02 Dec 1834
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Newspaper
Republican Banner
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1834
Page
1
About twelve thousand al. long of illicit spirits were seized by the excise near London. Penalties sought to be recovered may total around £50,000. The implicated firm has offered £20,600 to effect a compromise.
An 19th century discussion on atmospheric composition, gas behavior, pressure, and effects on light, wind, and weather. It covers oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid gas, barometer use, air pressure measurements, monsoons, hurricanes, and the atmosphere as a medium for sound and life. It also notes moon atmosphere speculation and meteoric stone theories.
In Denmark a wealthy noble’s daughter, Phenaden, accepts a mysterious suitor famed for his looks and riches. During betrothal celebrations she wanders alone, gets lost in a deep wood, and discovers a subterranean cavern leading to a vast vault that appears inhabited, though by none discernible. The tale unfolds with intrigue.
A bride recounts a forest tale of a cave used by robbers to hide gold and corpses. A robber lover returns, cuts off a finger and steals a ring, exposing himself when the finger is found. The bridegroom is unsettled, the robber gang is captured, and the lady escapes punishment.
The text extols piety and virtuous conduct as paths from sin to heaven and from folly to wisdom. It contrasts foolish pride with prudent merit, urging honest actions, temperate desires, and viewing others’ spouses, wealth, and beings as one’s own.
A 1813 incident in Scotland describes a crow attempting to seize 13 chickens from a brea. household. A servant startled the bird by opening a window, and later exactly thirteen crows appeared, each taking a chicken and flying away with the brood.
A National Intelligencer writer recounts Commodore Creater’s burial in Kolorama where, after the funeral, a lone sailor in dress lingered at the vault. The sailor said he only wanted to look a while at the place where they had laid the mainman of the Navy.
A fragment reflects on who spoke a finer eulogy, praising the eloquence of nature and truth as the enduring speaker. The line invokes contemplation of spoken words versus natural clarity.
Extract from the Oslo Annual Register notes Ohio’s 1802 statehood, its early Maniotia settlement, and founders led by Genl Putnam. It covers origin debates of the name, geography, climate, population growth, abolition of slavery in the state, education, major cities, canals and highways, and the state government structure. It also includes anecdotes on early courts, emigrant enterprise, and a brief printers’ notice about newspaper subscriptions.
The Metz arsenal houses vast arms for 150000 cavalry and infantry. It includes a tusile once owned by Marshal Saxe and a 17 foot griffon cast in 1529, the longest European artillery piece, with cannons forged at Ayange.
A woman in Ancaster Upper Canada recently bore two female children joined like Siamese twins. The infants share three legs and three arms, a condition noted as unusual and leading to speculation about possible future family arrangements and rivalries similar to Chang and Eng.
Last evening at the Merchants' Exchange the Almshouse Square bounded by Spruce and Pine and Eleventh and Twelfth Streets was offered at public sale by C J Wolbert. After spirited bidding the property sold for 1200 dollars with terms one third cash one third in one year and the residue in two years.
A fragment states Ayoto Sarror mentions a Satur named Conrad Vancouver who has reached about 130 years. He lives in Dordeceht Holland and is described as possibly Europe’s oldest man. The Dublin Register notes potential communications between Americans and connections in this country with Post Office clerks estimating postage in the American post-bag recently received.
A fragile line suggests a coffer with no wealth, an open mouth-like container signifying emptiness. The metaphor portrays deprivation and the absence of riches, highlighting hollow value and a warning about misplaced expectations.
An Amaranth note recalls a man who met his future wife through a string of storms. He says he first saw her in a storm, carried her to a ball in a storm, courted and proposed in storms, married amid a storm, and only with calm weather did she pass away, a grim quip on marital fate.
A Chaton fisherman casting a net in the Sene retrieved a bag containing three hundred gold coins, each bearing the head of Emperor Titus. He exclaims he has lost a day in the incident, noting the remarkable discovery alongside the famous ruler’s image.
The article breaks down coal use in England and Wales: manufactories 3,500,000 London chaldrons and households 5,500,005, totaling 9,000,000 chaldrons from inland collieries, with 3,060,000 chaldrons sent coastwise, making 12,000,000 overall. A grim poetic aside remarks on rain as a divine blessing over dying infants.
A transcript shows a distressed woman answering police questions about family, naming relatives in Albany New York Ireland Africa and Cape Cay. She indicates multiple relatives scattered across regions and mentions her husband as dead, with a lingering sense of loss and confusion.
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