County officers publish wholesale license act notice 1840
The notice declares an act to regulate wholesale dealers and retailers of merchandise wines and distilled spirits. It requires lists of dealers to be delivered to the Court of Quarter Sessions and sets August and September deadlines for license applications and annual sales reporting. It outlines exemptions for United States grown products and certain female traders.
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Pennsylvania
Court of Quarter Sessions
United States
Gettysburg
Westnessloy
Augius
Act of Assembly
Come, while the blossoms of thy youth endure
An 1830s Virginia Herald note urges the reader to seize youth's joys before time erodes them. The piece intertwines a poem about ephemeral life with a forecast of approaching celestial danger from a great comet. It cites a reader in Philadelphia and discusses planetary science, urging public attention and reflection.
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Desraims
Virginia Herald
Philadelphia Gazette
Poulson
American Daily Advertiser
Jug ter
adends
torre naltier
adeence
Wetsehal
Cherokee Removal Stance Echoes Judicial Course
The Cherokees refuse to meet with the U S president in Nashville to discuss removal, insisting on remaining at home and pursuing their case in court where a judicial decision could compel enforcement. The piece notes Georgia politicians face the burden of defending state acts before a tribunal and warns of consequences if the court rules for the Indians. A Pa born Wilson injured in a barn accident is also reported.
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United States
Nashville
Georgia
Eaton
Berrien
dvertiser
Famine Distress Rising Across Ireland Reports Warn of Scarcity
Distress in Armagh and Mayo cites high potato prices and unemployment as famine looms. Letters from Galway Dublin and Kilrush describe rising hunger, dwindling relief funds and suspected typhus amid calls for urgent aid and taxation opposition.
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IRELAND
Armagh
Galway
Trale Mercury
Lnniskilien
Mayo
Kilrush
John Kenny
R.C
Walsh
Clare
Dublin
Irelands
corone
Gloom in South Carolina as pamphlet unrest stirs slaves
A Charleston letter in the Boston Gazette laments depressed business and property value in South Carolina while noting incendiary pamphlets circulated to stir discontent among enslaved people. The Providence American reports Wilmington officials uncovering Walker's Appeal pamphlets with arrests including a free Black man suspected of circulating them.
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SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston
S.C
Boston Gazette
The
Providence American
Wilmington
N. C
Walker
enlor
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