Blanche Raymond Wins Charity Crown On River Boat Fete
A Paris river fete crowns Blanche Raymond as queen, honoring filial duty and virtue. Her triumph follows her generosity toward her ailing father and a plan to raise funds through a borrowed 6000 francs for a denim laundry business. The event underscores virtue over vanity and notes the academy prize as communal reward.
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Abe
Turue
Blanche
Gond
Neha
Wrigoorant
Victor
Raymond
Heving
Vic
Binuche
French Academy
Cile
Blanche Raymond
Monaliyon
Paniwna
Caven
The Dress Is Not the Man
A critical meditation on clothing and character arguing that outward fashion does not reveal inner virtue. It warns that gorgeous attire can disguise a defective mind and praises plain dress for highlighting genuine merit and deeds over appearance.
Regular Month Probate Meeting And Washington Dispatches
The Count of Probate holds its regular meeting at the Probate Office Monday at 2 PM. Congress opens Monday with debates on Texas annexation and Oregon, amid speaker elections and a possible Presidential message Tuesday. Abraham Payne of Providence delivered a controversial first winter lecture to a crowded audience. Next lecture by George F. Mann is planned for Tuesday evening. Fall River store break-ins involved five shops with minimal theft. three youths aged 14 to 17, including Flinn, were held for trial. The Army and Navy Chronicle notes 83,500 raised for Grampus families. Adame returns to Washington after a Western tour. Hartford manslaughter sentence: two years plus costs.
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Congress
Washington
Iexas
United States
Oregon
House of Representatives
Key Express
New York
Abraham Payne
E Q
Providence
Jtll
Payne
Court House
George F. Mann
Fall River
Remington
E. French & Co
Mason and Weaver's Merchant Tailors
Farrarado, Brown and Hathaway
Flinn
Lindsey
Sixtieth Anniversary of 1783 British Evacuation Marked
Saturday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the final evacuation of New York by British land and naval forces in 1783. A military display followed, with troops marching to the Battery for a saluting ceremony and a review in the Park. General Bertrand referenced in the notes.
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New York
Bertrand
Fire on Poppa Provokes Bristol Aid Recalled in Monitor
The Fall River Monitor reports the Poppa fire drew Bristol citizens to assist or be ready to help after the blaze was quickly subdued. The account notes gratitude toward Bristol for earlier aid and cites a weighty grand jury concluding Sheriff Barnet’s term with 36 bills, totaling 4062 pounds and averaging 62 years in age.
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Poppa
Njoush
Fall River Monitor
Bristol
Sherif Barnet
Newark Daily
Postage Reform Meeting Adopts Broad Resolutions
A New York gathering last Saturday urged lowering postal rates and ending the franking privilege. They call for a cheap uniform system, petitioning Congress, and immediate action to reform the Post Office Department with a five cent base rate and reduced penalties, plus measures to protect newspaper and printed matter deliveries. Also reports a Norwich Railroad accident injuring the engineer and fireman while passengers were unharmed.
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Post Meeting
New York
Pew Office Department
Park Benjami
Horace Greeley
Julio M. Lee
Barnabas Bates
United States
Post Office
Great Briwin
United Kingdom
Congress
Ttis
Senate
House of Representatives
Post Office Department
Poisoned fruit auction halted over poisonous cargo
A faulty shipment of currants aboard the Sheffield was found to contain chromate and bichromate of potash. The mayor halted sale in New York until chemical analysis confirms whether the fruit is impregnated with poison.
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New York
The
Sheffield
Havling
Bishop On derdonk Seeks Interim Pay Increase
At a Trinity Church Vestry meeting the Hight Reverend Bishop On derdonk stated the need for a 1500 dollar raise to his salary of 5000. The Vestry approved an additional 1200. Meanwhile a struggling colored Episcopal Church requested a $100 donation and was denied.
