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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1867
Page
3
A dense, cluttered local ad page notes cheap printing papers and taxes, with notices from J. Brooks Clerk of the Inferior Court about charity corn distribution, and warnings about a green pool under summer sun causing malaria. It also covers a Lyceum debate, garden produce brag, a severe April storm damages crops, and cautions about cautionary advertisements offering dubious lotteries.
A lengthy positive notice praises a southern female institution conducted by Rev Mr Stout and Miss Cornelia Hin. It commends attentive primary work, arithmetic, geography, grammar, and rhetoric. The review highlights refined music instruction, a vivid vocal and instrumental program, and an enthusiastic audience reaction.
The table lists direct tax collections by state under the June 7, 1202 act, including sales of property for nonpayment. It notes Alabama had no collections since August 3, 1866, and Arkansas and Tennessee reports are yet incomplete. It also reports on Dry Tortugas prisoners, including Scott’s release and flogging practices, and mentions the steamer Ruth raid by Confederates in 1863 with $4,000,000 in greenbacks seized.
Six members of the Ransley Hall family contracted trichina spiralis from a week old ham eaten uncooked. A daughter, Ida, died on Monday. Mrs Hall is critically ill while the others are out of immediate danger. Symptoms included eye pain, swelling, vomiting, diarrhea, profuse perspiration and urination, and extreme limb pain. The case outlines a rapid progression with high pulse and extreme suffering before death.
Market reports from Macon and New York show brisk initial demand for cotton and middlings at 284 cents in Macon. Afternoon trading cooled due to unfavorable telegraphic news with prices around 296 for middlings in New York and receipts totaling 1165 bales. overall activity described as dull with 490 bales sold.
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