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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1860
Page
2
A disturbing report describes Ryjur leading assaults in Teul on the 20th alt burning and looting the town. By the 27th he and his men killed many prisoners, violated inhabitants, and destroyed the parish church before burying the priest. Disturbing details of cruelty and desecration accompany the account.
Judge McLean reiterated his 1848 stance that slavery cannot extend into new territories without law and that territorial legislatures lack power beyond congressional grant. The piece also covers Henry Stevens on fair debate reporting, Missouri versus Kansas dueling bravado, cattle movements, Rosive Association rescue work, and a 1840s comet alert.
The community notes the election for County Superintendent of Common Schools today at the Court-house. New mail arrangements will soon deliver two daily mails to Baltimore and intermediate points, easing business communications. Post Office improvements also extend to Petersburg, promising better service under new contracts. The Charleston Convention ends without a nomination as Southern delegates form a separate convention in Richmond. Obituary notes Josnin UWaARrMan, editor of a German paper in Lebanon, aged 60, who has long served since 1810. Auditor General changes: Jacob Fray retires. Tiros Hi. Cocoran of York assumes duties with confidence in fiscal oversight.
The Wheel ing Intelligencer recites a long tale of a child bitten by a dog while living near the river. the wound healed then reopened during dog days and the child grew idiotical. Also reported is a man’s weary life ending in suicide in Alto, after failed borrowing attempts and a fatal gun discharge.
Joan Rowe of Wasq retires as Surveyor General on Tuesday and General Krim takes over the duties with high endorsement. Kuta enters the office with strong support, replacing most clerks and placing political allies in positions.
The 1850 Berks county versus Bertolet decision held millers who buy grain outside their mill to be dealers in merchandise and subject to license fees. Since then mills faced mercantile assessment. A later Supreme Court ruling overruled that decision, eliminating the tax? status as described.
The issue reports the Philadelphia mayoral and council results with the People's Ticket prevailing by a narrow margin and voters totals near 70,000, noting council splits and prior election majorities. It also covers a prize fight stoppage in England, a railroad accident in Littlestown, church expansion in a German Reformed congregation, Utah under federal action, crop prospects in Pennsylvania, North Carolina slave taxation debate, a Belvidere poisoning trial, a Harrisburg cattle train shipment, and a family ruin after a wreck.
The Farmer and Gardener of Philadelphia announces a new work on grape cultivation by Win Saunders. Three treatises will describe varieties and cultivation. the price is 85 cents bound or 25 cents paperback, mailed free on receipt of retail. Sample copies available. address A. M. Spangler.
Robbers entered the Sabbath School room of the Presbyterian Church in Chambersburg on Monday night and stole nearly eighty dollars collected by the children over the year. A string of sensational items follows with various incidents and political chatter across the region.
The article outlines the political balance in the current House by states, noting Democratic and Republican allocations and divisions, and explains that 17 votes are needed to elect a President. It also describes that if no President is chosen by March 4, the Senate would elect a Vice President who becomes President. It then covers plans to remove the Mormons, mentions Corrupt testimony before the Covode Committee about Lecompton bill bribery, and lists details on new U.S. territories and a steamship voyage.
At the Aduare Beutinel Menallen Agricultural Club meeting on Saturday April 21 1860 Joan Burxnoupen chaired as the President presented the Patent Office Report for 1858. Members discussed cultivating Gooseberries Strawberries and Dwarf Pears with Winchesterns and Yeomans illustrated examples and a plan for renewal system planting and weed control. A committee was formed to research dwarf pear profitability and report later. The meeting adjourned to Saturday May 12 with new potato varieties shown and a shift to 2 PM.
Ex-State Senator Parairon McMullen on horseback near Marion faced an oncoming locomotive. The horse balked and was killed. he was thrown onto the cowcatcher and dragged onto the engine. He escaped unharmed, per the Lynchburg Virginian report.
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