Sober Promise Ends Family Turmoil After War Shock
A father resolves to reform after his daughter Annette confronts him at a wardrobe where he hid signs of her late mother. He vows to stay sober, inspired by her pleas and the memory of a better home. Years pass and the family life stabilizes as Annette smiles atop a repaired household. A separate dispatch describes wartime wreckage and a nurselike view of hospital devastation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fle
Brill
Hativo
Annette
Annatie
Jou
Failer
Willkinses
Yendue
Herald Schoolwater
Joshua
Gil
Wincan
Wreck of Emigrant Slip Claims 155 Lives
A passenger aboard the Modern Athens recounts the Exmouth disaster, showing a gale blew canvass from Londonderry to Islay, ship driven on Ballanavie rocks near Islay, with all crew and passengers perishing except three sailors. Survivors John Stevens Geo Lightford and William Coultard, aboard Modern Athens en route to South Shields. Captain Booths and owner John Edens of South Shields named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Islay
Exmouth
Newcastle
Londonderry
Quebec
Ballanavie
Pleves
South Shields
John Stevens
Geo, Lightford
William Coultard
the Booths
John Edens
Outh Shields
Scotch Reformer's Gazette
Despatches on Taspan Capture. Commodore’s Report
The Union prints Perry's despatches to the Navy Secretary about Taspan's capture. The official account describes a Gulf squadron array near a remote Mexican coast town. The Commodore notes fourteen killed or wounded in the engagement. the Boston Courier summarizes the reprimand of Lieut Hunter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Com. Perry
Secretary of the Navy
Taspan
Gulf Squadron
Ujion
Mexican
Hunter
Gubaltern
Boston Courier
Sickness Epidemic Report From Point Pleasant 1847
The Trenton Gazette reprints a May 1 1847 letter from Point Pleasant Moorehouse Parish Louisiana detailing a severe winter and spring illness. It notes an epidemic affecting black and white residents with malignant scarlet fever and bronchitis and states many do not survive beyond twenty five hours to three days. The writer mentions sixteen doctors in town, with many unable to stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovigtava
Trenton Gazette
Point Pleasant
Moorehouse Pariah
Mebaey
Louisiana
Moorhouse Parish
New Orleans
Disease Panic Strikes Parish as Sickness Spreads
A resident reports fear and illness sweeping a parish with multiple deaths among enslaved people and whites. Names like Capt. Roux and Joha Cotton appear among the buried, while a New Orleans group seeks information and aid as outbreaks surge.
Tiverton Heights Centenary Plan Adopted at Rhodesaland Meeting
A committee formed to organize the Tiverton Heights Centennial on July 6 selects Alfred Bowworth to give the address and outlines a program including scripture reading, prayer, hymn, address, ode, and benediction. A field dinner and clam bake follow with a band, inviting all state elders. Towns pledge support by June 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiverton Heights
Rhodesaland Historical Society
Atraen Boswonri
Warren
J. N. Syxes
Bristol
Historical Society
Elisha Dyer
The
Messra. Wi
P. Sheffield
Tiverton
G. M. Fessenden
S. C. Newman
Conberland
Alfred Bowworth
W'Eluck
Reep
Rhode Island
William P. Shofield
Thomas Durfee
Esqra
the Historical Society
Surrender report and Bay State steamship debut
A report claims Posbla and Mexico City may surrender now that Santa Anna is near Vera Cruz with 2000 men, seen as potentially peace path under American flag protection. Also describes the Bay State Line steamship Bay State’s launch on Mount Hope Bay with 300 passengers, rapid Fall River arrivals, and its expected Boston connections via the Massachusetts route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay State
Fall River
Boston
Seare
Myrick
Posbla
Mexico
Santa Anna
Vera Crus
Anlarms
Mezicana
J.J. Comstock
Mount Hope Bay
New York
Sound
Mas‘sachusatta
Bradford Durfee
Sickness at Vera Cruz Eng l e and Newport charter vote
The Vera Cruz garrison reports 1000 to 1200 sick in hospitals with hundreds sent home. Newport residents reject the city charter twice, at Town Meeting by 40 and later by 73, preserving the old town. News also lists Cerro Gordo casualties among Regulars and Volunteers, totaling 425 killed and wounded, and reports sixty wedding guests poisoned in Texas with two deaths.
