and became editors before entering politics. Cameron is of Scotch descent while Forney traces heritage to French Huguenots, originally De La Forney.
The Illinois Central Railroad grossed 1,430,110 dollars for six months ending November 1st. The company carries an undecided treasury balance near one million dollars after settling all liabilities, interest, and expenses from the road’s earnings in the past year.
Rumor claims President Pierce and Mrs. Pierce and Secretary Webster plan a post term trip to the West Indies to aid Mrs. Pierce whose heart is described as very feeble.
The saying frames tears as streams that nurture love and feeling, arguing that without them the heart would dry and affection fade away.
The State of Illinois has paid four and a half million dollars of its debt in four years. Four years ago the state had about four hundred miles of railroad, now it totals around three thousand miles.
A young girl in Waterville Connecticut swallowed a needle more than a year ago and on New Year’s Day it was expelled from her knee. In England the dog tax for the year ending March 1856 yielded about six million dollars.
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