28 Nov 1857
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1857
Page
1
Alas love is lost on life’s desolate shore and hopeful hours now past. The speaker pleads for oblivion and a guiding gaze from the star crowned empress of the upper deep to lift the soul in quiet praise of one who walked in sorrow.
In a June ramble with Kate and Annette, Rose begs to join. She wanders into the meadow, falls ill, and dies after a moral about forgiveness and Heaven. Rosie asks if she is big enough to go to Heaven and dies with her mother and sisters mourning.
A compilation of quirky anecdotes and verse snippets. A barber shaves a sleeping fool by mistake, and a rude cry reveals the mix up. A rustic poet jokes about a squirl and tail, while a master tests his apprentice with a sly remark and shy reply.
An extended portrait of a farm as idealized landscape art. The speech likens a well situated farm to sacred nature, detailing a southern slope, a mix of pasture tillage meadow and wood, a substantial dwelling, and scenic amenities. it contrasts cultivated land with nature and cites masters like Potter and Landseer. The passage ends with a humane scene of a dying sailor receiving forgiveness and aid from passengers.
A Blair County Whig correspondent recounts a touching incident aboard a canal boat. A dying painter, ill with consumption, pleads to reach his mother in Burlington. Passengers, after a committee request to deny him passage, are moved by the captain’s response. The captain insists the painter may go, even if he loses every other passenger. The scene shifts as the crowd gathers.
A tale from the N S Tribune recounts Ferdinand of Spain playing a long court chess game with an old noble adversary while Columbus sought royal support. Queen Isabella watched, learned without playing, and whispered a four move checkmate that decreed Columbus’s voyage and the title Admiral of the Fleets.
A destitute young woman from New Haven arrived in town seeking work and shelter. Sick and hungry, she pleaded at 205 Lewis St for aid then, overwhelmed by despair, left and was later found dead at Fifth Street. Her name remains unknown.
A city church anecdote recalls a young preacher using the parable of the ten virgins to humorously claim both genders met the bridegroom. In Lebanon, a Buck Hotel barroom displays a 1765 license attributed to Governor James Penn forbidding sale or gift of intoxicating drinks to Indians or notorious drunkards.
In the Sunday Atlas a public speaker with one leg earns laughs bantering with an Irishman who asks how Jones lost his limb. He jokes that Irish blood settled in the leg, so he had it off. The Irishman retorts that a similar fate would have helped if it had settled in his head.
Survivors recount how wealth and gold lost their hold as the Central America disaster loomed. Passengers with fortunes fledgingly weighed hundreds to thousands and scattered gold across cabin floors. As danger neared, even $20,000 in gold dust was ignored, money abandoned in the face of death.
A fragmentary 19th century composite notes resilience and virtue for the poor boy, warns against profanity and tobacco, cites Bayard Taylor on European seas, and recounts visions of Moskoe Strait and Maelstrom with references to local legends and travelers.
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