03 May 1866
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Newspaper
Tipton Advertiser
Location
Tipton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1866
Page
1
A fragmentary lyric recalling a father who stopped drinking after a death named Benny. The verses describe improved home life, a neat cottage, cheerful returns, and a family church scene with Benny resting in a nearby grave. The chorus highlights a child’s proud claim that our father don’t drink any more.
A Mobile writer recalls an improvised county hang in Spartanburg Mississippi. Sheriff and deputy clash over a crude gallows while Tolley stands defiant, receiving a last drink and a kick for arson before narrowly escaping death.
A Florida correspondent to the New York Tribune denounces the enduring power of plantation elites. He laments land grabs by rich neighbors, notes freed slave property declines, and accuses Copperheads and the administration of shaping a Southern political future under the same ruling party.
A Texas clergyman writes from his thirty years residence urging swift removal of the South after years of rebellion. He brands secession as corrupting morality, claiming rebels still celebrate it and that personal virtue and truth have been eroded, warning of pervasive moral poison across the South.
The Gazette de Midi notes mild winters in years 1172 128 1421 1527 with January foliage and early birds. It cites 1858 gardens in February and Paris swimming rites, and details 763 severe nationwide weather except at Sables d Olonne where December January stayed mild. Le Condamine highlighted this anomaly. The mild winters of 1867 1822 and 1830 did not hurt crops.
The article describes M. L. Sullevant near Columbus Ohio as owner of vast land and a highly productive operation. It cites 70 000 acres with 23 000 cultivated, uses horse power and machinery to replace labor, and harvests wheat at 200 acres per day with a small crew. It also notes labor totals of 100 to 200 workers and large teams and oxen. It closes with a stark report on Jamaicain trials and executions totaling around 500.
Dr Giwin a rebel and duke is guarded by a sentinel at Fort Jackson New Orleans. A gust blew a writing sheet from his embrasure and he jumped after it. The sentinel fired but the cap failed, saving his life. The piece details a nurse noting captain Hall flogging women in Jamaica. A true baby described in vivid domestic detail closes the column.
The Buffalo Courier recalls Jesse Corwin of Hamilton, a Wash ingtonian Society orator amid temperance fervor. A rival asks for arguments to reform, noting he could only find a single water-crying example in the Bible, and a child Sallie interrupts with a joke about creation.
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