Fragmented historical excerpt on home life and battle recount
A long mixed text blends a cluttered poetic fragment with a historical sketch of Greene and Rawdon at Hobkirk's Hill in 1781. It describes military maneuvers, retreats, and cannon actions near Camden, plus later moralizing on home life and marriage duties. The piece weaves poetry with wartime narrative and domestic guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grogne
Cornwallis
South Carolina
Forsts Watson
Ninety-Six
Greene
Camden
Lord Rawdon
Rawdon
Hobkirk’s Hill
Ubaméston
Lynshis Creek
Gren
Jones
Green
Hobkirk’s
Camden Plains
Worthing
Carrington
Pine Tree Creek
Plaquets
Washington
Campbell
Ford
Rewden
Demene
Gunky
Guilford _ Court
Robertson
Olparly
Coloniél Washington
Gundy
Gunby
Fort Motte
Marion
Lée
Fox
Aiman
Bean
A Caffre Wedding Among Natal Tribes
From a late Book of Travels in Natal, South Africa, an account describes Fingoo chief’s fourteenth wife wedding. A circular enclosure hosts matrons with children, armed startiers, and the bridegroom a sixtyish, toothless man. Bridesmaids move in a bright vale path as choruses rise, then marriageable youths gather, and the armed Caffres charge with drums and shouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natal
South Africa
Anow
Cinbodie
Gros
Miscellaneous Selections on Womanly Virtue and Journalism
A collage of essays on beauty and virtue contrasts with views on voice, manners, and pleasure. Readings critique female refinement, Miltonic Eve, and social rules, then praise a refined female voice. The piece muses on innocent pleasures, press progress, and light anecdotes about fashion, manners, and the war era.
The Magician’s Belfry Miracle in Northern France
A skilled pupil of Houdin travels with a printing director through a French town famed for industry. They stage a show promising to make the cathedral bell ring at a chosen hour. The trick uses a hidden cash box and magnetic effects, fooling a magistrate with a closing claim of magnetism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Houdin
France
Wag
Paris
A Colored Preliminary Tale Retold From Rural Rumor
A rural story recounts a colored speaker delivering a farcical three part “preliminary” lecture on knowing and not knowing. The anecdote includes dialectal rambling, comic mispronunciations, and a dessert scene with a hotel waiter addressing a guest, ending with a humorous misread line about extending the meal.
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Delaware
Dover
Pines and Bréte-Establishment
Wi ¢Dmer
Raed Streets
Philadelphia
Landreth&son
Beret
Del
Oreignt
Uryon
Payanse Twameson
South Fourth Sty
Dickson
Inbar
Ance
Lockerman Street
Main
Gresr
Milfortselz
OHN McDovely
Main Street
Janes Bewley
General Produce Commission
South Wharves
Bey Cah Serr
A. D. Greene
Ninth and Arch Streets
B. Pentngton Real Estates
Adhington Hotel
Juss & Qe
Market Street
Siath
Eot Jones Webster
Third
Race Streets
Eine
W. Bacon
Produce and General Commission
Ledad
South Second St
Gtauffre & Barley
Dentere
Qauuel BS
Eetherston
S. & M. Penn
Wilmington
Vv -B
N-E
Fifth and
Clipstnut Street
Pbteary
Southaban
the St
Aller Pry
Potty
Allie Fay
Hobkirk's Hill
New York
Joita
Gaffre Beer
Christien
Farmers’ Bank
Batween
Milford
Imington
U.S
Kneller’s
Abe
Paradise
Sampang
A. Swerr Vorer
Willis
Iacome
Bedrows
Tyre
Newton
Primmer
England
Gumerous Shiscellemp
Watering Place
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