Farm Improvement and Value in New England to Georgia Lands
A historical piece argues improved farms yield more value than raw land and urges workers to invest in orchard-based farming. It cites a 21 year old buyer who turned 60 dollar per acre land into a diversified orchard system generating substantial profits, illustrating long term gains versus frontier roughing it. It also discusses pros of regional markets, roads, education, and social ties for sustaining farm life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
New York
West
The Beautiful Comet in the East Shines Over Nashville
A morning sky comet outshines the 1858 display with a bright head and a slender, silvery tail. Experts note a dark red flood through the tail and a nebulous halo around the head as it moves sunward. The phenomenon is visible all week and offers a grand celestial show for observers.
Harmless Oddities and Southern Prospects
A collection of short anecdotes and anecdotes from the era including a ribald medical tale in Austin, a Georgia barber shop theft case, and a discussion of U S politics and Southern rebirth. The notes touch on President Arthur abroad, Senator Davis, and the future prosperity of the South as described by Southern Cultivator.
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South
Wit and Wisdom Across a Drizzly Evening
A collage of humorous notes and dialect vignettes. Mr Vanderbilt fears the afterlife will bar him from wealth and influence. A child’s joke about a cow blends humor with religion while a maid’s tardiness is explained in comic terms. A preacher and merchant boast of cow trades, then cows cause chaos at milking time.
Cattle Raising in Texas Shows Large Profits
An eight year account from Texas praises cattle raising profits. Beginning with 3,000 cattle valued at 25 000 in 1873, the owner held on to stock as prices rose. Last year sales reached 100 000 and this year over 100 000 more with 50 000 expected, while 30 000 head of cattle and 400 horses remain on the range worth over 400 000. The plan of selling beeves annually and reinvesting proceeds is credited with turning 55 000 into 650 000 through consistent reinvestment, per the Texas Live Stock Journal.
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Texas
Texas Live Stock Journal
The Hood Children and their diverse guardians
A letter from Eva Hewnen Hazprea details the Hood orphans' placements across the United States and Europe. It lists twelve children from the late Gen. Hood family, with each child adopted by different families, noting education, health, and affectionate homes in Hanover Germany, Mississippi, New York, Lennox Massachusetts, Woodville Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Georgia. The letter emphasizes the guardians' childless status and concludes with optimism for the children's future.
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Hood
Mr Burns
Hood’s Brigade Association
Orris
Hanover
Germany
John Bell
Russell
Mississippi
Duncan Robert
Saratoga
New York
Furniss
Lennox
Massachusetts
Lillian
Marian
Coren
Thatcher Adams
New York City
Odile
Ida
McGee
Woodville
Oswald
Harney
Kentucky
Anna Gertrude
Eva Hewnen Hazprea
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Weekly Democrat
Rand
Tober 19
Aguas
Rae
Feshall
J. Nicholson
Twilight
Millercomn- Ullice
Clifton’s
Georgia
Gare
D. McLancatty
Charles C. Bush
Jattorney At
Colquitt, GA
Ncorte
M. O'Neal
McGill & O’neal
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Bainbridge, GA
E. J. Morgan
Harrell
West Street
Shotwell
Curry
South Broad Atreet
E. Johnson
ML. Battle
Hinds
West Side Court House
B. Donalson
Byron B. Bower
Bower & Donalson
Court House
L. H. Peacock
Bainbridge and
Vicinite
J. D. Harrell & Bro
Broughton
Jeff. D. Talbert
WM. M. Harrell
Talbert
Talbert & Harrell
Albany
Burnett's
Albert Winter
Bainbridge
B. F. Colbert
A. Donalson’s
Ren. E. Russell
Waynesboro
Montezuma Weekly
M. P. Maxwell
Macon County
Griffin News
Griffin
Athens
Geo. Hodge
Winterville
Marshal Graves
Fort Valley
Columbus
Jim Griswold
Eastman
Harvard
Jim
Agae
Charles Smith
Raleigh
N.C
Handa
Georgia Pacific
Carroll County
North Carolina
Savannahe News
Eureka
Ogeechee River
Cherry Hill
James Duffy
Winn
Macon
Mulberry Street
Americus
Nashville
Imes
Charles B. Porter
Porter
Alice Raines
Felix R. Raines
George B. Burton
Laura Easley
East Nashville
Agin
Parson
Tenn
James K Polk
Austin
Oman
Texas Siftings
Gainesville
Chet
Philadelphia
Arthur
United States
Canada
David Davis
Davis
Billie Chandler
Hun
Chandler
Commodore Walkers
Walker
WIT and Wisdom
Mr. Vanderbilt
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