08 Sep 1853
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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1853
Page
1
An editor recounts a tale of a blind boy Edward and his sister Mary who recall God and heaven while the boy longs to see. A later dramatic scene follows Thomas and Matilda’s drunken marriage, a preacher’s intervention, and a sober life built from that pledge.
A New Orleans dispatch dated August 14 describes rapid deaths from an unknown pestilence alongside yellow fever. Eyewitnesses report bodies turning black after death, fears of a plague, and daily fatalities near 240 to 250. Citizens flee the city as rain and heat intensify the crisis.
An unnamed narrator contemplates marriage and a lifelong partnership as he grows older. He muses on finding a gentle wife, a shared life by a brook, and a future with a devoted family while balancing memories of Clarissa and Lucinda.
A fragment from a letter contrasts Clarissa and Luinda. Clarissa’s plain dress and calm, kind behavior show true ladyship, while Luinda’s vanity exposes bad breeding. A shop-girl audience and a rainy voyage test grace, with Clarissa aiding the embarrassed girl and enduring a shower with humor.
A Boston Daily Advertiser correspondent recalls Webster’s Marshfield estate still in use under trustee supervision. The article notes the house open to visitors in spirit, the library and portraits intact, and the graveyard monuments awaiting final touches as directions from Webster are followed to complete the epitaph and memorials.
The article argues autumn is the best time to paint due to cooler temperatures and better drying. It notes that bee coat and faint laying in fall yield longer lasting finishes than summer or spring, recommends thin white lead coats and regular light upkeep every third year, and cites Dr. James Johnson praising long experience for lower mortality if painters act with care.
In a Paris dispatch editor Kerndall extols American industry and culture. He cites clippers steamers colt revolvers threshing machines and daily goods like American juleps overcoats and locks. He lauds Webster Prescott Hawthorne Poe Bryant and others as superior to English rivals and urges all to crow.
In Manchester the daguerreotype on box wood promises to cut time and cost in wood engraving. Langton, a wood engraver, shows portraits and a church view reversed on wood blocks, enabling rapid, accurate designs for engravers and offering broader uses in decorative wood works.
The passage describes the soul shedding vanity, pride, and anger as sickness guides humility. It removes self image and worldly clingings, seeks mercy, forgiveness, and reconciliation, and embraces sober thoughts and Christian atonement as it moves toward immortality.
A newspaper item cites a statement that three people are killed by lightning for every high lottery prize, asserting lottery tickets are far riskier than winning. It recalls 65 railroad disasters since January 1, 1853 causing 176 deaths and 333 injuries.
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