22 Dec 1860
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1860
Page
1
A historical poem link to John G. Whittier rails against oppression. It speaks of nations groaning under tyranny and priestly cruelty. The speaker envisions freedom won by patient endurance and the inevitable retribution of nature and time.
In a plain New England home a thrifty Deacon values use over beauty while his wife yearns for art. Their son Jethro defends a Parian statuette of Paul and Virginia as a useful, uplifting addition, challenging the Deacon’s austere, practical world and revealing a clash between utilitarian fear and aesthetic longing.
The passage jokes that carrying an umbrella signals caution and riches, while leaving it behind marks recklessness and lateness. A man always losing his umbrella is unlucky and poor, and constant worry over an umbrella marks messiness and suspicion. A sharp remark to a lady follows.
The narrative recounts the death of Mrs. Andrew Jackson, detailing her illness a night before her passing. General Jackson stays by her side, the family and doctor react, and the household remembers her as a mother and wife. The remains lie beside her husband in the Hermitage garden.
A wandering speaker recounts stepping from a tavern to walk a mile, discovering a mile long raft that moves as he does. He visits a neighboring tavern, questions the keeper about a twin brother and shared wares, jokes about a Chicago diphtheria and truth as map, then compares the raft to the journey back and declares his pace to be twenty minutes per mile.
A reflective admonition asks if actions are right before God, lawful to neighbor, and good for the soul. The fragment then notes that a military man is often vain, with vanity causing struts that feed his vanity.
From Holbrook's United States Mail the New York Post Office year ending September 30 1860 reports total revenue from stamps postage and related services at 604121 49. It lists thousands of letters mailed received delivered by carriers and foreign mail totals including California routes and steamship arrivals with 238 clerks and 117 letter carriers and notes a doubling of correspondence over eight years.
The memoir recounts Guziot's final hours with his family at the deathbed, the gift of Lafayette’s medallion and a lock of Madame de Lafayette’s hair, and his burial beside his wife at Picpus cemetery. A vast funeral crowd accompanied the procession to the convent grounds in Paris, with no political display at the gravesite.
In a Victorian scene James Margreaves kneels and gazes at a floor drawing as his wife, recently delivered of a child, watches. He declares a breakthrough that will defy the spinning wheel and suggests naming the device the spinning Jenny. Men Who have Risen.
An 18th century voice argues children learn best from home conversation not printed pages. Parents should speak well and often, making the home a cheerful, mentally active place. A silent house dulls youth and invites escape. family talks can substitute for schooling and strangers.
A stormy winter night sees William Annesley and his mother braving fierce wind and whirling snow to attend a lecture. The boy consoles his mother, proud to support her, while the piece praises devoted children and the joy of a contented wife, Anne Hope, as the sunlit spark of life.
A Cornish clergyman disputes mining title and seeks a London law limb. While a professional defends a shaft with a rope, he asks the parson the distance to the inner regions. The parson jokes that if the rope is let go he will be there in a minute, highlighting wit during a late 18th or early 19th century exchange.
A recent Ava town meeting in Ireland ordered that all residents owning dogs must muzzle them. The measure aims to curb disturbances and ensure public safety within the town.
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