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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1850
Page
1
The Warren Mail lists subscription prices and advertising rates. Annual mail and office subscriptions cost 50 cents in advance, or 63 00 within the year, with 50 cent extra for residence delivery. Papers won’t be discontinued while arrears remain, at publisher option. Rates: one 12 line square, three insertions for 1, extra insertions 25 cents each.
An exhortation to daily writing and steadfast truth. The poem urges using the pen to capture brilliant ideas, defend honesty, and immortalize virtue, while warning against slander and careless repetition. It compares ink to a treasure, a tool for science, history, and enduring praise.
John Taylor appears in Lewisburg Arkansas in 1838 during a sensational murder case. Emma Miner, a beautiful milliner, stands trial for killing duelist Hiram Shore to defend her honor. A mysterious stranger defends her, delivering sweeping, venomous speeches that sway the crowd and jury.
A vivid scene describes comadrejas engineers forming a natural suspension bridge across a torrent. Monkeys grasp tails to create a linked chain, swing over, and then add new links to reach the far bank. The troop then disperses into chaparral, while observers remark on the comic, quizzical expressions of the chain.
An old NH tale tells of a woman declared insane. A partitioned room and overhead timber confined her. While the family worked in a hay field, a dog in the house jumped at the window in apparent distress as coal from the oven caused a dangerous blaze.
A narration by Lavinia Lillywhite recounts how fainting at her failed wedding led to the ring slipping from the groom’s fingers and disappearing into a stove chimney. The couple failed to marry, the ceremony was postponed, and within a year he wed another woman, leaving Lavinia a spinster after thirty years.
A letter in the American Quarterly Review by G. W. Irving describes San Martino, a small Italian republic between the Apennines, the Po and the Adriatic. The nation, about forty miles around with 70,000 people, was founded on morality and liberty. Bonaparte respected it and sent a friendship embassy. It is governed by a Captain Regent chosen every six months by sixty six representatives. Taxes are light, farms neat, fields well tended, and a sense of peace and justice prevails. The Rio Grande valley is seeing rapid settlement and general organization as villages rise.
Dr. A. G. Henry of Springfield Illinois has been appointed Indian Agent for Oregon, according to official notice. The appointment names Henry as the federal representative to manage affairs with tribes in the Oregon region.
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