Veteran of 117 Years Speaks at Madison Pioneer Festival
A 117 year old veteran addresses the Pioneer Festival in Madison Wisconsin recounting a life spanning British and American rule and major events from Frederick the Great to Napoleon. He urges unity and gratitude for free government and recalls frontier service and early postal work, with a closing note on family and home.
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Madison
Wis
Frederick the Great
Austria
Anson
Franklin
Braddock
Washington
Boone
Kentucky
Europe
Hume
Burke
Johson
Pitt
Goldsmith
Voltaire
Klopstock
Lessing
United States
Napoleon
Hull
Detroit
Joseph Crelie
Madison Journal
Felllow
Caskaskia
Prairie du Roche
Ilinois
St. Louis
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Fox Rivers
Mackinaw
Wisconsin Portage
Mineral Point
Greene Bay
Chays
Chicago Tribune
State Teachers Meeting at Steubenville Deliberates on Education
The semi annual meeting of the State Teacher's Association convened in Steubenville with Rev. I. W. Andrews presiding. Gov. Chase apologized in a letter for absence while praising education and teaching. Ohio Journal of Education will detail business outcomes at its August issue. A Columbus December session is planned.
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Steubenville
I. W. Andrews
Mariana
Gov. Chase
Ohio
Ohio Journal of Education
Columbus
Breslin and Gibson Indicted for Embezzlement
Special dispatch reports the Grand Jury returning two bills against W I Gibson for embezzling state funds and bonds and bills against John G Breslin. Gibson to be arraigned at nine, bail set by court, trial continued to October.
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Columbus
Gibson
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Columbus. O
Ramsey
Breslin
Queen Vic
Dominions
Canada
Grand Jury
John G. Brestin
Mr. Gibson
Cictonath Gagetts Coumnus
Eprrons Gazette
W. I Gibson
State of
Oliv
John G. Breslin
Ohio State House finances under Locofoco and Republican oversight
A 1854 1855 financial review contrasts Locofoco mismanagement with Republican stewardship. It cites a 175000 dollar 1854-1855 appropriation, a 380125.35 dollar debt left to successors, and 308125.35 total contracted expenses, with 249768.71 paid by Nov 1856. It praises 1856-1857 Republican control, noting 90000 dollar appropriation for 1856 and improved efficiency under the Republican Board. Columbus observers urged voters to weigh records and fiscal restraint.
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Locofoco
State House
Edward Smith
State House Commissioners
Auditor of State
Locofoco Party
Ohio
Gov
Columbus Lunatic Asylum
Dayton Lunatic Asylum
Newburgh Lunatic Asylum
Swan
Ohio Locofoco Misuse of State Funds Exposed
A 1850s Ohio budget scandal summary accuses the Locofoco administration of vast improper spending. The text cites $617,873 in undocumented 1854 55 expenditures and lists unpaid debts, mischarged projects, and alleged private losses, with references to the Governor’s 1857 report and a joint investigation into state buildings and contracts.
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Auditor of State
State House
Locofoco
Breslin
Board of Public Works
Financial record taints by six years under Locofoco rule
The piece reviews state finances after six years of Locofoco governance. It cites a Treasury deficit of over $200,000 and undisclosed sums, tracks tax levies at $944,997.97, and notes expenditures in 1856 at $380,665, claiming improved overall management despite debts and prior mismanagement.
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Joint Investigating Committee On Public Works
Locofoco
Staw
Breslin
Olio
Auditor of State
Minnesota Constitutional Convention Faces Prolonged Session
From Minnesota Mitwausig July 16 the Minnesota Constitutional reunion met at St Paul on the 14th inst. Fifty nine Republicans attended while forty four Democrats organized separately in the Council Chamber with H. H. presiding. Both conventions drafted a Copatisation and Republicans vow to remain in session day and night to retain possession of the halls.
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Minnesota
Mitwausig
St. Paul
H. H
Movements of troops report from St Louis in July
Advices from Leavenworth cite the 10th Regiment of Infantry for Utah on the 18th, the 5th on the 21st, and the Dragoons on the first of August. General Harney proceeds to Working in a day or two to receive final imetrag tion.
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St. Louis
Leavenworth
Utah
Dragoons
Harney
Decision in the Miss Catcago court case
A court decision finds Mitchell Lamar, a white individual with no slave ancestry, lacks standing in the federal court. The ruling, by Judge Me Leaned, discards his suit and condemns the plaintiff to the costs. Separately, a judgment of 7,629.09 dollars is entered against Fernando Wood of New York in a falsification of accounts case in the Superior York court.
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R. E. Sellers & CO
Wood
Second Streets
Ogden & Snowden
Kensington
Hall & Connell
New Jersey
New York
Ti P
Mitchell
Lamar
Brad i
Superior York
Fernando Wood
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Mmigne III
Seventh Judicial District
Norton
Hugh Ewing
Hampton B. Denman
Thos, Ewing, JR. Ewing
Denman & CO
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Lang
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OWLS
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