Private Sale Offers Large Gettysburg Area Farms
Two properties near Gettysburg offered by GEO ARNOLD. No. 1 Green Mountain Farm, 184 acres with timber and meadow, two-story house, bank barn, spring water, near railroad depot. No. 2 Cumberland Farm, 138 acres on Taneytown road, timber and meadow, stone-free soil, two springs, good orchard, outbuildings, near Gettysburg and Littlestown. Sale conducted by Drr J Scott Wilson and agent Henry Geyer. Also an 1861 notice for the Metropolitan Art Association subscriptions with premiums and engravings.
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Grnen Mount
Gettysburg
Fairfield
Willoughby
J. Scott Wilson
Cumberland Farm
Taneytown Road
Littlestown
Aly
John Black
Rock Me to Sleep Mother Poem Fragment
Fragmentary verse pleads for mother’s rocking and sleep. Repeated calls ask Mother to cradle the speaker, ease weariness, and shield from sorrow. Surviving lines mix dreamlike imagery with fatigue and longing for comfort. The voice blends nostalgia with childlike trust, invoking maternal care and solace.
The Other Way and One Way Folk in a Family Scene
A domestic vignette contrasts two approaches to family life as money and chores burden a household. In the first tale a mother and children clash over shoes and breakfast while the father balks at spending. In the second, a wife improvises to fix worn shoes and keeps breakfast moving as Sally and Joe aid each other.
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Kitchhen
Sally
Foe
Joe
Antic
Susy
Little Joe
Southwell
Farmer
Anecdotes of Generals and a Humorous Morning
A rustic breakfast scene shows kindness prevailing as a dog is teased and a child laughs. An older laborer recalls General Andrew Jackson detecting rogue officers, recounting a clergyman who traded preaching for politics and faced honest judgment from Old Hickory.
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Jackson
United States
Ystrden
Old Tickory
Lereyman
A Rustic Maiden and Tales of Matrimony in Rural Wit
A rustic girl defends matrimony against an ironic chorus of elder cousins. An temperance lecturer shares tales of gardeners and trespassers to illustrate warnings, while a child mishears angels and virginity leading to playful household quips about virtue and propriety.
Bean shelling memory of Mary and a kiss
The reader recalls a tender scene of bean shelling with Mary, framed by a lyric gaze and a kiss amid quiet rattling beans. The piece contrasts romantic sentiment with reflections on feeling, art, and faith, weaving memory, poetry, and moral hints.
An Arkansas Traveller recounts a December Arkansas barroom scene
A vivid fragment depicts a bitter cold night in Little Rock at the Anthony house where a sleepy visitor proves a risky source of amusement. A red hot poker nears a sleeping man’s toe as jokes unfold, a pistol is readied, and the group shifts to a safer barroom toast.
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Arkansas
Anthony
Little Rock
Slere
The Dutchman and the Goat in Aanesville Tale
In a humorous episode at the Eagle inn, landlord Mr Porter faces a dispute with Billy the goat and Pete the stable hand. Billy insists on staying in the hayloft despite Pete’s demands, leading to a chaotic scene as Pete wields a pitchfork and the crowd looks on. Pete threatening to leave if Billy does not depart escalates into a tense standoff.
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Aanesville
Porter
Pete
Billy
Phust
Meester Borter
The Little Ones Observe A Child’s Busy Day
A reflective meditation on a child’s daily labor from sunrise to sunset. It notes the tireless activity of little feet and limbs, the care given by a loving mother, and the child’s wary gaze that sees through facades. The piece ends on a mix of awe and fear at the fragility and promise of childhood.
Silence in Nature and a New Orleans Mystery
A New Orleans paper recounts nature's silent operations from sunlight to oceans as a lesson in unobtrusive power. It then reports Henry the merchant, believed lost on the Arctic wreck, turning up aboard a whaler after a long voyage, surviving a subsequent shipwreck and ending back in New York.
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New Orleans
Henry
New York
Ife
Treasury Report Shows Debt, Revenue Strains in 1860
The document cites a total national debt and treasury notes of 64.8 million dollars, a deficit of nearly 5.88 million for the year ending June 30, 1801, and notes ongoing effects from a mercantile downturn. It notes reduced revenue, reliance on overdue notes, and looming congressional action to maintain government operations and public credit. The text blends official figures with scattered anecdotes and a digressive anecdote about a Boston correspondent and a New York burglary tale involving a false dog alarm and a clerk defending a store against thieves.
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United States Treasury
Treasury
Congress
Department
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