Proclamation for Adams County General Election Details
Sheriff Samuel Wolf publishes a comprehensive election proclamation listing all ten election districts within Adams County and the specific polling places. It enumerates offices to be filled, election laws, and references to acts governing judge and voter eligibility, urging compliance with state statutes for the October election. It also includes a separate notice of administrator and executor accounts and public sale announcements in Gettysburg and surrounding townships.
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Herbas
General Assembly
Samuel Wolf
Adams
Gettysburg
Serushitf
Germany
Peter Lingenfelter
Littlestown
Oxford
L. L. Lerkheimer
New Usford
Latimore
Tuntington
G. W. Uildebrand
Hamiltonban
Liberty
Iouse
Mi Uerstown
Siath
Miramilton
Daniel Becker
East Berlin
Menallen
Bandersville
Strahan
Dacul L. Grass
Wintersdown
Franklin
Hoase
Folin DP. Butt
Conowago
John Basbes
McSherrystown
Fyrnie
Alien CG. Cook
Heiddersbur
Mountjoy
Berwick
Abbottstown
Freedom
Nicholas Moritz
Said Township
Union
Enoch Leiever
Lutter
Publi
Middletown
Township
Pigeon
Said
Cumberkind
B. Schriver
York
Adams County
Act of Assembly
Dauphin
Cumberland
Bradford
Centre
Greene
Erie
Senate
House of Representatives
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Thas
Lancaster
Erica
Supreme Court
United States
Legislative
Executive
Judiciary Department
Congress
Samuel Wolp
Sherif
Orphans’ Court of
Adsins
Menry
Samuel Tlaner
Levi Gublen
Jacob Althoff
Wm. Gilden
Mary Vanorsdal
William Vanorsdal
J. G. Brinkerlail
Pelle PF. Brik
Erheff
Jala March
David Wills
Lycurgus A. Biehl
Robert McCreary
Mosey Myers
Ali Ud
John Spang
Hal Fanes
T Hirdl Account of Joel DB. Danney
Vasuis
Joel T. Danner
Isaac Riddenoasad
Jeremith Teht
John Henry Myers
Andrew Trangh
Ser
Cal
John Wolford
John B. Albert
Josiah C. Albert
Jno. E. Albert
Charles X. Martin
Register's Office
Chambershire
Josepil Wible
Union County Committee Members Listed in Fragmented Roll Call
A long OCR fragment lists Union County, Cumberland, Osxford, Samtington, and multiple towns with names such as McConaughy Faknestock Mears Christman Wamilton Swisher Hersh Gill Peters and many others. The legible portions name numerous individuals and several places in a committee slate.
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Torough
D. McConaughy
B. G. Faknestock
Wm. B. Mears
Wm. Christman
Cumberland
John Wamilton Coh Swisher
Germany
P. W. Crouse
Rufus Cartera Osxford
Frank Hersh
Joseph S. Gill Samtington
Henry F. Peters
Tasse Cline
Tatimore
Avram Livingston
Col
John Walford
Mountpleasant
Michael Overhaugh
Jacob J. Noel
Roeading
Samuel Overholtzer
Leonard Shrybang
Berwick Two
Tiane Wolf
John Lightner
Verwick
Samuel Mettgay
J. BF. Richter
Freedom Samuel Moritz
William J. Epply
The Family Altar Prayer Invitation
Uhotes Passey presents a period devotional urging parents and children to kneel in prayer. The piece extols worship at morning and evening, seeks divine mercy for gloom and sorrow, and envisions families uniting before God in eternal praise.
First Tennessee Regiment Joins Union Camp in Kentucky
A St Louis correspondent details the First Tennessee Regiment now in a Union camp in Kentucky. Exiled from East Tennessee for Unionism, many are religious and prayerful, with families left desolated by Rebels. Troops include many young men and substantial property holders, some valued at 30,000 to 40,000 dollars, determined to fight to redeem the State.
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St. Louis
Tennessee
Kentucky
East Tennessee
Tennessee Gamp
Ce.dar
Atnks
Mast ‘Seunessee
Our Boys Rejecting their Gold at Dewinsville Camp
A Pennsylvania regiment skirmish near Dewinsville across the river from Washington exposed a gold pay scene. Soldiers seized time to march, refused paymaster’s funds, and scattered pens, paper, and coins as they fled in a comic, tense moment. The piece blends moral commentary with war-time humor and reflections.
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Pennsylvania
Dewinsville
Chain Bridge
Washington
Fortified Kentucky relic on Drake's Creek wall
A Kentucky feature describes a 200 yard long limestone wall rising 40 feet at Allen county near the Tennessee border forming a peninsula fortress of 200 acres. The piece speculates it may be an ancient fort, possibly pivotal in future conflicts, with notes on other regional curiosities and humorous anecdotes.
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Kentucky
Allen County
Tennessee
Bowling Green
82P In Japan boys become men in fifteen and receive new names
A fragment notes that in Japan youths turn fifteen to become men and assume new names while many local youths lose their good names early. The piece muses on life as color and form and ponders friendship and pity with terse, poetic lines and questions.
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Japan
Recompence of Courage and Civil War Sentiments
General orders from Colonel Paine of the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment at Camp Randall call for colors to be presented after the war, with gold embroidery naming heroic deeds and battles on the regimental colors. Articles from The New York Tablet and National Intelligencer praise Union conduct and mourn fallen officers, while Norristown and Hartford notes reflect local war sentiment and anecdotes.
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Paine
Wisconsin
Camp Randall
Maryland
Senate
Assembly Chamber
Madison
National Intelligencer
John A. Washington
Garnett
Dlywater
Virginia
Col. Washington
Col
Cameron
Washington
Mt. Vernon
How to Have a Good Cider from Harvard Professor Storsford
A Boston Journal correspondent explains a cider recipe from Professor Storsford of Harvard University to arrest fermentation, preserve cider in desired states, and yield sparkling cider if bottled. It uses lime sulphate to stabilize, with steps to ferment then rest and settle, noting the method is non deleterious and has produced two-year-old, exceptional cider.
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Storsford
Harvard University
Boston Journal
Orsford
Cambridge
Rarey Method for Treating a Bull's Foot A Farmer's Note
Edwards Todd, a Connecticut farmer, shares a practical bull foot treatment from the Ohio Farmer. He describes securing the bull, lifting the lame foot with ropes, and removing a stone from the hoof after the bull relaxes, noting the process required calm handling and patience.
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Edwards Todd
Connecticut
Ohio
Durham
Shocking Death of a Lady in London Fire
A London physician Dr Bradhurst loses his wife in a fire similar to a Professor Longfellow case. She wore a white muslin dress and tried to smother flames with a rug and servants were summoned by a bell. Steel crinoline hoops hampered extinguishing efforts as she attempted to reach an envelope by candlelight.
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Bradhurst
London
Longfellow
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