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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1858
Page
2
The Warren Mail discusses whether alternate Saturday sessions should remain, noting health and moral benefits, the need for proper classification, and the value of teacher improvement meetings. It recalls Puritan roots, contrasts old Saturday readings with modern concerns, and cites state notes on education policy and local politics.
State canvassers will certify Messie Haskins and Sickles as elected officials after county returns. Allibone the Pennsylvania Bank president and Newhall director were acquitted as prosecution ended post defense. Gurdon Berry listed among Albany Law School graduates with Usury as disputation topic. Local News Agent L S Howard promotes Our Musical Friend weekly and supplies New York daily papers and music. rail and telegraph news service noted.
A Newfoundland dispatch reaches Cyrus W. Field reviving hopes for the Atlantic Cable. The Saturday report notes good currants were received and the word Henley identified as Henley’s large machine was to operate per earlier Arabia advices.
The Patriot and Union details Pennsylvania’s fiscal year ending November 30 1858 with receipts totaling 4 139 778 35 and a balance of 9 482 70 in the available funds. Expenditures cover public improvements militia pensions libraries schools turnpikes and many state services totaling 3 775 857 06 with year end available 892 027 76.
From Washington on December 17 reports stir among Pennsylvania politicians over a proposed democratic paper in Philadelphia aimed at injuring the Argus and Pennsylvanian, while both papers might merge. The Treasury seeks ten million dollars via loan proposals due January 24 under the June act. Treasury balance stands at about 4.46 million with last week’s receipts around 1.316 million and drafts paid at 2.362 million, a week gain of 0.547 million. South Carolina Governor Gist warns against relying on sons for rights, urging unity across the South to prepare for a possible shift to a new union named the United States of the South.
The New Orleans Picayune traces the Bearded Lady history from a French woman found by a Yankee promoter to London fame as Madame Felicita Clofullia. They toured New York under Barnum, who helped boost the act, and later joined Western exhibitions. The couple earned about ten thousand dollars before a separation left the husband with the infant Esau and the wife continuing to exhibit solo.
The Patriot and Union credits the Auditor General and Chief Clerk Wo. Q Wallace for a Treasury statement showing a balance over eight hundred thousand dollars and an excess of receipts over expenditures of 363 921 21 for the last fiscal year. It compares 1857 and 1858 figures, noting loan redemptions and a healthy state debt reduction, with receipts and expenditures differing by about a million across the two years.
News notes Kossuth touring Scotland for lectures while Santa Anna's wife resigns in Havana. A Kentucky drover loses 3000 dollars in New York gambling dens. a man and family die in a factory fire. Maine lumber season readies.
Lectures with music and short exercises will be delivered in Johns son Hall for the Union School by B W Lacy, Rev J Robinson, J James, F B Guthrie, Wm D Brown, R Brown, Rev D C Willoughby, Ju D Wetmore, C C B Curtin, E Cowan with dates from December 27 through March 21.
Le J. Jay Sherman of Corydon is named Mercantile Appraiser for the coming year by the County Commissioners. The Ledger carries notices of library and school items, missing person alert, and school staff for the Union School term starting January 10. A reader is asked to report information about Samvage Jewert missing from Deerfield township since the 14th.
The piece argues free speech has limits when used to attack neighbors and officials. It notes readers expect constructive criticism of lectures funded by the community and questions the profit motive of paid speakers. The column mentions local shopkeeper E M Pierce promoting oil lamps and tools.
Warren groom J Andrew Hall weds Sugar Grove native M Fitzsimmons in Randolph on December 18 1858 officiated by Rev O J Mead.
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