27 Nov 1851
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1851
Page
1
A young minister writes to his fiancée Lizzie with pastoral humor and hardships of village life. He rails at ministerial trials, laments public adulation, and sketches his wife’s tasks at home from catechism to Sunday visitors. He ends with longing for letters and blessing for Lizzie’s mother.
The jury convict Polly Olmstead of murder by slow cruelties in the death of her stepchild. She receives two years in State Prison, prompting calls for harsher punishment and questions about judicial leniency.
On a Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati a father, drunk and staggering, falls headlong down a cellar while his wife and crying daughter urge him home. Bystanders drag him out as he lies stunned. The family appears well dressed and respectable, though the incident is a painful sight.
A prank at a fashionable female seminary ends in a student’s mental collapse after a ghostly figure in a sheet frightens her during an anatomy discussion. Doctors offer no improvement after forty eight hours, while witness accounts describe the victim’s fragile mind and the pranking peer’s remorse.
The Great Exhibition in New York plans to open April 15 under Riddle and Beshek. It will feature exclusively foreign goods with no American participants and no prizes. Goods will ship from London at exhibitors’ expense and be sold with prices attached, with unsold items returned free.
Arthur's Home Gazette notes a pile of three months worth of letters burned in Washington with contents abstracted for potential claimants. The piece mocks unpaid correspondence and questions pre payment rules, highlighting losses to the mail service and the peril of careless writing.
An account from Armagh in 1764 describes Thomas O Neale who was to be executed for mare theft. The sheriff observed signs of life during hanging and uncovered a concealed iron contraption attached to his body. After forcing removal of the device’s straps, he survived four hours and a half, then was taken down and buried the following evening.
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