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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1850
Page
1
An OCR fragment notes percentages and a year, mentioning 1806 and figures around seven and four percent within a 500 context. The readable data is sparse but suggests historical numeric references without clear event details or entities.
A Victorian sketch follows Lucy Wendell a dutiful girl from a modest Dutch family who dies after influenza. Her guardian Ross the glove maker offers her labor, housing, and dignity. A conflict with his son John over an engagement triggers remorse, reconciliation, and a tender ending as Lucy becomes wife and mother, celebrated in memory.
An unclear fragment notes a tender of resignation to the office for the present with speculation about changes before the close of session. No definitive names or dates are readable.
The Henry county scene shows about three hundred clean Democrats versus forty scamps, with a pact to refrain from voting for the opposing faction to avoid a split. Will Benton submit to this? He would rather sit with six thousand cholera deaths than join such a coalition, illustrating the omnipotence of minorities in the Democratic party.
The House passed a bill granting land bounties to soldiers of 1812 and all wars since 1790. It offers 160 acres for twelve months, 80 for six, and 40 for three. The Senate’s action this session remains uncertain, per the Carroll Free Press.
The Colonization Herald, a paper advocating removing blacks to Africa, has resumed in Philadelphia after a hiatus and will be issued monthly. The governor of South Carolina has largely used pardoning power for six offenders sentenced to whipping, with one exception. Alexander the Great, via Plutarch, warned friends against luxury and idleness, urging labor as noble.
The Savannah Republican reports about twenty five warriors with their families preparing to move west. Bowleys tells Captain Casey that the chief says young men prefer fighting to leaving the country. He warns that expelling the red brethren by force would trigger an evil spirit to possess the land and destroy pale faces who trespass on hunting grounds.
Mr Hall argued for the Wilmot Proviso in the Senate and declared he would stand by the Ordinance of 1737 and endure the opprobrium tied to following the old track and the fathers of his country.
The Lehigh Register notes a Friday sighting shown by an Allentown gentleman who got it from Benjamin Breinig of North Whitehall. The egg reportedly contained three yolks and measured six and a half inches by eight, a remarkable size for a hen's egg.
Abner Smith of Massachusetts imported three alligators from Louisiana to exhibit them. One bit him on Wednesday. he ignored the wound, and by Saturday his arm swelled severely. He died Sunday night in great agony at the hospital.
A hale man entered Justice Gray's office in Baltimore and solicited alms. A purse of 374 cents was offered on the condition he walk eight times around the square. He began the first round but cut through an alley. pursued by boys he abandoned the feat, claiming fatigue and vowing not to complete eight laps for twenty dollars.
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