26 Feb 1852
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Newspaper
Wisconsin Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1852
Page
1
A fragmented verse from Portey Wyoming voice paints a lone speaker beside a night lamp. The speaker recalls memories of loved ones now gone, their graves beneath quiet earth, while the lamp fades and ghostly figures linger. The piece contrasts sorrow with the healing cadence of a mother’s memory.
The report describes naval observations near Wellington Channel, Cape Hotham and Beechy Island in late August 1861. Ships Rebublic and Rescue, with Captain Penny and Captain Ross, document encampment remnants, graves, and artifacts from Franklin's lost expedition, including graves bearing Bible verses and a weathered observatory site.
A storm shrouds London as a white haired minister aids a dying stranger in a decrepit garret. The man, half dressed in military boots, recalls Lexington, Concord, and Quebec, urging the priest to help him don his bloodstained coat and face the past. The scene ends with a ghastly smile and fading life.
A dramatic improvised funeral tableau unfolds as a dying man recounts Washington and liberty while a preacher invokes faith. The scene shifts to a gruesome trial report about a French servant who poisoned forty three people over years, executed by guillotine, with the defense citing phrenology and moral faculties.
Report claims a petrified soaka embedded in rock along the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad near Power's Sumtait. The fossil measures about sixteen feet long with a four inch diameter middle section, appearing natural though fully fossilized. Questions linger about how it remained for eons and why it lies there, per Beaver Star.
A garbled record recites a Western era tale of etiquette, duels, and public manners, with a digressive mix of phrases about policing politeness and a long truncated section on colonial receipts and historical dates. The piece references Leonard Lean and a variety of regional conversations, then shifts to candle making instructions and a parade of dated events from 1789 to 1852 with scattered placenames and political notes.
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