A Word to Our Delinquents and Missionary Society News
A public notice urges payment of small debts to fund improvements and printing costs. The piece reports Henry Cray becoming a life member of a Missionary Society, a failed bid to make Benton a life member, and a lengthy update on the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad project with stock-raising actions and expenditures. An address by eminent divine aroused support, ending with a 325 dollar missionary collection.
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Henry Cray
Missionary Society of the North Indiana Conference
Ashland
Hox. Taos
Benton
Parent Missionary Society
Divine
California
San Francisco
Sacramento City
Union
Washington Monument
Republic
Jim
Aretes on a Grave Vine Reveals Applelike Fruit
Mr. Nice of Pottsville Pennsylvania grows a grape vine wound around an apple tree. For years the vine bore blossoms without fruit. This year it bears fruit that looks like an apple on the outside with a grape interior. The pulp leans grape while the seed resembles an apple.
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Aretes
Mr. Nice
Pottsville
Great Mortality and Transportation News Records
The St Louis Republic cites severe cholera mortality in Galena Illinois with twelve deaths on Sunday the 18th and seventeen more by Wednesday. Fred Douglas the learned Black man sues a railroad in Columbus after being refused an inside seat. Indianapolis reports 8034 residents with 1530 gain since August 1 1849 and a $300 485 rise in taxable property value.
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Pittsburgh Gazette
Great West
Lakes
Ohio River
Chicago
Galena
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ohio
Allegany
Mississippi
West
Indiana
Pittburgh
Illinois
The
State Journal
Fred Douglas
Darkey
Columbus
Colored Emigration Raises Interest in Indiana Efforts
Reverend J Mitch ell, agent for the American Colonization Society in Indiana, reports over thirty free people of color have applied for passage to the Libera Republic. Funds limit departures. twenty were sent last year with positive letters about Liberia. Support for colonization urged, with donations solicited to assist the colored community in Indiana.
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J Mitchell
American Colonization Society
Indiana
Republic of
Liberia
Republic
Banking Houses Arrive in San Francisco New Empire Opens
The Pacific News reports San Francisco gains new financial powerhouses with S Jaudon & Co and Taytor & Co preparing branches. Mr Taylor brings vast capital and experience to stabilize commerce and tap Pacific growth spanning China and the Indies. A Portsmouth Square incident shows a knife act with clothed injuries but no blood. A Jackson Montgomery sign warns cholera near a mud hole promising a future deep reservoir after cleanup.
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San Francisco
Pacific News
Caritat
City
Argenti
House of Brown, Brothers & Co
N. Y
Page, Bacon & Co
St. Louis
S. Jaudon, & Co
New York
S. Staats Taytor & Co
Taylor
New Orleans
Pacific
China
Indies
Portsmouth
Indiana U S Commissioner to China arrives in Washington
A telegraphic dispatch reports Hon. John W. Davis of Indiana, the U S Commissioner to China, arrived in Washington on the 18th inst.
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State Sentinel
John W. Davis
Indiana
U. S
China
Washington
Conference Appointments End Six Day Session
After six days the conference closes with roughly three thousand new members added in the past year. Nineteen preachers were admitted and appointments listed for Greencastle Terre Haute Vigo Numa Little Walnut Rockville Circuit Russellville and many others across Indiana districts including Indianapolis Lafayette Logansport and Fort Wayne.
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Greencastle
Rilargrave
P E
H N Barnes
Benj. Winans
Terre Haute
J C Smith
California Admission Bill Enacted by Congress
The bill admitting California to the Union passes the Senate with amendments rejected. It states California is admitted as a state with two representatives until apportionment, and imposes conditions on public lands, taxation, and navigable waters, preserving federal ownership and none-resident tax protections.
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California
Senate
Douglass
Congress
United States
House of Representatives
United States of America
Corwin Nomination Confirmed by Unanimous Vote
The Lou Journal reports and the New York Courier and Enquirer confirms that no Senator voted against Corwin’s confirmation as Secretary of the Treasury. Corwin is praised as honorable, diligent, and eloquent in defending liberty, rising from poverty to renown.
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Corwin
Senate
Journal
New York Courier and Enquirer
Milwaukoie growth and Taylor burial notes
A set of brief items notes Milwaukie population rising from 1800 in 1840 to about 25000, plans regarding the removal of General Zachary Taylor's remains to Kentucky, and a health update on Secretary McKennan who has left Washington with Dr. Reed.
