Death of James S Robinson at Carmi
James Shannon Robinson died at his Carmi home on Friday evening from rheumatism after a brief illness. Born 1830 in Carmi, he was son of former U S Senator and state Supreme Court justice John M Robinson. A lawyer by training, he served as State's Attorney from 1851 and 1856, earning high regard for his fidelity and ability. He leaves a wife and young daughter, with family sorrow wrought by his untimely loss. Peace be to the manes of James S Robinson.
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Carmi
John M. Robinson
Congress of the United States
Illinois
Supreme Court of
Our State
E. B. Webb
Louisville
Kentucky
Tie
Robinson
Railroad matters and lines expanding across Indiana and Illinois
Citizens of Rockville and Terre Haute back Evansville and Crawfordsville line from Terre Haute to Rockville. The Milnois Content Railroad reports record autumn business with October income over $250000. Cairo loaded 41 stock cars last week. A stock train on the Indiana Central road derailed near Cambridge, killing four. Grand Trunk opens Detroit to Portland, linking to the West via two changes. Peoria and Oquawka extension will reach Logansport, creating a continuous route from Eastern cities to Burlington. 6000 bales of cotton valued at $300000 move toward Maine. 1000 more shipped to Biddeford mills. Missouri sees a railroad boom with Lafayette county agreeing to a $50000 branch, St Joseph lines to KC and Marysville under construction. Fremont and Indiana Railroad track laying advances toward Lima, crossing canals and connecting to Knights town. Virginia railroads show 1438 miles of mainline. earnings praise rail growth. Vigo County sheriff auctions Terre Haute St Louis Alton line property and a major bridge, with loans around $40000. Jacksonville Sentinel notes rails laid on Jacksonville St Louis and Tonica Peters burg lines toward Bath and Havana with Illinois River road nearing completion.
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Indiana Central Road
Cambridge
Grand Trunk Railroad
Detroit
Portland
Cincinnati
Maine
Liverpool
Sarnia
Neary Cowrterra
Peoria and
Oquawka
Logansport
Indiana
Burlington
Iowa
Portland Argus
Cairo
Mississippi
Illinois Central
Grand Trunk
Biddeford
Missouri
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Lexington
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Indianapolis Journal
Fremont and
Lima
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Michigan
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Chicago
Miami and Eria Canal
St. Marys
Bellefontaine Road
Union
Winchester
Central Railway
Knightstown
Vigo County
Terre Haute, St. Louis and Alton Railroad
Terre Haute
Jacksonville
Toxtca
Jacksonville Sentinel
St. Louis
Tonica
Petersburg
Whitehall
Bath
Havana
Democratic Meeting In Wabash County Mount Carmel
The democracy of Wabash county are requested to meet at the Court House in Mount Carmel on Saturday the 10th of December at 10 o clock AM to select delegates for the Democratic State Convention in Springfield on January 4 and to transact party business. A general attendance is earnestly requested.
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Wabash County
Court House
Mount Cermel
Savenway
Springfield
UBLIC
Wabash
Illiinois
Illinois Southern Railroad
Wabash and
Edwards
Mount Carmel
Ill
Sons of Temperance Hall
Main
Third Streets
Mt. Carmel
Illinois
Wabash Valley
Johunston & Rees
Dredger by E F Bishop Proves Highly Successful
The Madison Courier reports the trial of EF Bishop's dredger to improve Ohio navigation. The device dredges hard gravel bars quickly, creating a 24 by 10 foot channel. first cut at 10 inches deep. Bishop plans to keep waterways navigable for large steamers year round, a boon for boat owners and shippers.
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Mulberry Street
Bishop
Ohio
Warsaw
Rising Sun
The Bat Groop Progress on the Railroad
The work on the railroad advances with growing vigor as the Stantons increase forces and public confidence grows in the early completion from a point on the O. and M. line to the destination. A contract recently entered into by the President, Judge Wilkinson and the Stantons for the entire line is summarized but not yet published due to absence from home.
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Bat Groop
Messrs Stantons
Wilkinson
Sixty Women Tur Williamsburg Brewery Riot
In Williamsburg Ohio on November 3 a group of sixty women attacked Booles brewery and rum shop. They smashed liquor casks knocked bottle heads from whisky brandy and beer barrels and spilled the contents. They damaged furnaces kettles and malt in the street.
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Williamsburg
Ohio
Minnesota and Iowa Buttoned by Low Money for Farm Goods
Farmers in Minnesota and Iowa face cash shortages despite bumper crops. Corn sells for fourteen cents a bushel in cash and up to eighteen in barter, while wheat trades around fifty cents per bushel with big price differences between cash purchases and barter deals.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Political clubs of Baltimore listed in vivid labels
The passage enumerates Baltimore political clubs by colorful nicknames such as The Blood Tubs Red Necks Spartans Regulators Black Snakes Tigers Embolts Gladiators Rip Raps Little Fellows Plug Uglies indicating the city’s factional character. A bright galaxy.
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Baltimore
Blood Tubs
Red Necks
Spartans
Regulators
Black Snakes
Tigers
Embolts
Gladiators
Rip Raps
Little Fellows
Plug Uglies
Day of Thanksgiving Proclaimed by 25 States
Yesterday the 24th was set apart as a day of Thanksgiving by at least twenty five States and Territories. The list includes Maine Delaware Michigan New Hampshire Maryland Indiana Vermont Alabama Illinois Massachusetts North Carolina Wisconsin Rhode Island South Carolina Minnesota Connecticut Mississippi Iowa New York Kentucky Ohio New Jersey Tennessee Kansas Pennsylvania.
