25 Oct 1856
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1856
Page
1
A touching fragment from Fulcher’s The Village Paupers records a dying child pleading for comfort from mother and prayer. The piece notes Fulcher’s sudden death and reflects on death, faith, and the hope of reuniting with loved ones in the hereafter.
A long column recounts Jarvis Wright a rich old bachelor who befriends a tame alligator in the Choctaw Nation then buys a Havana lottery ticket with the reptile guiding its fate. The alligator’s pick wins $20 000 and a premium. The narrative closes with a later reunion in a garden where a former beggar boy thanks a charitable widow, linking to broader Kansas and slavery debates.
The Rotchester Democrat recalls the summer 1855 violence in Kansas, recounting Phillips and his brother in Leavenworth attacked by proslavery ruffians during a local election. It describes their fortifications, refusals to surrender, and Phillips’s ultimate fate as a sacrifice to the slavery cause. News of this event reached the East.
A mother mourns over the River of Death while a celestial guide rebukes her grief and reveals her lost gem as a star shines above. Political notes claim John S. Bowen wins a Republican nomination. Fremont support spreads in New York and Philadelphia. Local anecdotes close with humor and a Virginia ladies church tale.
A ragged beggar boy leans over a garden fence as a young girl defends him and a boy, Hinton, learns to see beauty in the tulips. The scene, set in June, shows the garden in blossom and a moment of compassion transforming harsh judgments.
Hoare notes in a vine treatise how a bone buried in bone dry clay drew a tap root through the clay without fibers until reaching the bone. The vine then covered the bone with delicate root hairs that fed from the exposed nutrient pore by pore.
A terse proverb warns against taking offense in small matters. It suggests salt harmlessly graces a wound only if the receiver already bears sore places. The moral: avoid needless quarrels and injuries.
A compact reflection on an inward transmutation as a high heart alters other things to its own quality. It contrasts those who define themselves by money with those who endure solitude because they are unliked and value is self-contained.
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