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Newspaper
Mount Carmel Register
Location
Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1857
Page
1
The Mount Carmel Register 18 is published every Wednesday by T. Bowers. Office located in Goforth's Building Main St. Subscription is 1.50 per year if paid within six months. otherwise 2.00. Papers not paid are continued unless subscribers express otherwise.
A Mount Carmel letter argues against linking Newkirk well water to milk sickness. The writer cites Linnaeus and La Roche, notes periodic fevers in malarial areas, and questions rumors of poison. He stresses cattle and human illness differ and emphasizes drainage and environmental factors over sensational cases.
Mrs Frances D Gage at a Women’s Rights Convention in Massillon Ohio argued men reflect their mothers and descended into vice due to taverns and gambling. She condemned male dominance and urged mothers to curb alcohol and gambling to save the next generation.
A London correspondent reports a brutal clash on the Pangela banks between 15,000 and 7,000 warriors. The carnage spans men women and children as pursuers move across the river and into Natal, with victims left along the banks.
A contemplative piece on prayer asserting it as humanity's first act and its enduring link to the divine. It claims prayer arose from the human heart's sighs and joys to glorify God, defining prayer as the sole wholly divine act that endures beyond life.
Mrs L M Amitd says marriages for money end unhappily as mothers and daughters chase wealth. She blames women for choosing money over love and notes many seek security over happiness, arguing many would be better off single.
A New York Mirror item describes a young healthy widow earning 15000 a year who wants to marry a man with no objection to the will. Her late husband left property to a collaterial relative and the widow would forfeit the condition. she offers 10000 a year to cancel it, but the reversion is inexorable.
A boy recalls a cruel taunt at a spelling contest that branded him a drunkard's son. Decades later the taunter asks forgiveness, and the narrator urges kindness and self discipline over derision, urging boys to respect others and avoid taunting for circumstances beyond control.
The report notes cattle losses from exposure in Nebraska during the harsh winter and insufficient harvest. It mentions a salt works project near Salt City and large bird swarms in Nebraska waters. It also highlights many Danes planning to settle in Nebraska and Mormon settlers near Beaver Creek preparing to move with teams tools seeds and a steam saw mill for future families.
Walpole argues that if he had children his top aim would be to teach them music. He says it would make them happy and endure throughout life, independent of others, and is the cheapest fashionable pleasure. Music entertains, soothes, and can delight without moral conflict or backlash.
The survey and location of the balance of the Southern Illinois Railroad from Vincennes to Mound City began on the 1thult. The road will shorten eastward travel to the head of low water on the Ohio by about sixty miles versus the Sandoval route. Solicitors appointed by the Company are raising funds to begin construction, with signs pointing to a speedy completion.
A Hartford mechanic named Carmill and his wife were walking when she suddenly burst a blood vessel and bled from the mouth. He supported her as she died in his arms.
A three story brick building housing jewelry and hardware stores on Albiion street in Detroit collapsed this evening, burying five people in the ruins. Fire crews and救援 squads work to reach survivors as rescuers cordon off the area and assess structural stability.
A dubious remedy promises to tame horses using oil of Rhodium cumin castor and horse handling steps. Instructions describe scenting the horse with cumin oil then applying rhodium oil to the tongue and guiding the animal with straps and gentle pressure. The piece extols kindness and care as essential to training and bonding with the horse.
In Southern Illinois the crop looks very fine up to Montgomery county with promising yields near Alton and Monticello. Between Bloomington and Alton few good fields remain, while the northern part reports favorable conditions. The crop is likely good in the north and south, but central Illinois may face an unusually short or failed winter wheat.
In Luzerne County Pennsylvania attorney H. H. L. Kinney defended Universalism against an Irish Presbyterian minister after a sermon. Kinney asked the audience the first question Who is the Devil The answer from the minister Mr Murray was He is your father The crowd roared as Kinney slumped back in his seat.
A Memphis Eagle note claims at least 300 anti slavery men in Tishimingo county. The county ranks among Mississippi’s rich cotton districts, and the writer suggests similar sizeable numbers exist in many slaveholding counties. The sentiment is described as more widespread than typically believed.
Seventy four prisoners are in the St. Louis jail with twenty held for murder and four under death sentence. The calaboose is so full that several inmates have been moved to the county jail while The Democrat notes the facility is only half as large as needed.
A master mariner, gone to sea four years ago from Springfield, returns to discover his wife married to another man. Believing him dead after a shipwreck, she chooses to stay with the second husband in his presence.
A Boston estimate places secret or open spiritualists at twenty five thousand. The movement operates three teaching venues open on Sundays where lectures attract large audiences.
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