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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1856
Page
2
The piece honors Christmas with wishes for readers to enjoy future anniversaries and cherish absent friends. It reflects on Santa Claus, childhood memories, and the day’s social value in strengthening family bonds and mutual care across distances.
Citizens of St Mary Iowa hold protracted meetings as Burlington and Missouri River Railroad backs a route from Glenwood to St Mary then Bellevue to the Platte. Eastern backers hope for eastern terminus. South Platte interests push another path. Speeches by Gen Sarpy Beck Boyes Falkner and others mark strong local support.
Alfred Hebard principal Division Engineer of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad arrived last Saturday and is surveying a line from Glenwood by Pony Creek to this place and up the Platte before returning to Burlington. He previously conducted the first survey of this road three years ago and is noted for broad professional knowledge.
The prisoners confined at Le compton Kansas publish an address to the world detailing their sufferings and wrongs. The writer expresses sympathy while noting that Judge Lecompte Marshal Donaldson and other officials draw administration scrutiny and that cabinet allies will be removed when a Pennsylvania-born successor takes the White House.
The notice proclaims a new section map of Kansas by R. L. Ream, urging interested readers to secure a copy of the latest edition described as the only correct one. It also notes a forthcoming map of Nebraska, soon to be released.
The message discusses peace in Kansas and urges Congress to protect constitutional rights. It outlines federal finances for the year ending 1854, army and navy strength, post office costs, and foreign relations, noting debt levels, and calls for policies on Texas, Mexico, and Cuba. It also reports on political commentary around James Buchanan and Northern and Southern expectations, plus on Stephen A. Douglas’s marriage and social standing.
In Bellevue Nebraska December 28 1850 William Clancy of Washington County is appointed Commissary. He will be respected and obeyed by Officers and Privates of the Brigade. Printed in the Nebraska Volunteer.
The third issue of a new Bellevue Nebraska Territory newspaper highlights its miscellaneous content. It is a family paper independent in politics focusing on literature and general intelligence. Published by S A Simicke Lawn, formerly of the village, the venture is praised as evidence of local enterprise.
A miscellany of items reports P T Bynxsuse going to Europe as business agent, delays to the Adriatic steamship, bank concerns in Lancaster and East Boston warship build, a free negro exclusion plea in Arkansas, a Putnam’s Monthly piece on Samuel Hoar, brick production in Quincy Illinois, sale of Natural Bridge property in Virginia, Harris leading a New York spiritualist church, emigration from Virginia, legends on presidential wives, Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad trial, O Connell statue in Limerick, Niagara propeller, long-lived Ohio veteran, accidental shooting in Indiana, Spanish minister resignation, Parker French in Illinois, New Albany and Salem train obstruction, and notices on Professor Hentz and Cruleff in Persia.
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