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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1857
Page
2
An officer resigns his commission after a stratagem by General to test him. The youth is tricked into drinking from a gourd and sharing potato skins with a horse named Roger. The tale contrasts the officer’s bravery with the harsh privations endured by soldiers.
The piece recounts a rich man known as Mr A whose sixteen year old daughter, while visiting friends Mrs B, marries Mr C after a demand for $1000 to release her from the match. The father pays five thousand total to retrieve his child, but the couple leave together, eluding the law and a dramatic family crisis. The Vignettes shift to a steamer debate on religion and a moral tale.
The Warren Mail notes Congress is slow during the holidays and Congress members Scofield and Struthers have moved to their posts. It reports Iowa's 1st District near 55,000 votes for James Thorington, and South Carolina's 1st District about 7,540 votes, highlighting Thorington’s district exceeding South Carolina’s total.
The notice lists weekly lecture topics and dates in Courthouse rooms from January to April 1857 led by Rev E B Lane and others. It reports Masonic lodge installations at North Star Lodge 241 and Oil Creek Lodge 303, plus a planned Albion lodge. Also notes a New Year turkey delivery, Carver House landlord change to Nat and E E Eddy, and Forester lectures on January 7 8, 1857 with topics on power and policy.
Pleasant morning staggers with sentiment and satire as YOUNG FOGY lampoons modern pretensions. The poem recalls old time virtues, rails at Humbug in trade and fashion, and bids farewell to the old year while noting Fremont’s flag and local politics.
The notice details several property foreclosures in Warren County Pa. including a 64 acre farm with dwelling and staged rent terms to Zachariah Eddy and wife, another 19 acre tract with improvements, a borough lot with a dwelling, plus 326 acres in Deerfield and 50 acres in Pittsfield. Proceedings list Jerome Davie, Orr & Henry, and Orr & Robinson as plaintiffs.
Notice states Radical Abolitionists of Warren County will convene at Sugar Grove on Tuesday January 13 at 1 PM to consider a National Convention in Cleveland Ohio and to appoint delegates and organize the county. All supporters urged to attend by the vigilance committee Warren December 27 1856.
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