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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1857
Page
1
A lyrical excerpt captures Burns’s Highland Mary alongside nature’s scene in a Southern literary voice. The verses mix nostalgia, poetry, and seasonal musings with images of moors, heather, and tranquil landscapes.
A fragmented humorous dialogue references the Prodigal Son tale and household disputes. It includes snippets about a preacher questioning calf gender, marriage tensions, infidelity insinuations, and social satire. The piece also mentions a Northampton editor and a Wiffes Bugle, with medieval and colonial flavor in dialogue.
A fragmentary verse piece depicts a dreamlike nightmare where petticoats grow vast and deadly, surrounding a lone man on a precipice as banners billow in the sky. The excerpt segues to a Paris issued work on celestial plates, praised by the Academy of Bolendis for its magnitude.
A Detroit man recalls a ten year old tale of romance sparked at a dancing school. After the ball, he pressed a reluctant Helen to marry this spring and she agreed. They wed that night, with the bride proving a fortune to him, worth $100,000.
A humorous anecdote from Cedar County recounts a young man’s moonlit Courtship plan that ends with a dashed attempt at discretion, a missing wardrobe, a calf pasture misadventure, and a comic rescue. The tale concludes with the man marrying his beloved and settling in Iowa.
A long, curious tale recounts a man who sells his soul for endless wealth yet spends and prospers. He bribes politicians, funds fleets, and borrows at St Pay, but fate and a fickle press bring him down as the newspaper he starts collapses under debt and folly. Nearby notes describe spring floods, corn stocks, pork markets, and a rumored Sioux Chippewa clash with scalp takings.
The column notes various items from 19th century America including Ireland recruitment, Gen Samuel Esti deor, and Madison county Ky. death of a long-time citizen. It highlights a projected 50 million dollar surplus in the National Treasury and mint tent production in Philadelphia. Reports also mention Oregon population, Jefferson county tax stance, New Orleans news, Texas Indians, Boston deaths and St Louis inmates, Indian Affairs commissioner in St Louis, wine and price signals, Murdoch the tragedian arrival in New York, an Arkansas jail escape, and John Billings as oldest postmaster.
A Paris ceremony is planned for the unveiling of a statue of Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, with inauguration scheduled for next June. Judge Crawford of Washington’s Criminal Court appeared ill in recent accounts.
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