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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1854
Page
2
The board of canvassers vetoed in session and could not provide official majorities. StateHouse votes expected around 100, federal over 750, with two Republican senators and three representatives elected. County ticket mostly complete except for the treasurer.
Prof Loona of Rochester NY who has trained church choirs in town plans a Friday evening concert at the Presbyterian Church. His pupils’ selections will form the program, and the community is asked to provide adequate compensation for his efforts to advance sacred music. Admission is 25 cents.
The lettered item notes Eaton County politics with references to Dellagogues and Douglasian stinks in residents' nostrils. It mentions preparations to move to Salt River for two years of purification and reports the State, Congressional and Senatorial tickets are ahead while the full county ticket is elected except for representative. It also mentions Waton breaking with Locofocoism and protesting misrepresentation.
Detroit correspondence reports political tension as Republicans claim merit against Democrats in Michigan. The piece notes election quietness, police presence, and weather shifts, with local updates on Meagher lectures, a marriage, railway accidents, and crime headlines.
In dawn light, French and allied troops march from Sebastopol through ruined estates and shattered villas, surveying bloodstained heights near the Aljia while villagers flee. Descriptions of plunder, burned homes, smashed furniture, and arable fruit trees contrast with soldiers marching in good cheer as the expedition proceeds toward Bakshisera and Sebastopol.
A fragment from the Opel periodical at the State Lunatic Asylum Utica prints a period love letter to Matty from Freiddy in Pennsylvania. The writer vows enduring affection, expressing longing through antiquated verse and exaggerated romantic imagery.
The deciphered text lists numerous Whig candidates and local notes, including Bayard Clark, Ambrose Murray, and Henry Bennatt, with districts and votes. It mentions the 22d results, two districts undetermined, and references the Chicago Democrat’s Thursday report on Minnesota congressional results. It notes anti-Nebraska sentiment in New Jersey and fusion candidates, detailing several districts and names like Clawson, Rabine, Bishop, Vanl, and others. The overall tone records party shifts and election dynamics of the era.
Nov. 12 results show Gardiner and Damarell leading in various districts as Know-Nothing forces sweep the state. Governors, congressmen, and legislature seats align with Whig and Republican rivals, while Know-Nothings claim a broad victory amid gubernatorial and congressional contests. Voters celebrate Gardiner despite rain as Know-Nothing triumphs reshape political map.
An 1815 incident recounts Napoleon's peril near Avignon as a furious crowd seizes his carriage at a roadside inn. Disguised postsilion and guards aid the exit, while a peasant hostess, spurred by vengeance, confronts the procession before Napoleon calms her, then frees a captive rumor by gifting gold and urging mercy.
Fragmentary New York notices show vote tallies and local figures. References mention Clark and Vor Olek in unclear contexts, with garbled phrases about reaching thresholds and remarks on political sentiment.
An incomplete OCR passage describes a disturbance at a Methodist church in Ringland involving a man and his wife and friends. It mentions allegations of impropriety during services, demands that men and women be separated, a confrontation, a fight, and a court-like outcome ordering damages for an incident described as battery.
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