Harriot Beecher Stowe’s Naples Road Scene Portrays Life Abroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Naples describes street life in Italy as the only light for family life, detailing women with children, donkey carts, and crowding ragged youths. She condemns animal cruelty by carriage drivers and guides, noting blows to horses and donkeys as commonplace and accepted.
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Italé
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Naples
Herculaneum
Italy
Hathem
Donkeies
Iazzaroni
Naplea
Vesuvius
Banished Patriots and Royalists from Naples Compared
The editorial recalls exiles from Naples, eight years in a subterranean prison, and notes a current banishment of the king and court. Patriots found refuge in Christian lands, while royalists face harsher, possibly eternal exile, highlighting divergent fates for political opponents and rulers.
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Naples
Europe
Albany
Constant Evenoment on Happiness and Busy Lifestyles
A reflection argues that constant labor secures happiness while wealth gained suddenly leads to decline. Those in humble, steady work sustain health and contentment, whereas leisure after sudden riches brings decay. Persistent activity calms nerves through daily purpose and restful nights.
Revered Dr. Lyman Beecher Passes at 86
The venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher has entered his eighty sixth year. He shows age’s burdens yet retains cheerful spirit and mobility. He visited many old friends this summer and ten surviving children, traveling to Philadelphia, Orange New Jersey, New England and Guilford Connecticut revisiting early life and marriage sites.
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Lyman Besones
Lyman Beecher
Brainard
Philadelphia
Orange
N. J
Mason
New England
Guilford
New Haven
Day
Prof
Silliman
Y. Independent
To Live Worzh of Ouns Aggasiz and Gould on species
Aggasiz and Gould claim at least 250000 living species exist on earth. The text ponders the vast number of individuals per species, estimating the immense global diversity across cattle pigeons herrings houseflies and mosquitoes as living organisms in a vast cosmos.
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Aggasiz
Gould
Farmer Opens Door To Remorseful Elopement Bride
A wealthy Ohio farmer divorced after his wife eloped with a farm laborer. Years later the sister of the wife appears, marries the deserted man, and now the former wife seeks shelter at the farmer’s remote cabin. He helps her with present needs and she lives out her days on his land.
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Cromanpics Coxsxqvayers
Ohio
Snippet of early American congressional quip
Rodger Sherman a Connecticut representative and shoe maker faces a sharp quip from John Randolph who jokes about a leather apron. Sherman responds with a squeaky retort about preparing to captivate descendants of Pocahontas in Washington.
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Rodger Sherman
Congress
Connecticut
John Randolph
Washington
Mr. Sherman
Pocahontaa
Death of James Sheridan Knowles on Arctic voyage
Announcement reports the death of James Sheridan Knowles aboard the steamer Arctic en route from Bull to Gronstadt. Born in Cork, Ireland in 1784, he began writing in 1915 and produced many plays before retiring to preach Baptist faith. He authored polemical works and novels later in life.
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James Sheridan Knowles
Arctic
Bull
Gronstadt
Cork
Ireland
London
James Knowles
Knowles
Caing
Gracchua
Virginius
Bethnal Green
Hunchback
Wits
Love Chase
Mariendorf
Love
John of
Procida
Rome
George Level
Henry Fortescue
W. ¥. Tribune
Mirage Over Scotland Shoots Seen In Sky Of Ships
A straw mirror mirage over Scotland produced a lengthy line of ships in the air moving east to west. The apparitions appeared as vessels sailing along a river bank with a fortress on a rock visible behind. Sailors at the ropes were clear to the observers, including children, as the illusion lasted nearly half an hour before fading.
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Scotland
Cautionary Tale From Walter Scott On Youth Learning
In a narrative of his personal history Walter Scott warns youth to study, recalling how his own neglect of learning hindered his literary career. He laments the pinched progress caused by ignorance and would trade half his reputation for a solid foundation in learning and science.
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Warren Scott
Walter Scott
Forty six farm mortgages in La Crosse county
The La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad holds forty six farm mortgages totaling 59,450 dollars without interest. Principal and interest now due amount to about 38,006 dollars. Mortgages mature in 1864 and bear five percent annual interest. If no interest is paid before maturity they will total 106,010 dollars.
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la Crosse County
la Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad
Prative du Chien Courier
Rarey the famous horse tamer to visit New York soon
W YF. Tridune notes Rarey the renowned horse tamer is arriving in this country after earning fame and fortune in Europe. He is expected to exhibit his methods in New York and other cities.
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Rarey
Europe
New York
W. YF. Tridune
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