Great Negro Orator Sam Dickinson and Garrison Tribute
The piece gathers anecdotes from Redpath about Mark Twain and a colored orator named Sam Dickinson. It chronicles Dickinson’s eloquence, his touching account of his wife’s death, and his brave decorations of abolitionist leaders at Charleston. The narrative links these stories to Garrison and Beecher, illustrating black oratorical power and the era’s tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Redpath
Anna Dickinson
Kearney
Gough
Beecher
Gavazzi
Sam Dickinson
Sam
South Carolina
Garrison
Fort Sumpter
Henry Wilson
Theodore Tilton
George Thompson
Judge Kelly
Theodore Cuyler
General Anderson
Henry James
Lion's Church
Wilson
Tilton
Living Corpse Scare At Funeral Circle
In Faulkner county a man died of rheumatism of the stomach. At the wake the corpse reportedly sat upright and moved, terrifying onlookers until two men straightened him. The minister blamed fear, while observers noted the stomach muscles’ contraction as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock Gazette
J. McCloud
Faulkner County
Peszure
Clarence
Mr Corkle's Cannon and the Bull Creek Trial Tale
From Parkersburg West Virginia a correspondent recounts the trial of Billy Conkle the so called flying artilleryman of Bull Creek. He was found guilty of firing a cannon into Ralston's house while the family slept and received four years in the penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Billy Conkle
Bull Creek
Weill
Old Billy
Billy
Pete Monroe
Wes
Pete
Ohio
Rufe Ralston
Ralston
Connle
Conkie
Conkle
Man with the Pads Foils Insurance Office Pitch
A well-dressed man with a black box tries to hawk medical pads to an insurance office worker on Congress Street. The busy letter writer rebuffs the salesman while the con man jests about future pads for heart, throat, ear, and head, probing for interest with repetitive boasts and bluff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Press
Congress Street
FIGHTING FOR A SHANTY IN DEADWOOD CITY
In Deadwood City Tim Hussey fails to oust Julia Francis from a Lee street shanty through a siege and smoke tactic. Julia defends the fortress, wins crowd support, and moves the shanty to Sherman street. Hussey concedes, declaring the “nagurs must go.”
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New York
Drapwoop
Ham
Tim Hussey
St. Patrick
Tim
Lee Street
Julia Francis
Ireland
Hussey
Hussey Mansion
Sherman Street
Francis
Anye Peety
Julia
Emerald Isle
Begorra
Francis Lot
A Bonanza Queen in Paris The Mackay Portrait
A Pen-Portrait of Mrs Mackay, wife of California miner and railroad king John W Mackay, depicted in Paris by Mrs Lacy H Hooper under the name Mrs John Bryan. The piece portrays her wealth, humility, home life, and devotion to children, with anecdotes of letters seeking money and her cautious but charitable responses.
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Mackay
Paris
Lacy H. Hooper
John W. Mackay
California
John Bryan
Miss Anson
Bryan
West
American Sagas of Souvenirs and Swindles in Paris
The narrator recounts two curious visits from supposed foreign officials and several American visitors in Paris. A South American consul imposter asks for a loan, then a so-called gratitude gesture targets the narrator's sister, ending with an arrest. Additional tales include threatening debt cards, Mrs Greyson’s plea, and a countess seeking use of salons for a fair, provoking regret over charity.
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Rouen
Money for Grant’s Signature Exposed by Cox’s Son
Charles N. Cox, son of General Jacob D. Cox, recounts a tale of a large bribe offer in 1877 tied to a western railroad bill. The account involves John Ellis, General Butterfield, and a $835,000 payment to influence a presidential veto, with Ellis allegedly delivering the money and a telegram indicating the bill’s approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles N. Cox
Jacob D. Cox
Grant
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad
John Ellis
Toledo, Wabash and Western
Western
Ojyfon
Congress
Cox
Ellis
Eilis
Washington
New York
General Butterfield
United States
General Butteron
Western Railroad
Butterfield
Kilis
Sutterfield
Mr. Ellis
Anecdotes and Tales From A Far Country
A collection of humorous vignettes and anecdotes including a Meissonier portrait tale, a Utah log cabin delusion between Jarboe and Roberts, a St Brieuc poster misreading before a convent, a Boston humor piece about skating and a Frisco mining stock joke. Also includes an Arkansas barber gag and a Jersey City puzzle incident.
