Public Notices and Advertisements Terms
Published every Friday morning at two dollars per annum in advance or jk pultars yearly. Advertisements ten lines or less cost one dollar for first insertion and five cents for each continuation. Land and Negroes sales by executors require sixty days notice. personal property forty days. debtors and creditors forty days. Leave to sell land and negroes to be weekly for four months. All business letters must be postpaid.
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Court of Ontirery
Trust in God and the lesson of provident care
A pair of neighbors, one fretful and one serene, contrast reliance on Providence with fear of ruin. The anxious man frets over supporting his family as a vulture tragedy stirs him, while the other trusts in God. He witnesses a mother bird share food, proving even unseen providence aids the innocent. The tale ends with a pledge to help each other and their children, guided by heaven. The piece then shifts to a critique of a national longing to get rich quickly. It warns that chasing sudden wealth breeds speculative schemes, bubbles, and societal decline. Honest labor is devalued as many seek fortune by luck, leaving the masses at risk.
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New York
H.R. Beers
N. W. Cota
Albany
Beyhold
America
Scientific American
Washington Republic
Gen. Taylor
New Mexico
California
The Prophetic Dew Drop Dream in a Child’s Death
A delicate child laments dew drops snatched away by the sun and finds solace in rain and a rainbow. The father teaches that earthly withering blooms again in heaven, but the child’s morning wisdom ends as he is exhaled into heaven, a prefigured fate noted by Jean Paul Richter.
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Jean Paul Richfer
Saw Mills on Kinchafoonee Creek near Albany
Washington Gossip reports an excerpt from the New York Tribune about the Portuguese Minister in Washington challenging U S officials over indemnity payments tied to the destruction of the General Armstrong at Fayal. Mr Clay and Mr Hopkins confront the minister about misrepresentations as plain talk of potential repercussions looms. The letter also notes timber and grain trade details and hints at a forthcoming message from the President.
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Washington
New York ‘Tribune
N. O
Delta
Hopkins
Lisbon
Armstrong
Fayal
Clay
A C
Mikaalo
Clayton
Hokins
Congress
Madeira
Unclear fragment hints at machine age and manufacturing note
The text seems to describe a six week timeframe to prepare for a Smart Machine, Screens, Fans, and two machines for cloth production. It mentions a general at Kool order and a wheel, with a date around May 7, 1880, but the fragment is garbled and lacks coherent context or identifiable entities.
Groceries Ad Offers Fresh New Orleans Goods
An old style advertisement touts cheap fresh supplies from New Orleans including sugar coffee flour candles tea wine and assorted goods. It mentions mossy or mossy style wording and a variety of pantry items with a casual selling tone.
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New Orleans
Destruction of the Great Cathedral of Saragossa
A private account recalls the April 17 catastrophe in Saragossa Spain when a lightning strike ignited the Cathedral of Sara gossa during a Holy Sacrament procession. A thunderstorm trapped crowds inside as the roof burned, bells rang, and the spires collapsed, sealing the ruin of Aragon’s finest ecclesiastical architecture.
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Saragosa
Spain
Saragossa
Aragon
Steamship yard bustle with new Pacific and Gulf lines
The New York Saw of the 20th reports several steamships under construction at Lawrence and Sneeden and other yards. Norwich and New London Steamboat Co plans a 1800 ton California trade vessel. Lowry Smith contract a 1100 ton ship for California service. Morgan Iron Works prepares a 1200 ton U S Mail Ship for New Orleans to Galveston. Nicaragua Co orders a 100 ton San Juan River steamer. Vanderbilt to fund a 1500 ton ship for Atlantic routes. Wright of New Orleans contracts a 1400 ton liner between New Orleans and the Gulf coast, with engines due in weeks.
