18 Feb 1860
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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1860
Page
1
A ballad relates a land deal where a landlord leases a field for one crop. A wily tenant sows acorns, letting oaks rise to shade the garden of the soul, warning that vice and indolence will grow to block light and heaven. The poem contrasts greed with moral cautions about temptation and waste.
A Milwaukee letter argues the state must carefully choose a Chief Justice for the Supreme Court. It endorses Abram D. Smith’s qualifications but cautions about past financial entanglements with railroad bonds. It also defends Luther Dixon and questions political pressure and moral impact on Wisconsin’s reputation.
A Providence Journal Florence letter notes priests secured a prohibition on public Italian Protestant meetings while private worship remains free. The piece recounts four visits to a carpenter shop where sermons in humble gathering drew from four to a hundred attendees with hymns, prayer, and devout life, as leaders spoke and listeners prayed.
Pardee of New York City spoke on strawberry culture citing experiments to grow berries cheaply. He recommends warm moist ex posed sites for early varieties and a fine gravelly loam soil with deep underdrains, generous ashes and lime smoke fertilizer, spring transplanting, mulching, and ample watering except during ripening while avoiding the hoe near roots.
An unsigned review from Lancaster Pennsylvania argues pork is unhealthy and unclean. It claims Cincinnati and Terra Haute show high hog slaughter, links illness to pork fat and a venom explanation involving rattlesnake virus.
The vessel is described as designed for high velocity on long voyages to Australia and India with 600 to 800 first class passengers and up to 1 000 extra berths. It boasts seaworthiness, compartmentalized safety, coal carrying capacity for entire passages, and comfort rivaling a first class hotel.
A Cleveland Plaindealer account traces a startling romance spanning Rochester to Sonora. A German-American widow’s child grows up with a Bavarian family, later meets a Mexican revolutionary in Rochester, and discovers the man she loves may be her father amid a web of past suspicions and exile. The suitor proves lineage, contemplates marriage, and plans to relocate with Christine after confirming the family’s history.
A Boston Post correspondent from Badgary West Africa portrays a powerful king in Dahomey as brutal and sovereign with ritual killings. He notes the king’s ceremonies, slave trade, and mass sacrifices, including 860 victims at a chief’s funeral and 300 captives plus 100 wives at another death. The text describes the ruler’s ritual influence and the fear induced by his name.
A large group of exiles recounts fleeing Arkansas over a disfranchising law. They describe leaving homes and loved ones to seek freedom in Ohio and other states while facing ongoing hardship and oppression. They call on Christians, ministers, editors, and politicians to protest the inhuman statute and unite against slavery by law.
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