24 Sep 1845
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1845
Page
1
A July Graham's Magazine excerpt presents Bryant's The Waning Moon poems on mortality and hope and Bryant’s The Maiden's Prayer describing a virtuous girl praying. The page mixes brief verse with local oddities including a Cincinnati goat fight, naval rumors, a Welsh church name, a printer payment quip, and London caricatures about shaving and newspapers.
Col. Kearny of the 1st Regiment of Dragoons returns to St Louis with staff and civilians after an overland voyage from Fort Leavenworth on May 18. The march covered about 2100 miles in under 100 days, via Platte, Sweetwater, South Pass, Green River, and Arkansas to Bent's Fort, then back to Fort Leavenworth. Councils were held with Sioux and other tribes near Laramie and Taos, with pledge to allow Oregon emigrants and Santa Fe traders safe passage while warning against whiskey smuggling. The venture boosts confidence in regular troops for future actions toward New Mexico or California.
The Washington Bee reports on the magnetic telegraph's reach as a Baltimore heiress and a city gentleman exchange love letters in code. A Baltimore gentleman and his heiress beloved use alphabet substitution via telegraph, provoking a puzzled father and public intrigue about new tech.
An letter from a Washington area farmer describes a method to prevent wheat smut using brine and lime, noting a field discrepancy linked to seed wheat. Also reported are a murder in Georgia, a Cincinnati melee at a prize fight, a Vermont minister banning violins, a slave habeas case in Massachusetts, and assorted social notes on manners and poverty.
The notice details an October sheriff sale at Aldgefield Court House under sundry writs. It lists numerous defendants and properties including fifty acres to two thousand acres of land, several enslaved people, horses, wagons, mules, and a town house lot. The ad notes cash terms and names H Boulware and S E D as officers.
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