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10 Feb 1855
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Moulton Democrat in Moulton, Alabama
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Newspaper
Moulton Democrat
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1855
Page
1
Speech of Zachariagh Spicer on marriage happiness
In a period oration Mr Spicer argues for the married man over the bachelor. He recounts his own bachelor hardships then his turn to marriage, noting poverty and struggle before tying the knot. He concludes marriage ensures decency and respectability, jokes about daughters, and ends to loud applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asa Porker
Spicer
Tragic Cascade Desperado McGinty Dies After Double Murder
In Cascade vicinity a man named Robert McGinty attacked his wife at his father in law Mr Clark's house. Clark tried to intervene with a pistol. McGinty knocked him down seized the pistol and shot him. The wife fled, later McGinty killed her by cutting her head nearly off. He then shot himself in the chin and attempted to slit his throat. He died before reaching Cascade. Both McGinty and his wife perished. Clark's condition uncertain. Earlier, McGinty had mauled a man’s nose in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cascade
Robert McGinty
Mr. Clark
McGinty
Clark
Ginty
Udr
Rod ‘Ouau
Clerk
Crab Crabbles Over Name Change Saga In Legislature
A former Massachusetts suitor named Crab sought a name change after his love refused him for being nicknamed Crab. The Senate rejected the bill, inspiring a humorous NY Transcript verse about Crab’s tragicomic defeat and the imagined scene with his beloved Mrs Crabb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crab
Massachusetts
Terry
Senate
N. Y. Transcript
Isaac Crab
Mr. Harrison
Amlto
Odidus
Methodist Church reforms discussed at General Conference
The Boston Post reports agitation over church governance changes including equal clerical and lay representation in the General Conference, a smaller Annual Conference, semi annual presiding elder meetings, and four year successive re appointments for preachers to the same place if desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post
Methodist Church
General Conference
Believers in spirit rap pings rise in recent years
An exchange paper notes that in the last five years believers in spirit rap pings increased to over two hundred thousand and now support seven newspapers in the country.
Cigar Spending Exceeds School Funding Across Nation
A claim asserts that nationwide expenditure on cigars surpasses the budget for all common schools when summed across the United States. The remark highlights a striking contrast between indulgence and public education funding.
Exquisite compliment at table ends in playful toast
A lady, after a petite gasp of wine, jokes that all is gone unless a gentleman will take some from her lips. He replies he would but never takes sugar with his wine, keeping a witty exchange between them in the company.
A Fair Hit on Tobacco and Luxuries
A correspondent argues that criticism of wives’ spending ignores men’s tobacco and liquor use. He notes tobacco imports to the United States in fiscal 1853 valued at 3,311,935 dollars, plus unmanufactured tobacco at about 1,000,000, and liquor imports at 7,183,820 dollars, suggesting tobacco and cigars are a significant national expenditure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Custom House
Praise by Steam in Tremont Temple Organs
The Waterville Democrat laments steam powered organs in Tremont Temple Boston. It notes the shift from manual bellows to steam and imagines miniature steam organs on tea kettles bowing to Yankee Doodle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
Boston
Filton
Temple
North River
Waterbury Democrat
Albany Woman Receives 480 New Year Calls
A young Albany resident drew 480 New Year calls plus four military companies a fire company and many relatives. Her mother also called her to bed at midnight ending the night’s social telephonic burst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany N. Y
Cossacks Resemble Mounted Yankees at Crimean Baiths
The London Times notes Cossacks at recent Crimean baiths resemble mounted Yankees in agility, intelligence, irregular costume, and individual self reliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
Crimea
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