Fragmentary Wisconsin Gazette Item
A damaged clipping from a Wisconsin newspaper references names like TEMNEY and HOLT in a brief, unclear notice. The legible fragments suggest a local item or business notice without a clear event or outcome.
25 Jun 1850
Page 1
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Newspaper
Wisconsin Argus
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1850
Page
1
A damaged clipping from a Wisconsin newspaper references names like TEMNEY and HOLT in a brief, unclear notice. The legible fragments suggest a local item or business notice without a clear event or outcome.
In a rural town, Debbie leads Haddie through a moral journey centering on a sick Mary, a teacher Amy, and a kindness mission. Debbie helps the poor, reforms troubled lives, and resolves conflicts with gentleness. The narrative blends family duty with female rights as Christian virtue in a poverty-stricken world.
Southern politicians argue a right to transport enslaved people into California and New Mexico and to enforce slave status by private authority, threatening territorial legislative power. The piece compares this to a patchwork of state laws, warns it would lead to thirty different property codes in the territories, and labels the claim an insult to common sense.
The text portrays the Bushmen or Baross as diminutive, vicious, and nomadic, living in caves and hostile to surrounding tribes, with poisoned arrows and plunder as common traits. It contrasts them with the Griguas, a risingly powerful farming people along the Gariep, noting their independence from Britain and role in resisting inland invaders, while offering sweeping, biased observations of Hottentot society and behavior.
A garbled column weaves names, voyages, and moral musings. It references Rev. Waleed Colter and a California voyage diary titled Duck and Port, recounting sea life, an incident with rats aboard a ship, and a boy's journey toward independence and schooling amid religious commentary on honesty and debt. The piece blends personal reminiscence, nautical anecdote, and didactic religious rhetoric with scattered names and dates.
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