Abandoned M E Church and Local Notices in Indiana
In Bartholomew county Elizabethtown the M E Church is abandoned by the Conference due to two to three years with unpaid preachers. A preacher may be sent if old dues are settled. Also notes on a disguised woman farmer in Brewer Maine, Gen Grant’s name origin tale, and obituary of Elizabeth Marsh in Jennings county plus a lyrical October scene full of seasonal imagery.
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Ulysses
A Story Which Is Said to Contain No Motal Whatever
A Kentucky mule terror tale from the New York Times recounts McSorley’s stubborn animal that kicked many and killed dogs. A new groom proposes granting pasture freedom, arguing the mule will stay quiet without restraint, ending the era of enforced control.
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New York Times
McSorley
MacSorley
Kentucky
Ohio River
Mr. McSorley
Ir. McSorley
Deadwood clash ends in death after lamp blackout
A seven-man melee between three highwaymen and four officers broke into darkness when a lamp fell. Revolvers and knives were used, one man died and several were wounded as friends turned on each other in the confusion. The events unfold amid other city notices and a speech about the Atlantic magazine plan.
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Deadwood
Friend
Brooklyn Man Lived 116 Years and Died in Quiet
Owen Farron of Brooklyn aged 116 is to be buried today from the Church of the Assumption. Born in Donegal Ireland, he joined the British marine service at 15, later carried goods between England and America, and settled in Brooklyn 25 years ago at No 33 Prospect Street. He died Friday afternoon surrounded by his children and grandchildren amid a long-lived family line.
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Brooklyn
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England
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Social Life in Utan Reveals Mormon Misery and Scandal
A woman recounts twelve years in Salt Lake City detailing severe poverty among Mormon families. She describes child hunger, freezing winters near Camp Douglas, a crippled child burned to death after a coal accident, and abandonment by a rich husband and local bishop. She accuses John D. Lee and Lyon of wife exchanges and notes widespread neglect of deserted wives.
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Papal name change superstition linked to deaths in papacy
A long article notes a superstition about cardinals dying in threes and a belief that a pope who keeps his name upon elevation will die within a year. It cites Octavian Conti becoming John XII, Clement VII replacing Julius III, and Marcellus II’s death twenty-one days after election, describing how tradition has persisted.
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Julius III
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Marcellus II
Blondin Returns to Crystal Palace After Ballad of Fortune
Blondin, famed Niagara daredevil and Manilla marvel, now over fifty three, once earned a fortune risking his neck before losing it in a wine venture. He returns to Crystal Palace with a cautious hope to end his career, while a wagon in Lexington Missouri features three blind men and one-eyed driver highlighting the weight of a single eye.
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Stockton
Wordplay and morbid fables in a 19th century miscellany
A collage of quips and anecdotes spans puns about vegetables and the tomato, a schoolmaster joke on averages, a London meadows tale, bells history from Polonius to the curfew, and a frantic English servant girl who repeatedly drowns herself before being rescued, all captured in brisk paragraph sketches.
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London
Mystery suicide at Falls and ancient coffin discovery
A letter to the Chicago Times reports a partial suicide at the Falls on the 16th by Miss Jane Schofield a telegraph operator daughter of a Woodstock Ontario gentleman. Also described are twelve well preserved coffins found during Berlin canal work dating to around 1620 with tar coated oak coffins and intact bones suggesting two and a half centuries buried underground.
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Dominion Telegraph Company
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Morrissey endorsement exposes Republican hard-pan manners
The Cincinnati Enquirer argues the Republican Party, in a bid to win, nominates John Morrissey for State Senator in New York's Seventh District. It notes past GOP disdain for Morrissey and moral judgments have softened as adversity hits, yet Morrissey remains unchanged while Republicans have shifted. The piece urges Morrissey to wear his honors modestly.
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New York
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Congress
Moral Courage and a Wolf Lesson from Odd Anecdotes
A New York merchant posts a list urging courage in debt, credit, frugality, honesty, and restraint, urging people to own poverty, insure, insure debts, and live within means. An old Ksop tale recalls a boy shouting wolf, his father’s mock warning, then a real wolf halves the boy’s doom, ending with a Tennesee editor’s prospectus praising loyal readers and denouncing the devil’s inducements.
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New York
Unclear historic remark on gamesters and ethics
Fragmentary OCR notes cite Aristotle calling a gamester a thief after a journey from Athens to Corinthus. Disjoint lines mention a monte man from Thesealia, a dinner party, ethnology, a doctor with dietary orders, and Rochester Democrat punning on faces and souls with garbled language and imagined deaths involving horses.
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