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Newspaper
Wisconsin Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1849
Page
1
A dense, disjointed collage of 19th century notices mixing personal stories, public events, and advertising. It recalls a Parisian and New Orleans milieu with references to battles, politics, family strife, and sensational vignettes. The text weaves war, society, crime, and domestic scenes into a sprawling, patchwork page.
A 1814 fight near Riyal between British ships and the American privateer Gen. Armstrong of New York, captained by Samuel C. Reid. The engagement left the privateer defending water at a Portuguese port, repelling a cutter squadron, with heavy British losses and notable American resilience.
The Regents of the University of Wisconsin elected H Lathrop Ill D President of the University of Missouri to be Chancellor of Wisconsin. The Legislature approved the action and official notices were sent. Lathrop accepted with plans to join Oct 1 1840 and resign Missouri presidency by late August. The board expressed confidence in his ability and urged support from citizens.
A brutal account recalls a lynching in which Wiley E Beinkery was tortured and forced to confess to theft before a gunman killed Dr James S Douglass and Brinkley, who carried out further shooting as a wave of vigilante violence struck a community treasuring lawful order.
Brinkley turned himself in to officers amid rising town tension with strong division over support and condemnation. Citizens report heated views on the surrender and ensuing legal action, reflecting a sharply split community reaction.
A dramatic preface on the immense death tolls caused by war, citing historic battles, massacres, and empire-wide conflicts. The piece lists enormous casualty figures from Persia, China, Greece, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome, and warns that war’s scourge endures across nations, epochs, and continents. It laments the endless slaughter and the destructive arc of human conflict through history.
An anecdote recounts Burns habitually saving a few pence weekly to buy a book called Scottish Melodies. He diverted his funds when he heard a starving family with a drunken husband away, finding a mother sewing while children shivered in a cold room. He gave his last shillings, left with tears, and walked home feeling a joy greater than possessing a throne.
A Tudy preacher of the Society of Vy viewls in New York claims a burn salve works by mixing wax with Hurcundy pitel and oil in an earthen vessel, applying the cooled salve thinly to the injured area, opening the burn to release fluid, and using the ointment to soothe pain, with magical claims tied to a Duke or selcidas.
A moral exhortation urges young men to seek the company of the intelligent and virtuous rather than the low and vulgar. Lord Clarendon is cited on happiness stemming from associations with better company, promoting integrity, excellence, and avoidance of profligates.
A 13 year old boy travels from Ireland to New York pursued by hardship, leaving his mother and sister behind. After a perilous voyage and wrenching searches for his family, he reaches Albany and then New York where a captain aids him to reunite with his mother and sister who had moved to Kentucky. The narrative condemns poverty and urges temperance as a remedy for the boy’s precarious youth.
A fragmented text contemplates temptation and honesty amid hardship. It invokes moral vigilance and inner strength, warning that deceit harms the soul and fate favors virtue over corruption. The piece intermingles personal resolve with distant, dreamlike images.
A garbled historical note discusses the American Bible Society in Kentucky and early Lutheran faith, mentioning ceremonial reading, unity, and oral tidle practices. It references a century mark, figures, and a vague sense of reverence amid disorderly, dreamlike prose.
The article lists church statistics and public roles, noting Catholics number about 625, clergy and church workers, and estimates for Baptists and Gospel followers. It cites counts for lawyers, teachers, politicians, and others, plus a note on prisoners and public officials.
In round numbers England shows 1 476 000 paupers in 1848 and 1 471 000 in 1843, a net increase of about 405 000 over the period. Separately in Rochester New York a severe storm struck tenements, with lightning flashing across dwellings within three quarters of an hour, causing damage.
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