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Newspaper
Pepin County Press
Location
Pepin, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1861
Page
2
A collection of aphorisms and quips on manners, marriage, pride, and social behavior. Topics span female fashion in Paris, domestic strife, honesty, and public reputation. The piece closes with a Canadian West anecdote about a innkeeper announcing “Purveyor to his Royal Highness.”
A historic note in Tun Monroe Seatinct recalls Matt Flood a Republican jailed by a sheriff for voicing his views. The piece cites the Voice of Provdom from Mart Portsmouth and questions why secessionists target early forts while others heed constitutional rights.
A note from Ley. Wm. Cosgrove of 459 Fulton Avenue Brooklyn N Y claims a recipe from a celebrated physician cures consumption bronchitis sore throat lung and nervous debility. He offers to send the revivifier free of charge to recipients who inquire.
An office advertisement notes a needed housework girl for a small family. It also mentions a large printing blank assortment for sale and references a law card by Jon M. Meccerr. The article defends Northwestern Wisconsin winters as moderate and pleasant, contrasting with eastern views and Kansas移
Grand Jury system is described as abolished in Michigan with the shift to trials on information. Attorney General Noward notes few grand juries called since reform, praising the new method as effective and likely to be adopted by other states, marking a historic change in criminal practice.
Spark ling and beautiful for February, has been received. It is replete with fine engravings and good home reading. As a two family magazine, among al classe Arthur dis Morival in the Wavagine world.
The Good Templars of Pepin Wisconsin hosted a well attended picnic with Lake City and Dunnville lodges, about 125 people, at Allen's Hall. The Lake City Tribune notes some controversy over publication of festival proceedings and a local store closing sale in Durand as Pepin faces a county seat move.
Goory publishes the February sterling Ladies' book with numerous engravings and fashion plates praised as standard by readers. Its literary contents are described as spicy original and novel. Subscriptions remain at $2 per copy.
Gen Scott has received word of a possible attack on Washington by March fourth. A 16 gun battery is rising in Memphis to tighten the Mississippi blockade. Missouri shows strong Union support with flags raised and salutes. Lola Montez died in New York after heart disease. Grand Jury indictments target ex secretary Floyd for malfeasance and conspiracy. South Carolina's Legislature agrees on a new blue flag with a white palmetto and a white crescent.
The Louis News praises Senator Seward for a late speech in which he calls Union the ultimate goal, with republicanism and democracy as subordinate. It lauds the sentiment as noble and compares it to Washington Jefferson Clay and Webster.
A call from union loyalists in Chicago urges young men under 30 to oppose concessions to slavery and defend the Constitution. The meeting is set for Metropolitan Hall on Sunday evening January 25 1881 to organize a national Young Men movement in defense of the Union.
The Legislature has appropriated 840000 for postal arrangements if the Federal Government secedes. Lieut. Mead returns to Fort Sumter. South Carolina accepts Catawba military services extended to the state. Jefferson Davis is in town.
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