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The piece surveys United States and international affairs from reform rhetoric to press influence, noting lawyerly discontent and rising Nihilist views. It highlights Alabama oyster beds taxation, a 9000 mile cable plan, and Bismarck’s press purchase, plus a court intrigue involving Judge Prendergast and his ex-colleague.
Trailed by Indians an old hunter's story
An 1848 frontier tale recounts a settler party of thirteen including women and children hiding from an attacking band near Ridley's Camp in Nevada. The narrator details burning camp, a cave hideout beneath a bear den, rifle and torch confrontations, and a tense, deadly stand for survival.
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