Diplomats Attend Royal Fare in Tuileries Saloon
The wife and daughters were led from the dancing saloon by Earl and Lady Granville as the corps diplomatique watched. Don Francisco was escorted to the table and his family rose with host and gawkers until he finished soup. No royal taint of mood or manners is evident in the honored figures, and at the Tuileries they are not segregated nor privileged in the ceremony.
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Earl
Lady Granville
Corps Diplomatique
Don Francisco
Greenville sitting convicts Coleman Rush in counterfeit case
In Greenville the court tried Coleman Rush a Union District native for passing counterfeit or altered bills and he was sentenced to be whipped on May 29. Accomplice Springs who was bailed did not appear for trial. The Spartaburg Court House spring term opened with Judge Earle presiding and few major criminal cases expected.
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Greenville
Coleman Rush
Union District
H. C. Young
C.F. Townes
Gen. Whitner
Earle
Rush
Springs
Canal
Greenvile Mountaineer
Terrible flood disaster at Simmonsville Johnston
The Providence Herald reports a catastrophic flood when the Simmonsville dam failed after heavy rain and wind. Homes, a factory, stores, and mills were swept away. initial counts indicated about thirty six to twenty dead with many missing and others still surrounded by rising waters.
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Johnston
Simmonsville
James J. Simmons
Olveysville
Sprague
Mon- Tav Town
Beily
Wars and debts loom in a late eighteenth century review
A London critique summarizes wartime costs from 1793 to 1803 to 1815, tallying millions in pounds and dollars and linking debt growth to currency depreciation and taxes. It notes 65 years of war in 140 since the revolution and a national debt near eight hundred millions while reporting a Seneca treaty removing tribes westward for land and money.
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London
Great Britain
Bonaparte
United States
Moloch
Wien
National Intelligencer
Senate
Buffalo
Lost Sea Gull seals fate after June voyage with Vincennes
A report from New York notes the pilot boat Sea Gull, tender to the U S warship Vincennes, is presumed lost with all hands after departing Orange, Terra del Fuego in June with the Flying Fish. Lieutenants Reed and Bacon were aboard, and the Porpoise had searched twice without success.
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Vincennes
Orange
L'Erra de
Reed
Bacon
Liverpool Cotton Market Report March 29
Cotton sales total 15 000 bags Friday with 3 000 sold today. Market heavy with buyers taking advantage over last week as price reductions stay small. 35 vessels from the United States 2 from Brazil and 1 from Egypt arrived. Havre notes a weekly decline with sales of ordinary to inferior U S and Brazil imports.
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Liverpool
United States
Brazil
Egypt
Havre
Cotton Market and Shipping Report from Havre
Havre March 17. The Sylvie de Grasse arrived with New York dates to the 17th. Cotton sales 600 bales, Upland at 81.50 francs, 84 cents NY. Arrivals 12,900 bales. stocks now 72,000 bales, 66,000 from the United States. Prices show a further decline amid weak demand across districts. Also notes on whalebone sale, Carolina rice, coffee softening, and Bahia sugar with limited demand. Vessel list includes Sylvie de Grasse and others from New York and New Orleans.
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Loui
Mobile
Georgia
Floridas
Bahia
Charleston
New Orleans
New York
United Sites
Havre
Sylvie de Grasse
Petit Courant
Liverpool
United States
Sheffield
Laurens
Perdonnet
E. Parkive
Talma
Rio
Death of 4 year old Margret Ann Des Damona Hawkins
In this town on the 12th inst after a prolonged illness died Margret Ann Des Damona Hawkins daughter of Mrs Mary Hawkins aged 4 years 5 months. The verse line notes that no age is free from death even young children.
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Margaret Ann Des. Damona Hawkins
Mary Hawkins
Sailing log notes for April voyages from Charleston to J G Henning co
The April entries show steamer Anson to J G Henning & Co with passengers Mrs M Y Howren and Mr Hyman and a list of travelers including Mrs Coleman Miss King and Messrs Allston Melver and Timmons. Also listed are shipments, cotton bales, and multiple steamers Waterman Saul Phelps and Oscola Christian with names of passengers and destinations to Cheraw Porterdow and Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anson
Lubbock
Charleston
J. G. Henning, &Co
M. Y. Howren
Hyman
Behr
Schr Saul Phelps
I. Waterman
Gertrude Watson
B. Kitashington
Porterdow
Jones
J. G. He
J. G. Henning
Sloop Samuel Martain and brig Detroit Baker sail from Charleston and New York
April 7 report lists Sloop Samuel Martain under Martin sailing for Charleston aboard Steamer Anson from Lubbock, with Brig Detroit Baker ready for New York. Vanny Coit Baker also noted for voyage.
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Samuel Martain
Martin
Charleston
Anson
Lubbock
Detroit Baker
N. York
Vanny Coit Baker
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Cheif Justice Reid
Great Western
Reid
Vwearine News
Port of
Georgetown
Winyaw Indigo Society
Methodist Church
Williams
Episcopal Church
James
MITH
A. Myers
Clk
James Heaselden
James Henselden
Samuel Kirton
Comptroller Cicneral
ED Hayne
Edgefield Advertiser
Pendleton Messenger
Greenville Mountaineer
Camden Journal
Cheraw Gazette
South Carolinian
Logan & Magill
N. O
N. Emanuel
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