The Nasby Postmaster Beaten By a Colored Successor
In 1860 Nasby recounts his removal from the Kentucky post office at Con fedrity Roads after a rival, Deezer Lucky, assumed the office. A street procession honors the new postmaster as Nasby witnesses his own dismissal and the loss of stamps, paper, and funds. Bascom’s Inn loses value, and Nasby flees toward Washington to seek work.
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PerroStucm V. Nasny
The Old Bachelor As Scarecrow Of Happiness In Love
A quoted critic laments the life of the old bachelor as a pitiable figure devoid of amiable partners. He paints a bleak scene of lonely rooms, a barren table, and a solitary grave, arguing the bachelor dies with little meaning beyond a sixpence in hand.
Ohio Counties Furnish Governors Among 88 Counties
Among Ohio's eighty eight counties sixteen have provided the state executive. Notable names include Belmont Wilson Shannon Butler Bebb Champaign Vance Cuyahoga Wood Brough Fairfield Medill Franklin Dennison Geauga Ford Hamilton Brown Chase Hinges Highland Trimble Mahoning Tod Pike Lucas Richland Bartley Ross Tiffin Worthington McArthur Trumbull Huntington Cox Warren Morrow Corwin Meigs. Governor Bartley first made the Capital his residence during his term. A sharp critique declares it a waste to spend Beaver on brains.
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Belmont
Wilson Shannon
Butler
William Bebb
Champaign
Joseph Vance
Cuyahoga
Reuben Wood
John Brough
Fairfield
William Medill
Franklin
William Dennison
Geauga
Seabury Ford
Hamilton
Ethan A. Brown
Salmon P. Chase
Rutherford B. Hinges
Highland
Allen Trimble
Mahoning
David Tod
Pike
Robert Lucas
Richland
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The Sabbath Here and Now for All Mankind
A sermon extols the Sabbath as God’s universal gift to humanity across generations. It stresses the day’s religious duties over secular toil, argues the Sabbath belongs to man in all ages, and notes how rising light and liberty increase its necessity. A long anecdote about a bishop and a card player illustrates cunning gambling and moral testing.
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Eden
Holy Land
Europe
Earth
Pierce Egon
Lancashire
Mae Bishop
The Flirt Problem in Old Bachelor Tales
A humorous exposé on flirts and bachelors. The narrator jokes that old bachelors fail to catch flirts while flirts trap them, noting love changes behavior and that most flirts eventually marry. The piece mocks bachelor vanity and restless independence with exaggerated vividness.
John Quincy Adams and His Mother's Profound Influence
A historical note recalls a twelve year old John Quincy Adams replying to his mother’s stern letter. A later remark suggests Adams credited all goodness in him to his mother. The anecdote ends with a touching image of the elderly statesman defending his upbringing.
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John Quincy Adams
Mr. Adams
Old Lady and Grindstone Cow Tale
A humorous tale recalls a wife who boasts I told you so after her husband foils her prediction. She claims the grindstone was eaten by the cow, while the husband sits, breathless, declaring the old brindle cow is to blame. Three men test an old man with biblical greetings revealing Saul seeking his father's asses.
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Rich
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Harpers Basar
A Cartoon Breed Says Cow Will Milk Yearly Without Calves
An Irishman recommends a cow claiming strong lineage will produce good milk year after year without ever bearing calves, for she descends from a cow that never calved.
Angrishman Writes Melancholy Line to Wife from War
An Angrishman arriving in a distant theater writes to his wife with somber news claiming he died yesterday. He urges her to marry Jemmy O'Re and care for the children, signing as an affectionate husband till death.
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Angrishman
Thigeowhstry
Jemmy O'Re
Beecher and Benjamin At Brooklyn Preaching Exchange
Fragmentary notice remarks Beecher and a Benjamin refusing to attend a Brooklyn preaching event. It references Beecher’s reputation and a Sunday amusement matter, with unclear dialogue about visiting and speaking commitments.
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