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Newspaper
Peru Free Press
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1853
Page
2
Notices inform Vue Fass Paces Office has moved to Shirk's new brick building at Broadway and secud streets. A new hardware store is announced by H W Play. The issue features a lengthy musical notices section praising the Riley Family concerts, with multiple reviews and upcoming performances.
The Delaware convention approves giving voters election of judges and bars clergymen from political office during service. It requires three months notice before bank charters and forbids emancipation without owner consent. Free people of color may not stay beyond ten days. people vote on the constitution at the next general election.
A man from Wilton Fairfield County Connecticut once suddenly lost reason and memory. Doctors predicted a brain contraction at age thirty six or thirty seven would restore health. After nineteen years his memory returned and he resumed mathematical study as if no blank had occurred. He did not recall being nearly forty. The lesson notes how self-regard grows amid misfortune.
The Wabash and Erie Canal is near completion with water to be let in soon and several weeks needed to fill and guard against leaks. Evansville expects enormous trade gains, warehouses, and a fall celebration to commemorate the project’s finish, linking Indiana and Ohio across 459 miles.
In Cincinnati Judge McLean ruled a bridge across Sandusky Bay is lawful if it does not obstruct navigation. Chicago Judge Drummond awarded $1994.69 to Jatin Kuter for a lost box with money on Michigan Central Railroad transport. Other items discuss editorials on Catholic participation and slavery, with Biblical admonitions.
A reflection on upscale hotel life describes cramped rooms, rising rates, and mothers and daughters abandoning home duties for hotel life. It warns of extravagance, immorality, and societal decline as wealthy idle classes become detached from traditional homes. The piece cites Horace Greeley and notes Grand Lodge proceedings with officers named including Henry Juunerence and Elisha Newland.
An Inst Railroad Record article analyzes England with about 65 000 square miles and 7000 miles of rail, noting population density, costs per mile, and 6 percent dividends. It compares to Ohio and Indiana with 77 000 square miles and 50 per square mile, arguing 4000 miles already built and 2400 more needed to match English rail extent and profits.
The Journal of Commerce argues Santa Anna will not risk war with the United States unless Europe pushes him. It notes Mexico lacks resources after recent losses and warns that any conflict would risk U.S. victory and Mexico’s dissolution. It criticizes Mesilla valley claims and says war is avoidable if the U.S. acts with restraint.
The Illinois shore opposite the Missouri mouth is being eaten away by the river. Half a mile of telegraph line along the bank at Unapojot was swept away during the weekend, with poles and bank eroding for miles. The Gilliam farm and old dwelling near the shore have been undermined, threatening long term land loss along the bluffs and shores.
Philadelphia writer J R Browne recounts a decades long odyssey from walking six hundred miles to New York to shipboard on whalers and a voyage to the Indian Ocean. He chronicles wanderings through Zanzibar Lima and California, brief postings in Washington and Oregon, and a last return to the East, claiming to have crossed four continents and circled the globe on modest earnings.
Visitors observe two remarkable oxen, Young America and related stock, with measurements and lineage noted. The article contrasts their size, weight, and breeding, predicting both will appear at the Crystal Palace exhibition with commentary on temperament and exhibition history. It also mentions a Milwaukee murder case where a woman’s conduct is argued as justifiable.
A Greencastle student, when asked about mathematics, freshmanly claimed to know Thomas and Lewis Maddox of Rushville, confusing the professor who nearly placed him in a year of preparatory study after the misinterpretation by the instructor.
The Wabash Lake Erie and St Louis Railroad reports progress with corpses and engineers moving along the Maumee route. Contracts by Messrs Ross Bondy & Co. set for the 25th. chief engineer Corsun travels to Lafayette. resident engineer Ruar oversees local sections. Citizens urge water works funding as Cleveland spends 400 000 dollars. petitions push for wells to supply summer needs. Toledo.
Report of rich gold finds in Hamuton Valley Colorado rives with 400 workers earning up to 5 dollars daily. Immigrants and farmers head to the mines as merchants rush in goods for expected rush. The district is said to contain extensive gold deposits rivaling California.
The piece riffs on the editor’s table as a chaotic, yet perfect, system. It contrasts a jumbled heap of papers with the editor’s knack for swift, precise access. It ends with aphorisms about friendship, industry, and moral caution.
Weather remains warm and dry in Silavrhets. Market prices shown include Wheat 75c, Corn 35 to 37c, Oats 36c, Ave 50c, Barley 50c, Flax Seed 75c, Butter Ue, Eggs 6c, Apples 12.5c, Potatoes 40 to 26c, Cranberries 1.50 to 1.75, Clover Seed and Timothy Seed none in market, Wheat-82c white.
I resign my position as cashier of the State Stock Bank at Peru in favor of J C Parxx who will sign all bills notes etc from this date. Ino W Mott.
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