30 May 1863
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Newspaper
Columbia Spy
Location
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1863
Page
1
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A wedding crowds Kensington Old Church on a sunlit October morning, sparking rumors of romance. Doctor Grantley Mills, watching the bride, finds a left-hand white glove with the name Angela, and later a boarding school girl Bella becomes his true partner, while the glove inspires a vow fulfilled as Bella reveals the matching glove and Mills’s hidden love.
The purser reports missing four bags of five franc specie from a Marseilles shipment aboard a British vessel. A secret plot by cooks and stewards used a boy apprentice to smuggle the bags through a bread-room hatch. McGuire's vigilance exposed Walton and assistants. Quigley confessed. Walton's chest housed the loot. two hundred lashes each and banishment at Gibraltar ended the case.
A satirical colonial portrait contrasts the Puritan figure with the restless Yankee in New England. It critiques reformism, social friction, and the clash of settlers with nature, ending with a humorous tale about an old Texas ranger and boots for land.
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