Indiana Liquor Law Enacted In Rising Tide Of 1855
A telegraphic despatch from yesterday states the Governor has signed the Liquor Bill making it law in Indiana. It goes into effect June 12 next, allowing time for gradual abstinence. The piece critiques Fusion era candidates Mr Gregg and Mr Chapman, urging honest, capable printers from among the state. It contrasts temperance progress with sectional strife and notes northern and southern philanthropy tensions. It closes with remarks on slavery, charity, and political alliances shaping Indiana politics.
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Laws and bills crowd Indiana and national agenda
Feb 5 to Feb 12 report Senate and House actions across a broad front: salaries, land patents, sidewalks, railroads, and criminal law. requests for bounty lands and Liberia independence. Free Bank debates. judicial circuit creation. educational and tax measures. and Congressional proceedings on Texas appropriation, consular reform, naval construction, and Indian affairs. The record notes votes, amendments, adjournments, and notable exchanges among congressmen.
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Congress
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12Th Judicial Circuit
Hudson
Indianapolis
Editor Confesses to Press-Tied Political Flattery
The New York Democrat editor admits he aided campaign praise for Pierce, praising him as a second Jackson during a Mexico campaign period. He recalls exhausting editorial labor and now regrets the flattery that helped elect him. Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull elected U S Senator replacing Shields. Trumbull an Anti Nebr Democrat, former Illinois Supreme Judge, resident of Belleville. Pacific telegraph bill cited. Alden and Eddy gain right of way, no lands. they drop government print duties worth 96,000 annually. General Wilson seated in Senate. contest between Sumner Chase Free Soilers over seat. Schuyler accused of absconding in Bergen. Michigan Legislature has one Mormon member with three wives and a half breed Indian.
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Mrs Mary Lane Pioneer Methodist Leader Dies at 77
The Western Christian Advocate details the death of Mrs Mary Lane widow of Amos Lane and mother of Capt John F Lane and J H Lane in Florida at age seventy seven. Born January 24 1778 in Watertown Connecticut she raised a devout family and became a key early Methodist in Indiana. Her life spans presbyterian beginnings schooling in New York and Kentucky teaching then embracing Methodism in 1809 with love feasts class meetings and steady church work in Lawrenceburg. Her passing marks the loss of one of the oldest and most esteemed members of the local church.
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Obituary Portrait and Europe News Recap from 1859
The piece memorializes Mrs Lane a devout, intelligent woman whose life reflected piety, family devotion, and literary promise, ending with a death in January 1859 amid church ties. It shifts to Foreten News noting Lord John Russell's resignation, peace hopes, Sevastopol news, and a sensational Morgan rumor, plus a Virginia governorship dispute over foreign-born eligibility.
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