30 Aug 1855
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Times
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1855
Page
1
Fort Wayne items recount a brief note on Fort Alin 3 sightings and a dated August 301 1855. Also includes SPIRIT OF THE ADMINISTRATION critical excerpts on legislative directions regarding slavery in Kansas, with hostile references to Pierce era policy and penalties for expressing anti-slavery views. A separate jumbled paragraph laments missing ships and rail disruptions, and jokes about counting hogs.
Mr Canfield, agent for societies as beneficiaries under the will of the late Mr McClure of Lind, tallies a large fund for literary purposes under restrictions. He will meet the city tonight at the usual courts to discuss forming societies. The writer appeals for Know Nothing support to help establish the literary societies.
The work on the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad advances rapidly with promises of great rewards once Chicago stalls are reached. The line linking with the Ohio and Indiana Railroad will create a direct connection to Pittsburgh and the East, potentially superior to existing routes. A new locomotive named the Pioneer has arrived for use on this road and has been placed into service.
The New York Herald discusses Mexico's revolution as a turning point toward closer U S-Mexican ties and mutual interests. It asserts the clash reflects broader sectional aims, suggesting abolitionist projects reshape Northern policy and influence southern labor and slavery debates.
SAM AT WORK The Broadway House Jeffersonian Convention last night initiated most of the Know-Nothing candidates for clerical City County roles. Edward 2. Cowles was nominated as head of the Supreme Court. Judge Murray Thoffman and Lewis P. Woodruff were named for the Superior Court. Judge Chutes II Birdsall was named for Marine Court. Cambridge Lavington, a less prominent lawyer, was chosen as candidate for Me yeining Us. The Governor of Wy Shannon passed through Washington on his way to Kayes Meriter, with his son serving as private secretary.
A notice recalls Mrs. Captain Samuel Reid of naval renown for defending the brig General Armstrong at Royal Port in 1814. Daughter of Capt. Natlu Jennines of Fairfield, she was famed for beauty and patriotism, counts among visitors Jefferson, Clinton, Webster, Clay, and others. She died at sixty one, leaving a large family and many friends, and recently supervised a memorial monument project in Wheeling for her eldest son.
A Paris funeral for Barbon Salomon marks the latest in a sequence of Rothschild deaths. Anslem and Nathaly have passed, leaving James of Paris and Charles of Naples as surviving sons. The piece notes Salomon's palace, the Frankfurt ghetto, and the family’s burst of wealth via trade and diplomacy, concluding with a child’s quip about mending bad habits.
A late nineteenth century column summarizes Pope Pius IX’s criticism of Sardinia and Spain over the excommunication of Piedmont’s king and the Spanish church land laws. It notes the Holy See’s stance on monastic suppression, church property rules, and the Concordat’s interpretation, with ministerial replies highlighting money and property tensions amid broader church sovereignty.
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