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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1857
Page
1
Excerpt from the Greek Anthology printed in the Whitewater Register of May 30 1857 includes verses of Melonger and Heliotora lamenting loss and death. The piece presents mournful lines on memory longing and the earth as a mother figure.
A long, period-voiced miscellany on rat life from ships to sewers. It details rat spread, shipboard colonization, water and land rats, sewer hunting in London, and the impact on urban infrastructure, with anecdotes about France and a witty Abernethy anecdote.
From the Edinburgh Review the article traces early English law on marital property, showing how wives gained a vested common stock in their goods under mutual rights, while husbands held life estates in wives lands. It argues for separate property rights for wives, though acknowledges risks of legal interference and domestic discord, and cites precedent from France Germany and English settlements like the Duchess of Norfolk.
A Galashiels girl aged seventeen suffered a gastric fever and a prolonged spasmodic cough. Dr Tweedie applied mesmerism leading to a long trance and gradual restoration of hearing speech and mobility over nine months. She regained full health though still susceptible to magnetism.
The article discusses John Wise's letter to Scientific American arguing that sun light and heat arise from meteors and meteoric processes entering the solar system. It outlines a cosmic view of change, planetary orbits, and the sun exhaling heat and light, driving continual transformation of celestial orbs.
In Paris the Tribunal of Correctional Police jailed Omivreux for insulting two clergy members of St. Etienne du Mont. He claimed the phrase “Oh the Vergers” was accidental after discussing the archbishop’s murder, but was fined 100 francs and received six months’ imprisonment.
A Madison writer in Columbia South Carolina on April 23 recounts slave life with vivid scenes from hotels and boarding houses. He quotes a slave describing family separations as the system’s core misery and notes a Virginia man torn from wife and children, living with the pain of ongoing loss.
The article recounts the unusual match of Dr Richard Hooker, urged by a housekeeper to wed a daughter described as silly and clownish. Hooker, promised to marry whoever the woman rejected, ends with a reluctant union and a life of strain as guests observe his distracted domestic scene.
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