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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1838
Page
1
A moorish maid in a dated poem refuses to confess love with dark eyes and blushing cheeks. The speaker hints Jove's flame warming her heart, while smoke hints at hidden passion. The piece presents a personal verse fragment and slight melodrama without further specifics.
A Postmaster letter from Camden South Carolina dated December 25 1837 describes a ferry accident the night before last. A flat sank with twenty Black passengers a wagon and four horses and the Express mail from the North. Sixteen Blacks and three horses drowned. The boy and horse survived by swimming to shore. The mail bag recovered downstream in wet condition. two bags were fine and sent on, the third dried by fire. The Express mail bag sent to Columbia by stage after repairs.
A Vermont and Lower Canada labor flow to Lowell Massachusetts factories hid a covert arms smuggling plan. Reported last summer a spike in mortality led to coffins being sent home, but an investigator uncovered that the graves concealed bayonets muskets swords and pistols rather than corpses.
Lady A and her daughter corrected a servant who misnamed them as the Right Hon. Lady A and the Hon. Miss A. The servant now follows orders and uses simple Lady A and plain Miss A. The news electrified Devonshire House as the pair were said to be “coming up.”
The Chicago Democrat notes that in frontier communities every home serves as a meeting house. If a minister stays at a local house on Saturday night and reveals his calling, by nine in the morning he attracts an audience matching the best of eastern towns for numbers and decorum.
The Branch Mint in North Carolina has begun coining gold and silver and expects New Orleans and Georgia branches to start soon. The principal coinage targets common circulation, including quarter eagles in gold and twenty five cent pieces in silver.
In a Greenwich festival tale, Henry Evelyn rescues Alice Gray, daughter of Lord Gray, from a perilous boat crossing. Amid clandestine plans, Edgar Clifford woos Alice while Evelyn’s passion deepens. The king, traitors, trials, and a dramatic rescue unfold ending in forgiveness and renewed romance.
Fragmentary OCR of a December 1837 letter mentions business activity, cotton purchases by banks at around 19½ cents, Northern investors delaying withdrawals, remittance funding, a port ship near Pensacola with 2 200 bales of rotten cargo, and insurance on the voyage. Many words are garbled and unreadable.
A bill in the South Carolina Legislature seeks to exempt Thompsonian practitioners from disabilities. The item blends brief items from politics, weather, crime, and travel, noting a mix of historical reflections, local anecdotes, and social quirks from the era.
Mr S Ross of Painesville Ohio offers ten dollars to the Lady wearing the best woolen gown of her own manufacture at the Geaugaco Agricultural Society fair. The State Geologist Gov Noble reports coal limestone marble sand stone alum slate and ore deposits. About 200 Louisville ladies attended a recent ball and more are expected. Pork price cited at four peck?
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