31 May 1870
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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1870
Page
1
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An anxious farewell meditation on parting with a companion spirit, urging forgiveness, reunion in heaven, and the toll of earthly pain. It contrasts death with eternal hope and ends with a clipped social vignette about a fashionable Paris theatre girl and her mother.
The five minutes long speech by Mr. Voorhees in the House last Thursday denounces Know Nothing bigotry and Catholic persecution. He attacks Dawes and Brooks over religion and flags foreign policy, cites Irish and British imprisonment, and laments Rome’s refusal of full diplomatic ties while praising American sacrifice. An accompanying column recounts frontier Indian fighting and a humorous dialect tale about female reformers and a carnival show.
A Maine town’s Superintending School Committee tests a youth for a teaching certificate. Asked the Columbus discovery year and the birth of Christ, he falters and exclaims he is defeated. A drunken Cincinnati drayman drove a ham load around seven miles before police stopped him.
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