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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1849
Page
1
The notice outlines market street terms near Washington Hall with yearly payment discounts and daily penalties for delays. It details advertising charges for one and two column spaces, durations from one to twelve months, and notes on continuous publication if not canceled. It also mentions patent medicines, separate column rates, and legal advertisement pricing, plus job printing quality and low prices.
A reflective poem from Brighton Illinois pleads with young people about leaving home for California in search of gold. It questions whether wealth abroad brings true happiness and warns of sorrow of separated families, urging youths to pause and consider trials awaiting in distant lands.
In a spirited Charleston style narrative a Cape May lodging tale unfolds with a ghostly bedfellow and a clever spoon fashion reveal ending in an engagement. The issue then shifts to Layard's Nineveh revelations praising its walls, reliefs, and ancient civilization as evidence for biblical narratives.
A curious calculation explains that a billion equals a million times a million and considers how long counting would take. It estimates Adam counting from creation would require about 9512 years, 34 days, 20 minutes to reach a billion. Dem Her Newark N J.
A Boston paper notes that the first apple in Eden yielded the first pair, a playful quip on origins and matches in a bygone era.
The piece explains Congress extending revenue laws to Upper California with San Francisco as port of entry and San Diego Monterey and another port of delivery. Deputies are to be salaried and installed, with a dragoon detachment to accompany, and prosecutions in Louisiana or Oregon courts. Col Collier has appointed deputies and inspectors under revenue laws.
A reflective fragment quotes Longfellow on judging others with mercy. It contrasts sorrow and error, detailing a poor heart's struggles, temptation, hope and fear, and social scorn, urging compassion over anger toward the erring. The passage centers on shared humanity and inner battles.
A young Jersey boy writing from California in January recounts working eleven days at about $100 daily, falling ill with fever and enduring a harsh illness. He paid the nearest doctor sixty miles away four visits totaling $690, about $150 each, leaving roughly $60 after food costs.
A downtown bakery brawl began over politics as two workers argued, one man grabbing the other and thrusting his head into the kneading trough. The less articulate speaker left with a dough-faced appearance, described by the Cin Dispatch as a striking sight.
A letter from A. W. Bush now in San Francisco reports a crowded city port with 35 vessels and ongoing arrivals. He notes mines 180 miles away where diggers earn two to three thousand dollars in weeks, and mentions meeting Mr. Comstock who has been to the mines and fared well.
The Memphis Eagle reports heavy floods on plantations along the Arkansas shore. Devils Elbow area suffers most with pools and swamps forming after water subsided. A planter reportedly lost eleven enslaved people to cholera and moved survivors by wood boat to Memphis. Many families fled to the Hills inland, others prepare to follow.
The Intelligencer reports a gift of honor to Gen. Taylor from Virginia in recognition of Mexican victories. Delegation Raleigh T. Daniel, Wm. W. Cramp, Henry L. Brooks, Lilburn H. M. Trigg, and John Daniel attend. The presentation occurs at mid day in the President's Mansion.
The Boston Post commentary argues the Whig administration need not expel Democrats, as most offices merely starve incumbents. A Lou Journal exchange uses a fence metaphor about a hog to claim fencing pasture to keep hogs out, reflecting partisan humor.
Faipay Moanina convened at nine o'clock with the convention in session. The president presided, minutes were read and approved, and the committee on business reported and proceeded with its agenda.
Mr Benrox notes efforts in Missouri to defeat Col Benton’s reelection to the U S Senate over anti slavery record. Benton plans to tour major points in the state to address voters on this and other issues. The St Louis Reveille and Republican papers weigh the senator’s fate as slave extension debates loom and Benton promotes a railroad extension monument to blunt opposition.
The excerpt notes newspaper vendors share liability for libel in issues they sell with Philadelphia agent Koeas convicted for a libel in the New York Police Gazette. It recalls sharp exchanges between the State Journal and Medina Whig over Townshend, and cites John Randolph advising a young relation on mastery of saying no amid daily refusals.
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