08 Oct 1849
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1849
Page
1
Ashises Manens notes an obituary ref to Dr Norr president of Union College New York aged seventy six who has shepherded the college for forty five years. The extract praises virtue, benevolence and a lifelong dedication to education and humane ideals.
A long column of domestic notes from Winthrop Maine on out of door life in California then shifts to a string of brief, humorous items. The letters detail frugal housekeeping in San Francisco and Iowa envy for green pastures, a Syracuse marriage mishap, Deacon Hevens jokes, Odd Fellows lodges, Irish rope tale, gas and language quips, a Baltimore marriage notice, Mount Hood remark, wine and grape notes, and crime cautionaries. The piece closes with local minutiae and oddities from various cities.
In St Louis six years after a city collector Augustus Kennerly faced defalcation charges and dismissal for $89,000 alleged theft. A reinspection found $10,000 unposted, leaving the city owed $2,000 plus interest and a ruined reputation. A separate court remark noted a beauty contest boast deciding a suit between a man and a red haired woman. Virtues praised by Lord Mansfield and curious tales of tails in Africa accompany reports of fires in New York and Williamsburg and political moves by New Jersey African American residents seeking constitutional changes.
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