24 Sep 1856
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Newspaper
San Andreas Independent
Location
San Andreas, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1856
Page
1
The text blends subscription and advertising rates with excerpts from prose and poetry. It includes poems about nature and memory, reflections on youth and loss, a piece titled Life’s First Pebble describing earth’s origins, and a short note on sleep and future outlook. It reads as a miscellany from a 19th century periodical.
An eyewitness account by Mr. Coan details a trek through Hawaii’s jungle to the upper lava flows of August 1855. The narrative covers traversing a volcanic river, vent openings, vast fumaroles, and a yearlong eruption, with dramatic imagery of scoria, fumes, and molten streams near Hilo.
A proverb-like fragment contrasts ten poor men needing a mat to sleep with the two kings ruling a quarter of the world and facing peace or conflict. The line emphasizes scale and governance.
The article lists the number of soldiers furnished to the Continental army by each of the thirteen states, including New Hampshire 12497 Delaware 2386 Massachusetts 67907 Maryland 31912 Rhode Island 5908 Virginia 26678 Connecticut 31939 North Carolina 7278 New York 17781 South Carolina 6417 New Jersey 18726 Georgia 2679 Pennsylvania 25678. It notes fewer than fourteen hundred remain and projects most would be aged over 107 to 110 in sixteen years.
The New York Times correspondent reports Michigan judge Kelley visiting Washington on a Saturday. He describes witnessing a ferocious caning in the depot hall and quips that such scenes confirm he is in Washington, delivering biting sarcasm about the capital.
The article explains a method for baking ham rather than boiling. Soak the ham in clean water for an hour, dry, cover with a batter, bake on sticks to keep from gravy, then skin and remove the crust after cooking. It will be very delicious though rich for dyspeptics.
An irreverent wretch styles Dr. Bellow's church in New York as The Church of the Holy Zebra. The building uses alternating red and yellow brick creating a striped appearance likened to mutton chops and raw pork in a remark cited by Sir William Temple about truth, sense, humor, and vit.
An 1840s camp scene depicts miners at dusk in the diggings near the river and canyon. Uncle Jimmie the Scotchman leads songs and tales around a smoky fire while cooks prepare bread and a frugal supper.
A playful but pointed meditation on adolescent crushes, tracing a boy’s growth from awkward tallness to swooning devotion. The piece catalogs the stage by stage fall into love, from refined manners to diary-like rhapsody, jealousy, and dramatic self-absorption.
The excerpt mocks European writers who misrepresent American society. It cites a tale about gentlemen bringing a jackknife to trim fur items and wood furniture, stoking the jest that refined circles here value decorum and avoid damaging center tables with splintered scraps.
A modern writer extols unseen worth that outlives lives on earth. Unknown good deeds, like underground veins of water, sustain and nourish the ground, eventually surfacing as a perennial well. The most cross-crained are not the worst, nor is lowly station the least refined in feeling.
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