07 Jun 1862
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1862
Page
1
The poem laments aging and yearly seasons with refrains about May and May's past joys. It speaks of accepting night and day, weather, and guidance from God as life ends and faith remains. The speaker addresses a beloved, noting gray heads and shared years, preferring calm surrender to death’s gale.
A garbled miscellany of aphorisms and nested quotes on virtue vice fortune and social roles. It weaves reflections on honesty pride prosperity and folly with rough snatches about education government and character, all jumbled in an OCR messy stream.
An evening gathering of about thirty couples ends with a comic misadventure as Mr Jones’s trousers rip while Miss Brown clings to a handkerchief mistaken for her own, revealing the breach. The couple finally separates and Mrs Jones with her escort depart.
The record quotes General Wool saying his men were the dirtiest he had ever seen and General McClellan retorts that if Wool and his men had shared their fate his would have been dirty too, during a first inspection of the army.
A fragmented 19th century voice muses on first loves and fleeting fame through fanciful, comic scenes. It contrasts imagined champions with ordinary people such as a costermonger and a farmer's man, ending with a pointed note on memory and a brief obituary fragment of Munnez, the Irish giant, dying of smallpox in Marseilles.
An anecdote from Civil War times describes Seth, a famed Berdan Sharpshooter, boasting of a captured heavy enemy gun. He asserts ownership of the weapon and refuses to let rebels fire it, even fetching haversacks of gravel to secure it during a skirmish.
The women of St. Louis presented Gen Sigal with a fine silver goblet. In his speech he declared he is bound to this country and its principles, came here like early settlers, and honors the memory of those who died defending Missouri and the Union for the Stars and Stripes.
The old debate over steam locomotion resurfaces as George Stephenson presents his model to Parliament. A skeptical House questions feasibility and safety, asking if a cow could block a moving carriage and how rails would prevent derailment.
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