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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1850
Page
1
The Steubenville Herald details subscription terms dating to 1806 with annual and arrears provisions, advertising rates for one to three columns, and publication notes. Also included are a long Irish ballad excerpt likely from a literary or entertainment notice appearing alongside the rates.
In Arthur’s Home Gazette a tale follows two sisters Helen and Mary as their grandfather gifts a pearl to the happiest. Helen seeks pleasure while Mary devotes herself to charity, ultimately earning the Pearl of Great Price through acts of kindness and a dove’s return.
The Louisville Journal notes fewer dangers on New York to Liverpool steamship voyages than on Buffalo to Sandusky steamers. It contrasts public opinion in Congress, labeling lake harbor improvements constitutional or a waste, while lawmakers push buoys and lighthouses along the coast from Sandy Hook to Nantucket.
A column of practical advice on preserving household items. It advises buffing ivory handles with sandpaper to remove yellowing, soaking pocket handkerchiefs in salt water to prevent fading, dipping lamp wicks in hot vinegar to curb odor, cleaning brass kettles with salt and vinegar, and shaking carpets to reduce wear and dirt buildup.
A company of New England men purchased three hundred fifty thousand acres of timber land on the Kanawha river at fifty cents an acre. Forty New Englanders have gone forward to form a settlement, aiming to open a heavy lumber trade with Ohio. Virginians watch Northern enterprise move northward while inviting northern settlers.
A New Lisbon Palladium report notes an unterified locomotive in the Bank exchanging silver for Red Backs. The observer said he was hard and not soft enough to carry silver, preferring good paper instead.
Washington October 2 The President withdraws objections and the Bounty Land Bill becomes law. Indiana’s Mr Thompson declines Recorder of the Land Office appointment, while Nathan Sargent is reappointed to the office.
Robbery of about 5600 dollars occurred last night at Battenkill Bank in Manchester Vermont. About 2800 dollars was in specie including 2000 dollars in gold. A 500 dollar reward was announced for the recovery of all or part of the stolen money.
A visitor asks for supper bread and meat, storage and bedding but is refused due to lack of meat bread taters hay corn oats and floor. The exchange notes a grim scene of poverty and human need. The dialogue ends with polite but strained good wishes and mutual courtesy.
A playful catalog of odd items and farcical phrases appears in the San Francisco Courier. The list includes unusual "curtostries" and fantastical objects such as a mammoth parsnip and a leg from the multiplication table, mocking legal and social tropes.
At Yorkville South Carolina on the 16th Jackson Avens was tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail before being ordered to leave the state. An informer warned that if he returned he would be hung for disobedience to a vigilance committee. His offense was making abolition declarations offensive to the citizens.
Telegraph reports from Baltimore Worcester mass describe mounting excitement as locals fear fugitives from slavery and many African Americans discuss escaping to Canada amid rumors of hidden runaways and lookout patrols in town.
Correspondence reports intense excitement in Springfield Massachusetts as searches for enslaved people intensify. A dense crowd gathers, vowing to resist any capture of fugitives despite law actions. Estimates claim at least one hundred fugitives may reside in the town.
Excerpt from Nott's address for young men lauds virtue and the choice of noble conduct over vice. It praises elevating character, alleviating misery, and leaving a memorable, pure mark rather than sinking into vulgarity. The speaker vows to act well, even unto self-sacrifice, though his days be brief.
A severe Tuesday evening thunderstorm damaged multiple farms near Canton. Ephraim Selray’s barn north west of town burned with 200 to 300 bushels of wheat. The Stinger farm in Perry was damaged but not destroyed, a sheep shed at Judge Kelly’s place burned, and bridges and fences along Reeves or Hypocrite Run were swept away. Nimishillen and Sandy creeks rose but were not greatly swollen. No insurance coverage reported.
A vast shipping stock at Brook, Jersey City, and Williamsboro wharves includes ocean steamships 18, ships 101, bark 72, brigs and schooners 198 totaling 395 vessels. Most ready for foreign and southern posts, and for California's golden regions.
The New York Sun reports on a dramatic case under the fugitive slave law. A mulatto fugitive was seized in a free city and state, handcuffed, and sent back to his captors, provoking outrage and debate over the law's reach.
The Senate approved temporary rules on the recovery and management of California gold. The measure creates gold mine agents and overseers, grants permits to citizens and Europeans, and limits permits per person with double points for discoverers. Placers permit 50 square, mines 210 feet square, with 30 day pre emptive rights.
Fragmentary dispatch from Baltimore Sun copy describes suspension of land patent actions by the President until the next Congress session. References a riding clerk error and indicates Governor Quitman issued a proclamation for a Mississippi meeting on November 18.
The article notes efforts to build a plank road linking Pittsburgh to Baltimore via the Wal lleghany river and Cumberland. It discusses aims to open rail and road connections to St. Louis and the Ohio valley, urging support for routes toward the Youghiogheny and Pittsburgh, with calls to secure funding and open books.
Confederate era dispatch reports a new slave law leading to arrests in Harrisburg. Federal commissioner vouches for enslaved people claimed as property, delivering them to owners as they traveled home amid minor resistance.
A census entry identifies a married woman of age in ity Illinois. She has pursued a private talent, practicing a dancing craft for around fifteen months with notable success. The report notes the unusual claim and refers to a nickname used by the subject.
A Friday night incident in the Capitol led to a disputed confrontation between Senator Foote and Senator Fremont. Foote struck Fremont after being accused of lacking gentlemanly conduct during debate over California Bills. The fight was halted, later reported as amicably settled with no lasting rancor.
The Washington Union reports editor Mr Ritchie seeks relief from a printing contract with Congress and plans retirement after over forty six years at the paper. The editor says ready to remain at post for a few days while public facts are laid before readers and then retire to private life.
Negotiations at Ischl outline Russia's rebuke to Berlin policy. Peter, Duke of Oldenburg, to become Denmark's king. Holstein and Lüneburg to stay with the Germanic Confederation. Russia will renounce Holstein Kiel succession rights if Augustenburg ascends, with compensation issues for Augustenburg.
A quotation suggests wives and daughters bear names echoing their husband’s or father’s profession. Examples include Ait-ty or Peg-gy for shoemaker’s wife, Bet-the gambler’s wife, Luve for lawyer’s wife, Patty for confectioner’s daughter, Sopsy for cabinet-maker’s daughter, and Suy for a military officer’s daughter. The note argues such naming could indicate family trades.
In Mogadore Ohio General Hinton was seized by Grove a local lawyer after a rider led him from his horse and announced arrest for mail robbery. Hinton resisted demanding release and claimed concern for his daughters while Grove urged restraint and ordered him to ride away to the road to hell.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports an awith murder near West Chester Pennsylvania on Saturday. Children from Rocky School three miles above West Chester found Phebe Sharpe dead at her door with gun wadding nearby. George Karen, later arrested nearby with a gun and a paper fragment, is jailed for further examination. The deceased, about twenty eight, is the daughter of Aaron Sharpless.
A New Orleans youth named Adolph Archer, about 20, recounts being kidnapped at age 12 by a free colored man De Lisle from New Orleans and taken to Attakapas to work as a slave among enslaved people. He describes severed white contact until escaping. His brother Henry, now at the Swiss Consul's office, vows to find and prosecute the kidnapper.
Henry A Wise argues in a late address that education should fuse Christian philosophy with love temperance knowledge virtue faith hope and charity to shape children who won t harm each other or injure the State The London Daily News notes Kossuth faces treachery and warns against threats to his life
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