Local Notices and Thanks From The Press
Miss Winny Woodbine receives kind regards for her remembrance and meritorious qualities. Thanks are tendered to Haldeman of Miller Haldeman for a large bottle of ink. Public documents praised to Col C S Kaufman as he joins the Legislature. The Republican Court of American Society is back, via Messrs Freeman. Books by Messrs Ziegler and the Pictorial Cyclopedia of Biography praised for elegance, engravings, and value.
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Cal
Washington
Messia
Freeman
Lancaster
F. XM. Ziegler
Cyclopedia of Biography
Apostle of temperance Fatnee Marain dies in Cork
Fatnee Marain Thia apostle of temperance died in Cork Ireland on December 5. He was a gentleman, fearless in religion and morality, praised for patience in suffering and zeal for reform. His death is mourned across countries and sects as a devoted crusader for the unfortunates.
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Fatnee Marain
Thia
Cork
Ireland
Fimerald
Charity and kindness amid cold season in Lancaster
The piece laments severe winter weather and urges aid to the poor. It recounts a real street tale of a ten year old girl whose father is dead and mother ill, noting a man’s generous penny gift. It closes with reflections on mercy, duty, and providence, and an anecdote about a fashionable young woman’s intoxication witnessed on a carriage ride.
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Mather
Xermon
Perann
Philadelphia Daily News
Huu
Fragments From an 1857 National Lodge Report and Crimes
A long fiscal year summary from United States Grand Lodge shows lodge counts, initiations, deaths, relief paid, education for orphans, and total receipts and expenditures. The issue also reports an attempted murder in New Orleans and Tennessee excitement over slave insurrection rumors, plus a case of a boy bitten by a rat and notes on a false Mormon token. Governors names, terms, and salaries for 1857 are listed with state affiliations.
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Pollock
Commonwealth
North Branch
Columbia Railroad, &c
Delaware
Portage Railroad
Junction
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
United States
Grand Lodge
Teh
Christian Roselius
New Orleans
Ei. B. Morris
Mr. Roselius
Roselius
Tennessee
Cumberland River
Sumner County
Nashville Union
Alabama
John A. Winston
Arkansas
Elias N. Conway
California
J. Neely Johnson
Connecticut
William T. Minor
Peter F. Clausey
Florida
M.S. Perry
Georgia
Henry ¥. Johnson
Illinois
William H. Bissel
Austianny
A. P. Willard
Iowa
James W. Grimes
Kentucky
Chas
Moorehead
Louisiana
R. C. Wickliffe
Maine
Samuel Wells
Maryland
T. Watkins Ligon
Massachusetts
Henry J. Gardner
Michigan
Kk. S. Bingham
Mississippi
John J. M’rea
Missouri
Trusten Park
N. Audipahish
Ralf Metcalf
New Jersey
William A. Newell
New York
John A. King
N. Carolina
Thomas Brags
Ohio
Salmon BP. Chase
Pennsylvania
James Pollock
Rhode Island
Wm. W. Hoppin
S. Carolina
R. F. W. Alston
Andrew Johnston
Texas
E. M. Pease
Vermont
Ryland Fletcher
Virginia
Henry A. Wise
Wisconsin
Cales Bashford
Territories
Oregon
Wm. L. Currie
Minnesota
Willis A. Gorman
New Mexico
David Merriwether
Utah
Brigham Young
Washington
Isaac J. Stevens
Nebraska
Mark W. Izard
Kansas
John W. Geary
Fires at Peach Mountain mine devastates coal works
A fortnight ago a fire at the Peach Mountain vein near the Nor wegian operated by Rogers Sinnickson Co. and owned by Delaware Coal Company burned from the air shaft below water level. Lessees removed machinery as flames raged, suspecting wage disputes. Fire threatens other mines on the Norwegian Creek property and Mt Laffee colliery. Progress notes recount colonial population growth to 30 million and economic curiosities from nail to bone waste.
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Peach Mountain
Rogers, Sinnickson & Co
Delaware Coal Company
To Watk Ul
Mt. Laffee
Charles Miller
Ohio Farmer estimates state sheep profits and wool clip
The Ohio Farmer estimates last year profit from sheep in the state at 6 million dollars with total capital invested of 60 million. It cites about 5 million sheep and a wool clip of 10,196,000 pounds, representing one fifth of the nation’s total wool clip.
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Ohio
Editorial Gleanings and Notices From a 19th Century Paper
A compilation of brief items including Wentworth letter on green teas in Fen Chau China, a New York indictment of Augustus Silvey for large-scale fraud, discussion on metals alloys and cautious notes on Mr Villiers British minister status, city vote tallies, garroting as a new theft method, slave sales totals, Northern Central Railroad progress, Erie City Bank closure, plus multiple ads and notices for remedies and products.
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Wentworth
Fen Chau
China
New York
Augustus Silvey
Bangor
Campbell
Maine
Messrs
Mills & Ray
Liberty Street
Boston
Silvey
United States
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The
Columbia Spy
Pennsyltanis Independent Journal
TSR
David Taggart
Northumberland
Senate
J. L. Getz
Barks
House
Taggart
Gets
S. P. McCalmont
Pottstown Ledger
Peter Crow
Douglass Township
Berks Counts
Jacob Bower
Wishsburg
Laurel Fire Company
Register & Webb
Fire Company
York
Baltimore
T York Advocate
York County
Commissioners’ Office
Luis
Charleston
Barels
Amnivat
Monnoxs
Columbia
Istinat
Liverpool
John Williams
Castle Garden
England
Down and County Watters
M. Clepper
H. M. North
B. Rohrer
Cyrus H. Jacobs
Henry Brimner
Richard Derrick
Derrick
Conemara Literary Association
M. E
Potter
St. Paul’s (Episcopal) Church
Appleton
Alexandria
HW. McConkey
Wrightsville
Cooper's Hotel
Ata
Henry L. Duck
John R. Smith
John D. Wright
Daniel Gohn
Edward M. Shriner
William L. Smedly
Philip Schalk
Isaac D. Culmarry
Scott Patton
Samuel Filbert
George Gohn
John W. Fisher
Rea
G. W. Heckrothe
Gault
Bellevue House
Lancaster Co
Samuel Laver
Pequen
Iaborer
Lancaster County
Dummond
St. Louis Intelligencer
Keokuk
Burlington
Revortep Carrere
Vassey
Taunton
Poole
West Indies
Whitatable
Poole Herald
Bep
Sur. Geord& Jour
Kirtland
Joe Smith
Sidney Rigdon
Penn
Congress
U. S. Gazette
Huntingdon
Charles
Five Great Lakes
North America
Superior
Turon
Erie
Ontario
Gleanings
Worr
Citigs
Merwe Work
Newark
N. J
Brooklyn
Milwaukie
Rochester
Cincinnati
Louisville
Detroit
Chicago
New Maven
Buffalo
Providence
St. Louis
Troy
Albany
Reading
London
Messrs. Godwin & Apperson
W. W. Harvie
Jodhn and Enquirer
Northern Centra Raiinoan
Northern Central Railroad
Harrisburg
Millersburg
Harrisburg Herald
Reilly
Lykens
Kay
Erie City Bank
Cnns
Foster
Broad Street
Barses & Panx, Proprietors
Wall Send
John M. Dagnail
Falcon Street
Sanford
Gener
Sam’s Filrt
D. Aa
Wall Wrighteville
Dyjott & Sonn
Sanford & Co
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