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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1857
Page
2
Historical dispatches describe the suppression of uprisings in India, reporting on Regulator proceedings, executions, and punitive measures. The narrative contrasts violence with empire governance, noting army movements, court actions, and implications for British authority amid colonial unrest.
The issue reports a compliment to Lin aw Lite Menbar of the Wore Men's Christian Association and notes a lecture on Catharbouse works, with bids and spring start expectations. It covers Governor elect references, specie's rise, and war news from New York to Liverpool, plus a local tale of Lydia Sherswood, an 80 year old colored woman with 173 descendants.
In a large item from a Star issue, authorship by Me and Coxvensa is celebrated for a new map called Yapo. The text praises full delivery, quality, and value, noting the map includes county features like Pennsylvanian College and local schools, alongside roads and buildings. It lauds labor and enterprise behind the map and mentions a public reception by a church and community groups.
In Kuusazum the legislature repealed a law authorizing the Calhoun Levonptany conversion, paused by Governor Branton’s veto, while a militia board is formed to organize territorial forces. Reports describe conflict in Missouri with proslavery forces, Utah hostilities not yet declared, and a debate over federal troops and statehood.
The Portsmouth Daily Tribune describes the Obie River's rapid advance through Portsmouth, washing away acres of land and threatening boiler-yard buildings. The floodfront erodes Fifth to Fourth streets, with several blocks already submerged and more ground disappearing in months. The report notes escalating force as islands of land vanish and cites impending destruction unless the river is halted. The piece then shifts to a Lisbon dispatch on Portugal's pestilence, detailing King Pedro II's response, emigration, hospital visits, and the royal aid amid a yellow fever-like outbreak sweeping Lisbon and surrounding towns.
A garbled report recounts a quarrel involving a preacher and a man with a pistol at a Beinkmager residence, leading to a clash halted by a magistrate. It also notes British shipping risks to the Cape, Japanese diplomacy moves, a planter’s wife killed in Potomac floods, and Cincinnati whisky-related deaths linked to morphine-like drugs.
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