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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1859
Page
1
A fragmentary verse sketch of an ancient maid who travels for a tailor, sparing the mortal inch in stitching. She recalls a youth with a clerk lover whose meager earnings and social friction led to a breakup. The poem traces changing fortunes, flirtations, and the blunt reversal of lovers and merchants.
Captain Bushwick recounts a voyage from Mocha into Abyssinia with his uncle and four Nubian servants. A southern land excursion ends in a risky canoe trip where bravery and a rifle are decisive after a warm afternoon voyage on a small canoe.
A river voyage ends with a hippo attack sinking the canoe and leaving two men stranded. They trek through a desert and woods while hearing distant pursuers before a Nubian lion stalks them. Lars spears the beast in the throat, killing it, and they recover the carcass to bring home a mounted skin.
A sermon on newspapers as the best path to knowledge and entertainment for families, describing how children progress from notices to fiction and politics. Also includes a chilling, misspelled testament bequeathing poverty and shame to kin, illustrating moral warnings in the same page.
A health article notes May shows about one fifth more deaths than November due to damp air and lifestyle changes. It warns against removing winter clothing too early, delaying fires, and shifting to lighter meals, urging careful preparation to avoid spring illness.
A morning scene in a shop door frames a parable about six passersby with straw in hand. Five nibble or toy with straws while one, thoughtful and focused on the main chance, stands apart. The piece links straw behavior to character and fate.
A Mobile lecture by the Rev. 1p urges young men to pledge to cherish protect and honor their wives and families. He warns against adultery drunkenness and leaving children to inherit an evil name or tainted legacy and stresses the consequences of sin for both spouses and offspring.
The line suggests a critique of vanity equating it with foolishness. It frames self concern as a misjudged form of wisdom, labeling excessive self-regard as folly rather than virtue.
A Pentecostal preacher recalls a Wall Street broker who delayed public confession of faith until the next communion. The broker avoided haste yet faced death before receiving baptism, illustrating the perils of delaying obligations to Christ amid 1889’s convert era.
The excerpt illustrates Spurgeon’s sermon cadence and illustrations as he contrasts genuine divine troubles with self made cares. He likens human nature to fierce beasts and urges readers to seek unvarnished realities and share spiritual good with others. Comfort those in need and seek God among ragged urban poverty.
Agricultural note explains that more manure does not guarantee better apples. In cold northern states over fertilizing weakens trees, causing early fruit drop and frost damage. Experiments in central New York show moderate feeding preserves fruit, while fall applications and modest mulching with well rotted manure plus plaster in spring support steady, balanced growth.
An expository piece on mulching as shade around plants using straw leaves rocks or planks to retain moisture in hot summers. It discusses advantages of different mulch materials, root growth, and notes on straw mulch enriching soil through decay. Also covers potato rot prevention in dry soil and cautions about mercury ointment for lice on cattle.
A fragmented humorous exchange features racist jests about women and lawyers, a quip about marriage and a guest’s joke about a heart and a man with a 13 inch foot. The tone mimics a local paper’s satirical column with shanty humor and crude wordplay.
An observer, amused by an old gobbler trying to swallow cotton string, quips that it was the final effort to introduce cotton into Turkey. The remark blends rural humor with animal antics in a light, period-tone aside.
A man walking through a dark gateway banged his nose on a post. He muttered a wish the post were elsewhere while a bystander quipped about Lenin in a sharp, humorous aside.
A garbled 19th century dialogue shows a man asking a woman for a dance amid social tensions. She hesitates citing an engagement while he humorously claims to be busy with his chewing and revival of conversation in a dimly lit setting.
A western tavern keeper posts an unusual notice accusing a young lawyer of leaving without paying his bill. The cryptic Latin phrase asserts the man is not found in transit and hints at payment pending, framed as a caution to patrons and colleagues.
In reflective verse, Charlotte Hronte notes that flowers lose meaning when gathered for display. She compares blooms to life as rootless and perishable, implying a limit to giving or receiving them from loved ones.
A man claims to know where his wife fell into a brook and drags the shore for clues saying he would not search below the site. Neighbors question his certainty as he asserts she would go with or against the current, alive or dead, revealing a troubling attitude toward the disappearance.
A baby was baptised at church and later vaccinated with an ineffective result. During preparation, the younger brother asked if Willy would be christened again, to which the mother explained that baptism cannot be repeated if it has already taken. The remark prompts humor about recurrent baptisms.
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent in Indiana reports on Mr. r's financial standing. They describe his habit of paying debts at the tail end of executions and handing money to the constable as if driving a nail in his coffin. The piece notes his honesty yet outlines odd quirks and a peculiar vision issue.
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