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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1862
Page
1
A northern sailor, Gilbert Carboy, hides a periodical insanity and a dangerous secret aboard a ship leaving Mobile. The captain discovers the truth after a near-m fatal mutiny and rock-strewn night, saving the vessel and learning Carboy’s condition was hereditary. The tale ends with Naples letters and the revelation of the madness.
A tale recounts Bill attempting to pay for a gallon of whiskey with a promise to pay later. The grocer fills the jug with a loaded quart, but Bill leaves with only a quart as the promise fails. The scene shifts to a quip about aging skin and vitality, stressing water and friction as age’s countermeasures.
An old fragment reflects on life from infancy to manhood with a verse cadence, followed by a vivid, non graphic wartime anecdote about Colonel Ponsonby at Waterloo. It recounts a Polish lancer’s cowardice, a foe’s mercy, and Ponsonby’s endurance, ending with a paradoxical tale of a man who survived battle only to die from a chicken bone. It closes with sketches of Governor Curtin and a widow's sharp wit in settling a final debt of property and a dog.
The article narrates the extraordinary life of Captain Castagnette who served in the French army. He lost an eye, his arm to a cannon ball, and endured many injuries including two broken legs and a deformed face. Despite physical ruin he remained brave, wore an artificial face, endured stomach pains and a back injury, and died when a bomb exploded at the Invalides warming fire.
Latest advices from Minnesota through the fifth report Mrs Carutheres escape from Beaver Creek after the New Ulm engagement. Two Indians argued over who should claim her as a squaw, she fled with two children to the Minnesota river, crossed in a canoe, and reached fort at St Peter with one child on her back and the other in her arms. She had subsisted on hazel nuts nine days and was rescued by a picket. Her tale includes mistaken identity by a sentry who fired on her before recognizing her as white. The report also notes Mrs Harrington shot in the back at Leavenworth, with a ball injuring her infant. A Chicago war meeting offered a cow to the first married volunteer, though the first volunteer was a single man who stepped forward.
A veteran Sumner faces the battle of Antietam where his son, Captain Sumner, rides out on a dangerous mission. The old man and the youth share a farewell and a warm reunion after the courier returns unharmed, a scene seen as deeply touching by onlookers.
An eyewitness notes that thirty eight tons of ammunition were sent to Gen. McClellan from Washington via Baltimore Harrisburg and Hagerstown. He counted four times in one day artillery discharges at a rate of seventy eight per minute.
A trio traveling fools and a barber sleep outdoors. The barber shaves the sleeping fool, sparking laughs when the naked bald man is revealed. The fable notes that binding flour to a wound can staunch bleeding, a common battlefield remedy carried by soldiers.
Two men were arrested in St Louis on Monday for buying quinine for rebels. Police found forty five ounces in their possession and the case prompts talk of duty and repentance amid wartime shortages.
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