Tremendous Tennessee storm ruins Shelbyville area
A letter from June reports in Shelbyville a devastating cyclone that collapsed the courthouse, church, hotel, bank, and many shops. Five young men died including Newton of the Intelligencer. homes were wrecked, streets filled with rubble, and rescue efforts continued amid widespread ruin and fear.
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TENNESSEE
Nashville Banner and Whig
Shelbyville
Newton
Shelbyville Intelligencer
David Whitson
Caldwell
sadlers
Rideout
Arnold
James Reid
Blackman
Dodson
Solomon Dews
dr. Arnold
Alony
Bley
bresen
Bible Society Meeting Reports Prosperous Work Worldwide
From the May London Courier report the British and Foreign Bible Society met at Free-Masons Tavern with Lord Bexley in the chair. The secretary showed global aid and distribution figures, noting 283,787 Bibles in Sweden, 2,000 Danish Testaments requested, and substantial activity in Germany, Prankfort, Petersburg, Calcutta and Madras. Receipts and expenditures stood at 2916 10, and new branches numbered 111. Arabic Poulter gifts were given to twenty Devptian youths.
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London Courier
British & Foreign Bible Society
Free-Mason’s Tavern
Lord Bexley
Germany
Miemel
Prankfort
Petersburg
Sweden
Norway
Calcutta
Madras
Iadia
wes
toms
Kentuckians and Yankee Ham Trust Spark Odd Trade Tale
Port Ginsor Mississippi May 29 Kentucky Hams vs Yankee Nutonegs. A town merchant tasked a Gulf agent to buy bacon hams from passing boats. Jonathan, with a clever scheme, bought wooden ham samples and posed as an expert in curing bacon revealing a cunning trick. The hullabaloo ends with the hams being wood and the Kentuckian exposed as “pretty tolerable cute.” A Paris family tragedy follows a brother shot and killed his sister’s physician brother, then suicide. In New York Banks curb pistols in prescriptions with or without heads.
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Kentucky
Kentucky Nation
Gulf
Mississippi
hemen
Jonathan
Melancholy death tied to a serpent bite and shipboard drowning
A young wife dies days after a mysterious serpent bite near her bed in Chillicothe. The snake reportedly entered from the roof, slipped through a floor opening, and caused her death. Separate notes recount drownings near Refugio, a critique of Louisiana laws against discontent, and a weathered warning on yellow fever linked to heat. Additional items discuss poisonous Boston cheese with unknown toxin origins.
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Chillicothe Evening Post
Elizabeth Hicks
Moscow City Sketch From A Historic Record
Descriptive survey of Moscow detailing city size nine miles by nine at southeast to northwest, circumference about twenty five miles, brick buildings tallying over nine thousand before fire, rebuilt eight thousand plus, numerous churches and convents, hospitals, crown properties, many steeples and gold domes, wards, shops, hotels, baths, lamps, wells, and streets across twenty districts with a population of about 240,903.
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Moscow
Mosca
fue
Motay
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