Reward Offered for Arrest of Blackwell Spencer and Spencer
Georgia Governor Rufus B Bullock issues a five hundred dollar reward for the arrest and delivery of A J Blackwell Henry Spencer and John Spencer all of Lampkin County to the Lampkin County Sheriff. The warrant notes they escaped while resisting legal process and are at large. The order is dated March 22 1871 at the Capitol in Atlanta with seal and signature of Secretary of State David G Corrine.
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John Parker
Lampkin
A. J. Blackwell
Henry Spencer
Blackwell
John Spencer
Rufus B. Bullock
Swte
Thia
Jon Spencer
Luspirin
Atlanta
United States of America
RUBUS_B. BULLOCK
Bible
Gus Redding
Henry Love
Love
Fry
Capitol
Muscogee
Brooks Walker
John Aaron
Aaron
Auluota
Eigsteen
Chatham
Chavis Davis
Ove
Richard Grant
Grant
T ci
Tral
Athimta
Subscription Terms and Payment Notice
Osd Year. 300 dollars in advance for paper subscriptions. See Montus. 32 00. Orders not paid in cash will not be processed.
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Osd
Montus
Advange
Descriptive Biographical Sketches From Aged Court Records
The excerpt lists several men with physical traits and ages: J. Biuvenwell about 22 or 23, dark eyes and hair, 5 feet 6 inches, 150 pounds, speaks abruptly. Henry Spevecer described briefly. Jon Spencer about 28, 6 feet, 200 pounds, fair complexion, slight limp due to a shorter leg, blue eyes, scar noted on face or neck.
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J. Biuvenwell
Henry Spevecer
Jon Spencer
Mardltt
Georgia Proclamation Offers Reward for Murder Suspect Henry Love
State issues two rewards of five hundred dollars for the capture of Henry Love and John Aaron in separate 1871 murders. Proclamations call for apprehension and delivery with proof for conviction, and urge all officers to assist. Wording notes racial descriptors and official seals.
Our Love Is Dead A Poem Of Broken Promise And Guilt
A dramatic monologue contemplates a love that lasted only a year. The speaker questions blame, acknowledges mutual guilt, and describes the severed bond as irreparably dead. Dreams undone, faces grave, and a shared path now closed. The poem ends with a somber image of a winding sheet.
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Earth
Heaven
France’s War Damage to Wine and Agriculture
The article outlines vast wartime losses in France including 600,000 acres for grape culture yielding 160,000,000 gallons of wine valued at 80 million dollars, most of which was destroyed last year. It notes beer from Strasbourg, general agricultural revenue losses, and livestock destruction across twenty departments. It also discusses cranberry cultivation and berries as a winter ornamental, plus a domestic vignette about a husband seeking comfort for a button sewed.
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France
Shev
Strasbourg
Bushman Island
Greenland
New York
Rochester Democrat
George M. Tunison
Richard F. Carman
Washington Ieights
New Street
William Bruce
Youn Rinters
Richard Toe
William Bogardus
Cedar _ street
Luke Terboss
Geo. Law
Greeley
Bonner
Hartford Courant
Mirror
Alvord
Wandewater Street
Hartford
John F. Trow
Greene Street
An Evening with a Catamount in Maine Wilderness
In August I fled a perilous encounter with a catamount while trapped in a hollow tree near Katahdin ponds. I battled the cougar with a sharpened spear and chased it away, then moved camp to Millinocket Lake with my companion Clives after the near deadly stand off.
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Salisbury
Bangor
Maine
Katahdin
John
Clives
Trapper
West Branch
Penobscot
Porcola
Chives
Darling
Horrific St Clair County Tale of Poisoned Tax Robbers
A rumor from St Clair County Alabama reports masked men looted a tax collector’s wife, then sought supper and drank poisoned coffee she prepared. The wife allegedly killed three men with arsenic, including her husband, amid a storm of sensational claims later questioned by the Rome Commercial.
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St Clair County
Alabama
St. Clair
Rome
Meeting in Our Future Home and Other Mirths
A miscellany page blends devotional verse on the afterlife and reunion with light, a quip-laden humor column, anecdotes about poverty and kindness, oddities from seeds of abstinence to medical quackery, and reflections on sorrow and perseverance.
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Warre Hert
Mr. Sharp
Hell
Heaven
Earth
New Jersey
Sal
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Georgia
David Dickson, Esq
Oxford
Planter
sGa
F. W. Sims & CO
Savannah
Cuthbert, Ga
H. H. Jones
Fort Gaines, Ga
Sutlive & Graham
Said State
David G Corrine
Cretary
Cuthbert
Davin G. Corrixa
Davin G. Corrine
Daas G. Curtisg
Secrttary
Methodist Church
R. B. Lesten
A. M
You
Aed
C. A. Stephens
Capriine
Georgia Medical” Association
Americus
Eleb. Brown
Father
Sarah
Cincinnati
Pike’s Peak
Minnesota
Virginia
Massachusetts
Agassiz
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cambridge
Bunker Hill Monument
Furie
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