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Maine
Delaware
Michigan
New Hampshire
Maryland
Indiana
Vermont
Alabama
Illinois
Massachusetts
North Carolina
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Minnesota
Connecticut
Mississippi
Iowa
New York
Kentucky
Ohio
New Jersey
Tennessee
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Editor Kills Rival in Nashville Editorial Quarrel
Allen A. Hall editor of the News killed G. G. Poindexter editor of the Union and American in a street confrontation at Nashville on the 18th. The shooting arose from an editorial quarrel.
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Pen. Allen A. Hall
The
News
G. G. Poindexter
Union and American
Nashville
Gerrit Smith’s Violent Mental State Noted
The article reports Gerrit Smith’s insanity as violent and notes his tendency toward suicide. A watcher is kept with him, with the concern linked to his name's association with the Harpers Ferry affair.
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Gerrit Smith
Mr. Smith
Harpers Ferry
County shows heavy corn and wheat in shipping report
Corn and wheat are being shipped from county railroad stations in large quantities as the corn crop yields strongly. Wheat is described as heavy with good grain. Hog prospects vary by county with Clay Effingham Jasper and Cumberland Counties noted as hog rich. Local price for heavy pork is listed around four sixty to five hundred dollars per hundredweight as William Newell plans slaughtering around the 20th.
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J’rincelon Indian
Clay Effingham
Jasper
Cumberland
William Newell
Olney Times
Shakspeare
Broadway
New York
Art Journal
California
Canadas
C. L. Derby
N.Y. T
Bowers, Iton. Sret’y
Mt. Carmel
Vicinity
Lawrenceville Globe reports growth and new homes in the county
Bridgeport Sumner and Hadly towns grow rapidly with several new buildings planned next season. James McLean finished a new house and will move soon. Lawrenceville is healthy and productive, with over 14 000 residents and expected rapid improvement.
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Bridgeport
Sumner
Hadly
James McLean
Lawrenceville
Lawrence
Illinois
Lawreneville Globe
Prices Move on Wheat and Hoes in Local Market
The St. Louis Democrat notes no rate changes with sales reported yesterday and today. About 200 hoes weighed at 5.50 per unit and 260 pounds divided. roughly 100 more hoes would weigh over 200 pounds at the outside rate.
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St. Louis Democrat
Irishman Dies After Taking Laudanum At Breakfast
A local man, feeling unwell, took about an ounce of Laudanum and collapsed at breakfast. He became unconscious and died before 10 o'clock, according to the Princeton Clarion report.
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Princeton Clarion
Scarcity of Hay Triggers Panic Among Local Farmers
Farmers face hay shortages with winter stock running low. Market price stands at 18 dollars per ton for good hay. Large shipments from the West bring second quality bales, selling 12 to 16 dollars depending on finish.
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Chicago
Buffalo Adv
Pennsylvania offers troops to Virginia during border tensions
Cuantestown reports Gov Wise received a dispatch from Gov Packer of Pennsylvania offering ten thousand men and a guard to patrol the Pennsylvania Maryland dividing line. The crisis eased after alarms proved to be misunderstandings and soldiers were said to be drinking and joking, with quiet by day.
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Cuantestown
Gov. Wise
Harper's Ferry
Richmond
Packer
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Col. Elliott
Commonwealth
New York Cattle Market Report Advances and Declines
In New York on November 22 Beaves advanced with receipts of 3 500 head and sales at 6 104c with an average price of 8c. Sheep rose 25c though receipts reached 13 500. Swine fell by 1 4fe with 11 500 head sold.
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New York
Guilt and Despair at Gethsemane Cleansing the Soul
The narrative portrays a figure fleeing in shame after betraying his master amid the garden scene. It contrasts zeal with cowardice, noting the tension between sin, repentance, and the mystery of Christ's suffering. The author reflects on the limits of human wisdom in the face of sacred events.
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Ile
Gethsemene
Calvery
Christ
Denial of Peter Narrative in Gospels Eyed by Reader
A reader-writer reflects on Peters three denials of Jesus in the Jerusalem arrest scene. He contrasts Judas betrayal, Peter’s fear, and Jesus’s warning, noting hands, maid questions, and the cock’s two tolls as pivotal moments.
New Orleans Market Prices November 22
Market report from New Orleans shows flour dull with prices slipping from 560 575 to 550 offered by buyers. Corn weak with small mixed sales at 68 to 70 cents. Mess pork de clining to 14 75 per barrel and dull. Bacon steady with shoulders at 8 1 4 cents and sides at 10 4 cents. Lard at 40 10 cents. Whisky dull with raw 28 and rectified 28 29 cents. Sugar in strong demand with prime advancing to 74 cents per hundredweight. Sight exchange on New York quoted at 3 discount.
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New Orleans
Sight Exchange
New York
Advertising Volume Drives New York Trade Growth
The Herald Times and Tribune each run ads, yielding $2300 for a single day. The article notes New York merchants heavily use advertising, fueling the city’s vast commerce and market reach.
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New York
Herald, Times and Tribune
Birds Besiege Vessel Even At Sea From Rio Grande
A ship that recently arrived from Rio Grande was visited by a woodcock six hundred miles from land and every morning until port was seen by hundreds of birds including robins, black, blue and yellow birds, sparrows, a thrush, a hawk and an owl. Experts think heavy northwest winds drove the birds to the vessel, where they grew exhausted.
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Rio Grande
Knitting Technique Promises Durable Sock Heels
Instructions describe knitting the sock heel twice by skipping every alternate stitch on the wrong side, creating a doubled heel. The method aims to extend wear, comparing the result to a double grain carpet for durability.
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