South Sea Chief A Fragment A Frenchman’s perilous drift to Otaheite
A narrator recounts Laonce a Bordeaux native who survives a shipwreck near Otaheite. He becomes a respected native chief and husband to the king’s daughter, earns peace by abolishing cannibal vengeance, and endures exile after a rift with a Russian captain. His fate and reunion remain unresolved as the tale closes with hopeful mercy.
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Paul
Virginia
Bordeaux
Great Britain
Republic of France
England
Anis
New Holland
Society Isles
Otaheite
Laonce
Europe
Withal
Laence
Wuue
Lua
F Rami
Berea
South Sea
Aonce
Kamschatka
South Seas
Sinbad
Moscow
Alexander
Russia
Clergyman Chittenden Hangs Self Near Watertown
Reverend William Chittenden a Presbyterian clergyman hanged himself in a barn on Saturday afternoon near Watertown New York. He died by his own hand leaving a note indicating distress over personal troubles.
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William Chittenden
Henry Isham
Watertown
New York
Presley Ewing dies of cholera at Mammoth Cave
Hon Presley Ewing a Kentucky district congressman perishes at Mammoth Cave on Wednesday from cholera. He was described as a man of fine talents, greatly beloved and deeply respected in his prime.
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Presley Ewing
Greet’ (KypDistricty
Mammoth Cave
Tecumseh’s Oxen Demand and Death Feasts on Raisin River
A Detroit Free Press correspondent recalls Tecumseh’s raid near the Raisin River during the Detroit area campaigns. Tecumseh extorted oxen from Old Rivard’s family, paid with a British officer’s pardon, and forced Col. Elliot to honor payment after the chief refused rag money and asserted his people’s right to subsistence. The tale ends with Tecumseh receiving coin and a final demand for an extra dollar for Rivard’s trouble, illustrating native leadership and frontier pressure.
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Tecumseh
Detroit Free Press
Tattusty
Monroe
Detroit
Raisin
Mr. Rivard
Malden
Rivard
Te- Cuntiseh
Nebraska Indians Starving Reported by Iowa Gazette
The Iowa Gazette quotes deplorable conditions among the Oto and Missouri Indians in Nebraska. Government neglect of treaty stipulations leaves tribes hungry, prompting raids on gardens and plunder as whites had paid for protection. Indians claim the Great Father broke his pledge, driving them to break faith with emigrants.
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Nebraska
Local election returns show Mr. Wae Mee's near thousand vote win
The report notes Know Nothings performing in a muddled manner and recounts Louisville candidate Mr. Wae Mee winning by nearly a thousand votes after his name was mentioned during the voting process.
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Wae Mee
Louisville
California Democratic convention damages at Baptist church
The last California Democratic convention met at a Sacramento Baptist church and a quarrel caused a split that damaged pews. Trustees asked participants to leave after damages were paid, the convention covering $406 for paint and woodwork.
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California
Sacramento
Five Dollar Spurious Tote Reported at Phornit Bank
A dangerous five dollar spurious tote has appeared at the Phornit Bank in Chicago. The description notes a Vig nette figure, a female refiring with left arm raised, anchor, raised vessel and rainbow in the scene.
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Phornit Bank
Chicago
Chinese Emigration Trends Reported Amid Sea Losses
A Washington dispatch notes a large wave of Chinese emigrants to California while reporting that about one thousand are believed lost in the China seas from the wrecks of two vessels.
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California
China Seas
Tragic Suicides Reported in Two States
A Bristol Ohio woman Miss Jennie Beard of Wayne county hanged herself from a cherry tree after a failed love affair. In New Hampshire, 27 year old Horace Hodgman, serving seven years for horse stealing, hanged himself in state prison.
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Jennie
Jenttie Beard
Bristol
Wayne Courtly
Ohio
Horace Hodgman
New Hampshire
Prominent Editors Named in State Nominations and Mail Robbery
A St Louis woman was drawn sixteen thousand dollars on the 18th inst from a Missouri State story. In New York two Whig editors Raymond and Brown are nominated for major state offices while Nelson of a local paper is arrested for robbing the mails. What a lesson.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Renanv
Merri
Raymond
Brown
N. York
Nelson
Lessons on Virtue and Thought From Classical Reflections
The text urges restraint and laughter as life virtues while condemning wrongdoing and promoting independent thinking. It emphasizes belief as simple, mortality versus immortality, habit shaping actions, and the nobility of mind over body, noting that custom can corrupt and praise for good deeds is rare.
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Galt
J. Porter
Lao
Neve
Mikdows
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