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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1868
Page
1
Editor Dorp Par Esq presents a poetic piece titled My Catlins Origin about heavenly doors, a falling star, and a sought harmony between angelic lore and mortal life. The verse persona claims his careful guardianship of a heavenly door and a long marriage, with a plea for restraint in increasing numbers of offspring.
A Cincinnati Gazette critique links public tranquility and law toproperty values in the South. It argues that insecurity and ongoing sedition including hostility to the North and Ku Klux Klan deter Northern capital and emigration, pushing investors and settlers toward the West or abroad.
The Quarterly Review recounts Hume undermining his mother’s religion after early piety. As he rejected faith, she grew despondent, writing from London of dying distress. He rushed to Scotland but her death left only fleeting remorse and a continued skepticism.
The Chattanooga Union reports Mr. Wm Staples digging a salt lick northeast of Kingston Tennessee struck a seven foot deep limestone rock well filled with salt water. He found about forty stoneware kettles similar to Indian houseware, estimated at three feet in diameter, buried with five century old poplar and oak trees growing above them.
A Continental officer escapes a Tory trap at a Trenton New Jersey cabin. At midnight a cloud of fire and smoke erupts, destroying the room as the prisoner vanishes, leaving Tories in panic and fleeing toward camp. The tale is tied to John Barton and a schoolmate past.
After secession in December 1860 South Carolina invited General Ripley from Ohio to command forces at Fort Sumter. Now rebuilding on freedom, the state elected General R. K. Scott, also a native of Ohio, as its first governor under the purified constitution.
Representative Boehmer secured a new law authorizing drainage of the large Ottoville pond in this county. The measure aims to improve public health in Ottoville and reclaim a substantial area of farm land for productive use.
An officer states that the road saw perhaps its largest freight movement in history on Wednesday last. In twenty four hours ending at 6 P M at Mifflin 1337 eight wheel freight cars passed, of which 789 were loaded. This does not include passenger baggage and express cars or cars arriving at Marysville for the East.
An instructor at a Berlin ladies' school is discharged after assigning essays on sentiments at the sight of a cavalry officer. The college cites honesty as the best policy in the disciplinary action and underscores propriety in subject matter.
The Columbus Journal recounts the peculiar career of William Campbell a lifelong horse thief who died at the Penitentiary in November. Born to crime he endured multiple prison terms from 1838 through 1857 under various aliases and pardons. He faced consumption in hospital care but died without remorse as his long sentence ended.
General Sherman jokes about Kansas hotels charging three dollars a day with board and lodgings extra. He recalls a Connecticut town encounter where a tall man bragged of a Georgia chicken fight as Sherman’s rooster that whipped 2 U S Journal. Copperhead definition of satrap: A military officer whose political views are not Democratic.
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