Bleeding a King A Greedy Physician and an Unscrupulous Surgeon
A vivid tale from the court of Louis XIV recounts how an Irish Marechal and a young Parisian surgeon plotted to bleed the king for money. Daquin was arrested, the council of state condemned the act, and he was banished from court to Quimper Corentin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iago
Antoine Daquin
Daquin
Marechal
Versailles
Dailin
Council of State
Quimper-Corentin
London Standard
Burro Drivers Carry Candles and English Jurors’ Pay
A page-length mix notes Mexican burro drivers carrying candles for night travel and the striking effect of light on their faces. It also critiques English jurymen pay, citing 5 shillings a day for views and small daily fees in various courts. A Bristling village anecdote from Newark follows about a husband praised for gifts yet deemed unlikely to endure.
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Mexico
England
Mayor's Court
London Sheriff's Court
Chambers’ Journal
Independent Criticism and Child’s Fright Reply
A little girl stares at a visitor’s bonnet as the caller asks if she likes it. The child answers that her mother and Aunt Milly call it a perfect fright, but it does not frighten her. The text notes that one who commits injustice grows more wretched than the one who suffers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milly
Sin Roe
T, P, Kimball
Valuable Property For Sale In Dahlonega
I will sell my Dahlonega holdings on reasonable terms. Include home on Water and Singleton streets with seven rooms, Ferguson place on Singleton, a rental cottage, a large livery stable on West Main Street, a 40 acre tract near Cooper Gap road known as the Mahen lot, and a quarter share of the old post office lot with a four room cottage. All debtors should settle at once.
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Dahlonega
Water
Singleton Streets
Singleton Street
Ferguson Place
West Main Street
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King
Atchison Globe
Maggie
Ireland
Newark News
Red Rock
I & Dod
Atlant
Townsend's Stand
Nugget Office
W.B. Townsend
North Georgia Agricultural College
G. R. Glenn
Ahlonega
Agricultural College
Prostidlions
DR. C. Hr. Jones
Nuener
J.P
Justice’s Court
Wining Supplies
J. F. Moore
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