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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1859
Page
8
The text presents a fragmented poem voice contemplating lost youth and the passage of time. It references memories of May, daisies, clover, and spring waters, with lines alluding to love, longing, and aging. The piece contrasts past innocence with current experience and distant days.
A lively country visit sequence describes elaborate hospitality from waking to departure with meals, weather talk, and family bustle. A Tunis letter then rails at jealousy and urban rudeness as a narrator recalls street encounters, flirtation, and an aggressive crowd near a court.
A Peoria area report recounts a man uncovering a dry ancient cistern while removing bricks near a Prospect Street site. He fell in and fought a seven foot rattler, aided by his wife and a brick, and escaped after a tense struggle lasting minutes. The snake measured seven feet with thirteen rattles and the incident is noted alongside other local curiosities.
Arrivals aboard the Jeten and William Campbell from Omaha bring reports of over a hundred Pike's Peak emigrants. Destitute miners claim privation and warn of unrest, while others say mines yield little and some towns fear retaliation. A fresh Denver fire rumor and Horace Greeley's Leavenworth visit are noted amid wider distress along the Missouri river towns.
The Pomona left Livorno bound for New York with 397 passengers and crew. A fierce gale drove the ship onto Blackwater Bank where it sank after an attempted rescue. Eleven crew and passengers died. many were saved only to face a brutal loss as wreckage washed ashore near Ballyconigar and Wexford observers reported a scene of horror and despair.
Correspondence from May 1809 describes Jamestown at the foot of Chautauque Lake with a thriving wooden goods trade, dairy farming, and shipping to the West. Dunkirk’s beet business, railroad hopes, and police chief are noted amid rail and boat travel anecdotes along Lake Erie. An incident near Cleveland to Toledo involves a deranged man and responders.
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