Slave Trade Debate and American Guilt in the Atlantic
A historical critique argues slave trading persists, driven by greed and complicity of Americans. It condemns government inaction and Southern support for legalization, noting Bristow Rhode Island as a port still outfitting slavers and Lord Palmerston’s alarming information to the Secretary of State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pole
Leah
Greely
Gome
Andnif Youmdy
Atlantic
America
Sathorn
Africa
Bristow
R.I
Palmerston
Mio
Town Meeting and Mill Property Could Attract Capital
The annual town meeting set for Saturday includes discussion of the Pokonokot Steam Mill property now unoccupied. The site, in good repair, could suit a floating mill or iron furnace, with low transport costs. Also noted is a large codfish catch near Oppasidish Point weighing thirty four pounds. Some insurance payments are overdue and urged to be settled by the deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pokonokot
Capitelista
Samuel Munse
Waldron
Confirmation of twenty three at St Michael's Church
The text reports that twenty three persons were confirmed at St Michael's Church on Sunday afternoon by Rt Rev Bishop Clark. The Bishop urged the confirmants to uphold their vows and live faithfully, stressing responsibility and duty in their new state. It also mentions a separate note about a recent railway disaster near Wing causing multiple deaths and many injuries and calls for stricter laws to prevent such accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samme Onsimon
St. Michael's Church
Clark
Oman
Providence Mayors and Aldermen Elected In Harmony
The annual election in Providence on Wednesday chose Hon. William M. Rodman as mayor and all Republican aldermen. Proposals to elect aldermen by general ticket, elect tax assessors, and elect school committees by wards received majorities. No candidate focused on Washington. the vote proceeded smoothly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
William M. Rodman
General Assembly
Washington
Newport Mayor Cranston to voyage to Europe for health
The Newport Mercury reports Mayor William H. Cranston of Newport must travel to Europe due to a serious nervous eye affliction from a year of close official duty. Governor Norman, his former partner, will accompany him. The paper expresses hope the trip proves beneficial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport Mercury
W. H. Cranston
Newport
Europe
Gov. H. Norman
Will
The
Mercury
Local Soapmaker Praised for White Wind Soap and Others
The notice extols Mr. Joan Romany of this town for producing White Wind soap, Mottled Soap, and Soft Soap, claiming superior quality. It commends his clever sales approach and other Fancy Soaps as equal to those from elsewhere, urging reader patronage and support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Romany
Weather Report Notes Week Of Wet Cold Conditions
The past week largely featured wet cold weather with a strong southerly gale and heavy rain on Tuesday night.
Strike at Olneville Mills as Sheriff Enforces Demands
Workers at Olneville mills left job on Friday amid rising unrest. The sheriff and posse were summoned as strikers dispersed, leaders gave inflammatory speeches urging continued wage demands. Authorities warned no reemployment, tenants to vacate mill tenements. Dr Hawes will be in town Wednesday for dental procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olneyville
Gor
Hawes
Town Meeting urged to fund repairs for old Church hall
In a plea to residents Mr Borror argues for funds to finish Bradford street church repairs and convert the lower room into a public hall. He estimates a $1000 outlay with potential $100 yearly rent, stressing heat, ventilation and lighting improvements to attract notable visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borror
Annnual
Bradford Street
Bridge disaster case raises corruption and safety failures
Fragmentary text suggests earlier allegations that a bridge was rotten long before a fatal collapse. It questions the guardianship and safety duties of those responsible for the bridge and implies repeated neglect prior to the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manners
Exn Sacape
Zig Pal Pipfehmenty
Horrific Atlantic Slave Ship Details from 19th Century Report
A correspondent describes the capture of a slave vessel by British forces and details the inhumane conditions aboard. About 650 Africans were packed on a single deck in tight facing rows with restraints, filth, stench, and brutal restraint devices. The account portrays extreme suffering during the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan
S . Helena
Free
Atlantic
Fraud charges against Chicago Alton and St Louis directors
A Boston dispatch reports a major fraud probe into the Chicago, Alton and St Louis Railroad reaching New York bankers and New England banks. Affidavits name Henry Dwight Henry Hotchkiss and Hamilton Spencer among directors charged with swindling embezzlement and conspiracy. Dwight arrested and in custody awaiting examination before Judge Russell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Alton and St. St. Louis
Merchants’ Exchange
Boston
New York City
