Queen of the Kidnappers and the Patty Cannon Gang
A vivid chronicle of Patty Cannon, her Delaware Maryland border gang, and the murders, kidnappings, and sadistic trades tied to the 1800s slave market. Joe Johnson, her lover and ally, several Johnsons, and Griffin kin figures loom as the narrative traces the gang from the Mason Dixon boundary to a Maryland jail and Cannon’s dramatic end by arsenic in 1825.
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Gath
Cincinnati Enquirer
Patty Cannon
Middle States
Delaware
Maryland
Chesapeake
Joe Johnson
Calhoun
Lamar
Confederacy
Columbus
James Howie
Texas
Joseph Moore
Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Mason and Dixon
Pennsylvania
Jefferson
Madison
Virginia
Kentucky
England
Georgia
Carolina
Johnson
Jesse Cannon
Patty
Hanley
Jon Johnson
Moore
Harry Brenton
Bruington
Griffin
Ridgeway
Georgetown
Louisiana
Old Patty
Laurel
Cannon
Nanticoke River
Old Patty Cannon
Brewington
Johnsons
Slabtown
Annon's Ferry
Lanre Town
Browington
Griffins
Exsure
John Griffin
Fothers
Jesse
Princess Ann
Ridgway
Del
Jesse Griffin
Seaford
Cannon's Ferry
Cyrus James
Joe
Ebenezer Johnson
Seaford Road
Ebenezer
James Moore
Via
Johnson House
Jim Scott
Jack Lemont
Jacob Wilson
Wilson
Little Rower Bridge
Joseph Neal
James Scott
John Gibbons
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Being Taken Scenes at the Photographer Gallery
A humorous survey of photographer's art and human nature as seen in the photo gallery. Vignettes include a worried old maid, a curious Irish couple, a grasping blacksmith scene, and a chaotic baby photos saga. The piece riffs on families and attendants coordinating to coax a reluctant infant into a pleasing likeness.
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Chicago Herald
Human Nature
Biddy
Mark Twain’s river life tales from Captain Bixby on the Baton Ronge
The New Orleans Picayune recounts Captain Bixby praising Mark Twain as a river pilot and sharing anecdotes from Twain’s early career. It describes Twain’s struggles and humor, his apprenticeship money dispute, and his rise through the river trade, ending with Twain joining lecturing and authorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
Mark Twain
Captain Bixby
Daniel Fitzhugh
Bay City
Wall Street
Hubbard
Iowa
Fitzhugh
St. Nicholas
Bar
Mississippi
Bixby
Pan Jones
Keokuk
Tennessee
Kathleen Mavourneen Composer Crouch Relives Hard Times
A Baltimore correspondent profiles Kathleen Mavourneen author Freda N. Crouch, born 1808 in England, detailing a life of royal training, stage work, and later misfortune as a resident musician. He recalls early triumphs, wartime service, and decades of struggle amid copyright disputes and limited pay.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Baltimore
New York Clipper
Crouch
Suwanee River
Panic Prank Provokes Hilarious Scene at Grocery Stove
In Detroit a group of six or eight men joked about panics in churches and theatres. Mr Hopewell hopes to witness a panic, while another man imagines stopping a rush with a shot. A prank involving powder sparks a riotous fright, ending with Hopewell fleeing in fear and tripping over baskets.
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Detroit Free Press
Mr. Hopewell
Hopewell
Dainty young ropemaker’s son splurges in lavish gifts
A Cincinnati Commercial story depicts a newly adult rich NY ropemaker’s son flaunting wealth with forty coats and a brougham, sugar by the room, daily flowers, expensive bouquets for ladies, and extravagant jewelry including multiple cat’s eye rings and pearl buttons set with diamonds. He boasts a costly two-wheeled vehicle and a Russian sleigh with matching horses, plus a cologne fountain cave. He even promises a ring to a admirer the next day.
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Cincinnati
New York
Kinzua Bridge Project Links Bradford and Pittsburg
The Kinzua creek ravine between Bradford and Alton will host a new bridge making the Bradford branch extend to Johnsburg. The structure will be the highest railroad bridge in the world at 805 feet, dwarfing Niagara and other notable spans. The project uses 60,000 yards of masonry, about 40 million pounds of iron, and costs exceed £500,000, creating a through route from New York to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Valley line.
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Bradford
Alton
Penn
Tha
Pittsburg
Brie Railway
Johnsburg
Niigara
Ohio
Cincinnati
High Bridge
New York
Mast River
Genesee River
Kinzua
Allegheny Valley Railroad
Old Russian Bell Finds New Home in Ellicottville Church
The ancient Moscow cast bell from 1708, once part of a cathedrals chime and later ballast for a New York bound ship, was reclaimed by Andrew Menerley of Troy and eventually sold to Miliconville residents. Since 1831 it has served the Episcopal Church in Ellicottville, N Y.
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Episcopal Church
Ellicottville
N. Y
America
Moscow
Russia
New York
Andrew Menerley
Troy
Miliconville
Where Things Move Slowly in Bethany Missouri
In Bethany Missouri a near riot arose at a Campbellite church over adding an organ. The old elders opposed the instrument while the younger elders supported it and removed the organ after a vow was raised. Bethany has two newspapers a public library a telegraph line and about 3000 residents.