Nighttime poison plot at Slaven's drugstore in San Francisco
A disheveled woman hurries into Slaven's in Baldwin with a counterfeit twenty and seeks arsenic and laudanum for rats and a toothache. The clerk balks but the proprietor secretly supplies laudanum via licorice water. Night brings a grim twist as the tale hints at a morgue scene and new silk stockings amplify the crime context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derrick Dodd
Slaven
Baldwin
Elek
Kearny-street
French dyer’s color joke ends in court blueing
Progress reports a Moscow chemist with a charming yet cold daughter who rebuffs suitors. A Russian lieutenant courted her. after a rendezvous plan, the father allegedly dipped him in blue dye in court. The dye could not be removed, and the father offered to recolor him in other shades but not restore his natural hue. The lieutenant suffers the worst of blues.
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Josh Hillings
Michigan
Mr. Redpath
Josh Billings
Josh
Frederick Douglass
Rabelais
Cale
Congress
Seine
Champs Elysees
Fortunatas
Gallicia
Viola
Orotler
England
Moscow
Leutenant
Big Landowners in the United Kingdom Over 100000 Acres
London Truth lists thirty four individuals and families owning large estates in Britain. Notable holdings include Argyll 176,114 acres, Breadalbane 72,279, Buccleuch 454,260, Devonshire 193,381, Sutherland 129,125, Richmond 286,407, Willoughby de Eresby 182,320, and others such as Evan Baillie, Dalhousie, Mackenzie, Matheson, and Montrose. Total estate acreage sums to 6,004,107 acres.
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London Truth
United Kingdom
Argyll
Athole
Evan Baillie
Breadalbane
Buccleuch
Donald Cameron
Cawdor
J. S. Chisholm
Cleveland
Coyngham
Dalhousie
Devonshire
Downshire
Jr. R. Farquharson
Fife
Fitzwilliam
Kenmore
Leconfield
Lovat
Macdonald
RS. Mackenzie
McIntosh
A. Matheson
J. Matheson
Middleton
Montrose
Northumberland
Richmond
C. W. Ross
Schofield
Sutherland
Waterford
Willoughby de Eresby
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Sojourner Truth
San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Twain
Buffalo
Buffalo Express
Mark
East
Lyceum Bureau
Trousséan
Hartford
Elmira
London
Hhe
America
Glasgow
Gong
John Gough
Macey
Arkansas
MR. Corkle
Shen Ralston
Widder
Daisy
Crazy Conkle
Mrs. Conkle
Conkles
Pate
Huy
Deadwood City
Africa
Join
Deadwood
Rue de Tilsitt
Mrs. Bryan
Viola Bryan
Harry
Signor Castelli
Sally Prudhomme
Manuel Mora
Cula
Seale
Greyson
Milwaukee News
Cincinnati
General Cox
Brig-A-Brac
Meissonier
Tha
John Bull
Bodie
John Jarboe
George Roberts
Ilinois
Utah
Jarboe
Jack Jarboe
Jack
Roberts
Hee
Dlinois
Jardne
Mrs. Roberts
St. Brieuc
Harvard Lampoon
Frisco
San Francisco Post
Sutter Street
Plummer
Virginia Chronicle
Desler
Buck Fanshaw
Massie
Candia
New England
Texas
Taylor's Hotel
Jersey City
First Precinct
Jace
John W. Furry
Jay Street
New York City
North Carolina
Charlotte
N. C
Blues
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