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis
New England
Russell
Samuel M. Blatchford
Stewart Brown
Seabury Brewster
Charles Gould
Henry Dwight
Henry Hotchkiss
Hamilton Spencer
Mr. Dwight
Hotchkiss & Spencer
Dwight
Boston Journal
Boston Man Has One Million Nine Hundred Fifty Thousand On Deposit
A Boston resident holds in three banks within the city the sum of one million nine hundred fifty thousand dollars on deposit. The piece notes the subject regrets the comfortable amount left idle in the banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Persian Rew Foxx Arrival and India News From Europe
May 11 reports from Europe note the Persian Rew Foxx arrival and Royal Mail ship Perma from Liverpool. Lords debate on the King of Oude restoration, and Sardinia annexation policy discussed. Disraeli resolution on Indian governance passed amid cheers. Atlantic cable progress shown with 100 miles more ordered. Lucknow captures and Jhansi siege updates from Bombay and Calcutta telegraph fronts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Rew Foxx
Royal Mail
Perma
Liverpool
Ithousec of Lords
Albemarié Epoukigr
Oude
Alrebate
Lord Malmesbury
Sardinia
Naples
Lord Derby
Kosch
Mr. Disraeli
India
Londabery Vane
Detention of American Vessel by British Cruisers
Captain Bray of the brig Rob ert Wing reports near Inagua on April 29 a British gun boat hailed the brig and allowed it to proceed after examining papers. A ship and a schooner accompanied the gun boat. the schooner was detained on suspicion of being a pirate. The ship is identified as the Tropic Bird arriving in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bray
Robert Wing
Aux Cayes
Inagua
Fellin
Philadelphia
Boston Journal
Tur Errsors or the Late Frost Affects Monmouth Orchards
The frost killed peach and early strawberry blossoms in Monmouth County New Jersey. A Keyport orchard with 3300 trees expected $1200 in peaches this season but now foresees no more than $20. An experienced strawberry grower reports early fruit blasted though later fruit may recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monmouth County
N. J
Keyport
N. Y
German Woman Dies Twice In Baltimore Bedside Ordeal
In Baltimore on a Friday night a German woman thought dead was laid out after illness but woke at 6 am sitting up in bed. She spoke to family, drank wine and tea, then died again around 8 am after regaining consciousness and asking what had been done.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Mississippi flood frees millions in Yazoo timber
The great Mississippi flood swept property and damaged cotton and sugar plantations. It opened a chance to salvage timber worth about five million dollars stored in Yazoo Valley swamps. Timber is cut in swamps and floated out during floods, a practice revealed by the late freshet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ty's Ax Inn
Winnimirt
Mississippi
Yazoo Valley
Grasshoppers Invade Gonzales in Colorful Front Page Tale
The Gonzales Texas Inquirer recalls a humorous siege of Gonzales by grasshoppers. Citizens, including men women and children of varied backgrounds, rally with brushes brooms blankets and buckets in a daily defense that fails. The invaders take the city and the defenders retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grassportens
Gonzales
Texas
Grim Chicago New York murder tale unfolds in barrel burial
New York and Chicago police trace a barrel shipment story to Henry Jumpertz a twenty four year old Praggan in custody. He admits a heartless depraved crime involving Ole Watther’s wife who fled Chicago with him and died in his room. The body was dismembered burned and hidden in a barrel bound for New York. He doubts credit of the tale but may not be disproved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago
Henry Jumpertz
Ole Watther
Jimpertz
Chigago
Han
Central Rail
Sanquoit Creek
Rising
Ind
Abraham Mabk
Cincinnati
Utica
Chlidtoh Matt Hoover
Stiene Soca
Goth
Goth ~ Ssaaasos
Haven
Waliabartive
Rochester
N. Y
Ivery
Abeta
Walia
Shubé
Offtoiné
Hichata
Horton
Binghampton
van Hart
Biko
Cleveland
Langworth
Ste Glaikenvillé
Chantanque County
Rite
Alerteetae
Alls
Canal Company
Bulkley
Mary
Navic York
Birknell
Rome
Kentucky
ham-Mack
Ake
Déan
Josephine Hdrplér
Yoing
Nanya
David-Levi
Raphiel Bowman
Stratoburg
Germany
Johnr. Wallace
Eagle Harbor
Lake Superior
John Munyzoe
Greenbush
Burt
Hugh Lislay
Minnesota
Dover
N. J
Fulton
G. E. Knowles
Sanbornton Bridge
Mary Bertchelder
L. W. Fasquelle
St. Johns
Michigan
John McDonald
Mortis
Oswego Colinty
Whitesboro
Sauquoit Creek
Lhe Ut
Baggia Hotel
Metregor House
Ratlrond House
Whitesburo
P. ‘Lucker
Dry Vidge
Grant County
George Uvit
Columbus
Ohio
Louisville
D, Dasske
A. Cobb
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus County
Riley
Albany
Haley
Schénectady
Tracy
Chicago and
Rock Island
John Clemons
The
Miss Cook
Sunbury
Delaware County
A. Moore
Rising UN
Daniel
Brayton
Phelps
Ontario
Thierstden Bt
Aaron
Charity ceremony ends in tragedy at Charleston monument
While residents of Charleston, D C inaugurating the William Washington monument on a Wednesday, scaffolding collapsed under the orator and guests. Marion Grier, son of Reverend Archibald Pouriféy, was crushed to death. Inauguration postponed.
