05 Feb 1862
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Newspaper
Waynesburg Messenger
Location
Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1862
Page
1
A poet extols the humble donor who gives to the poor and aids the distressed, praising mercy over worldly fame. The verse contrasts wealth and generosity, ending with a misheard chant and the discovery that the sung verse was actually Welcome sweet day of rest.
A Benton Barracks correspondent recalls Eddie Lee a Tennessee drummer boy who joins the Iowa company with a mother’s plea. Eddie astonishes with the Flowers of Edinburgh as a fifer aids him, endures mud and march hardships, and dies after being wounded and carried to safety by a Union foe. The narrator later escapes McCulloch's camp two weeks after Eddie's death, reflecting on the boy's courage.
A private in the Nineteenth Indiana Regiment faced a court martial for desertion and a death sentence. Five regiments witnessed a mock execution to deter others, but a rider delivered a reprieve before the shot. The prisoner, initially spared, became a paranoiac and was discharged home. The episode aimed to impress discipline and scare soldiers into obedience.
The late Samuel Colt was born in Hartford in 1814. He sketched a pistol model in wood during a voyage to Calcutta in 1829 and secured his first patent in 1835. His factory started in Paterson, moved to Hartford, with a branch in England. Colt amassed a vast fortune from arms, gaining global notoriety for the revolver. His brother John C. Colt’s notoriety also drew attention to him.
A historical article excerpts incidents from the 1840s and 1850s including a New York inmate’s suicide in the Tombs to avoid hanging, a Samuel pursuit of pardon, and a Household Words note on Sikh warfare using rebuilt dragoon swords in scabbards. It also criticizes slander as moral decay, advising social exile for malice.
An elderly Englishman, Mr. Kenrick, and Miss Gray reportedly planned suicide by self strangulation in a Villa Reale garden near Naples. They filled garments with sand and deeper objects, tied themselves with handkerchiefs, and perished in shallow sea. Kenrick’s £3000 life policy is forfeited by the act.
Secretary Duane Wilson of the Iowa Agricultural Society estimates last year’s wheat yield in Iowa at twelve bushels per acre with 40 cent prices producing 480 dollars per acre and a loss of about two dollars per acre statewide. He argues Northwestern farmers should mainly grow wheat for home use as corn dominates. Iowa’s 35 bushel per acre yield last year and over fifty-two million bushels will support eighty million dollars in beef and pork value, even at low prices. He also notes sorghum syrup and sugar exceeding one million dollars in Iowa.
The text extols education as a superior inheritance for children over wealth. It emphasizes unity in essentials, liberty in nonessentials, and charity in all affairs. It cautions that antiquity cannot grant privilege to error, nor novelty prejudice truth, and notes society should be assessed in all its aspects.
Debate over actual federal troop strength in the field exceeds five hundred fifty thousand vs six hundred sixty thousand as claimed by the War Secretary. Governors' tallies for New York Ohio Pennsylvania Massachusetts are weighed against discharges deaths and encampments to estimate current numbers. The piece concludes that despite uncertainties there are enough troops to crush the rebellion quickly.
New York organization offers premiums for corn bread receipts. The winning blend uses two quarts of meal, one pint of bread sponge, water to wet, one half pint flour, and a tablespoon salt. Dough rises kneads twice, bakes an hour and a half. Among 220 competitors, the winning jury notes they ate corn bread nonstop for two days and nights.
Estimates from reliable sources place Oil Creek wells producing about 75 000 barrels of crude oil each month. Outlay per barrel, including lamp purchase, transport, refining, and distribution, runs no less than $10, totaling around $750 000 monthly. Demand extends beyond the United States with England and France buying both crude and refined oil.
The subject, Madame Jerome Bonaparte, remains in Baltimore and is said to enjoy good health. Though approaching eighty, she is described as having a hand as pretty a as a young girl's, cheeks plump, and skin fair as seventeen.
A moral exhortation to leave a lasting legacy by creating meaningful writings or deeds. The statement urges individuals to focus on actions or words that endure beyond life. It echoes literary tradition valuing impact over transient fame.
A late 19th century reflection counsels that a man ought to display his happiness openly while masking sorrow as much as possible. It emphasizes controlled emotion and social propriety over overt mourning.
A terse reflection argues that genuine manhood is earned by serving through the steadfast period of boyhood, emphasizing discipline and fidelity as formative virtues. The concise note frames character development as a steady, required journey.
A terse reflection on advising an irate man as a fruitless effort. The speaker notes praise is elusive and not worth the effort, comparing counsel to blowing against a tempest without yielding fruit or reward.
The dying Lafayette, ill for three weeks, dies surrounded by family after seeking a medallion from his son. He wished to be buried at Picpus Cemetery beside Madame de Lafayette. A public procession marked the funeral, but at the grave no politics or orations occurred, only religion and personal memory. Guizot's Memoirs.
A Vermont mother asks her sixteen year old son to abstain from liquor. He travels the globe for four decades yet never forgets her garden gate promise. In later years a former drunkard, now a sea captain, recalls her words and credits one verbatim line with guiding his life and career. The story extols the power of a single word from a loving mother.
F. D. Huntington argues that veracity underpins manly character and social order. Truth sustains trust in families, commerce, and communities, serving as the anchor amid temptation and deceit.
A fragment reflects on loss of Nn and money, arguing that their absence might have prevented an even greater harm or misfortune. The passage contemplates value and misfortune in a philosophical tone.
Contained in this quotation a philosophical reflection on maps and society. The speaker asserts that a genuine map stands as an equal to all people, regardless of wealth or status, highlighting the democratizing power of cartography.
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