25 Oct 1836
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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1836
Page
1
Terms include two dollars per annum payable half yearly with a raise to two dollars and fifty cents after one year. No paper stops until arrears are paid unless editors opt otherwise. Advertisements cost one dollar per square for three insertions and twenty five cents for each additional insertion. Yearly advertisers receive discounts. Most country produce accepted as payment.
In a Hartford Times piece Kate Terry, daughter of Oliver Terry, rises amid early settlers and a love match with Ephraim Wadsworth. Solomon Morgan's witchcraft scare leads to a water ordeal. Ephraim rescues Kate, they flee, and Morgan reforms. The narrative blends frontier life with Puritan trials and moral lessons.
During General Harrison's Virginia stop at Pluvanna C H residents welcomed him with a tar barrel in the street. A black snake leaped out and fled, and onlookers cried that it resembled Van Buren the spoils chief. The serpent hid in a kitchen cellar and escaped.
High constable Hays searched a house for a $100 bill stolen from a man. Near leaving, he gave the old woman in attendance his hand and found a tailor's thimble on her finger containing the identical note. The officer's keen insight led to the capture of the evidence.
Cincinnati Mirror reports a man hanged in a neighboring state confessed on the gallows that his crime spree began with stopping a newspaper without paying. The note ties petty theft to burglary and murder in a grim arc.
Richmond Enquirer editor claims he cannot swallow Colonel Johnson after the Baltimore Convention adjournment and jokes about forcing a wider gulp as a metaphor for removal. The Louisville Journal reproduces the quip with vivid slang.
The Cincinnati Gazette presents General Harrison's views on the criminal bill. It cites a December 31 182? explanation in the Hamilton Intelligencer arguing against misrepresentation and clarifying his stance while he was not a candidate or officeholder.
John H Pleasants writes from Richmond dated Sept 15 1836 defending General Wau H Harrison against Maryland charges of selling white men. He offers a Baltimore paper with the charge to refute it, praising Harrison for private liberality and public sacrifice and signing as a fellow citizen.
Richmond September 15 1836 Letter defends against a charge of voting to sell imprisoned debtors. The writer says no such bill existed in Ohio and cites Senate journals showing opposition to imprisonment for debt. He denounces the accusation as a vile calumny and notes his lifelong stance against debtor imprisonment.
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