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Chitleston
D. C
William Washington
Gueets, &c
Pave Way
Marion Grier
Archibald Pouriféy
Biographick of our preat and good men and women
A fragmentary exchange notes that most notable figures sprang from sober, strong minded women with little involvement in fashion while clouds gather overhead, hinting at social critique and mood. The archaic language frames virtue in contrast to vanity amid unsettled weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pein
California News Brevity Amid Harbor and Gold Rush Talks
The San Francisco and California notes cover a dull business fortnight with staple goods steady and metals dull. Reports of gold deposits, new diggings in Tehama and Carson valleys, and a revived religious revival accompany news of ships at Panama and the Merrimac, with legislative actions on Sabbath laws and immigration, plus local fatalities and a ministerial accident.
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California
U. 8
Vandalia
Ant Ay&t
Aepina
Golden Gate
Gaus
Ceeameeny
Panama
Falloo
Merrimac
Détatur
Pana- SC
California News
San Francisco
Carolina
Forest City
Sierra County
Oy Archy
United States
George Ton Johnson
Tehama County
Peabody
Massachusetts
Young's A
Yuba County
Carson Vallee E Fon Vena
Salt Lake
Ives
Colorado
The
Virgin
Stockton
Cal
O’ Byrn
England
London
Joshua Smith
New Hampshire
Mount Gregory
el Dorado County
Vancouver
Iceland
Robert E. Wood
Vessel Fired Upon by British War Steamer Near Key West
Capt Howes of the schooner Mobile reports from Mobile that on May 29, twenty five miles south of Key West a British war steamer bore down and opened rifle fire from close range injuring bulwarks. The steamer seized papers but left without capturing the vessel, offering no reason for the attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Howes
Mobile
Key West
Milk from distillery stables shocks New York readers
Public alarm grows over diseased cows and rotten flesh linked to milk from distillery stables. The poisoned milk harms children and yields fatal outcomes, prompting calls for strong legal or public justice against the operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taz Distillery
New York
Prov Journal
River Pirates Overhauled on Upper Mississippi
Robbers active between La Crosse and Prairie du Chien seized an island where, after a quarrel, citizens recovered stolen goods valued at about 4000 to 5000 dollars. Fourteen men have been freed and the number is likely to rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper
Mississippi
la Crosse
Prairie di Chien
Licenses Granted in Newburyport Amid Indictments
The Newburyport mayor and aldermen issued licenses to twenty seven individuals most with expired agencies including several recently indicted for illegal selling. All licenses were creuted except one by the mayor’s casting vote. In Mattapoisett eighty applicants sought entry to the Congregational Church Sunday. seventy eight admitted and thirty eight baptized by Rev. Parsonis. Sermons on temperance delivered citywide as Union efforts pushed law enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newbury Port
Bositon Journal
Book and shed makers organize for wage strike in state
The South eastern and central sections of the state form unions to protect lodges and leagues and prepare a strike for higher pay, affecting several thousand workers. Meanwhile a discussion on gospel interpretation overshadows practical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tre Sioxuanens
7Thio Newhatyport Herald
Woman and infant harmed by hogs near Medina Ohio
A woman with her infant near Medina Ohio fell into a gutter in a state of intoxication and, in an insensible condition, the infant was almost entirely devoured by hogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina
Ohio
Bristol Brimfield Agent Gifford Missing and Found Dead
Calvin E. Burnett vanished from Telcester a week ago. A search party of about 150 men found his body near his own home with a jug of rum, suggesting the cause of death. Dr. Wistarin advertises a Wild Cherry remedy as a claimed lung-aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wistarin
HN. Gifford
Bristol
Calvin E. Burnett
Telcester
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Wiicg
Yast
France
Giler
Hrsip
Pitsfield Cemetery
Charles Y. Swift
Swift
Charles H. Swift
Sacramento City
Pittsfield
Tr . Abbott
Springside
Charles
New Orleans
Milford
Masa
Hunt
Albiny
Priapstrata Navy Yard
Princi
Ger
Andia
Calcutta Mail
Lucknow
Nana Sahib
Shahjehonpore
Bombay
Bir
Hugh Rose
Jhansi
Peshawce
Star of Ces West
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