Henry M Burt News and Local Batter
Bellevue Gazette notes Henry M Burt serving as news and local batter writer, with focus on community events and local updates.
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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1858
Page
2
Bellevue Gazette notes Henry M Burt serving as news and local batter writer, with focus on community events and local updates.
An account denounces a religious lottery scheme promising Heaven and seats in the final judgment to investors. The article condemns the plan as blasphemous, notes the expected massive fundraising, and warns it targets children while alleging financial ruin and deceit.
A local proprietor plans a July issue of an Evy Penny Paper focused on business affairs, offering help to find residences or business houses in St. Louis. The note compares the paper favorably to major dailies and hints at its strong early potential amid broader regional news.
A Peoria Union report says a man named Pecestany Saowen learned from his attorney that a Texas court decision made him possessor of 2,500. He then learned of a potential $17,000 contingency and later that gold was found on land he owns near Town. The article also notes rapid railway expansion between this city and Stewartsville with crews at work on the western and eastern halves of the road.
The Conference Committee report on Kansas admission outlines conditions for statehood under Lecompton or a future constitution with a population census. A St. Louis Evening News excerpt criticizes the Lecompton route as a political trap promising land grants as bribes. Fort Snelling case report, signed by Morrill and Pease, finds the sale unlawful and void, faulting War Department actions. Morris bill proposes 6,349,090 acres of land to be apportioned to states by Senate/House representation.
The article notes a proposal to fund land sales with five percent perpetual stock and interest support for at least one college in each district. It mentions a delay vote and that Congress adjourned on June 7.
A broad compilation from a 19th century paper covers a mass population estimate for Salt Lake City with 36 000 people and army estimates, a route list to Fort Leavenworth, and a tale of an African water gathering method. It also recounts a baptism episode in Chicago with a hooped skirt incident and a Virginia Baptist anecdote about a slave.
An excerpt from a speech by Senator Toombs extols Mr. Wade of Ohio as honest outspoken and straightforward while noting a disagreement on sable population. The passage lauds Wade for integrity and blunt speech and contrasts it with other politicians.
The item lists pre-emption cases in Iowa and Illinois, contract bids for mail routes from Bellevue to Nebraska City and Omaha to Pt. Laramie, a Presbyterian ordination, and military road links. It notes bids by Hart and James Davaleon as lowest bidders, with routings from Omaha through Bellevue, and a dwelling for rent on Jefferson Street. It mentions the dissolution of a Wm. Averill and W. H. Longedorf partnership and its continuation by Wm. C. Averill.
Former Nebraska congressman Giddings runs for Missouri State Senate. A large bridge has been creed of the Pappillign Creek on the Perhichind Resta featicrom Cedar Tsland near Holy Adhos Gaicy residence.
A Democratic Convention is set for Plattsmouth on June 3 to organize the party in the Territory and nominate delegates. The Republican Convention will meet in Omaha on May 27 for similar purposes. Dakota County holds a Democratic gathering endorsing the Cincinnati platform and supporting regular party formations. Delegates named include John De Turk D Bramble H C Crawford E C Thurston Tafts and others from Dakota Cedar and L Eau Qui Court counties.
The Nebraska Republican in Omaha reports on local politics with editorials praising the paper and noting a $2 annual subscription. It covers Nemaha County conventions and May election results, a Rock Bluffs church formation, steamer Washington City sale and value, Morton’s appointment reception, Rankin’s agricultural talk no-show, a Mission Board land deed issue, a Sabbath School organization, and Utah wagon train plans featuring Samuel Anderson and J S Sanderson.
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