25 Oct 1856
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Newspaper
San Andreas Independent
Location
San Andreas, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1856
Page
1
A long poetic sermon on loyalty to the Union, urging unity among brothers and warning that severing the Union would unravel families and the nation. It contrasts familial affection with public duty and ends by invoking God’s judgment and national solidarity.
The piece laments the decay of once mighty monuments. It contrasts Jeru salem, the Parthenon, the Roman Forum, Tarpeian Rock, the Palace of the Caesars, and the Pyramids with images of ruin. The Tiber and Ilisus rivers are polluted. Olympus and the Acropolis lie forsaken.
The Louisville Journal notes Lucy Stone urging both genders be elected to Congress to raise the body's character and warns that pairing off in elections might become even more common.
A Scottish inn tale recounts Tom Moore asked by the landlady to write an epitaph. He improvises with two lines ending in heaven and hell. The landlady is amused yet told he has not finished until morning. Moore adds a final couplet about Peter and Belzebub before departure.
The article notes enormous costs for Capitol improvements including two principal bronze doors fourteen feet high and six and a half feet wide, each with eight panels of national scenes. It contrasts plans to import or cast locally, and criticizes statuary spending while recalling past criticisms by Mr. Hale about portico sculptures.
Dr. O. W. Holmes, unable to deliver his lecture due to illness, writes an apology stating he would not even refuse a fifty dollar bill after the talk, expressing gratitude and inability to proceed.
An exhortation urges steadfastness and constancy under pressure. It likens unwavering principle to a lighthouse guiding others toward virtue and safety, praising the value of resisting temptation and maintaining an upright example.
A reflective meditation on conscience describing it as the inner voice of a justly offended deity. It contrasts conscience with natural disasters and atmospheric fury, portraying it as the soul's awareness of a superior being and the shame and self abasement it provokes in facing judgment.
A reader from Camberwell, London shares a method for making tea. Fill the teapot with boiling water first then add tea leaves and let them steep for five minutes. The leaves absorb water and settle to the bottom, avoiding scalding and yielding the true flavor with less tea than the common method.
To Clean Silk, Pare and slice washed potatoes then boil water and cool. Strain water add equal alcohol. Sponge silk on right side until half dry then iron on wrong side. Velvet cleaning uses damp cloth and smoothing iron with whisk brush to remove wrinkles.
A writer argues that giving wealth to children harms their future prospects. He claims the best money is earned, not inherited, and that modest means spur effort. Ambition fueled by a half-filled purse outlasts contempt from the rich and envy from others, driving perseverance and success.
Albany Transcript reports Low Haskell Co of New York sold half the patent right for a leather tanning process for 300000 dollars in cash. The private notice says this is the largest cash patent sale to date.
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