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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1858
Page
3
The MBK Sswing Society Ladies festival at Masonic Hall on Christmas Eve drew a large appreciative audience. Supper was excellent and the net profit was nearly but not quite $100. Weather remains warm and spring like with showers on Sunday and roads impassable.
The Columbus Gazette notes Gov Greiner and editor Better Hepent caution operators drilling the artesian well in the State House yard. Water at 59 feet smells and tastes strongly of sulphur, prompting a warning to halt drilling before deeper work. The column also cites local concerns on crime and reviews periodicals and counterfeit alerts amid updates from Wheeling and Kansas gold reports.
Jefferson City Examiner reports Fort Scott Kansas was attacked by Montgomery leading 209 men on the night of the tenth. The town was taken and several people killed as an informant escaped. The objective appeared to free a Montgomery prisoner indicted for murder. A Missouri dispatch notes Vernon county thefts and abductions by Territory bands with cattle horses and enslaved people taken. An express seeks Missouri Governor Stewart's aid.
From Havana reports note the Ca hawba with Havana dates to the 20th arrives in New Orleans on December 24. The President's Message shocks Cuban inhabitants and causes general sensation. Douglas is honored in Havana. Sagar's stock falls. Havana stock totals 24,000 bus. Sterling exchange shows 3 3/4 to 1. Freights are dull.
The twenty second overland California mail, with dates to the 2th ult, arrived in St Louis last night after twenty seven days. Six companies of the Sixth Infantry are assigned for Mohave service with headquarters at Presidio and detachments to Humboldt Bay and San Diego. The San Francisco Herald notes the seizure of the steamer Hermann by the United States Marshal on claims from New York parties.
The Margaret sailing from New York to San Francisco foundered at sea near Rostos on December 24. All crew believed lost except one man rescued from a ship’s house. He said he had been aboard the wreck fragment for seventeen days.
New Orleans reports the steamship Quaker City with California dates to the 6th arrives with 123 passengers. The Hermann brings New York mails from San Francisco dated the 27th. Wrecks include the Columbus of New London off Shasta Bay in August. Prices and markets described: sugar at five cents, butter scarce. Censuses show Oregon with 42,900 people and 9,000 voters. California events include earthquakes, a Sacramento fire, and law actions against the Almada Quicksilver Company.
The Athens market report lists Butter Molasses Hams Sugar and other groceries. 700 bushels of flour and various meats and provisions traded, with price ranges for lard, pork, beef, and cheese. Grain prices show wheat and corn activity, while whiskey and other commodities exhibit modest moves in a steady market.
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