Noted Suicide and Racial Theories Across 1870s Columns
A fragmentary column notes the suicide of Samuel J. Anderson by self‑inflicted gunshot in Atlanta and quotes a Georgian Indian Archaeologist in New York arguing racial origins. It includes cotton receipts to January 1 1875 for Americus and a long Scottish travel reminiscence with reflections on life, education, and social mores.
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Gevtleamn
Lel Adee
Fulton Street
New York
Samuel J. Anderson
Atlanta
Col. C.C. Jones
Adam
Cain
Abel
Eve
Garden of Eden
Land of Nod
Americus
The Seven Wonders Of The World In Old News Text
A scattered article lists the seven wonders from pyramids to Rhodes Colossus with details of heights and builders. It then notes Burke county farmer John Peel with plows and cotton, and ends with a Pennsylvania teacher censured by a coroner for causing a boy’s death by locking him in a dark closet.
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Yung
Gro
Babylon
Assyria
Nineveh
Chryseles Phastine
Jupiter Olympus
Phidias
Greece
Diana
Ephesus
Halicarnassus
Mausolus
Caria
Artemesia
Pharos
Alexandria
Ptolemy Soter
Ptolemy
Rhodes
Apollo
John Peel
Burke
Roland Steiner
Jefferson County
Pennsylvania
Grumbling and bear notes mix in a late edition
A moral essay warns readers against grumbling and its spread through family and work life. The issue urges cheerful greetings to improve mood and domestic harmony, followed by Public Science Monthly notes on bear hibernation and seasonal life cycles in Dalton with a rural anecdote about an emigrant wagon incident and a playful jab at old customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rasho
Amas
Tar Wroyter
Popular Science Monthly
Dalton
Grotesque yet dignified slave prayer from Civil War camp
A writer recalls a winter 1862 63 near Fredericksburg Virginia visiting a Methodist meeting formed by enslaved people. He records a verbatim prayer praising God while noting both the grotesque and dignified aspects, referencing generals colonels and Union soldiers and ending with reflections on life and death.
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American Educational Monthly
Frederickburg
Sam
Jerry
Pompey
Dee
Professor Low
Union
Stars and Stripes
Washington
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Macon
Georgia
Ihe
Septiom Crockery
Empire “Nurséry
Georgetown
Surles & CO
Witmer
United States
S. Powell
Dragelst, Booksolicitend Stationer
John “H. All
T. S. Pofell
Hockeater and
Stadence
A.D. Bhaisten
McMillan’s
wGttchMillan
T. 5S
Powell
GUMN
Ponsal
Legraph & Messenger
Athbert ‘Appeal
Goutmen Cultivator
Powe
8. G. Robertson
FiSs Cuthbert
Acheron
S.J. A
Loch Long
Glasgow
Edinburg
Iversnaid
Donald
Duncan
London Bridge
Thames
London
London Common Council
Josh Billings
Agin
Cupid
Kant
The
Johnson
Louisiana
Sheridan
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