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Newspaper
Portsmouth Times
Location
Portsmouth, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1866
Page
1
A lyrical devotional fragment celebrates nature and renewal with vivid imagery of spring. It references sowing seeds, resurrection, and a communal chorus of voices, urging all to sing with happy hearts as the heart of Nature rejoices.
A printed anecdote recounts Patrick Henry in Virginia employing Scots Sandy Stuart and wife Jennie to brew Scotch ale. After Henry’s death, Mrs F comforted the grieving widow, who mused about burying Sandy in a shirt and his posthumous dignity, warning he’d feel ashamed at rising with Gabriel if buried as a short sack. Also includes old housewife proverbs and sayings on breakfast, order, dirt, and temper in Christian life.
A Urbana Union item reports State Capitol dimensions length 304 by 186 feet and dome height 136 feet with 207 steps to the top. Total cost to January 1862 was $1,459,121 40 and 22 years in building. The square encloses ten acres, building covers one acre. Artesian well bored 2,775 feet in 22 months.
Terrible accidental poisoning sweeps Orange County New York after worn flour mill stones filled with lead shed particles into flour. As fermented and baked the lead becomes deadly carbonate of lead. Three hundred patients treated. deaths and disabilities reported. concern spreads to New York City from flour shipments. Authorities seek cause and halt.
John Randolph travels through Virginia stops at an inn near the forks of the road. The landlord presses for talk but Randolph pays his bill and departs. A servant then asks which fork to take, and Randolph declares he owes nothing and may choose any road.
A moral woe tale unfolds as a man declares a life of sin and a ruined family, while light anecdotes from Meridian Mississippi and Rochester New York offer humane moments. A Dutchman and a cat, a comet telescope scene, and a girl’s tender remark about rose buds provide micro stories amid the somber vow.
A seven year old named Marthew Bett of Marietta drowned in the Obio River last week. The accident occurred while the child was near the river’s edge, with no immediate witnesses reported. Authorities are investigating the incident and extending condolences to the family.
The passage laments a prewar prosperous era and blames the 1860s political shift for war, debt, and tyranny. It praises the Democratic Party’s past restraint, criticizes wartime policies, conscription, taxation, and press suppression, and alleges corruption and social upheaval following the change in government.
A 1860s-era critique argues civil rights acts anger whites while elevating black citizens to protected pensioners, warns cotton exports will drop drastically under new policy, and claims post 1860 administration failures will be overturned at fall elections. It asserts the public is overwhelmed by party hate and sectional bitterness, aiming to restore 1860 policies.
The Democracy in Ohio unite behind the State ticket and Johnson reconstruction policy. Conservatives urged to back upright governance to protect property from heavy taxation amid national criticism of Radical Congress. Newark Advocate cites Washington City National Republican on Judge Underwood’s Richmond Grand Jury charge, noting the paper’s harsh stance on press and community.
A Harper's Weekly assertion explains a quick path to wealth for a founder by securing a government depository status for a book. It claims a deposit of half a million is attainable with little effort, or money can be lent to the government at four percent through the Sub-treasury, yielding substantial annual profit with no risk or work.
The Ohio Democracy pledges fidelity to the party and its Jeffersonian principles, emphasizing equal taxation and state representation. It endorses Andrew Johnson for President and immediate restoration of states’ rights within the Union, resisting forced equality and demanding representation in Congress for the eleven ex-Confederate states. The plan calls for cooperation at meetings, conventions, and polls with all supporters of restoration regardless of past positions.
The former president argues that the Union Party is not the party of radicals and that battles would be within the Union party. He states supporters of his policy are friends, opponents have no desire for office, and he comments on a query about a lady's crinoline length.
An eclectic fragment from a 19th century page includes whimsical wordplay about luck, weapons, love, and deceit. A Western editor ponders if doctors carrying pine in pockets fall under weapon laws. A Dutch porter’s tale turns on a counterfeit note and a quirk of translation.
A physician jokes with a mason about gravestones and memory as a young student asks if people in Genesis did sums on the ground. The master prompts about an elephant’s skin, eliciting a bright student’s punchline about finding it on the elephant itself.
A speaker credits innocence as first virtue and modesty as second, warning that banning modesty would strip half of the virtue from the world. The remark emphasizes the moral value of humility and purity in society.
Ba Mas Paarinoron rhetorically asks why bills before Congress face delay if they are not counterfeit, challenging the passage process and signaling strong concern about legislative scrutiny and integrity.
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