07 Dec 1865
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1865
Page
1
In Germany a pious painter named George Surlin gains fame for grand frescoes. Messengers from Blaubeuren invite him to paint a wall altar piece in their cloister. After a glorious reception he completes a masterwork. The abbot, fearing Surlin’s future, schemes to keep him from painting elsewhere.
An old painter George Surlin is blinded by monks who hide him in a chapel seat. He carves a wooden history of his misfortune on the seat walls. A traveler uncovers the truth, yielding a warrant leading to the monks’ punishment while Surlin’s work gains fame.
A prominent New York figure recalls Gouvernor Morris on integrity and urges fiscal discipline after the Civil War. The piece discusses inflation, speculation, and the need for prudent reforms to avoid default, urging support for Secretary McCulloch's plans and payments to national creditors and freedmen.
A cache of snippets includes Mrs Grundy opposing gambling and calling for a Red Sea to destroy Faro. A cantankerous bachelor suggests marriage as despotism with puddings. A Latin learning boy translates oddly, and a Paris bon mot defines a savant. A joke asks about a philanthropist father funding Central America housing.
The article explains phrases such as out a Dido and caught a Tartar as notes from ancient history. It recounts Dido's bull hide land claim and Hannibal’s invasion of Italy prompting Scipio to strike back in Africa. It links these stories to lasting expressions about strategy and cunning.
A collection of scattered quotes and maxims on government, education, virtue, happiness, beauty, faith, and life. The fragments touch on self rule, usefulness, teaching, trifles of existence, soap, youth and beauty, faith in Jesus, and the need to persevere rather than rush to conclusions.
The Presbyterian Banner argues that ministers in the South and North corrupted pulpit purity by mixing politics with faith. It cites Samuel R. Wilson and a South Carolina Synod as examples and condemns pro secession sermons while praising loyalist clergy who supported the government.
A cautious critique portrays Brigham Young and Mormon practices as a tangled family system with many wives and sealings. The piece notes he has sixteen to twenty wives, many unrelated to husbands, and describes wives supporting households. It highlights concerns about beauty, power, and the hierarchy within Young’s clan as his influence wanes.
A sermon warns that vanity money and the lust of the flesh corrupt the soul and threaten moral ruin. It cites Trench and reports a New Orleans dispatch noting most arrests for unlawful weapons. A France trading house agent says planters may hire Indian and Chinese laborers for emigration.
Rev Charles Lockwell argues that farming youth should learn earth history chemistry and geology and study classical works for practical farming knowledge. He cites Melville periods with Pliny Virgil Lucretius and Burns, urging self education alongside formal schooling and noting mechanical and building skills plus the dangers of outdated tools.
An agricultural note argues for keeping top dairy cows rather than selling them. It compares profits from two cows, one yielding 20 quarts milk and 9 pounds butter weekly, the other 10 quarts and 4 pounds butter, showing the best cow yields far higher returns over 30 weeks.
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