De Rudio the Assassin of the Orsini Plot
The article recounts De Rudio a former Austrian officer turned US Army regular and conspirator with Felice Orsini in the 1858 Paris plot to assassinate Emperor Napoleon III. It describes his bravery preventing grenade misfires, the failed assassination, the casualties, and his arrest in the early hours as Paris reeled from the attempted attack on the imperial carriage outside the Grand Opera House.
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S.deu
de Rudio
United States
Bismarck
Washington Territory
Sert
Niel
de Radio
Paris
Felice Orsini
Empress Eugenie
Opera House
Lancers
Orsini
France
Pieri
Soldier Escapes French Guinea Penal Colony to Join U S Army
A man previously convicted was supposedly discharged after presenting an alibi during a trial. His sentence involved the scaffold, then transport to a penal settlement in Guinea, Africa, where he later escaped to America and enlisted in the United States Army.
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de Budio
Sibesmand
Guinea
Africa
America
United States Regular Army
Famine in China prompts US report to Washington
Minister Seward forwards to the State Department a mid March summary on the Chinese famine across Shansi Chihli Shantung Shensi Henan Szchuen and Kane provinces. 15 million face actual famine while 60 million suffer distress as drought and transportation failures hinder relief, with opium and missionary aid earning Chinese favor amid refugee flows to Peking and Tientsin.
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China
Seward
State Department
Washington
Shansi
Chihli
Shantung
Shensi
Henan
Szchuen
Kane
Peking
Tientsin
A Tale That Is Told and the Street Scene It Portrays
A reflective meditation on life’s brevity contrasts with a vivid urban street panorama. It recalls ninety years as a fleeting span while detailing daily city life with bazaars, street vendors, a barber, storytellers, crowds, guards, and night watchmen patrolling lantern lit streets.
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Sahibis
Newspaper thief condemned in crowd of mock sentences
A York subscriber theft case provoked wide mockery from multiple papers. Locals joked about punishing the culprit with various harsh methods, reflecting a rumor of conviction and public anger.
Too Practical Tales From a Lively 19th Century Page
A curious collection of snippets and quips from a late 1800s column. It mixes anecdotes about a minister and a boy learning truth telling, quips about newspapers, phonographs, and jokes on language, with notices of accidents, nature, farming, and societal oddities.
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Harrisburgh Telegraph
Everett Pess
Clarion Democrat
Brookville Graphic
Iivetal Tyre
Tom
Chicago
L. W. Smith
Merced County
Cal
Russia
Siberia
Crimea
Kiev
Astrakan
Kasan
Finland
Poland
Krussinia
San Francisco
Music Journal
Iowa - Poulterers’ Association
Burlington
Hawkeye
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Boston
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