07 Mar 1855
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1855
Page
1
A romantic poem contemplates darkness over nature and the calm of night. The speaker longs for an angelic lover to soothe grief, imagining a future wife whose smile and presence heal wounds and bear described tenderness amid life’s storms.
A fragment from a Star Spangled Banner related piece describes a cold dreary October day. A frontier family around a fireside prepares a humble pudding meal while awaiting James, a nineteen year old son who has been serving as a volunteer in Waslington’s army. The Johnson household values hard work, schooling, and old fashioned virtue as they await the son’s return from duty and reflect on wartime life along the Pennsylvania border.
A frontier tale follows Steele and his sons plotting violent action against Johnson and family over social slights. The plot unfolds with a young girl warning Johnson, a covert night confrontation, and a fatal shootout in the swamp. Johnson and his allies avenge the attack, two Steele sons die, one wounded, and the surviving boy rehomes with relatives. Emily is adopted into Johnson’s family and grows into a respected woman.
A family in an English town faces disaster when a chimney scaffold falls and the father is stranded at the top. Mary Howard steadies the danger by threading a worsted line down the shaft, guiding a rope up as Tom ferries the string. The father is saved, gratitude to God follows, and the household vows to keep faith in peril.
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