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Onderdonk
Episcopal Church
Trinity Church
Journal of Commerce
Late from Texas and New Orleans Dispatches
Reports from New Orleans dated 16th instant carry Galveston news to the 4th with details of naval sales, local politics, and Mexican posts along the Rio Grande. English interference, Indian sickness, and emigration woes also appear, along with a grisly murder at sea and a fatal suffocation aboard a docked ship.
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Texas
Galveston
New Orleans
Presa
Houston
Rio Grande
Nueces
England
Murphy
Great Britain
Trans
Bexar
Dreadful Shipwreck Off Gouldsboro and Smuggling Arrests
A Bangor Gazette report states a large English ship ran ashore at Gouldsboro with twenty two aboard. Eighteen perished and four survived say the captain and crew were intoxicated. The vessel carried ballast for St John New York. In New York the Havre packet Allen was towed by Hercules. Custom inspector Crane found contraband watches and jewelry hidden in a passenger’s boots and clothing and in a coat lining. Mr Guiz and wife, New York jewelers, had fifty watch hands sewn into a coat lining and a shirt filled with watches. baggage was to be examined.
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New Orleans
Simon Pernard
St. Petre
Martinique
France
Bordeaux
Bangor
Gouldsboro
St. John
New York
Allen
Hercules
Crane
Custom House
Gniz
Jewellers
Ullen
Guiz
Sandwith Ilands
Paris
Nationa Intelligencer
Sandwith Islands
M.T. B. Hyde Rooke
Academy
Honolulu
Wnd
Muolaod
Hawaii
Maui
Kahulu
Wanaku
A. Byron
Admiral Cockburn
Kanapa
Kanhulu
Waklawa
Hema
Houwaii
Kilawa
Notable Libel Trials and Bank Conspiracy Cases
The piece reports Libel trial outcomes for Col Webb and Mr Wyman. It notes Mr J Fennimore Cooper as a celebrated novelist and libel plaintiff. The Phoenix Bank president was convicted of conspiracy to defraud creditors, while Lowell court held the trial. Marine Insurance Offices of New York donate to widows and orphans of the Grampus crew.
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J. Fennimore Cooper
Col. J. W. Webb
Pansda
N. Avand
Wyman
Wm. Wyman
Phoenix Bank
Charlestown
Common Pleas
Lowell
Marine Insurance Offices
New York
U. S
Large Fine Expected On Powder Seizure at New Orleans
A New Orleans port seizure reports one thousand kegs of powder found aboard a vessel violating city fire ordinances. Fines run at 25 dollars per hundred pounds, implying the owner faces about five thousand dollars in penalties.
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New Orleans
Atoe
A Good One and Ship Sheffield Auction Notes
A gentleman reaches for apple pie and buries knuckles in crust while another wag asks for a bit of pie as his hand remains in it. The packet ship Sheffield sold at auction in New York on Monday at the Screw Dock for 94100 with 820000 insurance on the venture paid by underwriters prior to sale.
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Benj. Groves
Henry Groves
Groves
Morning Register
Sheffield
Auetion
New York
Palladium
Vevay
Indiana
Transcript
Alexandria
Louisiana
W. Gordon
Rapides
Temperance incident leads to reconciliation in hall
A Washington Temperance Society gathering ended with a separated couple reconciled after intervention by the temperance cause. McKnight and Covey spoke as the exiled pair united with friends, viewed by a crowded audience and praised by W. K. Mitchell.
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Washington
Covey
Constancy
W. K. Mitchell
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Golonde
Conai
Deers
Wash
Dievs
Fe Wewell
Wes
Pierre
Pmenex
Hristol
Army and Navy Chronicle
Mr. Adame
Moore
Hartford
Connecticut
Phanis
Norwich
Worcester
Plainfield
Jooharmed
Hartford Journal
John 8. Wolcott
Wolcott
Wolcott's
Litchfield
Dominic von Mulder
Europe
Vito Mulder
Aimos
Halifax Recorder
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