19 Jun 1851
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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1851
Page
1
In a Drawing Room Companion narrative, two youths, Ben and Joshua, follow different upbringings amid warnings about wealth and restraint. One becomes a prudent clerk, the other a spendthrift, illustrating how parental counsel and temptations shape destinies. The piece also notes a lecture on Bible translations and features scenes of charity and social observation.
A brutal incident ends with Ned dead and Dennis gravely injured after a beheading and accompanying mutilation witnessed by local workers. The head and ear floated to a mill dam and were found by a miller’s man. Dennis recovered enough to recount the adventure, and the community gathered for the burial while scythe handling was blamed and discouraged.
A man recalls a wedding marked by merriment yet tension as his wife’s cat, Pussita, becomes a comic flashpoint. After he yells at the cat he throws it from a second story window. The tale pivots on the moral that one should begin right despite a strained relationship.
Ten Blanchard recounts a voyage under a harsh captain who kept the crew at work rigging on the homeward leg. The tale includes a grounding near Montauk Point and a boast about hauling masts through the keel, plus snippets about Noah’s Ark, a ran-over rich man, a jealous woman defending women's rights, and the idolization of gold as a creator’s product.
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