08 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1885
Page
1
A Civil War memoir narrative details Maj. Lamar Fontaine’s daring river crossing to evade Union pickets and the fleet, a near fatal skirmish, horse theft from a Federal encampment, and a grueling overland trek to safety toward Jackson. Fontaine recounts wounds, swift combat, a miraculous survival, and reception by sympathetic civilians guiding his path home.
The advertisement promotes a wide range of holiday gifts and domestic goods from M Lehman’s Dry Goods House. It highlights clothing items such as cloaks shawls jerseys and wraps along with silks velvets and dress materials. Also featured are hosiery gloves underwear handkerchiefs parasols and various gift sets plus toys house furnishings and a line of dolls at low prices. The copy emphasizes low importation prices guarantees customer satisfaction and asks readers to place orders with price details.
A Civil War correspondent, Lauan Foxtame, describes delivering dispatches from Jackson to Vicksburg via headquarters and officers including Gen. Mee Mackin. He notes crowded hospitals, lack of beds, and sleeping on the capital steps, detailing travel and communications within Confederate posts.
Ice a foot thick harvested on the Pacific coast and a thirteen year old child with three heads in Ralls county Missouri are noted. Other items cover Carter County’s first billiard table, a Washington Territory judge, a New York retiree on half pay, electricity in Austrian prisons, Massachusetts saving deposits rising, Michigan Health Board library, a Vienna eagle’s long captivity, a seventh son arrives for fortune telling, Expo entry deposits, Congressman Whiting’s contagion challenge, southern school spending, Nelson Bush the famed hunter, Florida banana paper and rope, a counterfeit five dollar note in Boston, disinfectants deemed unreliable, and a praise-filled endorsement of H H Hines for State Auditor in the Litoxi Herald.
The article notes Cleveland carrying northern states by majorities and southern states by outright majorities while Blaine leads in others. It discusses Senator George’s timely remarks and suggests readers should consider the political implications and public reactions to these results.
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