County Officials and Commission Meeting Notes
Historical county records list officers including Treasurer William B. Hunter and Recorder Lemon with Superintendent J. B. Cooper and Surveyor Peter M Zenor. Commissioners WH Zenor David Dochan and Joseph Deweere meet on the first Mondays of March June September and December.
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William Benton
Willam B. Hunter
Lemon
J. B.cooper
John Brewster
Peter M
Zenor
David Jordan
Joseph Deweese
Commissioner's Court
Mareh
Meter WH
David Dochan
Joseph Deweere
New Albany Mail Routes and Labors of County Posts
An 1870s style notice lists county post offices and daily mails via New Albany to Lanesville Locust Point Evan's Landing Rosewood Mauckport New Amsterdam Valley City Worth Laconia Rehoboth Palmyra Hanecock Barren New Salisbury Bradford Frenchtown Georgetown Burnville Mill Town with departures daily. New Middletown is served every Monday and Thursday at 7 4 M. Mayekport Cedar Wool Criap's Cross Roads on Thursdays at 6 4 M. Sharp's Mil on Saturdays at 12 A M.
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New Albany
Tiebute
Corydon
A. UL
Lanesville
Locust Point
Evan’s Landing
Rosewood
Mauckport
New Amsterdam
Valley City
Worth
Laconia
Rehoboth
Palmyra
Hanecock
Barren
New Salisbury
Bradford Frenchtown
Georgetown
Burnville
Milltown
New Middletown
Mayekport
Cedar Wool
Criap’s
Cross Roads
Sharp’s Mil
A Bachelor Visit Ends in Love and Laughter
Tom Thurston visits old friend Joe and Nellie Hal who hosts a household full of jokes and music. Tempted by Nellie, Tom falls into a tangled plot of elopement and fear, only to learn Joe and Long conspire in a reveal that ends with a comic confession about mistaken marriage.
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Chum
Tom
Jor
Joe
Aqdan
Long
Jeneth
Mr. Tairston
Nellie
Mr. Thurston
Mr. Long
Carchim
Darling
Larose
Havana
Nellie Hal
Thomas Thurston
Nelie
Nell
Imine
Mules Ranked for War and Meat in British Policy
An essay notes the export potential of mules under War Office orders to Zululand. It praises the animal for sure footing heat tolerance and steadiness, but warns of limits. It adds Brillat Savarin praising mule meat and compares feeding needs of mules and horses in wartime provisioning.
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British War Office
France
Spain
United States
Zululand
Brillat-Savarin
War mules and steady demand for purpose and peace
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes that mules in wartime and peacetime will be in steady demand. It argues Kentucky mules are as good as Kentucky horses and will be ordered repeatedly to supply both military and civilian needs.
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Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal
An Airy Torgue and the Anatomy of Scandal
The piece divides scandal into direct and implied kinds, noting direct scandal dwindles in polite society while implied scandal spreads unseen through underground networks. It warns that implied talk can vary endlessly, masking malice as a harmless rumor without a clear target or source.
Forward Season Confusion Frays Talk At Law Shop
In a Free Press column a Black man named Sam Clark laments a misread calendar. He questions season timing and whether the year should have thirteen months, joking that whites hoard the seasons and leave him unsure whether to plant taters or dodge icicles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Clark
Griswold Street
Sam
Starry Timekeeper: Orion and the Heavens in Awe
A reflective meditation on cosmic scale and divine time. The text contrasts biblical permanence with rapid stellar motion, noting Orion and the Pleiades, Sirius, and Arcturus shifting through space. It questions human progress over eighteen centuries and asks whether true progress exists and its direction.
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Orion
Mesopotamia
Sirius
Arcturus
Job
James Freeman Clark
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Jacob Petitocti
Depas
Corydon Lewis
Bowiington
Uo Kattles Bakers
Lanexville
Mersin Philip Fether Jacobs
Seorke K. Wolpertoe
Elizabeth “.Y. Funk
Justices of Peace
James L. Morris
Fmith
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John R Suglaiers
Chan Fee Cette
Taylor Joseph WH. Peller
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Scott
John
Cline
George W. Jenkins
W. Kratesrill Wee
Jackson
A. Toston
Dreorge W. Jones
Rives
David Vouterler
Washington
Sailio PD
Windelt
Tae Morgan
Wayne Briscoe
Blue River
Julian Graves
Ea Jackson
Barry Ides
Gadis
Spencer
Hurble
Dunblu
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Gows Tink
Thomas J. Stevens
Ind
DR. H. 8. Wolfe
Corydon, Ind
William C. Green
Attorney AT Law
Corydon, Indiana
N. J. Peckinpaugh
W. T. Zero
Attorneys Atlaw
Leavenworth, Indiana
Crawford
George W. Denbo
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Harnsca
Claias
Major W. Funk
Public Square
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WM. H. H. Hudson
Purig Square
Harrison
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B. P. Douglass
Iaun, Douglass & Stockslager, Attorneys AT Law
Jundoit
Samuel J. Wright
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