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New York
Messrs
Lawrence
Nicaragua Company
Hae
Jeremiah Simonson
Eighteenth Street
San Juan
Vanderbilt
I. L Wright
New Orleans
Thomas Collyer
Great Tunnel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Great Tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Morgantown West Virginia is described as one of the era s grand civil engineering feats. The tunnel spans a mile and a quarter through a mountain with three shafts sunk 20 by 19 feet and 175 to 185 feet deep. Work continues day and night as crews tunnel the shafts and extend the passage, with progress seen as among the era s finest achievements.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Morgantown
West Virginia
Cerne
Terrible disaster at Burravo ships burn with heavy loss
The Griffith burned with a heavy loss of life near Burravo on June 18 1850. Over 290 souls perished or were lost at sea including Mr Franklin Heath and his family among the dead. The steamer left for Cleveland with 200 passengers when a fast spreading fire doomed the vessel. The mate swam ashore at Cleveland and reported only about thirty escaped. Other items discuss Gen Taylor politics and cotton market trends from Augusta Republic and Liverpool. The Antediluvian remains in Georgia are noted with Megathesium bones found near a well dig.
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Burravo
Griffith
Franklin Heath
Heath
New York
James
Palmer
Speed
Toledo
Sandusky
Cleveland
Samson
Liverpool
England
United States
Manchester
Great Britain
East Indies
Thei
Hyotiick Canal
Lyell
Satantah
Skiddaway
Skiddaviay
Vahtiah Fnr
North Carolina Democrats Nominate Reid for Governor
The Democratic convention in North Carolina on the 13th nominated David B. Reid, the party’s candidate in the last contest, by a unanimous vote. It endorsed the Union, the Missouri Compromise Line, and condemned President Taylor’s cabinetry and policies on slavery, pledging to abide by the Missouri Compromise while aiming to unite the nation and support Reed’s candidacy.
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North Carolina
David 8
Reid
South
Missouri
Clay
Taylor
Oceanic fears and political clash ripple in Mississippi report
Fragmented notes describe Atlantic ice dangers and a political dispute over representation in Mississippi. The record references a polar event, an extraction operation, and public sentiment against Foote’s stance, highlighting tensions between constituents and officials amid broader oceanic concerns.
Fragmented reflections on death and happiness in Dublin Caters
The text muses on grief and the decay of life, noting separation from loved ones is inevitable and that happiness remains tied to the pursuit of ultimate bliss. It blends fragmented phrases about death, memory, and human experience with a magazine voice.
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Dedsbad
Dublin Caters
Ad Adsitian's Opinion of the Ladies of Hangary
An officer claims Hungary’s mischief stems from its ladies. A Hungarian woman reportedly risked multiple times to carry messages to the army, twice succeeding and once captured. The tale notes her eventual release from imprisonment in Buda when Austrians retreated in April.
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Adsitian
Hangary
Hungary
Buda
Slavery Question and Southern Resistance in Washington
The Mobile Register analyzes the slavery question pressing Washington politics. It warns that progress toward any settlement falters as Southern members hold power under rules and risk clashes with the North. Clay’s fears signal possible defeat of settlement and danger to government funding, urging steady, courageous resistance rather than disunion.
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Washington
House
Clay
Mobile Register
Ohio Judiciary Committee backs a unified court system
The Judiciary Committee of the Constitutional Convention reported in favor of a judiciary comprising a Supreme Court, District Courts, Courts of Common Pleas, County Courts, and Justices of the Peace. The Supreme Court would include a Chief Justice elected by all voters and three associate justices elected by the same electorate, with three Common Pleas courts to follow.
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Ohio
Judiciary Committee
The
Constitutional Convention
Supreme Court
Remarkable Fleeces From Local Merino Sheep
Cooperstown Journal reports a notable flock from a town, with eighty one pounds of wool from merino ewes and mixed English-bred stock. The article notes five full-blooded merino and five crossbred sheep, all shorn last Thursday, showing varied fleece quality and prices around 810,009 as a figure.
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Cornelius van Horn
Yashel
Cooperstowm Journa
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HUNT
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A. G. Osgood
Attany
Baltimore and Ohio Rail
North Carolinia
Compro
Stanley
Mart $ Journal
Laxton
Fas Ice
Foote
Mississippi
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