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Newspaper
Delaware State Reporter
Location
Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1855
Page
2
The Delaware State Reporter outlines subscription rates and terms, advertising charges, and notice prose for meetings and Democratic Party items. It notes prices for annual and semiannual subscripts, ad rates by square, and approval for official notices by Edwards, Potts, and others.
A chaotic report details five exploratory routes from St Paris to Puget Sound and Benicia, with distances, costs, and distortions. It blends war era notes with a political fallout discussion in New Hampshire, mentioning factions, speakers, and potential shifts in power.
Ten days from Europe report a cabinet crisis in Britain with resignations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Home Secretary and Chief Lord of the Admiralty. Roebuck inquiry and private disputes trigger reshuffles and hopes for peace. News also notes battles near Eupatoria and Spain's Cortes indemnity bill amid American-U S tensions.
Government notice outlines entitlement for surviving veterans and their heirs to land grants under the March 3 1855 act. Classes include officers soldiers seamen militiamen wagonmasters and Indians who served, with provisions for minors widows substitutes and death of claimants. Warrant issuance depends on verified service and proper guardianship or next friend for minors.
A jumble of brief notes covers Indiana banking, a military review at Jefferson Barracks for Indian War plans, Worcester Worcester fines for drunkenness, a city extension bill and population figures, railroad projects from Columbia to Safe Harbor, rearranged reports from New Orleans Vera Cruz and Mexico, a Kansas wind-transport stunt, wheat prospects in Ohio Port and Sparta Patersons Falls tragedy. The piece blends local lore with distant events and curious curiosities.
The text outlines the royal family�s future, noting Nicholas has six children and Alexander, born April 1818 and married to the Hessian grand duke�s daughter, is poised to succeed. It mentions four sons for Alexander and suggests his peaceful nature could help end the war.
A garbled report from Maine describes a dramatic farm scene with a stranger on notice and a fire. The account mentions a seven foot tall figure and a bow as a defender, while unclear details allude to a controversial state order and a debate about eastern trio thirds.
Measures cited defend emigrants and exposed settlements in Nebraska Territory. Troops promised along the Platte valley from east to west, with two full regiments deployed after a new acting governor took office, aiming to secure settlers’ property and chattels from raiders and threats.
A storm on November 26 sinks the Gotte Condon schooner Conductor off Lane Port Cat. Captain Hackett and crew perish, while Mrs. Margaret Becker saves the remaining crew by building a fire and aiding them ashore. She is praised as a courageous and selfless rescuer.
A fragmented marriage notice records a union on the thirty fifth day, officiated by a Reverend James Erg, naming the couple as Miss Senet and Mr. Samcea Tome. The location hints at New Castile. Additional readable names appear unclear.
Died on Friday morning at his residence in Sevatk Delaware, seventy years old. Also reported is the death on the 13th of the current month of Amemer F Cars, aged thirty five years.
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