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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1841
Page
2
The article discusses agriculture routines for peas flax corn and garden crops with emphasis on early sowing methods plaster use and manuring. It notes Dr Plummers experiments on boiling peas to destroy pea bug larvae and mentions flax turnips and fencing while also touching on South Carolina nullification and political shifts around a Hoyt Morgan dismissal.
The report notes Mr Hoyt was found deficient by about ten thousand dollars nearly a year earlier and the deficiency continued to grow. By the time of his dismissal the total reached one hundred eighty nine thousand dollars, reported quarterly or more often to Washington by local officers.
A national mood favors Congress funding for General Harrison's bereaved family. Opinion pieces from the National Intelligencer and others urge an early appropriation, arguing moral obligation and public duty. Reports note Charleston citizens and newspapers urging a lawful, generous grant, with quotes from legislative history on aiding a president's kin. The piece highlights a large temperance procession in Baltimore honoring the late president and calls for swift Congressional action.
A Lyne Belle Vue meeting on April 29 1841 will publicly honor the memory of the late President Hershey Hanson. Citizens from Bellevue and surrounding towns invited to gather at the Presbyterian Meeting House in Lyne with the Bellevue Band leading a procession from the Log Cabin site to services at 2 o clock. The program includes music, a throne of grace by Rev S D Burritt, an address by Rev Reynolds, and a concluding public meeting to consider resolutions.
In a periodical discussion, the Whig platform defends targeted removals for cause while opposing blanket purges. It argues offices must go to honest, capable officials and warns against partisan manipulation. A Milan canal launch and a New York charter vote follow, with crime indictments and temperance themes in Henry County court notes.
Fragmentary text references the Erie Canal, a county, and 19 shops plus a licensed tavern related to crime. Mentions April 24, 1944 and court persuasion. Contains unclear foreignups and garbled phrases.
The text urges all religious denominations in the United States to observe a day of fasting and prayer on Friday May 14 to seek divine aid and protection, following the death of William Henry Harrison shortly after his inauguration. It calls for national unity, reverence, and supplication for the country and government.
The notice lists James D Doty as Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin, Walter Forward to be Comptroller of the Treasury, Joseph Rilner as Treasurer, Henry Harrison as Register of the Land Office at Dubuque, Iowa, John Wells Jr as Justice of the Peace for Washington County DC, and several attorneys appointed for various districts, plus marshals for Florida and Missouri among others. It also reports a tragic death of two Wellington children from a gun accident, and cites China news about the Panama on Canton and possible war developments with a tea cargo aboard.
A London correspondent notes the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway bought ten U S built locomotives at over £1500 each. English manufacture, facing foreign demand, may lag as America expands iron and textile exports. American locomotives are praised as superior, and Lowell cloth is judged on par with English. A London medical meeting proposes a remedy for toothache involving alum preparations.
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