Wabash Valley railroad finish expected by December
The Wabash Valley Railroad is reported to be finished with cars running from Toledo to Attica by December first. Bonds sold, work re-let, and full crews soon to be employed between Huntington and Lafayette. Illinois liquor-law vote favored by 14,066 in a 168,336 total. J B Newton buys half of the Frankfort Crescent and edits it. The Wabash Journal debuts at Perrysville by Allen and Fall. editors praised.
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Wabash Valley
Toledo
Attica
Huntington
Lafayette
Ilinois
Wabash Journal
Perrysville
Messrs. Allen & F
New Hampshire Elects Bell and Hale to U S Senate
The Lafayette Journal notes Illinois liquor law debates. If approved it would take effect in 1855, else in 1857. The passage is likened to a preacher promising to speak next Sabbath Lord willing.
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Jf. James Bell
John P. Hale
U.S. Senate
New Hampshire
Illinois
Lafayette Journal
Prohibitory law shows dramatic local impact in Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Journal reports no jailings since the law took effect, a drop from nightly detentions previously. Police dockets shrink, intoxication cases vanish, and rowdyism declines. A Covington Democrat note adds a burglary at the Post Office with letters missing. Dunkirk notes new engine shipments for several lines, with six engines awaiting transhipment.
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Orrick Ronnery
Covington
Breaks in the Canal Slow River Traffic East of Fort Wayne
Heavy rain causes four canal breaks east of Fort Wayne. Roanoke and New Haven suffer the worst culvert washouts. Navigation will be interrupted for weeks with losses to boatmen. Also notes controversial remarks by Rev. Brownlow and a New Haven commentary on local colleges.
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The
Wabash Gazette
Roanoke
Fort Wayne
New Flaven
Parson Brownlow
East Tennessee
Education for all should be free of rent in schoolhouses
L. B. Sims questions a school trustees rule charging rent for school houses arguing it contradicts the spirit of the law. He insists taxes fund schools and education should be as free as air and water, with rent funds unconstitutionally charged to teachers and patrons.
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L. B. Sims
Inquiry on County Officers' Salaries in Carroll County
A reader asks for a detailed breakdown of the 1259 52 dollars listed as County Officers' Salaries for the year ending May 31 1855. The inquiry seeks exact per officer amounts and whether the distribution was fair, urging an official clarification.
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Treasury
Carroll County
Co. Treas
Common Pleas
iDene
Agtigulvural Society
Pak San Mule
Battesen Heane Delphi
Tod Waive
Ayant
Inimical Sam and the Realm of Carroll
The article references old liners in dread of Sam and recounts a tale of surveillance and numbering of able men for war. It notes David numbering troops, a small force enlisting on one side, and mentions spies and the Treasury holding over five million dollars in small silver change.
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San
Salt Shed
John
Rockcreek
David
Israel
Realm of Carroll
Sam
Santa
Ers
United States Treasury
Confession of the Fahrenbaugh Murder Trial
Three men named John Chapman John Jenkins and Joseph Privett faced trial after two confessions by Longley and Clark as witnesses. The jury acquitted the accused while the confessors were found guilty but sentenced to life in the penitentiary.
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John Chapman
John Jenkins
Joseph Privett
Thomas P. Longley
David Clark
Jnd
Jour
Tos. Lowerey
Thos. P. Longley
Tim Driscoll
Abe Rice
Joan Chapman
Wild Cat
Wasteway
Abram Rice
Maine Street
Cephas Fahrenbaugh
Fahrenbaugh
Matthias
Cephas
Driscoll
Rice
Bradford
Jack Wolf
Treen Morrison
Chapman
Jenkins
Privett
Stockton
Seminary
Hoagland
Clark
Tim
Davin Cuarick
Tom Lengley
Sensible’s
Tin Driscoll
Cehhas
Tom Longley
Tom
Tien
Halsey
Allen’s
Jockton’s
Seminaryy
Still House
Hagerty’s
Bixler & Iding’s
Thomas
Joan P. Curry
Illinois
Privett, Chapman and Jenkins
Waterbury’s
Fort Larime Falls to Indians and Raid on Andrew County
Startling Plains News reports Fort Larime captured by Indians while Nave and McCord of Andrew County Missouri lose 420 cattle 16 horses wagons 23 mules and stores at Ash Hollow. No lives lost. Writer urges Western volunteers and experienced leaders to fight and outmaneuver the tribes on the plains.
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St. Louis
Council Bluff
Gallineau
Seargeant’s Bluffs
Four Bears
Kittle
Washington
Vavietteat
Sam
Florida
Iowa
Black Bird
Hills
Plains
Fort Larime
Nave
McCord
Andrew County
Missouri
Ash Hollow
Laramie
Express
States
St. Joseph
D. D. Michell
Startling News from the Plains Correspondence 1855
A Missouri Republican correspondence reports a startling Plains dispatch. Henry Smith recounts a man who slept at the Great Nemaha Mission last night with an express rider, conveying terse, unsettled intelligence.
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Plains
Missouri Republican
British and Allied Movements Reported Amid Crimea News
The St Louis arrived with June 6 Crimea dispatches. Reports from Kerch claim Russian depots and vessels destroyed by Allied forces after naval actions in the Sea of Azov. Menschikoff notes guarded inland push and supply cuts. Berlin letters praise Allied Crimea progress, French Camp cites 200000 French troops, cholera cases rise in St Petersburg, and the Bey of Tunis dies with succession peaceful.
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St. Louis
Asia
New York
St. Lous
England
Admiralty
Edwar Lyons
Kerth
Squadro
Sea of Azoff
Jenicale
Crimea
Prince Menschikoff
Kertch
Berlin
Ist
St. Petersburgh
Tunis
Bombardment Rages as French Take Forts Near Sevastopol
Halifax dispatches relay dire reports from Sevastopol where on June 8 after fierce fighting the French captured the Mamelon and White towers. Allied forces of 20 000 push toward Tchernaya while Russians abandon positions leaving 77 000 tons of coal at Kerch and fifty dismounted guns.
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Halifax
Asia
London
Liverpool
Sevastoran
Sevastopol
Lord Raglan
England
Tchernaya
Kertch
Gies
Kerteh
Gorstchakoff
Dute
Russians destroy guns and evacuate Sougek in Asia
A terse report states Soviet forces destroyed 66 guns and mortars before evacuating Sougek in Asia, leaving the area under apparent control. The fragment suggests ongoing combat operations and retreat by opposing troops.
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Geuitchi
Sougek
Asia
Mass Meeting of the People in Indianapolis 1855
Notice from Indiana voters calling a mass meeting in Indianapolis on July 13 1855. The assembly aims to unite anti Nebraska voters and sympathizers for public affairs discussion and stronger organization of the Republican or People's Party.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
People’s Party
Jnd. Jour
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J. B. Newton
Frankfort
L. Jordan
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Stranew
New Haven
Medical College
Divinity College
Law School
Journal
Mr. Borron
Scott
Jas. H. Doweap
Friends of Freedom and Temperance
Jordan
Blanchard
Carroll Court of Common Pleas
Court House
Camden
Thomas A. Robinson
A. H. Evans
Moses Thompson
Carroll
County of
Towit
a. H. EVANS _NATH. BLACK
Com'ra
Brookston
Gilliford & Freel
GEO
Gilliford
Samuel Fouts
Joel Fouts
Clay Township
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