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Newspaper
Oshkosh Democrat
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1850
Page
1
The Oshkosh Democrat of November 8 1850 presents Charles Swan's edition devoted to debates on every aspect of the public good. It reflects local civic interest and the era's reform tone in Wisconsin.
In Harlem, Holland, a sluice keeper's eight year old son stops a leaking dam to save a flooded land. He endures a freezing night with his finger jammed in the breach until a clergyman discovers him. The tale honors a quiet local hero overlooked by history.
Two neighboring farmers A and B each faced a scolding wife. B, silent by habit, hid curved sticks to test his wife’s patience until she praised the wood for fitting pots and kettles, revealing endurance and humor in handling domestic strife.
Galignani’s Messenger reports on W. Worms of Paris unveiling a rotative printing press that prints from stereotype with three workers matching sixteen on standard presses. The system uses a tissue-paper mould, continuous sheet feed, and quick stereotyping, producing up to fifteen thousand copies per hour and promising long durability.
A late Theodore Parker sermon recounts Rabbi Judah and seven scholars debating rest. The elders seek rest in wealth fame power a happy home or aged riches. A twelve year old boy declares rest comes to one who loves his brother as himself and God with full heart and soul, surpassing tradition. The doctors praise the child’s wisdom.
The article notes England already has at least fifty Freehold Land Societies with about 14,000 members. These voluntary associations of the poor aim to jointly purchase land and indirectly expand the elective franchise. It forecasts a future political shift with an estimated 50,000 votes gained within twenty years.
In a dissenting Pacific critique a writer contrasts Miss Lindlami Lindlami and Miss Stubbs as symbols of spiritual versus material worth. The piece notes New York audiences paying thirty dollars per evening to a songstress and thirty shirts and shows to a shirtmaker, arguing this reflects a troubling imbalance and a hoped day when such distinctions become historical.
The list debunks numerous legal myths once common in England. It covers long leases, Sunday deeds, disinheriting heirs, funeral processions making roads public, posthumous execution of debt, marriage liabilities, birth at sea, cousin marriages, spousal divorce by sale, executing a debtor’s widow, and vaunted hung crime revivals. It notes these fallacies persist despite their absurdity.
A Kilkan farm tale reports a green deputy bailiff afraid of ghosts asleep with the farmer’s son. A full moon lighted a ghostly intrusion with chains groans and a spectral figure. furniture and stock vanish, leaving an empty house and unpaid rent.
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