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Newspaper
Mount Carmel Register
Location
Mount Carmel, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1857
Page
1
The Carmel Register is issued weekly on Wednesdays by T. Bowers at Goforth's Building Main Street. Subscriptions are 1.50 per year if paid within six months. longer delays incur higher charges and non-notified nonpayers may have the paper discontinued until arrears are settled.
Louisa Henshaw, a Philadelphia socialite, moves to a country farm for six months on a doctor's orders. She thrives among farming kin, learns housekeeping skills, and falls for farmer Mr. Grey while her parents confront their rigid city ideals. In the end, Louisa embraces country life and a simpler future.
A poor Kentucky family finds vast wealth in a cavern beneath a plantation on the Louisville and Nashville line after a young man fell into a hidden shaft while plowing. Iron safes and strong boxes yield gold silver coin jewelry and valuables worth a fabulous amount. The discoverers lease the plantation and keep the secret while a local legal eminent man contemplates securing ownership for them.
A tip for farmers on using oil to prevent nails from bending or breaking when driving into seasoned oak timber. The note suggests dipping nails in oil to ensure they hold in carts, plows, and oak parts. It also advises oiling while straightening old pails on wood rather than iron to avoid breakage.
A note on the latest French styles for ladies dresses states it will take twenty two yards of fabric to create a pattern. The remark reflects prevailing tailoring standards and yardage expectations in fashion at the time.
The article extols Southern Illinois resources and fertility, noting high yields of wheat, rye, oats, corn, barley, and abundant coal, rock, timber, iron, and salt. It praising potential settlers, homesteads, and industrial growth while recounting Maury’s Rural New Yorker story on sunflowers as a fever preventive around the Washington Observatory.
John B. Gough spoke in Cincinnati sharing a ribald tale about a gaunt Yankee in a drug store. The man tries to buy scent to impress his fiancée and ends up overwhelmed by hartshorn, prompting a punchline about smelling fire and brimstone.
The St Louis Intelligencer argues slavery fails Missouri's needs as a future manufacturing state. It says Missouri will prosper through free labor, producing agriculture and industry without slave labor, and has pursued this path for a decade. The paper frames Missouri as the West’s workshop and a beacon for free labor.
A Texas paper based in Wood county advocates Freesoil principles and its editor is elected by county voters to serve in the Legislature despite hostility to slavery.
The piece recounts the first marriage as a simple private Eden scene. Adam proposes after meeting Eve, she accepts with a kiss, and the ceremony is set among birds and sky. The tale notes their youth and lack of worldly trappings, emphasizing love over ceremony.
The Pennsylvanian Bays report the National Hotel poisoning linked to John G Montgomery M D of Pennsylvania and the ailing Philadelphia Port Collector. Buchanan’s January arrival precedes illness among thirty five cases after his stay and a March outbreak with violent purging and large intestine inflammation. Physicians debate miasmatic versus mineral copper poison with no clear explanation.
Advice emphasizes fixed bedtimes and waking with natural morning awakening. It argues sleep nourishes the brain, making mornings best for study due to greater vigor and clarity, while condemning late night sentimentality and unfounded moral dreams.
Chipman, a 20 year old man of good education and appearance, was convicted in Greensboro North Carolina of the murder of Penix whom he had seduced. The 15th of May was set for his execution but he has appealed to the Supreme Court. The verdict rests on circumstantial yet overwhelming evidence. His parents are affluent and respected. his mother has written several religious volumes.
A reflective remark on the day laborer as the true guardian of family welfare and moral worth, asserting that honest, hard work earns genuine dignity even as wealth cannot exempt one from service to others.
A veterinary recipe prescribes a mixture of Gimber salts cognac brandy samarium powder iron carbonate cayenne pepper and water as drench for cattle and horses. After five hours give hogs lord o lip seed oil and sulfur on days two four and six, then feed corn and bran to cattle and a half bushel of corn and bran and salt to horses plus copper salts.
A severe bailstorm struck near New Haven in Shawnee County last Friday. Hail up to four inches battered land and vegetation, killed chickens, stripped tree bark, and frightened residents. Some feared the rumored comet was approaching in reality.
A storekeeper in this place bought batiste from an Irish woman and weighed it on scales, finding it short of the expected pound. A bystander jokes that his own weight was off the scale as well, leaving the matter unresolved.
The Olney Times cites a statement from a distinguished circuit figure about a White County man whose wife bore sixteen children. The first six were twins, the next nine were triplets, and the final child arrived alone, bringing the total to sixteen.
At Canton Maryland Mrs Lucinda Sapp wife of Washington Sapp living near the Baltimore and Ohio line saw a woman stranded on the rail and rushed to help. She freed the woman but was struck by the locomotive and killed almost instantly with the rail crossing nearby.
A medieval home remedy blends hourhound tops elecampane and Young William roots boiled to extract strength then strained and sweetened into syrup. For a tight cough a teaspoon of lobelin per pint added when cold to raise its efficacy.
Wheat sown in December in Georgia ripens by mid May while Georgia sown in September is ready by July in Maine. The same five to ten month span yields different chemical changes as organic and inorganic matter decomposes to render nutrients soluble for plants.
San Francisco statistics show 28 265 arrivals and 22 903 departures for the year, a net gain of 5 272, with six months reporting departures exceeding arrivals by 927. The state’s population remained unchanged.
The Boston Post cites the Cincinnati Enquirer arguing that Massachusetts morality accepts clergy personal flaws as insignificant next to abolition zeal and politico clerico rhetoric, framing the issue as a long established belief.
Former president Pierce will retire to a New Hampshire interior farm to raise stock for life. Three of his horses departed Baltimore that week aboard the Boston steamer bound for the New England homestead.
A Harrison County woman briefly left her washing tub unattended and returned to find her three year old daughter head first in the soapy water. The child could not be revived.
The Times states that current United States bank note circulation is estimated at about 90 million dollars. This figure reflects broad currency in active use across the nation.
A fragment notes the first railroad in the United States opening along the line now known as the Providence and Worcester in Massachusetts in 1822. It references early development of rail transport and regional lineage.
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