Odd Clock Tale and Veiled Burglar in Appleton
A long fragment presents a humorous tale of Deacon Barberry’s clock becoming bewitched after Joe Mayweed hides inside it to evade his suitor’s father. The scene shifts to a Courier-like travel note about Smyrna bandits terrorizing merchants, including ransomings of Van Lennup and a French silk factory owner, with moral reflections on mercy and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cephias
Sally
Joe
Joe Mayweed
All Appleton
Deacon Barberry
Ma. Basar
Tno Jellar
Evening Post
Constantinople
Smyrna
Boornabut
Smyren
van Lennup
East
Greece
Bali
Plight of Muhammed Daoud and Druse capture tales
A traveller recounts Turkish misrule and the capture of the robber Muhammed Daoud by a Druse family. Daoud boasted of his crimes and bribery, while authorities failed to seize him until treachery by locals led to his arrest at a convent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beyroot
Ateamer
Smyrna
Druse
Muhammed Daoud
Mount Lebanon
Damascus
Tam
Joubelat
Constantinople
Rebber
Sinyron
Ohio export totals and a temperance tale in one note
A long account details agricultural exports from the United States and Ohio for 1868, citing values for wheat beef corn pork and more, asserting Ohio exports exceed national figures. It includes a temperance anecdote about a “rum bill” and a parable on whisky costs to workers and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield
Han Ain
Ohio
Civie
Sina
al Toledo
United States
Soni
United Simes
Journal of the American Temperance Union
Anid
Escapes Feared At Ohio Penitentiary And Oddities Abound
Six or eight prisoners attempted to escape by digging under the wall, found asleep. a deep thirty foot hole and improvised weapons were hidden. The Dayton Xenia Belpre line advances with main work started from Dayton to Clellhorhe. The Eclipse set a record passage from New Orleans to Louisville in four days, twenty hours, fifty minutes. A Cincinnati police court session saw fifty or more people fined for blocking sidewalks. A string of odd anecdotes follows including a sunploock joke, a Worcester burglary gag, and a quip about a man with monandhea and a cucumber growing tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasuieron
Dayton, Xenia and
Belpre
Dayton
Clellhorhe
Ohio
New Orleans
Louisville
Cincinnati
Japathiane
Srueran
Worcester
Mase
Cary
Martin Chuezlewit
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Nok
Cpno
Skrall
Raighad
Beauty
Paradise
Jon
Jos
Father
Dinon
A. Thomson
Tle
Giutton
Brouen
Teba
Napoleon
Jintlo
Nko Mlinle
John Bell
Tennessee
Union
Whig Party of
Phosnix
Whigansy
Michigan
Maine
State of
New York
Calvary
Igenius
Mary
Paris
Philadelphia Register
Stowe
Nanias
Intelligencer
Nck
Erebus
Ini
Rascal
Guinea
Morillo
Carthaggenia
de la Puerta
Caracas
Morillos
Lida
Rce
Merillo
Gazetta
Theodore Parker
Shore
Cin
Atlas
Manancuotr
Reid
Peru
Alacama
Colonia
Cornell
Walnut
Fifth Street
Hearne
N. Allen
Great Briain
Ching
China
Dex
Toshia
Kopala
Marathon
Hag
Puritan Recorder
Isis
Fanny Pern
Dan Marble
Aaron
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