19 May 1859
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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1859
Page
1
On the wafting winds of yesternight the soul of our peerless one took flight. Four voices from the clime of souls spoke sweeter than rays of phiolen inviting to a bright land where death’s skeleton hand is not. Ke-ton-ee-micoo Wa-was-te-nac translated as Flower Farewell.
A narrator from Baldinsville attends a Cleveland Melodeon show featuring Maria Picklehomony and performers Brignoly and Maccarony. He scoffs at opera tastes yet adores Maria, imagining a rustic life with her, while ranting about showbiz and longevity in a humorous, rambling possession of the stage. The piece shifts to a sober moral reflecting on drunkenness destroying families, ending with an old man’s sorrow as his children die from alcohol abuse.
A critical essay chastises young women for drifting into dreamlike reveries after school. It argues many are taught to seek marriage rather than a career, urging pursuit of intelligence, self poise, and active engagement with the day’s questions to elevate their sex. It laments idle time between school and marriage and calls for intellectual cultivation.
In Buffalo courts the formidable Mllll-1 Fllmhe faces a witty opponent Talcott who uses a playing card metaphor to describe the best talent arrayed against him. Firth quotes the judge asking what the right bower means, and the reply identifies the knave as the weakest link in the pack.
In a letter to Lord Murray Sydney Smith jokes about diet and life at age between ten and seventy, noting a cal cul ation of meat and drink equaling seven thousand pounds. A commentator at Rachmoad Advocates mocks a Southern preacher who fuses rainbows, meteors, earthquakes, and philosophical wheels of Providence into grand, ornate imagery.
A dense review traces the 1814 1815 Vienna Congress and its aftermath. It details Napoleon's Elba escape, the balance of power efforts, and the treaties shaping Europe including Belgium Holland Poland Saxony and the alliance system. It notes England Russia Austria Prussia and France, with minor states, and reflects on the limits of the settlement and its impact on liberty.
In a Friday incident at the Quincy Serenevaenean Austin Brooks scene, E Schierenberg clashed with Brooks who was knocked down and suffered a damaged head piece. Brooks drew a Bowie knife and shouted a Dutch cry before Scheirenberg retreated. The note then cites historical population shifts and reflects on state representation changes from 1829 to later years.
A Nashville Banner item recounts a Southern city domestic scandal with a Northern housekeeper, a faithless husband, and a vengeful wife who uses a rawhide implement to discipline the lovers and remove Mary Ann from the household. The tale ends with Mary Ann heading north as the husband remains quiet in the home. The Providence Journal is cited claiming asparagus juice cures hydrophobia at any disease stage.
Tas Philadelphia Foweyteine ru reports Lynn Boyd, long in the city, is confined to bed by a painful disease but is far recovering. He is confidently expected to reach home by early June and take an active part in the campaign vase.
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