20 Sep 1854
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Newspaper
The Lancaster Ledger
Location
Lancaster, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1854
Page
1
Fragmentary verse from a 19th century prose page showing alternating lines about autumnal mood, birds, streams, winds, and a longing rain. It attributes the stanza to Obie Farmer and features archaic spellings and imagery of nature, clouds, and the western breeze.
The notice urges thorough cotton ginning and careful seedbed work. It covers barley harvest, proper drying of lint, and complete preparation for market. Advice includes sowing Clover and Winter crops, planting turnips, hay from gwen porta vines, and handling tubers before first frost. It also mentions potato vine storage and field drainage as July guidance.
Agricultural notes urge sowing European cabbage seed and setting out broccoli and cauliflower plants. Plant beans for pickles, grow spinach lettuce radishes cress and mustard, and transplant celery. Prepare strawberry beds with deep soil amendments for fall planting and horse- or hand-cultivated beds. Also advise flower garden care and gathering seeds for storage from the Southern Cultivator harvest guidance.
A lengthy covering essay argues the United States will swell from under 900000 to about 497 million by 1980 if current growth continues, contrasting density with Britain and Belgium. It urges national unity, diffusion of knowledge, widespread schooling, and industrial progress to sustain a vast, coordinated modern republic. The piece also notes debates over Junius letters and a rare manuscript found in Virginia linking to John Baylor family history.
A report describes George Elliotts ascent to about three thousand feet where ballast was released, creating a dramatic ascent among the clouds. He sights a mirror image of himself as if a second traveler, a floating diver and a distant sunlit glow, then descends and passes through a remarkable optical scene. The account blends science speculation with a tale of a mysterious double and floating reflections observed at high altitude.
A Georgia literary paper condemns Wayland's Moral Science for alleged dangerous doctrines. It calls for removing the book from schools to guard Southern youth from abolitionist influence and urges scrutiny of other school texts for similar content. The piece also quotes a passage from the New York Mirror on mortality and reflects on death’s inevitability and the futility of earthly power.
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