23 Sep 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1871
Page
1
A speaker contemplates her life, insisting her past, with its sins and trials, is hers to own. She rejects easy change, valuing resilience and growth, and compares her past to the moon’s imperfect yet shining form as she embraces aging and self-acceptance.
A poem titled Pearl of the Ocean appears in London Society praising pearls as diverse beauties. It describes dark and fair pearls with jet or gold tresses, admiring their charm and suitors, ending with the line about admirers for both the fair and dark pearls.
In the mining camp of Norway Flat, Shakes a lifelong drinker and fixture departs after reading a letter. Found later dead near Diggers Delight, the man hid a family letter packet revealing a wife Ellen Wilkinson and children, explaining poverty and sacrifice behind his famed public image.
A Philadelphia Press correspondent describes Walt Whitman as a medium sized, baggy suited figure with a long white beard and slouch hat seen on Washington Avenue. The poet, author of Leaves of Grass and Drum Taps, is a government clerk in the Attorney General's office who enjoys public visibility and is respected abroad though not fully appreciated locally. Missouri reports a huge grape harvest this season.
Mrs Henry M Field argues that country life offers women strength health and moral growth, praising Stockbridge as a center of culture and noting that district schools foster essential learning. She contrasts city schooling and rural discipline, highlighting brave New England girls who worked in factories to fund education and personal development.
Americans in Paris note growing display of the Society of the Cincinnati badge among French officers who aided the American cause. Marquis de Lesterrie and Marquis de Lavalette are highlighted as prominent wearers, tied to George Washington and Napoleon eras. The piece covers the badge design, history, and notable members like Hamilton Fish and Franklin, with a closing humorous tidbit about a Terre Haute wedding.
The piece argues that census data show Americans with a strong native majority, refuting the belief that the U S is an Old World colony. It traces population growth from 1790 to 1870, detailing immigrant counts, native growth, and the ratio of native to foreign born across states, and ends with a vignette about William L Marcy and his mentor.
The Maine Historical Society held a field day at Bristol to examine ancient pavements and remains unearthed at Pemaquid. Exhibits included gravestone fragments, pipes and spoons from Elizabethan times, and testimony from eye witnesses about 1836 and earlier. A plan emerged to raise a granite shaft commemorating the beginnings of New England based on the discoveries and further research by a special committee.
A Liberal Christian correspondent recounts Charlton Massachusetts days with William L Marcy born in nearby lands. The tale centers on an elderly milkman who met the youth Bill Marcy and saw his potential after a stern teacher’s faith sparked reform. Marcy later entered college and progressed through studies with notable guidance.
In the American Journal of Science Professor Whitfield describes a tornado as a hollow rotating shell of air with a dark condensed vapor column, notes the energy in the rotating rim, and cites a 1867 observation near Tuscaloosa on the Elyton road with calm surface conditions and intermittent rain as a tornado path example.
A youthful Miss Jennie Crane held her first reception at Saratoga with a scarlet satin dress and costly jewelry. Her aunt displayed the belongings in grand parlors as astonished guests admired tiny Paris imported items. Jennie’s trousseau drew fascination before a servant carried her away in a trunk.
A man recalls travelling between Liverpool and London where a clergyman attacked Dickens and the novelist’s private character. The narrator defends Dickens, exposing the clergyman’s falsehoods, reveals the truth to two ladies, and leaves at a London station after delivering a sharp admonition to beware unfounded charges.
The Asia to America trade is overrated as it has lately been in few hands. Some dry goods houses in the city sell merchandize to twice the value of all China trade. Tea use is about 40,000,000 pounds yearly, worth near $25,000,000. Silk import from China totals $3,000,000, with matting, camphor, cong and fire crackers about $3,000,000 more. India trade is absent. Canal speed versus railroad favors the latter for Asia to New York. Canal traffic uses small steamers, making long passages and delaying ships from Gibraltar to New York.
Rural observers and naturalists discuss wood pigeons as pests to crops once protected by the decline of kites and hawks and gun taxes. The piece notes wood pigeon as a source of good eating, cites a Chinese claim about its flesh affecting the mind and sleep, and mentions its bones allegedly exciting affection between spouses, ending with an unfinished reference to a superstition about the fifth day of the fifth moon.
A rapid collage of quirky items and brief items: a two boys riding opposite directions collide at Maize's Church in Virginia injuring neither rider. a Los Angeles man loses speech suddenly. Rutland voters embarrassed by split ticket outcomes. Savannah mixups and a buried infant custom, a clockwork sewing machine in London, a Rock Island subpoena anecdote, a Hamilton County pauper’s career, Wabash fever described with wildcat imagery, and Beverly Bean Town beans culture. Also Alsatian colonization talk for Canada, ancient Greek diet contrasts, Chicago vs New York in imports, and Turners Falls pulp mill process with poplar wood notes.
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