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Newspaper
Peru Weekly News
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1855
Page
1
A Windsor Indiana poem sung by a blind man recounts loss and longing for Mary and their infant Jane. The piece blends grief and faith, urging a faithful life and hopeful reunion in heaven amid a backdrop of mourning and cherished memories.
A narrator recounts slipping into a house at night to avoid waking the governor and a sister-in-law. Noise from a porch plank, a barking dog, and a mockingbird triggers a chaotic hunt through the home. Neighbors alarmed, pursuit fails, two pies and a silver thimble go missing, and the tale ends with a quiet vigil.
Paris England and America use 1 760 yards while Italy adopts 1 460 yards Scotland and Ireland 2 200 yards Poland 4 490 Spain 5 020 Germany 4 880 Sweden and Denmark 7 220 yards reflects varied mile measures across nations.
A narrator recalls a long-ago trip to a Virginia home with Ellen, recounting hospitality and misadventure. The tale shifts to a shocking moment as Col. T accuses a roomful of young women of fleas, prompting the narrator to flee before dawn. Ellen disappears after a note. New York Spirit of the Times.
The fragment shows a love letter full of ellipses and garbled phrases about longing, smoke, wages, and a newborn fear of scrutiny. It blends sentimental vows with warnings to burn the letter and keep secrets, interspersed with quips on love as a risky social force and a digression about a sewing machine anecdote.
A Sermon fragment argues that irreligious homes corrupt future generations and invite national doom, while religious homes nurture love of God and virtue. The preacher, Henry John Rose, warns that untrained hearts lead to evil and societal decay, contrasting bleak fate with hopeful national happiness when such homes are widespread.
Islamic sect challengers ask Sabbati Zebi questions to test his faith. He answers with allegorical references: heaven's lock is idolatry. the key is confession. He cites Jonah’s fish, pre Adams beings, and Moses parting the Red Sea as explanations.
The author argues courtesy should extend from neighbors to home life. Mutual politeness keeps harmony. when issues arise they should be softened as accidents, not deliberate design. A husband and wife should both strive to keep family life pleasant every day as they do special occasions.
Elizabeth the queen urges to gain time in her final moments. She sits amid wealth and power, with a long wardrobe and vast realm, yet she laments trading eternity for a single inch of time. The passage reflects on wasted years and the cost of ambition.
A Danrister, summoned to settle eight hundred miles from New Haven, is visited by a committee after a dialogue about his family, noting he has a wife and four children. The fragment provides limited context and lacks further facts.
An exchange reveals a potential clergyman negotiating a salary of 3950 with a $200 parsonage, asking for a living wage and the option to preach Sundays or half days, while the congregation promises leniency and time for personal work.
A Protestant tenant falls behind on rent to Alexander the second Duke of Gordon. The duke intervenes with debt relief and civil conduct, while a humorous church scene unfolds with a clergyman and a deacon in a village parody. The tale weaves farm seizure, grace, and comic misprisions.
An explorer recalls a vast gathering of serpents in Izacube Guiana. Ten men ride to observe a spiral phalanx of snakes massed in a swamp, defending their circle as if facing a colossal foe imagined as a great serpent or cayman.
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