A Traveller's Conscience and a Merchant's Reckoning
A night scene shows a destitute girl pleading for help as a traveler passes. He resists giving alms, later haunting a mansion where a well off daughter asks for a ball, then discovers the girl dead from hunger. The merchant regrets his denial and aids the daughter, guiding her to a higher future. Then a desert tale explains camel bones mark routes to oases and pilgrims graves, with Vesuvius crater described in dramatic detail.
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Maggy
Cairo
Mecca
M. Dumas
Bechara
Simeon
Sinai
Disinterment of Nineveh Reveals Doorways at Kor Sabad
Paris letters from Constantinople report Botta’s Kor Sabad discoveries near Nineveh. Artist Eugene Flanden travels to document excavations as fifty laborers unearth a colossal two‑door relief hall fifty feet tall and a wall of bas reliefs. Botta plans ten months to reveal more.
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Nineveh
Paris
Constantinople
Botta
Korsabad
Eugene Flanden
Khorsabad
Jonas
Tigris
Smart Son of a King
An eastern king confined his son in a dark room until he reached an age of about fifteen to spare him blindness. Upon release the king exposed the boy to light and showed various objects, teaching him that girls were devils. When asked what he liked, the boy answered in a playful mispronunciation about “the beat of Bay thing.”
Petrifaction Frights in New Cemetery
A New Hampshire Patriot writer recounts petrifaction in Iowa Territory soil and a town burial find. Coffins were unusually heavy during removal from the new cemetery and a five year-dead woman showed exterior limestone like petrified flesh while interior tissue remained decayed.
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N. Hampshire
Iowa Territory
Mre. Evans
Eastern
Argus
High life in York exposes a bustling fashion critique
In Jonathan Siicx's celebrated work he enlarges on York's fashion of the day and recounts a conversation at cousin John's mansion. He quips about Mary and other women, noting their backs and bustle while the room smiles and talks with the fellers present.
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Jonathan Siicx
York
Jonathan
John
Connecticut
Mary
Swazi Mistakes in Sermon and Pleading Tale
A minister and a lawyer trade quips on mistakes in pleading and preaching. The lawyer says he mends large errors and passes small ones, and the minister asks about preaching slips. The preacher recounts a slip where he intended to say the devil is the father of liars but said father of lawyers, choosing to let the small error pass.
Centenarian in Wales Links Four Georges to Victoria
A Welsh man born in 1724 reaches 120 years, having survived four Georges and William IV into Queen Victoria era. He remains healthy, and walks to a nearby village to visit a daughter, aged.
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Wales
Georges
William IV
Queen Victoria
A Learned Doctor Praises Tight Lacing Public Benefit
A doctor claims tight lacing benefits society by eliminating foolish girls and leaving only wiser ones to become women. The remark frames a controversial gender practice as a public good.
Arrival of the steamship Cambria at Boston
The Cambria under Captain Judkins arrived in Boston from Liverpool after a 20 day voyage. It left Liverpool January 4 and reached Fairfax January 21, then sailed to New York with ninety passengers and about 250 tons of freight amid stormy seas.
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Cambria
Judkins
Boston
Liverpool
Fairfax
New York
N. Y. Herald
The
Sun
Wilmer & Smith
European Times
Arctic
Atlantic
Pacific
Prussia
Wallace and
Bruce
France
Paria
Belgium
Univers
Mesopotamia
Siam
Espartero
Lisbon
Switzerland
China
Cairo
Suez
Mr. Sands
Theatre Royal
Oregon News and Pacific Happenings August to September
From Oregon and the Sandwich Islands arrives tidings up to August and September. Governor Kekuanaoa hosted a grand dinner for the King and court on August 27 at the Fort residence. Oregon adjourned in July after passing laws including a $100 forfeiture for selling ardent spirits south of the Columbia. A Belgian brig with nuns and Romana Catholic priests reached Oregon City on August 1. Willamette Falls limits river navigation for large sea vessels. The colony grows with many arrivals, and a settler invites Yankees to make Oregon another New England.
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Oregon
Sanpwich Islands
New York
N. Y
Sandwich Islands
U. States
Britain
France
England
Kekuanaoa
Hawaii
Columbia River
Oregon City
Antwerp
Church of Rome
Willamette River
Yankees
New England
Cherokee difficulties near final adjustment after dragoon help
Reports from the Cherokee country say the Board of Commissioners neared completion of inquiries into the Cherokee difficulties. A police force once challenged Captain John Rogers and other leaders, but U.S. dragoons blocked the seizure. Delegates were chosen to travel to Washington for a final settlement as Council adjourned. A Missouri paper notes rumors of Utas traders killed and violence near Santa Fe and Fort Laramie.
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Board of Commissioners
John Ross
John Rogers
U.S. Dragoons
Washington
The
Western
Missouri
Santa Fe
Fort Larmie
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Vesuvius
Polytechnic Review
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Europe
Mexico
New Orleans
Herman
Vera Cruz
N.O. Tropic and
Picayune
Chamber of Deputies
Santa Anna
Senor Rejon
Polk
United States
Don Nicholas Bravo
Guanajuato
Silar
Pacheco
Departments
Jalapa
Paredes
Puebla
Pasedre
Capitol
Valencia
Guzman
Morales
Bravo
Sisters of Charity
War Department
Department of Vera Cruz
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