Hazel Weartherton Keeps Cherry Farm and Marries Texas Rancher
Hazel Weartherton defies kin by investing six hundred dollars in the Cherry Farm near Dripping Springs. Cousin John supports her, while Melzena scoffs at an old maid future. Nicholas Bycroft proposal leads Hazel to Texas, where she becomes mistress of his cattle-ranch home. Aunt Comfort rents Cherry Farm.
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Mulford
Hazel Weartherton
Cherry
Hezekiah Mulford
Dripping Springs
Hazel
Aunt Lurainey
Zeke
John Mulford
Arvilla
John
Comfort
Aunt Comfort
Cherry Farm
Melzena Mulford
Hezekiah
Melzena
Saratoga
Mike
Mr. Nicholas Rycroft
Mr. Nicholas
Texas
Nicholas Bycroft
Cherry Cottage
Nicholas
Scotch Deerhound Origins and School Rewards Rumor
A pair of curious claims: that the deerhound is the ancestor of Britain’s dogs, and that Mexican schoolboy obedience earns them a smoking privilege during study. The notes mix folklore with odd educational customs, offering little verifiable fact.
Noted Men and Earned Sobriquets in American History
A compact survey of famous sobriquets given to U.S. leaders and generals, detailing how figures like Washington, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Jefferson, Adams, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, and Lee earned their nicknames. It also lists the 1880 electoral results by state and the total popular votes for Garfield Hancock and Weaver Greenback.
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America
George Washington
Henry Clay
Congress
Daniel Webster
Daniel
John C. Calhoun
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
John Adams
Jefferson
Duke of
Braintree
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
Stephen A. Douglas
William Henry Harrison
Tippecanoe
Zachary Taylor
Lincoln
Abe
Grant
Marion
South
the Swamp Fox
Anthony Wayne
Anthony
Henry Lee
Joseph Hooker
Joe
George H. Thomas
Chickamauga
Thomas J. Jackson
Bull Run
Lee
Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
Garfield
Colorado
Connecticut
California
Inois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Wisconsin
Total
Hancock
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Missisippi
Missouri
Nevada
New Jersey
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Weaver
Greenback
Statesmen’s Wives in Reserved Gallery Observed
A Washington letter to the Courier Journal describes House gallery seating set aside for representatives and their wives with admission cards. Wives watch debates, brace husbands with medicines, and gossip about who has a card, while some remarks about all night sessions and calls of the house are noted.
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Washington
Louisville Courier-Journal
House of Representatives
Smith
United States
House
Absent Members Checked By Locked Hall During Night Session
The article notes that during a recent night session doors were locked to keep absentees from entering and to force those inside to stay. A colored representative’s wife was left alone in the gallery as others departed, and she could not go home until her husband received leave to accompany her.
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Legislative Hall
What He Was Paid For
Chauncey Depew recalls Jim Rutter, a former Erie freight agent paid ten thousand dollars to join the New York Central as chief of transportation. Rutter, a brisk, redmoustached figure, learned to decide alone after a defining exchange with Commodore Vanderbilt. He rose to president of one of the world’s great corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey Depew
Rutter
New York Central Railroad
Commodore Vanderbilt
Erie Railroad
The
Central
Commodore
Jim
Railroad
Great Corporation
A Square Boy Denounces Family Fights as Put Up Stunt
A twelve year old observer on Riopelle Street refuses to profit from street brawls. He notes daily blows between parents and vows to let the best man win, rejecting the crowd funding the show as a staged scam. The boy calls for honest fighting, not spectacle.
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Riopelle Street
Dad
Mam
Detroit Free Press
Fossil Teeth Found Near Genesee River
Scientists report bones and teeth of an unknown animal unearthed beside the Genesee river. One tooth measures three and a half inches in length and two and a half inches across the crown, suggesting a sizable ancient specimen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesee River
Mean Trick Leaves Father Mourning In Custody
A Detroit Free piece depicts a desperate father at Central Station confronting his son Daniel after a bitter family betrayal. The father, Abraham Lyons, reveals his plan to bury the son and himself, recounting how Daniel married his stepmother and wrecked his family. The scene shows mud stained, a limp, and a spokesman calling for a private funeral without a tombstone.
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Abraham Lyons
Daniel
Detroit Free Press
Arkansaw Traveler Rescued From Log Drift on the Arkansas
A man drifting down the Arkansas River on a log was hailed near Little Rock by locals in a skiff who urged him to climb in. He explained he was traveling and refused to drown, mentioning his wife on a cottonwood log and a preacher nearby. The exchange ends with the traveler urged to reach shore, and a nudge to hear a sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Little Rock
Arkansaw Traveler
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Rebersburg
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Millhein
D. H. Hastings
W. F. Reeder Hee
Reeder
Attorneys-at-Law
Bellefonte, PA
Allegheny Street
Yocum & Des
T. Alexander. Co
M. Bower
Alexander
Bellefonte
Garman
L. Lee
Madisonburg, PA
N. C. Heinle
Centre County
J. A. Beaver
J. W. Gephart
Gephart
Alleghany Street
High Street
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Allegheny ST
C. G. McMillen
Pains
Bishop Street
Bellefont, PA
Emanuel Brown
Main and
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Lock Haven
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CT. Elmo Hotel
Arch ST
Philadelphia
Jos. Feger
Pbtsopy Hotel
of Chestnut
Sadelphia
Walnut St
W Paine
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Great Britain
Mexico
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Cleveland and Hendricks
Democratic
Bill
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