Sheriff Sales and Private Real Estate Sale in Adams County
Public notices announce sheriff sales of multiple Adams county properties including a 150 acre tract in Hamiltonban Township with several buildings, a New Oxford two lot property known as Miley's Tavern Stand, and a 23 acre Butter Township tract. Also listed is a private sale of the estate of Jolly Chanauest near Middleburg Carroll County.
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Court of Common Pleas
Adams County
Pennsylvania
Court House
Gattysburg
Mamiltonban Township
William Culp
Fulin Valentine
Jacob Bortuer
Peres Brooks
Janey
Lo’eluck
P. M
New Oxford
Joseph S. Gitt
John R. Hersh
Gettysburg
George F. Becxsr
O’elack
P. A
Sttuate
Butter Township
Samuel Diehl
Noah Miller
Groves Awbert
Isaag Lightner
Sugnirr
Sheriff’s Office
Orphan Court
Carroll County
Jolly Chanauest
Middleburg
By Gone Days and Thee in a Sneaking Verse
A fragmentary verse parody hints at memory and invitation. The speaker recalls past conversations and asks a wary listener to enter as the father stands nearby. The language evokes old time speech and a cautious, intimate moment indoors.
Drift from Childhood to the Haven of Peace
The piece recalls fading childhood scenes and holiday memories. It laments time passing and the drift toward an unknown future, urging prudence to steer life toward a tranquil, final rest beneath enduring blessings. It mentions Thanksgivings, Christmas, New Year, birthdays, and the Fourth of July.
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Santa Claus
Jommney
Ealm Wates
A Word to the Boys About a State Prison Visit
A World to the Boys recounts a visit to the state prison where prisoners of all ages are kept under strict control. The narrator recalls a fourteen year old convict and the warden explains a killing born from in play and heated temper. The piece urges temperance and self discipline to prevent such fates.
Sermon on depravity told with a forest parable
An African meeting house sermon uses a parable about cutting a hollow tree to illustrate human heart sin. The preacher compares the outside promise to a hollow butt and notes the audience groaned with contrition as the city’s most practical sermon that day.
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Bretheren
Virginia
Earth
Kingdom of
Heaven
Paul
Bull on the Track and Other Railside Oddities
An eye witness recalls a bull blockading a Central Eveine train near a farmer’s field, with a clash of driver and bull ending in the engine’s mastery. The piece continues with ministerial quips and humorous church anecdotes about sermons, audience exits, and a boy asking his mother to make Papa say Amen.
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MacGregor
Solferino
Carents
Critoren
Mumma
Fear of Servile Insurrection and a Ladies Riding Scene
A Providence lecture recounts white fear of slave uprisings, recounting a Virginia plantation family arming daughters for defense after Southampton and a Northern escape. It also covers a Toward Indiana county fair riding match with a dangerous ride, crowd panic, and a recovered horse race.
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Providence
Josiah Owing, Jr
Boston
John Standolph
Richmond
Virginia
Southampton
Hhorne
Grey
Bay
Paxelle
Water Woes and Revolutionary Anecdotes From Old Papers
A long fragment covering Civil War era partisan skirmishes around Waxhaws, a deserter shot, a bugle scare, and the Jackson household. It includes anecdotes about Col. William Williams and the rebel declaration, plus a grim tally of punishments by a stern schoolmaster in Suabia and a NY dog bite case. The piece blends historical reminiscence with satirical asides and miscellaneous notes.
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William Williams
Congress
Connecticut
A Triple Marriage Rumor From Palmyra and Nearby
A Salt Lake Tribune note reports a sensational tale of a Dr. W. A. Tropson wedding three Breshears sisters Zerilda Margaret and Demarius to G. L. Dixon L. B. Kemper and E. Mansor as a single ceremony described as wholesale marriage. It recalls a recent sighting of a man with four accompanying women said to be newly married at President Youngs office in what is termed marriage in gross.
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Germantown Telegraph
Haskins
Qld
W. A. Tropson
Zerilda
Margaret
Demarius Breshears
Main Street
Young
Gross
Salt Lake Tan
Best Time to Cut Timber for Fencing
Late Autumn is best for felling timber for rails or posts used in fencing. Timber cut and split then seasons more evenly, becomes firmer and less porous, and resists powder post, worms, and dry rot better than timber cut in other seasons. Fence posts felled in late Autumn outlast those cut earlier by years.
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Teadea
Scientific American
Revolutionary War Volunteers Inspire Herculean Courage
A local commemoration praised volunteer soldiers on the eve of departure for war, recounting a colorful tale of David and Goliath to boost morale. The piece also notes a Superior Court case in Silom where a confessed horse thief was acquitted due to unreliable testimony, highlighting a rare legal reversal.
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Volun
Coliah
Tayid
Golia
Tavid
Goliah
Caliah
Silom
Lyon
Miek
Har—Lynn
Odd Southern jest and prison notes from Washinatroy
A humorous reminiscence about a Southern pair discussing a New York Union meeting and Gen Scott, followed by death and long prison terms in Rhode Island and Charlestown. The column reports Stephen Bounds’s death at Rhodes Island State Prison, recounts his long incarcerations for theft and assault, and notes foreign press on Unterwalden sentencing a disturber.
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Washinatroy
Corwix
New York
Scott
Seward
Tom Corwin
Norep
Stephen Bounds
Rhodes Isliand
Tie
Rhode Iskind
Charlestown
Mass
Unil
Tts
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Winever Junction
Northern Central Railway
di. McCurdy
G. Brinkerstopp
Adina
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Tyson & Bro
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Rebecca
Ivanhoe
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Waxhaws
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Robert
Andrew Jackson
Captain Sands
le Yan
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