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Vena Crvz
Vera Cruz
Newport
Cerro Gonno
New Orleans Picayune
Cerro Gordo
Shmids
Pillow
Texas
New Orleans
Shelby Co
Wilkingon House
Britton
Wilkinson
The Spring Returns in Phenix's Reflections
The piece celebrates spring as a sign of renewal and growth. It links seasonal renewal to moral cultivation, warns against harming birds and wasting time on vanity, and compares nature’s pattern to spiritual rebirth and the hoped resurrection. The author frames seeds, fruit, and the gardener as lessons for personal virtue and future character.
LATER FROM GENERAL SCOTT ON VERA CRUZ TO WASHINGTON
The James L Day arrived in New Orleans from Vera Cruz with Victoria era dispatches and Vera Cruz Jalapa papers. Reports say a Mexican deputation urged Gen Scott to take the capital under protection, with fighting expected to cease elsewhere. Santa Anna’s whereabouts are unsettled, currently at Grizaha with 3000 troops, with further rumors of a dash to recruit South. Maj Gen Pillow and Lieut Col Anderson arrived aboard the James L Day. Pillow’s wound improves and Anderson returns due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Day
New Orleans
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Gen. Scott
Puebla
Atucha
Santa Anna
Grizaha
Cajaca
Kendall
Scott
Bea
Jalapa
Worth
Shields
Pillow
James L.day
Anderson
Tennessee
Gene Taylor
Monterey
Cerro Gordo
Britannia Arrives with Late Europe News in Boston
Fourteen Days Later from Europe reports the steamship Britannia's Boston arrival with delayed European intelligence. Cotton prices fell since departure. markets show a flat tendency with reduced sales and speculative activity. The note covers various grains and flour prices, wheat advances, and a general downward trend in funds and banking terms amid criticism of monetary policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Britannia
Boston
Bank of England
Cornwall
Caithness
Cape Clear
Giant's Causeway
Ireland Relief Appeals and Global News Roundup
From Baring's Circular May 3 reports liberal US relief for Ireland praised in Parliament and by the public. Portugal faces insurgent strength and emigration rises. Hamburg ships bound for the United States. France notes Taylor victories, bread fears, and a new Havre New York steamship law. US ministers interact with France and Russia. Ireland's Lord Lieutenant waning, potato blight, OConnor near death, and crop prospects improving. Italy uncovers a plot to murder the Pope with a Capuchin suspect caught with pistols and a dagger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lownox
United States
Ireland
Portugal
Menna
Hamburg
France
Taylor
Havre
New York
Bancroft
England
Paris
Louis Phillippe
Russia
Colin
Egersoll
Italy
Epidemic Sickness Spreads Through Point Pleasant Parish La
A May 1 letter from Point Pleasant Moorhouse Parish reports a severe illness wave with malignant scarlet fever bronchitis and pneumonia. Ten New Orleans doctors attend the sick as deaths rise among both slaves and white residents. Capt Knox and others suffer heavy losses. crops also damaged by a recent cold wind and light frost in St Johns Berkley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canan Winn
Faust
St. John’s
Berkley
Charleston Court
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My. Peck
Capt. Roux
Joha Cotton
Moore
CHE Phenex
J. Boyvex
Cumberland
Alfred Bosworth
Jams N. Sykes
Albert G. Greene
Usher Parsons
Thomas C. Hartshorne
WM. P. Sheffield
H. S. Bayley
Guy M. Fessenden
Luther A. Martin
5. C. Newman
Lient
Hoiten
Alvarado
New York Herald
Lune
L. W. Briggs
Stephens
Our
King Philip
Mamoru Prerontay
Dovare Bronnen Jaxarian
Wilton & Co
Washington
Port Araits
Ile News
the News
Wm. B. Sewall
Maine
N. O. Picayune
General Scott
Gary
Fleur
Western
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Liverpool
Baring
Tne
Dublin Evening Post
Belfast
O'Connell
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