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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1868
Page
1
A playful poem invites creatures and blooms to join in harmony praising the beautiful Jones. Birds, crickets, brooks, and blossoms respond with song and color as the lyrical lark, the red breast, and other creatures compose a natural chorus.
Excerpt urges using talents for good deeds and scorn vulgar ignorance. It calls to rise in life with faith and noble acts while offering gentle help to the wandering, and ends with a meditation on mortal birth and time.
A young clergyman's daughter from Albany ran away with and married a circus rider in Quincy. The father pleaded for her return, but she refused to leave her husband and stage life. The couple, described as youthful and devoted, pursues the bohemian path while the family grieves and fails to deter them.
The New York correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette extols Mr Black for intellect yet notes his absent mindedness in daily life. His wife packs six shirts for a Pittsburg trip and the husband later reveals he wore the same clean shirt each day, leaving the used ones stuck under his back.
The Urbana Union criticizes soldiers who left wives for pay and offices, noting a Soldiers and Sailors Convention to influence the Radical Chicago convention. The piece warns against pandering for spoils, hinting at political maneuvering and postwar ambitions.
General Dyer states the government holds over one million stands of foreign and irregular arms and sixty million cartridges, plus accoutrements and artillery. He suggests placing them near New York for private sale as public auctions underperform their value.
Reportedly locusts in Tennessee bear the letters MN and W on their wings. Natives interpret this marking as signaling new war.
The piece analyzes Tennyson’s Enoch Arden, its reception in England and America, and Queen Victoria’s reaction. It recounts a meeting on the Isle of Wight where the Queen, with her daughters, questions the poem’s morality and its protagonist.
Part of Parton's life of Andrew Jackson recounts the duel with Col. Dickinson. Dickinson is wounded in the fight, but Jackson survives unscathed by a misfired shot. Dickinson then dies from injuries as the struggle ends. Also noted are a blind woman restored to sight and a parasol fan novelty, with minor local items.
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