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Gen. Taylor
Baton Rouge
Col. Bliss
Zachary Taylor
Kentucky
Tra
National Intelligencer
McKennan
Washington
Reed
Sunday School Attendance Across City Churches
The August report from Roberts Chapel Visiting Committee tallies Sunday School attendance by church. Totals include 1st Presbyterian 174, West Methodist 54, Wesley Chapel 217, Catholic 13, Eng. Lutherian 96, East Mission 13, Ed. Presbyterian 147, Mates 0, Roberts Chapel 298, African 56, Baptist 87, Episcopal 74, In School 1535, Christian 71, Out of School 47, German Lutheran 53, Depot Methodist 134. Total in City 1682 with 25 for Associate Reform. Of 147 out of school, 92 enroll in Rev. A. H. Myers northern city school not listed here.
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Roberts Chapel
1St Presbyterian
West Methodist
Wesley Chapel
Lutherian
East Mission
Presbyterian
Episcopal
Associate Reform
Stranger Dies After Grave Digging Job
A stranger applied for work with the city grave digger and finished digging a grave before dusk. Paid one dollar, he slept ill and died that night, later buried in the grave he had dug. No name or background available. Evansville Journal.
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Rewarkabe
Evansville Jour
Green apples sell for one dollar per bushel in Huntington
A Huntington market reports green apples selling at one dollar per bushel in the state. The item highlights available fruit pricing and local commerce activity.
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Huntington
Arrival of the America reaches Cincinnati from Europe
Nine days Liverpool to Cincinnati aboard the America with August 13 dates. Wilbur carries dispatches from England and the Continent while Miss Cushman sails with Jenny Lind. Regional prices show meat and molasses movement. beef retail, pork in demand, bacon steady, hams dull, lard weak. seals and ashes rise slightly. Danish troubles near settlement.
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Liverpool
Cincinnati
America
Cotten
Miss Cushman
Jenny Lind
Wilbur
England
Crain
Senate and House Actions Across Cities Aug Twenty Seventh
Washington Senate Executive Session and House Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation actions reported from the Committee of the Whole with votes on charges for Nicaragua and Marine protection. Rejected: funds for Western Waters defense and Cincinnati post office. St. Louis wheat and flour prices firm. Cincinnati grain and flour markets described with slight price signals. Philadelphia broker Provost dies. market notes from Cincinnati and others.
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Washsington
Senate
House
Nicarang
Cincinnati
Duer
Burt
St. Louis
Bayly
Yeas
Plain City
Texas Moves to Occupy Santa Fe and Disunion Warnings
The Galveston report argues for immediate measures to occupy Santa Fe with mounted regiments and civil force to enforce laws, opposing federal interference. It notes opposition to Pearce's Senate Bill and cites editor obituaries and moral reflections from the Troy Whig and Cin. Gazette.
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Galveston
Texas
Santa Fe
Pearce
Senate
Bell
Extraordinary Mississippi Marriage Ends Twenty Five Year Walkless Spouse
Mr Hopkins of Lowndes County Mississippi, aged 56, has wed Miss Matthews, about 35, both rheumatism afflicted and unable to walk for 25 years. The bride cannot dress herself. He explains he married a walking wife before, who ran off with a stage driver, so he chose a wife certain not to leave.
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Mr. Hopkins
Lowndes County
Appointment of Horatio J. Morris as Southern District Attorney
The State Sentinel notes that Gen. Taylor’s final acts included appointing Horatio J. Morris as District Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. The office once paid large fees, Congress once capping at six thousand dollars annually. Morris received unanimous Senate confirmation recently and is praised for future success and high reputation.
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Taylor
Mississippi
Congress
Senate
State Sentinel
Sixcular Marriage Amid Manacles at Ohio Penitentiary
Charles P. Clifton recently sentenced to seven years in the Ohio Penitentiary for grand larceny was married in jail yesterday. He was still manacled and handcuffed, wed to a woman he had previously engaged to, with no details available on the ceremony.
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Sixcular Marriace
Charles P. Clifton
Ohio Penitentiary
Cin. Com
Married couples linked in local ceremony and family ties
On Thursday last Eld S K Hoshour joined James Williams and Baily Wantrace in marriage, and on the 13th Dr F W Rose of Newport Kentucky wed Miss Herietta Rose of this county. The notice closes with a poetic blessing for the Roses’ future.
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Eld. S. K. Hoshour
James Williams
Baily Wantrace
F. W. Rose
Newport
Herietta
Infant son of Isragen and Esterte Richardson dies
BIED-In Richmond, on the 21st instant, William Plunket Richardson, infant son of Isragen J. and Esterte T. Richardson, aged one year and thirteen days.
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Bied
Richmond
William Plunket
Isragen J
Esterte T. Richardson
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