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Newspaper
Ripon Weekly Times
Location
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1862
Page
1
London publishes a three‑section poetry book by Adelaide Progroy titled England's Neglect to Poor, proceeds aiding a Notun Catholic Asylum. The verses depict homeless children, winter hardship, and plea for mercy as streets, dogs, and beggars figure in bleak scenes amid urban cold and shadow.
A Philadelphia convict, Col Cross, famed for forgery and a daring pardon scheme, was moved between Eastern Penitentiary and Washington after a War Department letter and forged Stanton frank led to a supposed governor pardon. Officials later questioned the document, Stanton denied knowledge, and Cross was returned to prison as courts consider revocation powers.
The New Tasen Journal reports a sudden health scare with public fear over a mysterious malady. Citizens crowd streets near College and Crown seeking relief. observers note cases of vision changes, dermatitis, and severe weakness. Officials face pressure for medical aid and stricter public health action.
Fragmented verse narrates a soldier addressing his mother during combat, mentioning angels guarding him, longing, and loss. It references distant towns, family members, and a farewell to a dying comrade, conveying grief and yearning amid battlefield sounds.
A detailed scene depicts a waterwheel eighteen feet tall driving an arrastra and grinding ore in a hillside mine. A worker beside a rough loom of furniture observes the operation while a distant ravine collects tailings and float ore. An observer notes goal beating fragments found nearby and an estimate from A Comingston suggests large military losses in a Chicago area context. Col. Colr’s Armory in Hartford reports a 31 000 pistol order for the government.
Dickens’ A Pie Fear Round notes how delusions of spirits or physical transforms afflict both English and American lunatics. Cases include a man imagining wax bones, a nose so large it blocks dining, and patients who believe they are an umbrella clock or a goose pie.
Historical notes recount the first steamboat on the Mississippi in 1811, voyage times from St Louis to New Orleans, and rapid growth of river trade. It cites population impact, vessel counts, and economic figures for New Orleans before the Civil War, plus a modern note on miniature photographic portraits in family bibles for births deaths and marriages.
A garbled 19th century dispatch mixes naval strength figures for France, nickel currency details, ironclads and plates, lumber shipments to Cleveland, a Congregational church organ, and a humorous harvest anecdote about a slave negotiating wages, with scattered global trade and textile data.
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