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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1841
Page
1
Terms for the telegraph service list price points: two dollars in advance, two fifty within six months, and three dollars after six months. Notes include advance payment for job work and advertising, with subscription considered as after six months.
Missionary Coan presents a July account of the Kilauea eruption on Hawaii. The lava flowed from a summit forest site to the sea, creating a fiery river, destroying forests, forming new coastal features, and lighting the night like day.
During a surprise British Indian attack on Wheeling in 1782, Elizabeth Zane volunteered to run powder to the fort’s block house. She dashed through enemy fire, retrieved a keg of powder, and returned, while columns of fire and shouts rang around. Her bold act helped sustain the fort under siege.
A column discusses the probable passage of a distribution land bill and presents scattered public land statistics from 1820 to 1837, including acres offered and sold, unsold lands by state, and total revenue. It closes with a lengthy, tongue in cheek meditation on pork and its poetic imagery, noting how ham and chops are celebrated in hot weather and public meals.
The piece questions poetry about pigs, contrasting pigs with frogs, mice, dogs, and horses. It notes pigs are seen as ugly and dirty, lacking sympathetic portrayal, and mentions their brutality and final fate as butchered meat.
In United States District Court Judge Hopkinson hears depositions on the voyage of the William Brown from Liverpool to Philadelphia. Alexander William Holmes stands charged with murder after passengers were thrown overboard during the sinking near an ice field. Witnesses Sally Carr and Owen Carr describe the crowding boat scene and identify Holmes and others as participants in the fatal act.
The Cheltenham Free Press notes a vast iron steamship born of modern engineering. It claims 1200 nominal horsepower and plate iron construction with a unique piston driven by an unseen expansive principle. No paddles or paddle boxes. it is described as walking over waves like a creature of hire.
The Troy Whig notes farmers are receiving seven to eight cents more per pound for wool bags than a year ago and predicts further price increases if Congress enacts expected measures. It warns such rises would aid farmers unless interests misdirect policy.
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