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Newspaper
Cassville Standard
Location
Cassville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1859
Page
2
The Cassville Democratic meeting calls for delegates to the Milledgeville convention and Charleston delegates. Southward notes praise for Cassville’s growth, urging citizens to improve property and resist years of local strife. The issue of Maj. Cooper’s land mortgage proposal is discussed with support for securing state guarantees.
Our readers are urged to study The Day Book prospectus for 1860 as the northern journal openly defending Southern institutions. It notes the paper’s resilience amid abolitionist hostility, its lack of capital, and reliance on diligent proprietors. Also recalls the Royal Charter wreck off Wales with many losses aboard and passengers from Australia returning home.
Rain is expected Saturday and Sunday with unusually warm temperatures for the season. The issue shares advertising space and notes Mr J W Heath attorney at law offering prompt service. A. C Wyly offers sale of enslaved people as farm property, urging buyers to consider prior to other purchases. Robins of Cartersville advertises furniture work and the Premium Wheat Fan.
The Governor of Alabama offers a 400 dollar reward for Walker Pitts to be delivered to Montgomery authorities. Seen in Chattanooga last weekend, he is believed to roam Tennessee. Pitts murdered A P NeGrabb in Montgomery on November 17 and has lived in Cartersville, Georgia for 6 to 8 years. He is about 25, 5 feet 7, lean, long-faced, dark hair, no whiskers, bad sweater, wearing a dark brown coat a drab overcoat and tarpaulin hat.
Postmasters urged to collect dues after a Griffin fire destroyed the Empire State office and publications. The piece also reports Governor Wise doubting secret societies in Ohio, troop movements, and Editor letters debating Judge Benning and bank cases amid national tension and Harper's Ferry fallout.
A dense report from the Legislature outlines bills to authorize bonds for new railway construction at seven thousand dollars per mile, and a rule barring new measures after November 20. Other items cover reorganizing representation, election timing, school funding, and penalties for wife whipping. The debate also notes currency issues in Tennessee banks and a broad view of secession risks tied to a presidential outcome.
From Brownsville on November 28 we learn two hundred ninety effective men guard the city as a siege develops but no attack has occurred. At Charleston around November 98 about two thousand well armed troops are stationed, with Gov Wise's concentration cited as likely justified.
Fragments warn of dwindling hope for the Union amid elections. The message stresses duty to the northern people and cautions about a dangerous precipice to the Union. It emphasizes Virginia and the South must act for their own safety regardless of consequences.
The notice lists JOHN LOUDERMILE as a candidate for Tax Collector and N GIERERTI for Tax Collector with dates in January next and October 1959. It also names F A MORRISON for Tax Receiver with January elections. A state prison report shows 219 convicts on October 1, with 13 discharged, 7 escaped, 25 pardons, 3 deaths, and 1 committed to lunatic asylum. A fugitive slave search in Lafayette fails but uncovers many pikes. The Revolutionary War cost Britain 43,000 men and $645,615,455 in official accounts.
The notice reports varied prices for corn and other staples in Atraxta Georgia with brisk business in dry goods and groceries, plus a cotton sale in Augusta. It also promotes Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid as a new purifying agent used by physicians and hospitals across multiple southern cities and available from listed retailers.
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