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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1850
Page
4
An 1850 Shepherdstown item includes a German Patriot's Song and crowd response, a vivid account of a vocalist's performance, reflections on American and German ties, and excerpts on European rulers Louis Philippe and the French monarchy, with observations on pruning vines and public reception of leaders.
Liverpool correspondence reports an Indian chief’s impression of Jenny Lind in a Philadelphia Philharmonic Hall concert. The writer describes a full house, crowds, and bustling sales of seats and memorabilia as Lind’s name dominates the scene.
An 19th century guide outlines planting one to two year vines in north south rows six feet apart with eight feet between vines. After initial growth, install locust bottom posts and pine tops, six to seven and a half feet tall, spaced between vines. Run galvanized wire through notches in posts, paint and brace ends, and train arms along the lower wire to form a sturdy trellis for a vineyard expected to endure a generation.
condensed Philadelphia Bulletin summary details Louis Philippe born Paris October 1773 and died July in England after refuge from 1848 revolution. Traces his line, early military service, emigration, exile hardships including poverty and disguise, travels to America reaching Philadelphia 1796 and lodging at Prune and Fourth, later meetings with Washington, journeys to Buffalo, Niagara, New York, Boston and Newport, voyage to Pittsburgh, Mississippi voyage to New Orleans, Havana and England, marriage in Sicily to Maria Amelia after Napoleon era exile.
From June 1 to June 4 the Sultan sailed from Constantinople aboard the Taif and arrived at Lemnos, then Cane, amid 21 gun salutes and vast crowds. He met officials, heard grievances, and studied agriculture, commerce, and industry, distributing funds and gifts to workers, students, and the sick. He also inspected fortifications, arsenals, hospitals, schools, and manufactories during two days in Cane, visiting rural communities nearby.
The observer compares Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, noting Hugo’s thin, intellectual, melancholy presence and Dumas’s robust, woolly-haired, mixed-blood appearance. Hugo is described as pale and refined, while Dumas appears robust and unconcerned with public opinion, with age estimates ranging from mid forties to mid fifties for Hugo and mid forties for Dumas.
Henry A Wise speaks in a late Northampton address for Popular Education calling bachelors with wealth to bear higher taxes for free schools. He argues education protects persons and property, urging that the rich childless man should shoulder greater public costs to secure virtue and knowledge for the state.
Mr. Clay thanks Fauquier gentlemen for the invitation to a Warrenton festival honoring Senator from Mississippi. He praises the senator as ardent, able, enlightened, and devoted to the Union. Public duties prevent his attendance, but he expresses high regard and wishes the event a worthy celebration of patriotic merit.
A writer roams Hamburg's contrast between the old Datelgables and the new Paris-like city built over the Weife mine. He observes narrow guilded alleys, Dutch houses, Alster quays, and the lively yet uneasy shift from antique charm to modern bustle with flower girls, guards, and habitually formal porters.
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