02 Jun 1860
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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1860
Page
1
A verse fragment laments a grave and lost beloved. The speaker imagines her at rest in a grass-green churchyard, spring violets peeping, birds singing, and wind in trees providing music on stormy days, with a tone half chivalrous half tender.
A penniless street sweeper girl, a generous wife named Kate Alair, and a beggar child cross paths on Broadway. Kate gives a sixpence to a street sweeper, loses a bracelet, and later finds it with the child who says the gift funded her mother’s medicine. The couple then helps the sick woman and her child, giving fuel and provisions, and Kate learns the joy of giving.
Elwood Fisher testified before the Covode Committee on payments to Vanderbilt from mail line trusts to curb competition, totaling about 1.5 million dollars. He described government meddling in the Veliaane route contract with Mexico, including a 1857-58 Senate inquiry response and a controversial Post Office Department contract paid despite route flaws.
Correspondent reports the Sicilian revolt against Naples, led by Mazzini and Garibaldi allies, with royal troops brutalizing villages. Garibaldi raises funds from Milan Brescia Pavia and sails with volunteers to support the insurrection, while Papal plans falter amid French, Austrian pressure and German crisis.
A couple quarrel over borrowing their newspaper. Neighbors feign generosity, a boy retrieves torn fragments, and the paper is eventually found to come from an anonymous benefactor. The tale ends with a moral about wealth and charity as N learns to value papers and generosity increases with wealth.
A historical overview traces how the United States expanded from thirteen colonies to a nation with thirty three states and multiple territories. It lists when states were admitted or territories organized across administrations from Washington to Buchanan and notes key acquisitions like Louisiana Purchase and California.
Giddings writes to Lincoln after his nomination praising Lincoln's honesty while demanding a stated return for services. The items include political notes on slavery in New Mexico and remarks on campaign figures, plus assorted anecdotes and satirical quips from the era.
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