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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1870
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription payments due in advance with continued delivery unless the publisher opts to discontinue after arrears are cleared and notice is given. It lists advertising rates for various column widths, notes on yearly discounts, and stipulates payment responsibilities for legal ads and notices, including divorce suit notices.
The Charleston Mercury depicts alleged voting abuses by Radicals in a Southern election with reports of ill swearing, intimidation, and many votes from black voters and their families. It notes militia-style actions at polls, repeated denials of white voters, and asserts Reform party defeat amid fraud claims. It mentions other items from Paris to Louisiana weather and German war spoils.
The column surveys France and Prussia in the ongoing European conflict, noting Prussia's conscription and France's resilience, then shifts to a China rebel report, domestic anecdotes about life insurance pursuits, and humorous vignettes about medieval money, steamship etiquette, and a grammarians’ duel over arithmetic.
The author of Put me in my little bed joined the Connecticut Fat Men's Association last week. He weighs 270 pounds and would be heavy on a trundle bed.
A boy near the fish market tells a bizarre tale about a Black man swimming in a river, fish swallowing his feet and later the man swallowing the fish, then another fish swallowing the man, ending with a remark that the boy might become a Boston editor.
A Syracuse shopkeeper recalls Jonah Squires a clever conman who boasted of making customers pay. He claims to barter cotton from sheep and to tear a shirt to prove a bargain. The narrator awakens to find his night shirt ripped, a prank attributed to the swindler.
A fresh arrival from Ireland with funds to hire horse and cart attempts public road work in Mississippi. After being told to dump stones in a gully he first loads and then tilts, and finally plunges the cart and horse into the gutter, joking it must be haste. Judge Fisher rules a white man who lived with a Negro woman is legally married under Mississippi law. The ruling fans further cases across the state. Prussians plan to seize Nancy and Havre.
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