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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1859
Page
1
The fragment praises Italy's revolutionary spirit with lines on Mounts, old gods, and the awakening voice. It evokes a fiery landscape of despair and upheaval, the burning cinders and red light foreshadowing a reshaped homeland as Alps and Apennines echo with the call for renewal.
An 1840s traveler recounts a highway robbery between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. Seven masked robbers, armed and on horses, search the coach and passengers, take money and valuables, inspect trunks and boots, and threaten violence. The account shifts to observations on lightning and electricity as applied science.
Tat Hon James Brooks, senior editor of the New York Express, reports from Bethlehem on Rachel’s tomb. He notes a whitened dome covering a brick and stucco monument. The site draws Christians, Jews and Muslims who honor Rachel as the faithful wife and mother of Israel, amid Turkish burial practices and pilgrim reverence.
An Independence Missouri correspondent reports miners who left Pike's Peak are gathering in Santa Fe in numbers around eighteen, with speculation that they may launch an expedition into Mexico soon.
The profile honors William H. Seward for resisting personal provocation and public tempers. It recalls two clashes with Hale and Toombs, noting his composed, deliberate replies, refusal to engage in personal insults, and a style that favors thoughtful, widely read speeches over dramatic delivery. It highlights his popularity in Washington and respect across regions.
Horace Greeley reports on frontier life near Fort Bridger Utah detailing cattle and horse herds owned by Mountain men and traders. He notes polygamy in the region, the buying of Indian women by white men, and rough living conditions including a tent life and sparse gardens. He references a Republican Platform stance on prohibition and polygamy.
Mr La Mounytaix launched a balloon from Watertown on the 11th, landing about eight o’clock in the evening on Elisha Simmerman’s farm near the head of Perch Lake in Jefferson county, about twelve miles north of Watertown. The ascent lasted about two hours and reached an altitude over three miles. He returned to Watertown the next day with the balloon uninjured.
A 17 year old girl fled a Fox River Valley home to Chicago, sank into city vice, and was tracked by detectives. After months apart, the father learned of her plight, pleaded for her return, and finally found her sick and desolate in a den. He planned to bring her home, prompting a desperate family reunion.
The tale recalls Willis’s cow-catcher exploits on the Baltimore and Ohio. A Westbound train carried a lady and gentleman riding on the cow-catcher at fifty five miles per hour. After they were removed, the pilot struck a cow and shouldered it, narrowly averting disaster.
Gastell, an 82 year old Saxon, discloses in the Leipziger Journal his fifty year method to counter hydrophobia. He claims washing wounds with warm vinegar or tepid water, drying, then applying a few drops of muriatic acid to neutralize the saliva poison and save humans and cattle from death.
The Lexington Jeffersonian notes that James Yakes, Port Sanilac Postmaster, reports a tan or wild man seen by several people west of the town. The sightings occurred at different times, the subject fled on approach, and officials consider him possibly insane. Measures are said to be taken to capture the intruder.
The Rev. Theodore Parker has been heard from as late as just, when he was still in Switzerland, and his distress had nearly disappeared, though a delay caught during a journey slowed his recovery. Friends are encouraged to believe he will eventually return to this country in good health.
Mr Archibald Campbell, a Camden township farmer, fell from a scaffold while finishing a new dwelling. His neck vertebrae misaligned but later returned to place. He remains paralyzed from the neck down, yet breathes and lives as nerves to respiration stay active. Sight hearing smell and intellect intact though overall prognosis uncertain. Newburgh C W
The article surveys diverse topics from political maneuvering and proposed institutions to travel notes and civic incidents. It notes J. Waxan’s restored terms with President Buchanan, a new Homeopathic Medical College in St Louis, and a vessel passing through an improved canal. It covers campaigns in Illinois, nominations for 1860, readings by Gro Vanvenhoff, a forest fire near Racine, emigration estimates at Salt Lake, ballooning at Lafayette, and assorted letters, trials, and naval or travel anecdotes. It also mentions Napoleon, brine poisoning harming horses, a drowning on a Baton Rouge packet, and Lamartine’s Paris visit.
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