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Newspaper
Delaware State Reporter
Location
Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1859
Page
3
A historical notice outlines subscription prices including one copy for one year at $2.00 with advance payment and larger club rates for multiple copies. It also details advertising rates: twelve lines or less at 60 cents per insertion, 26 cents for each subsequent insertion, with full rates for unspecified durations and liberal terms for yearly advertisers.
Dover reporters summarize a Kent County criminal court session showing nineteen free negroes arraigned for larceny and assault while no slaves were tried. The piece attacks abolitionist press and urges Southern self-government, warning against an increased free black population as a societal curse.
The April 1859 court session named Fence Viewers for Kent County covering Duck Creek Little Creek Dover Murderkiln Mispillion and Milford Hundreds. Appointees include Isaac Short James B Snow Peter Colting Prestley Spruance Jr Ebenezer Clonk Daniel Cummins James E B Clark Thomas Lamb William K Burrows Enock David James Williams Armwell Darborough Samuel York Joseph Soward Henry Hazel Simeon Blood Thomas Pickering Sr McHroy Mellivane Barrett P Conner John Baily Thomas Reynolds Henry Cowgill Samuel G Cobee Thomas Gooden Jacob F Lewis John AM Smith Ferdinand Baynard Alexander Johnson Moses Harrington Lewellen Sharp William A Polk Curtis By Beswick William Halt Clement L Sharp William D Griffith and William Hill Poe DeLavantas. Also notes civic journalism remarks on a new paper’s first issue and a local dining mention at Fountain’s Hotel.
The piece reports escalating tensions in Europe as Austria mobilizes 100000 troops and a feared Franco Russian alliance looms. It notes potential disruption to American securities, a Sardinian response, and cautions about a likely war. It moves on to critiquing local press coverage of transportation projects and updates on regional rail works and crops.
The late election returns show the Black Republican state ticket winning by small margins across Governor Treasurer Comptroller and Secretary with narrow majorities in Congress and Senate. They hold a weak legislative edge and appear on the verge of collapse, while other notes cover Texas anti slavery actions Utah orders and various curiosities.
Lord Derby warns that a war over Italy will not stay contained and could ignite a continental blaze. A New York correspondent praises a Bloomingdale Road estate of Hon. D. E. Sickles, noting wealth and beauty and a domestic felicity. A fugitive slave case in Zanesville ends with the man released before Wheeling, amid town unrest. Haitian politics show Geffrard facing opposition from mulatto critics and black clubs. Philadelphia cleans Chestnut Street nightly, while the Worcester Palladium touts cabbages for milk production, with carrots valued for cows.
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