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Kansas City Times
Bethany
Campbellite
Hethany
Remarkably aged Madison County resident dies? 102 years
Solomon Sapeets of Monroe township near Alexandria reaches 102, retaining sharp mind and strong vigor for his age. He lives quietly, his long life noted in the local Anderson Democrat record.
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Anderson
Madison County
Ind
Solomon Sapeets
Monroe Township
How Burdette Was Deceived in the Man with the Yellow Carls
A first person Civil War reminiscence recounts a private soldier’s story of Grant’s campaign, a disdainful cavalry officer with yellow hair, and a battlefield surge led by a daring figure said to be Custer, as the narrator recalls deception, combat, and loyalty to duty.
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Burdette
Carls
Burlington
Palace of
Whitehall
Rupert
Cromwell
Custer
A.J. A. Duganne
Tellers
More Truth Than Sarcasm
Edith reports a young girl in slums starving while making shirts for fifty cents a dozen. A philanthropic lady offers a comfy suburban home with food reading matter and $250 weekly spending money if she does housework. The girl declines, saying she cannot think of going to the country.
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Philadelphia News
Edith
Damsel’s Bold Favor Sparks Court Fashion Tale
The tale recalls Lacey H Hooper and a fast American damsel who, at a state ball, pinned a favor to Emperor Louis’s coat and urged a galop. The Emperor ignored her, and she lost invitations to the Tuileries, a fate likened to Mrs Langtry’s ice incident with the Prince of Wales and forgiveness.
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Lacey H. Hooper
Louis
Tuileries
Cows at Berlin Dairy Farm Drunk After Brandy Spill
At a Berlin area dairy farm with 100 cows the entire herd became intoxicated after a barrel of corn brandy was diverted into the water trough. The misloaded faucet left the cows unable to be controlled for two days, goring milkers and bellowing loudly.
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New York Sun
Berlin
Rifle Brought From Germany Used By Ancestral Hunter
Joseph Rorabaugh of Erwin Centre New York owned a German rifle brought to America by an ancestor in 1782. He used the ancient gun to kill 700 deer and many bears and panthers before laying it aside twenty years ago.
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Joseph Rorabaugh
Erwin Centre
N. Y
Germany
German Father and Three Daughters Walk to Elkhart
A German man and his three daughters aged 17, 10, and 7 arrived in Elkhart Indiana from Arkansas after walking the entire distance. The wife started with him but died along the way.
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Indianapolis Journal
Elkhart, Ind
Arkansas
Bric a Brac and Oddities in a Busy Page
A collage of verse and prose snippets includes satirical verse on human folly and social pretensions, a comic sketch about a polished waiter with a noble magnet, a crude tale of a San Jose death by blood vessel, playful reminiscences of courtship and Newport balls, and scattered society notes from San Francisco and Burlington. The pieces mix humor, sentiment, and sharp social comment with references to public figures, places, and era lore.
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San Jose
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Washington
Attoy Cannon
Cotton
Opie
Jia
Learing
Susanna
Paulena
Hess
Lave
Eetle Darling
Darling
Ron
Nefdbor
Down the Mississippi
New Orleans Picayune
Commodore Foote
Clad Fleet
Sam
San
Alonzo Childs
Childs
Hannibal
Sterling Price
Orion Clemens
Nevada Territory
Sar
Pilot House
Iaven
Emira
Tran
David Parr
Counselor Nichols
St. Luke's Church
Devizes
Royal Coburg Theatre
Charlotte
George IV
His Majesty's Theatre
Hosstal
Bochsa
Chapel Royal
Westminster Abbey
Handel
Royal Academy of Music
Board of Managers
Dr. Crotch
Thomas Atwood
Signor Cruvelli
Thomas Haydn
Richard Lindley
Signor Pistruccel
Buckingham Palace
William L
Adelaide
Sycee I
Drury Lane Theatre
Stephen Price
Annie Tree
Mme. Malibran
Howard Payne
Clari
Milan
Sir Henry Bishop
Payne
Chapman & Co
Kent County
Dart
Dds Wells
Plymouth
Tamar
Crea
Devonshire
Crawford
P. E. Rowe
Sohosquare
Captain Marryatt
Metropolitan
Howard
Erin
Roger de Covert
Max Maretzek
Her Majesty’s Opera House
Haymarket
London
Max
Astor-place Opera House
Boston
Jacob Paine
Portland
Sacred Harmonie Society
Rossini
Locke
Liang
California
M&s
Philadelphia
South Carolina
Barney Mavourneen
Columbia
D. C
Tam
Turner
Mr. Crouch
Kathleen
Vourneen
Jimmy Lynch
Eleventh and
Chestnut Streets
Jimmy
Hoe
Richmond
Grays
Elliot
Norfolk
Richmond Howitzers
Buckingeham Court House
Mr. Perkins
New Yorker
Boston Methodist Missionary Society
South Seas
Rowe Sentinel
Steuben
Noah) Webster
Noah
James Berry Bensel
San Francisco Post
Illinois
Pall Mall
Starling
Jack W
C Andrews
Newport
Mission Street
San Francisco
Bine and Gray
Burlington Hawkeye
Athelwald
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