Macon Presbytery adjourns after church call controversy
A Macon Presbytery meeting at the First Presbyterian Church adjourned after debates over Rev J H Nall's removal and the New Orleans church call. The session heard reasons for and against the severance, with a 4 to 1 vote supporting Nall's disconnection and transfer.
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Macon
First Presbyterian Church
J. R. Mcintosh
J. H. Nall
D. D
A. W. Clisby
T. RB
A. E. Chandler
H.F
New Orleans
D. F. Willcox
J. John Body
Movsot
Messrs
L’ea| Body
Downing
Willcox
Dr. Nall
Presbytery
Nall
Three Confederate Statues Walk the Canal Street Evening
A newspaper narrator describes a sultry New Orleans evening stroll past the Custom-House and levee where Generals Jubal Early, G. I. Beauregard, and J. B. Hood appear as living memories in a Southern pantheon. The piece recalls battles, heroism, and a preacher anecdote from Manassas, then shifts to a moral about marital harmony and keeping peace at home.
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Canal Street
The
Democrat
Anal Street
Custom-Holl Building
Jubal A. Early
G.I. Beauregard
J. B. Hood
G.T. Beauregard
Manassan
Charleston
Mexico
Virginia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Beauregard
Hood
Old Jubal Early
Jubal
Manassas
Heaven
Mount Etna Eruption Lights Night Sky with Fire Balls
The Sicily volcano Etna continues to emit sulphurous smoke and lava. Night eruptions produced bright fire balls and thunderlike reports, drawing spectators to a sublime display. The article notes Etna’s famed size and nearby villages harmed in earlier eruptions.
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Sicily
Europe
Fragments Weave Rand Commentary Across Jokes and Snippets
A garbled column compiles odd quips about love luck insects travel and labor, mixing puns with stray lines from papers like the Chicago Tribune and Hartford Courant. It droops into miscellany on bees mummies auctions and agriculture with fleeting jokes about editors and politics.
Friday Unlucky Day Myth Fueled by American History
The Chicago Times compiles Friday facts noting many pivotal American events occurred on Fridays from 1492 to 1777. It highlights Columbus landings and battles, with mentions of Cabot, St. Augustine, Plymouth Rock, Yorktown, and the Declaration of Independence read on a Friday, ending with a New Haven Register quip about childhood habits.
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Eo Meyflower
Provincetown
Plymont Rock
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Bunker Hill
Saratoga
France
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Yorktown
Richard Henry Lee
Continental Congress
Giant Feeds a Feed Store Crowd Then Faces Off With Local Braggart
A 25 year old man known as Jim dazzles onlookers at a feed store by lifting and tossing a bale as store staff plot to teach a boastful eighteen year old a lesson. The giant strides to the cellar, vows to mash the rival, fights, loses his hat, and escapes amid aftermath chatter. A remedy for cold horses using camphor is also noted.
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Harry Edmon
Lily
Harry
Charley Gray
Giles the Huckater
Sarah
Barah
Readers challenged by calendar riddle from Lumpkin Independent
A 1879 letter from Lunexay Georgia asks readers to prove with mathematical demonstration which Februarys had five Sundays in 1880 and when such occurrences happened in the 19th and 20th centuries. The writer promises a chrome prize to the successful solver.
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Lunexay, Ga
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Epyrona
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E. F. Kinesary
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