11 Aug 1855
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1855
Page
1
A poem from the Waverly Magazine laments departure and memory as a lingering shadow on a mother’s heart, with questions about missing loved ones at dawn or dusk and the ache of home left behind.
In a colonial era anecdote, General Putnam defuses a British Major with a joke about two powder keg onions, as officers laugh at the dare. The page also relays a homemade whitewashing recipe with lime, zinc, salt, and colorings, plus a German census quip and a comic prisoner asking for his liberty.
In Warren county Mississippi a coroner jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from the visitation of God or some other disease unknown to the jury This phrasing reflects a historic form of verdict used when no external cause could be determined. The decision rests on natural or undetermined illness rather than foul play or accident.
An eyewitness recounts James Greighton’s extraordinary jump on his mare Miss Remsen during a deer hunt. The horse cleared fallen trees over a canal, with the rider narrowly escaping disaster, while observers praise the mare’s balance and courage. The piece also notes Pennsylvania political notes on Whigs, Know Nothings, and anti Nebraska forces forming a Republican movement.
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