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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1859
Page
6
A poem contrasts two forces with a divine leader guiding a small band of faithful warriors. The hostile army led by a demonlike chief is met by a godlike leader and his holy captains. Victory comes through love faith endurance, turning battlefields into sacred ground.
Ira Harris describes Spurgeon’s London services at Surrey Gardens and his own impressions from two Sundays. He notes vast attentive crowds, simple earnest preaching, hymn singing with familiar tunes, and Spurgeon’s self forgetfulness in urging listeners to act on the gospel. He visits Westminster Abbey and Spurgeon’s own church, records large communicant numbers, and praises humility and earnestness as keys to the preacher’s success.
Balzac’s method was meticulous and solitary. He planned every scene from life, studied Paris and countryside characters, wore a monkish writing dress, wrote by candlelight, and worked sixteen hours daily for months. He revised endlessly, turning drafts into multiple proofs, earning a reputation as the difficult master of the manuscript.
The Albany Evening Journal prints a vivid letter from Judge Forssan recounting a chaotic retreat near Solferino. The account describes Austrian dragoons approaching, panicked civilians and soldiers fleeing to safety, and a frantic exit from Monte Chiaro toward Brescia, with wounded left on the road and towns emptied.
A young French soldier writes his mother from Castiglione detailing the loss of a leg after a regimental surgery. He asks her not to weep but to rejoice as he plans to rejoin her, signing off with a note about the wooden leg.
A plain gentleman travels with his family to celebrate a return home. In a rural town hotel the two young sprigs, impressive in appearance, cause the man to feel official as he is mistaken for a driver. The younger son insists the father is the elder’s host, and the landlady seats him at the table.
A harsh early text argues Native Americans are doomed to extinction in fifty years and mocks their abilities, contrasting romantic stereotypes with the reality of Delawares and Potawatomi lands. It claims whites must treat Indians as abandoned children and laments perceived ancestral flaws.
The Keokuk Gate City cites General Augustus Caesar Dodge who began feeding at the public crib in 1888 and has certified ration payments totaling 105 300 dollars to date. Public record reflects long standing charity or food distribution under government authority.
The Huck Eye outlines fictionally named figures like Kexrir Berors and Charles Macon as aiming for higher office and judicial prestige. It notes Iowa's current year tax per head is reduced from earlier years, with city county railroad costs blamed for heavy burdens on residents.
The Gralx Market Chicago reports light breadstuffs receipts and strong demand. Corn rose 8c to 5c in storage, up 12c since Monday while No 1 improved. Wheat followed suit with standard Spring at 54c in store, up 19 to 58c and 73 since Monday. No clear gains in New York or Buffalo corn. slight wheat advance elsewhere.
A young man reports meeting Doy with nine companions by Cottonwood Spring ten miles distant. The party travels slowly with twelve men and three on horseback. Sheriff Morgan has a £1,000 reward for Dov's re-arrest, making his return to custody likely.
The Brandon Mississippi Republican denounces the slave trade not on Christian grounds but because its revival would ruin slave breeding in the slaveholding states. It fears Virginia and Maryland would suffer if cargoes of Congrees were imported to supply the Southern market, a crisis the editor warns is imminent.
The St. Louis Republican prints Mr Wise's letter outlining an eastward balloon voyage from St Louis with gas replenishment stops to test supply methods. The text notes a bee attack on Stith of Fortsville and describes him in pain as the bee swarm nears his residence.
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