Ode and peril in Maggie's midnight house
A sermonlike meditation on faith opens with devotional lines about heaven and the divine, then shifts to a dramatic scene in a New York Observer tale. Maggie, mistress of a haunted estate, confronts a coffin burglar, guns drawn. She outwits him, tends his wounds, and awaits daylight as authorities are summoned. The piece closes with moral reflections on wealth, happiness, honor, and humility.
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Erie
Maggie
Tie
Margie
Mr. Archibald
Mazzie
Gamie
Bright
Carly
Officers of Justice
Magpie
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Snake inside a girl ends after extraction, 1874
A young woman near Christiana, detailed as Thankful Taylor, was tormented for years by a supposed reptile in her stomach. On June 26 Dr J M Burger removed a live snake from her stomach, twenty three inches long. The snake’s extraction relieved her and she soon recovered, able to walk and attend church.
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Fecesboro Em
Christiana
Star
J. M. Burger
Thankful Taylor
William Carroll
Sis
Burger
Tavas
Julanne Batton
Sam
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Burglar Alarmed House Stands as Maggie Guards Night
Maggie in Van Nott mansion fears danger as she notes the house’s security measures. Archibald Van Nott, wealthy and guarded, leaves Maggie to hold the line with a watchman’s alert, a bell, a watchdog, and reinforced doors. Evening loneliness, superstitions, and a looming sense of doom fill the scene.
Swift Retribution and Miscellany From an 19th Century Letter
A fragmentary column reports a widow in Anderson County receiving $600 owed by the government army claim, followed by a brutal night robbery where items and threats are described. It then shifts to notes on Confederate dead at South Mountain, battlefield remanufacture in Hagerstown, and the removal of remains. Other items include homesteading rules for soldiers, aphorisms, and humorous anecdotes about military practice and various oddities across the United States such as mining, population counts, and mining.
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Indiana
Ewan
Jus
PO Carer
Peter
Iiteben
Dinaay Tau
Tihishesl
Giso
Srouhissur
Loudon
London
Gag ‘Light and Coke Company
Thames
Victoria Park
Barking Cronk
Lexington
Drees
Anderson County
Washington
Movs
Hegguil
Rabbrs
Has
South Mountain
Hagerstown
Boonsboro
Odd-Fillow
Henry Mumin
Wise's
Vanity Fair
Lews
John Ploughman
Eoplind
London Figaro
Rye Beach
Big Bob
Bob
Robert
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Allison
Jai Ostiee
Blairsville
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Ol Ictime
Masgie
Margaret Black
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Oullinans
New York Observer
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Scotland
Wilton and
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Wales
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England
Robert Morris
Williams
Floyd
Lloyd
Lewis Morris
Trish
Carroll
Read
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Hooper
Livingston
Morton
Norman
Bartlett
O ‘ Bynch
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Gwynnedd
Hewes
Morris
Lancashire
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Meredydd
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Connors’ Creek
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Congress
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