09 Jan 1851
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1851
Page
1
The Warren Mail announces subscription terms for mail and office subscribers at 1 HO per annum in advance and 82 0Y within the year. An extra fifty cents applies to papers left at residences. Discontinuation only with arrearages paid, unless the publisher opts otherwise. Advertising rates: one square up to 12 lines, three insertions for 1, each additional insertion 25 cents.
An eyewitness recounts a dramatic pursuit where a deer flees a panther and错 encounters a lurking black bear. The bear ambushes the panther, and after a tense standoff the panther lunges, sinks claws into the bear, and both clash fatally with the bear prevailing and the panther dying. The bear’s cubs witness the aftermath as the mother and cub retreat.
A former examining judge offers blunt counsel to a budding attorney. He urges prioritizing money, inflating bills, and practicing prudence, including flattery of judges and deception if needed, while keeping personal conscience private. The tone is satirical and cautionary about legal ethics.
A Victorian style quip notes women would wield power by sweetness of temper to be irresistible. It adds men would benefit from following the free advice they give to others, imagining a broad social reformation.
Col Ethan Allen, born in Roxbury Connecticut in 1739, joined the American cause after Lexington. He led a bold nightcapture of Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775 with eighty three men and demanded surrender. He later endured imprisonment in England and died in Vermont in 1787. An escape tale describes him loosening his handcuffs with his teeth on a voyage, then threatening the captain to deter further abuse.
A Texas Camp Meeting tale features Preacher Paul Denton who defends water as divine alcohol’s rival. The account contrasts liquor with water, describing it as the life-giving, healthful beverage brewed by God in nature, amid vivid natural imagery and a crowd’s protest.
A father, nearing death, recounts how he resisted the Spirit’s call to seek religion at every life stage. He lists youth middle age and old age as excuses fed by Satan, finally dying with a hardened heart and fear of eternal misery. He urges his sons to seek religion now.
A character named Mrs Partington laments over morning papers for a fugitive slave Billy, expressing hope they will not catch him and showing visible distress at the tale. The line captures 19th century newspaper culture and sympathy narratives surrounding fugitive slaves.
The piece outlines John Charles Fremont born 1813 in South Carolina, his mapmaking with Nichollet, and his 1840s expeditions to the Missouri and Rocky Mountains, Salt Lake crossing, Oregon travels, and ascent to California and senatorial role. It also recounts D Alembert’s origins, Montaigu education, early geometric discoveries, and a dramatic encounter with his supposed mother.
A Washington correspondent surveys presidential conduct from Fillmore to Taylor and Polk, praising Fillmore as the ideal gentleman. He contrasts Adams coldly formal, Jackson dignified yet distant, and Harrison frail, with Taylor remembered as kind and grandfatherly. Fillmore stands out as a tall, healthy, popular host. A second tale shows students shunning a Congressman's shoemaker father, then retracting after learning his status.
An old Boston anecdote about Gilbert Stuart joking that a kissing likeness proved the portrait resembled its subject. An Albany paper reframes the line as a critique of slavery rights while a lawyer quips that juries may be inoculated for stupidity, prompting a witty court reply.
In a rustic anecdote, farmer Jones plots to hide his debt by stealing his own pig with help from a butcher. The plan hinges on convincing neighbors the hog vanished, while the butcher urges sticking to the tale to keep people convinced that the crime occurred.
A reader cites Huet’s 1721 note describing swallows that dive under ice in Sweden during winter. They reportedly sleep buried until spring, reawakening when warmth returns. Similar caverns along Caen and the Orne and caves in Italy have shown clusters hanging from ceilings in winter.
A tale describes Cuff the enslaved worker returning with a broken wheel and a broken tongue, his master questioning the mishap as the cart and oxen fail in sequence. The missive mixes a humorous anecdote with a proverb about miscommunication and a fragment about Paisley and red haired girls.
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