Pirates Strike In Matanzas Bay Aboard Unarmed Brig
A Portland brig near Matanzas Cuba is captured by pirates after leaving port. The second mate, hiding in the hold, survives as Captain Grozer and crew are slaughtered. the pirate captain warns victims and the ship’s fate turns deadly in the bay’s narrow harbor passage.
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Failue
Matanzas
Cuba
Java
Groner
Soa
Ting
Mataizas
Aval
Grazer
Grozer
Aires Tomen
Agrarian debate and local violence reported in Warren
A Bristol County lecture argued for property as a divine right and warned against equal distribution, praising inheritance and individual industry. A separate Warren incident left Palmer Sherman dead after a fight with Levi Pearce and Richmond Handy, with Pearce and Handy jailed to await trial.
County Institute debated for teachers meeting
News notes discuss convening a county institute in Newport for teacher meetings the last week of this month or the fourth week in December. A man named Davis was arrested in Providence on suspicion of robbing Mr Rowley. A railroad from Fall River to Newport is under serious consideration linking Fall River to Boston. Reports from New York papers mention a Terrell murder case in New Jersey. The steamboat Plymout h bound for St Louis collided with the Lady Madison near Shawneetown killing many deck passengers though no cabin passengers were lost.
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Travnin
Bristol County
Barnard Thias
North Scituate
Smithville Seminary
Syrrosta Rossia Oy
Rowley
Davis
Providence
New York
Terrell
Plymouth
St. Louis
Shawneetown
PyThis
Bristol
Fall River Monitor
Albert Lawrence
Allaire Works
Fall River Iron Works Company
Bradford Durfee
Borden Long
Durfee
Law and Order convention endorses party growth in Rhode Island
At a October 30 convention in the Senate Chamber, Providence, Samuel Dexter was named President and William S. Patton Secretary. Resolutions urged rapid organization of the Law and Order party across towns and a state convention in Providence on November 18 to nominate officers for the April election. The meeting urged citizens to support conservative governance and warned opponents about the dangers of misrule.
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Senate
State House
South Kingstown
Samuel Dexter
William $. Patton
Providence Journal and Transcript
Newport Mercury and Herald of the Times
Warren Star
Bristol Phenix
Friends of Law and Order
Law and Order
Tharaforn
Law and Order Party
Providence
Arrival of the Caledonia at East Boston after fourteen and a half days
Eight Days Later from England reports the Caledonia arriving at East Boston at 81-2 oclock after a 14 1 2 day passage. The letter notes Algeria reports Abd el Kader’s latest triumphs, English dockyards busy, Newman’s secession to Rome, harvest prospects troubled by wet weather, rising wheat prices, and Ireland’s potato crop failure, with a strong American provision trade and rising corn prices.
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Boston
Algeria
Abd-el-Kader
Africa
England
Bristol
Birmingham
Ireland
Boland
Demos
Massicnusetts
Col. Perkins
R. B. Forbes
Forbes
Mariagna Hale
Admiralty
Rhode Island General Assembly Adjourns After Turbulent Sessions
The Providence Journal reports a week of Senate and House actions in October 1845. The Senate approved restrictions on Thanksgiving, adjourned, and debated resolutions to indemnify acts during the late rebellion. The House referred education and tax measures, debated annual Thanksgiving observance, and adjourned daily with brief committees and petitions under consideration. The Assembly scheduled a January return, and mourning notices closed with the death of Leopold Herwig, noted as a prominent orchestra leader.
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Senate
HOUSE
Committee On Education
Committee On
Judiciary
General Assembly
Committee On the Judiciary
Buffum
Rhode Treland
Warren Ladies Seminary
Rand
Methodist Church
Bestel
Commercial Bank
Bristol
Coomer Haile, Et al
Town of
Win
St. O' Wolf
Bosworth
Uffum
John Peers
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Thomas W. Dorr
Wm P. Blodget
Cranston
Tourtellot
Barber
Brown
Cumberland
Poatpan
Byron Diman
Martin Tother
Luther M. Borden
General Treasury
Ouse
Providence Te
Fragmented 19th Century Political Rhetoric
The fragment discusses political figures such as President Polk and unnamed authorities, highlighting party divides and divergence over accountability. It notes weak party discipline in the Senate and rising public sentiment influencing Congress amid an unresolved national dispute.
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Tristol
Fife
Kingdom of Heaven
Hans Array
Rosaso Munper
Warren
Levi Pearee
Rehoboth
Richmond Handy
Palmer Sherman
Swanzey
Levi Pearce
Pearce
Handy
Johnson
Samuel Randall
Ray
Supreme Court
Sherman
Butterworth
Rita
Polly Pearce
Levi
Providence Journal of
Fall River
Newport
William Sprague
New Shoreham
Simon R. Sands
East Greenwiezra
Pollard
Charlestown
Asa Church
iCaleb Kenyon
Keff
Oamue
Wx. S. Parrin
Sue
Coventry
Isaac G. Bowen
Obadiah Potter
Thomas Whipple
Exeter
Samuel Philips
John Wilcox
Middletown
Benjamin Weaver
Abner Peckham
George Pearce
Jonathan R. Bullock
Jacob Babbitt
Twerton
David Durfee
Joseph Osborn
Robert Gray
Lattle
Compton
Nathaniel Church
Christopher Brown
Arren
Alfred Bosworth
Caleb Congdon
Bcuuu Llib, Sheldon Knight
Joseph T. Barber
Hina Tee O Humphre Lewis B. Smith
Samuel Tillinghast
William G. Stone
L Dexter
Rotary
Caledonia
The
Providence Journal
Herwic
Leopold Herwig
Wells
Philharmonic Society
Oston D. Adv
France
Polk ‘Mey
Bia Iomugarnl
Ipee
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