02 Dec 1852
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1852
Page
1
A reflective ode from Lovewillre Kentucky 1852 contemplates the passing year as a mournful, cosmic lament. It portrays time as a stern, bodiless power that wails for the departed year while human hopes rise and fade. Immortality is affirmed amid nature’s vast, indifferent panorama.
A fragment describes household advice for a son Sammy to fetch sugar and tobacco, then shifts to a marital squabble scenario. The mother warns, the speaker reclines by the fire, smoking a cigar while the storm continues outside. It reads as domestic vignette with dated slang.
A British officer recalls the Battle of New Orleans seeing a tall hunter on cotton bales directing fire at American lines. The scene depicts General Coffee’s cannon, the mayhem of combat, and the hunter’s eerie, statue like gaze before victory or defeat shifts. The account ends with reflections on a Kentucky rifleman shaping the battle’s outcome and broader Westward resistance.
A religious reflection argues that world’s goods are temporary and should be used as lent by the Lord. True freedom comes from aligning will with heaven, not clinging to earthly pleasures. Our present sorrow arises from improper desires, while future happiness depends on inward obedience to God.
A devotional meditation on the immeasurable value of the soul contrasts eternal blessedness with woe. The piece recalls a millionaire betting a man of God could recite the Lord's Prayer and notes fashions of Eve as a BEYR skin, finishing with a quip on fashion society’s faults.
The Agricultural Plough reports Hon. John M. Clayton in Delaware endorsing lime as the best manure for peach trees. Lime applied to naked roots kills grubs and preserves healthy trees. The piece also urges farmers to study agricultural science, stressing books, periodicals, and practical theory to improve soil fertility and farming happiness. It discusses apple market prospects in New England and a Illinois plum orchard hog pasture method gaining support as proof of innovative farming ideas.
The narrative recounts Alexander the Great drinking to a Macedonian companion Proteas with a cup of Hercules wine in Babylon. He collapses, falls ill with fever, and dies days later as chroniclers note wine as the true poison. Separately, Mayor Gilpin begins his second term in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
A juvenile Whittier attracts a literary visitor party to Weare New Hampshire. While his guests seek to praise his poetry he labors cleaning a pig sty and struggles with boots, revealing a humorous scene before the moment of formal introductions.
The tale recalls a man driven to drink by social games and late nights. His wife’s steadfast care at the door spurred his decision to quit. He vowed never to touch alcohol and kept that pledge, dying sober in a community wrecked by intemperance. The narrator wonders if more wives like his mother could curb drunkenness. A Wakefield Nest of Ory Men notes remarkable longevity in local families.
A New York Tribune foreign correspondent reports the Sultan of Turkey intends to send a war vessel to the United States for display at the World’s Fair in New York City next spring.
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