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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1867
Page
3
A Londoner recalls a journey to the Black Country with blast furnaces alight at night and muddy streets. He meets a pit crew, dons rough clothes, and endures soot smudges on shirt and skin while observing mines, engines, and rail-accessed pits.
A first person journey describes descending into a coal mine, exploring tunnels, shafts, and worker gangs with candles, blasting, and a perilous ascent. The narrator reflects on danger, demonic echoes, and the haunting end with a plea for miners’ families and a call to kindness at Christmas.
A Southern newspaper recounts the Kingston jail fire and massacre of twenty two enslaved men. It condemns the carnage as deliberate, notes arrests of sheriff and jailor by the Freedman's Bureau, and blasts Reconstruction era racism and enfranchisement arguments.
Forty deaths from cholera occurred among U S troops detained in Nicaragua during transit up to January 16. Capt Maury, agent of the line, was mobbed by passengers for letting the Moses Taylor sail to San Francisco without them.
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