18 Feb 1843
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Newspaper
Settler And Pennon
Location
Smethport, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1843
Page
1
The Settler and Pennon offers a weekly edition with subscription rates: one dollar seventy five cents in advance, two dollars after three months, two dollars and eighty five cents within the year. Advertisements priced at one dollar per square for three insertions. discounts apply for yearly contracts. Communications must be mailed, postpaid, with fees at publisher's discretion.
In a late 18th century Connecticut scene, Capt. Hartwell and four officers plan to seize Gen. Siliman. Mrs. Siliman confronts them with courage, pleading to spare her husband. The group moves toward a dawn escape, while a parallel hostage exchange scheme unfolds with Judge Jones and local patriots aiding a night raid to reclaim the general.
A British judge and his American prisoners exchange terms after a tense standoff by the river. Mrs Si earns praise for her wit aiding a peaceful release, while husbands reunite with wives as memories of conflict stir hopes for liberty and national vigor.
Excerpt from the Picague poem depicts desolation on a blasted heath with humane pity. It describes starving figures, howls and night bird screams, and a dread thunderous encounter on a desolate shore leaving a man penniless and terrified.
A humorously styled note recounts a Yankee who recently married, ate five pumpkin pies, uttered a lie, attended church, and damaged his clothing all in one day, in a casually sensational tone.
A fragment echoes Johnson on home happiness as the ultimate goal of ambition and virtue, contrasting public show with private character. The text shifts to a sensational note about a German market performer Madame Catalina and a trial revealing a nurse murderer who used poisoning, carried in her curling papers.
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