15 Oct 1828
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1828
Page
1
A June 2 column describes an 1860s punitive expedition against the Ricara Sioux after an ambush near Council Bluffs. It details troop movements from Cornell Bluffs, casualties on both sides, and a peace treaty urged by Ricara leaders. The narrative notes fortifications, captures, and graves found at Ricara towns, including deaths of chiefs and losses of horses.
Report recounts killings and wounds among people described as Ricara or related groups. Messengers return on the evening of the 14th with news. on the 35th morning the mother of a late chief Grey Eyes is provided provisions and water by a principal judge while the town remains quiet under control.
A private Rome letter recounts Pope Pius VIII’s final days. He showed relief and gratitude on the 15th, declined drink, received communion during the Octave, then had delirium and extreme unction before dying on the morning of the 20th as Rome mourned.
The Iron Mountain site in Washington county Missouri is hailed as the most extraordinary iron ore deposit yet found. It resembles native iron and yields around eighty to ninety percent fusion. Comparisons are made to other so called iron mountains in Træherg Smolends ten and Lapland, though none match Missouri’s mountain.
The report notes ore from a central belt yields high quality steel unlike imports, with towns like Maine and South Carolina cited. It covers Britain’s woolen cloth demand, cost share, and employment reaching over a million workers, plus anecdotes from Sprixas and New Orleans on ministerial longevity and a grim alligator incident.
The London papers discuss Clinton policy and the great canal of this state. It notes the canal would be the longest in existence at fifty-six miles, costing about five million dollars when finished, seen as a monument of public spirit and prosperity. It contrasts wealth creation with expense, and mentions related political sentiment. Potential tragedies and legal cases in New York are briefly referenced, including a drownings sentence involving William Kirby and his children.
A Boston tailor cites figures for a coat with 25 243 mitchies and 782 stitches in edges plus 5 390 stitches along folds and 1 089 in pockets. He claims the coat was made in two days of travel, presenting odd measurements and terms.
Porter writes from Thompson's Island on August 8 stating the general opinion that piracy will be subdued for a long time only if an active force remains. He emphasizes the necessity of a strong presence to maintain suppression of piracy.
Preparations surge in Albany for the arrival of the first boat as waters from the Western Canal are expected to join the Hudson during the first week of October.
A Massachusetts driver was fined twenty-five dollars for taking the left side of the Megrnmack bridge with a wagon, colliding with a horse and gig and breaking the gig.
The drought persists in Belfast Maine with vegetation seared and rivers reduced to rivulets. Cattle are driven miles for water as tobacco losses mount and hogsheads destroyed. Maine Governor Albion K Pagris is re elected without opposition and Vermont elects C P Van Ness as chief justice and governor on September 9.
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