Georgia Census Act of 1852 Sets County Duties
The 1852 act assigns Inferior Court Justices in each Georgia county to appoint census takers by January 1 1852, detailing data collection by family, color, race, age and status, with returns due by October 1 1852 and sworn oaths for accuracy. It authorizes relief by county justices if vacancies occur, sets penalties for noncompliance, and provides per-family pay of twenty five cents. It also notes the governor to receive returns for transmission to the General Assembly and references the Pope's tribute to Washington and other items in the issue.
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Wale Eghrdewt
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Geo
C. M. Shepperson
A. M
Paischat Ys
Joan
W. Baird
Mr.Daniel
Miller Grieve
D. C. Campbell
Brantland
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P. Carter
J.T. Tucker
H. V. Johnson
A. H. Hansell
J. WV. Baker
Millargoville
P. A. Strobel
J. R. McCarter
G. M. Dudley
K. T. Grown
TC. Sullivan
Messrs
T. M. Furtow
David Hill
R. J. Hill
State of
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State of Georgia
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House of Representatives
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General Assembly
Vast Solomons Hole cave found in Calaveras County California
Miners report an immense limestone cavern named Solomons Hole in Calaveras County. The vertical shaft opens three feet wide with complex descents, a Liberty Cap stalactite chamber, and a bishop’s mitre shaped first chamber 50 by 300 feet. A central mound holds earth and gold. depth reached 450 feet with two deeper apertures yet unreached as miners press to locate the bottom.
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Calaveras
California
Solomons Hole
Theelt
Miseries of Indolence and the Call to Labor
The text argues that idleness breeds distress and moral disorder, urging active living through regular exertion. It contrasts the productive life with indulgent ease, warning that indolence leads to weariness, despair, and social burden while vocation and purposeful labor restore rest, health, and true enjoyment.
Versailles as a warning against royal pomp and waste
The article excerpts from Glances at Europe criticize the Versailles Palace as a symbol of kings’ profligate rule and heavy tax burden. It notes vast costs, repeated vacancy, and debates over repurposing royal estates into hospitals or libraries, urging nations to learn from such extravagance. It laments the uninhabited grandeur and distant location from Paris, suggesting preservation as a public memorial.
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France
Greeley
Europe
Dewitt
Davenport
N. York
Versailles
Paris
Hambourlier
Etandin
Louis Philippe
Louis Napoleon and the Press in a Private Interview
A deputation of leading editors met the President to urge leniency for the press after the December coup. Napoleon responded that the press has already toppled two dynasties and warned it would not be by the press this time, despite the editors’ appeals. A later anecdote recalls Jenny Lind and Goldschmidt and a pianist, with Lind applauding from a private box amid mixed audience reaction.
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Louis Napolzon
Sve
Presa
The
Republic
Lewis Napoleon
Jenny Lind
Goldschmidt
New York Tribune
Teleka
Jenny
Audienes
Isabel Steamship Sails with 395 Passengers for Gold Regions
The Isabel under Captain Rolling departed for Key West and Havana carrying 53 cabin and 332 steerage passengers, totaling 395 aboard. Most travelers originate from Georgia and North Carolina counties Burke, Catawba, Rutherford, and McDowell, bound for Pacific mining ventures. Previous voyage carried 39 shives for gold seekers. current numbers expected to rise if mining reports stay favorable.
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Esabel
Rolling
Key West
Havana
Pacific
Georgia
Burke, Catawba
Rutherford
McDowell
North Carolina
Isabel
Sone
Charlestin
How to Ice a Cake with Icing and Decoration
The guide describes icing a cake by dredging the reared side, removing grease, applying icing to the center, smoothing with a broad knife, dipping the knife in cold water, and warming to set the icing. It notes optional trimming with decorative trails or confectionery before hardening in a warm oven.
Hawk snatches crow from farm steel trap in Bristol
A Bristol township farmer's steel trap for crows captured a crow and, as a hawk attacked, the hawk and crow were hauled to the farm house where the trio were captured by the trap setters.
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Jacob Booz
Bristol Township
Doylestown Dem
Funeral notes unusual changes in the deceased
The New Haven Courier reports that at the funeral of Henry Ward of New Haven on Friday last the face reddened and sweat appeared on the forehead. Physicians examined the body, declared life extinct, and a new burial time was set for Sunday afternoon.
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New Haven
Henry Ward
Scarlet Fever Remedy Gains Fresh Endorsements
A revived notice touts rubbing scarlet fever patients with ful bacon as a simple cure with reports of rapid recoveries. It cites testimonials and urges others to try the method. Also noted is a Southern Rights Convention planned in Montgomery on March 4, 1860, called by Meddrs Yancey, Gale, and about seventy others, denouncing national parties on slavery.
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Yancey
Gale
Montgomery
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