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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1858
Page
1
A wartime ballad recounts soldiers singing of love while bombardments fade. It names Britain, Crimea, Severn, Clyde, Shennon, and English Mary, as a guard speaks of storming forts tomorrow and soldiers recall names like Annie Laurie amid distant battles and painful memories.
A narrator recalls a spectral tale of Julius Dean a bold skeptic who challenges ghosts. After he vows to seek a haunted specter at Bill Smith’s old house, he vanishes and is later found murdered in a hidden room. a skeleton and a hidden assailant remain unidentifiable as the phantom of Julius Dean continues to haunt the speaker.
A fragment from a late 17th century tale recounts a cold damp Cologne garret where an old shoemaker and wife struggle while a sick woman, later identified as Mary of Medici, lies near death. The roaming Duke Mascau and a masked intriguer reveal royal shadows. a young nobleman Paull vanishes amid mine pits, presumed dead, while his betrothed dies of heartbreak. A sister later encounters the missing man in Illinois and traces his journey to England, ending in a sorrowful reunion.
In a west England village two tin miners named Clyma and Paull vied for the same woman. Clyma's marriage banns were nearly completed when Paull challenged him to a wrestling match. Paull fell in a “wicked fall,” swore revenge, and vowed Clyma would not wed his beloved.
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