26 Apr 1856
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1856
Page
1
The Warren Mail outlines subscription pricing with 150 in advance and 200 if not. It states paper continuation only after arrears are paid and lists advertising rates for one square and subsequent insertions.
In verse from the Ladies' Companion a noble lover loses wealth and status but a vowed love endures. A bereaved noblewoman tells him to tell his bride that true love remains constant beyond fortune, repeating the refrain I love him better now.
A reflection on a mother's long life and burdened care as her children failed to show gratitude. The piece recalls the elder woman's years from youth to widowhood and funeral rites, ending with a sermon on mercy and eternal comfort. The narrator laments ingratitude and pleads for compassion toward aging parents.
A reflective note on envy and fame cites a rich man forgotten in fifty years after his death and contrasts his lasting sign with a grave once visited by four bob tailed pigs rooting the soil, illustrating the transient nature of worldly glory.
A landlady berates a strolling player who she catches stealing her spoons, remarking that she does not admire his style of acting as the incident unfolds.
In a B city tale, Isabella Earnest refuses a shoemaker James Willmot, spurning love for wealth. Years later she watches Mary Wilson marry a senator, while James rises only to tragedy as Isabella falls into poverty after her husband’s death. A canine news note follows about a dam’s offspring.
Senator Seward counters the President’s Mass and New York critique on slavery, praising Massachusetts and New York as models and urging defense of constitutional duty. He mocks the President’s selective rebuke of the Northern states and lauds their civic achievements and leadership.
A family anecdote recalls Ebenezer Webster, Daniel Webster's father, a farmer whose vegetables suffered from a woodchuck raid, illustrating the young statesman's early gifts. The tale frames a rural scene with a humble ancestor shaping the future orator.
A Washington letter mocks Speaker Banks and rival Campbell as they perform a formal political dance. Banks is described as stately and exact, Campbell as agile and surprised, with the scene likened to Hamlet’s Ghost leading Ophelia in a contra dance.
The piece contrasts bedtime rituals between a young woman and a man. It describes her candlelight, hair preparation, night cap, and gentle sleep versus the man’s rough, cannibal like snuffing of the candle, rough behavior, and heavy groans as he settles to sleep.
A collection of humorous epigrams and witticisms touching readers of the era. Jokes about cows and letters, authors, a joiner, vines, doctors, and marriage, with mock quotes from Goethe and references to Judge Douglas and the Boston Post.
A house built entirely of felt using 24 000 old hats features parlors dining rooms bedrooms and a kitchen. The structure rests on a platform on the plain of St Denis and can be moved from location to location.
A vivid folk description portrays a fiddle as remarkable as a tyre key and as fat as a goose. The speaker recalls turning the instrument on its back and drawing a crooked stick across its belly, eliciting a loud squall and rousing St. Patrick's exclamations.
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