Accidental Love and Frontier Surveyors in Indiana Tales
A fragment from The Register recalls early Indiana history with Foote’s Grave Pond. It chronicles Posey and Gibson county surveying in 1806, Ziba and Winthrop Foote, and the Yale-educated youth Foote who drowned while mapping country lands. It ends with the Foote monument at Bedford Indiana, honoring their lives and work.
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Foote
Rector
Lawrence County
Indiana
Posey County
Kiny Henrie
Robert Buntin
Danial Sullivan
William and Elias Rector
George Claypool
Henrie
Broadway
Cincinnati
Dearborn County
Buntin
Terre Haute
Knox County
Daniel Sullivan
Vincennes
Louisville
Sullivan County
Thia State
Lias Rector
Arkansas
William Rector
Ohio River
Paoli
Orange County
Ziba Foote
Newton
Connecticut
Ohio
Young Foote
Gibson
Yale
Pike
New Haven
Moses
Mr. Chapman
Moore
Joe Baldwin
Captain Harris
Erasmus
Cobbles
Virgil
Groves
John Clark
Charles Sherman
G. H. Gregory
Casar
Gregory
James Sisson
Daniel Drake
Kentucky
Charles D. Drake
United States
Misouri
Sisson
Posey
Jacob
Bedford
Cox
Winthrop Foote
Ziba Foote A. B
Conn
Yale College
Gibson County
Ife
Absence Conquers Love Poem Refrain in Verse
A Romantic verse on absence versus love, promising steadfast memory and devotion. The speaker insists his heart remains fixed on a beloved despite separation and social distractions. He recalls moments together, toasts to other beauties yet returns to the beloved in thought, ending with the refrain that absence conquers love.
Life Is But Short Poem About Love and Death
A lyrical meditation on life's brevity and the rush of passion. The speaker contrasts hope and fear as time slips away, urging lovers to seize a defining hour before death, praising ardor and the heavenly joys denied by earth to hesitant hearts.
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John
Rebecca Redfield
Becky
Earth
Aunt Becky
Tilsie Vane
Tilsie
Charlie
Packet
Rover
Peter Stradspeaker
Tileie
Uncle John
Peter Stradspaker
Joln
Peter
Peter Stradspraker
Mercy
Mr. Stradspraker
Peter Stradapraker
The Moon Question Floors Rufus Choate at Sea Trial
In a dramatic marine assault case, Dick Barton, chief mate of the clipper Challenge, testifies that the night was dark and rainy and that a moon was not seen. The exchange reveals nautical humor as Barton cites a nautical almanac and a binnacle lamp, leaving Choate momentarily floored by the equator question. A closing quip notes the vanity of lawyers.
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Rufus Choate
Dick Barton
Boston
Mr. Choate
Barton
Rufua Choate
Election Rivalry and Tulip Mania Voices Across States
A ragged mix of anecdotes and opinions recounts a Ripley county sheriff race tale with a bought dog, quotes King Cetewayo and a note on tulip mania. followed by critiques of Congress, the South, and veterans from Radical to Democratic shifts, arguing soldiers deserve political consideration.
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Senate
Republican Party
United States Senate
South
Hayes
Key
Mosby
Longstreet
Jack Wharton U.S. Marshal
Louisiana
Illinois
Roscoe Conkling
Matt Carpenter
Zach Chandler
Blanche K. Bruce
John J. Ingalls
J. G. Blaine
G. *. Hoar
Wm. Sharon
John J. Jones
Democratic Party
Confederate Congress
Mount Carmel
Northern Michigan editor seeks wide mix of news and witty sayings
An editor requests a ready print house to supply sheets for a paper with a wide patent side including poetry, stories, state and federal summaries, sensational items, murders, fashion notes, crisis reports, letters from New York and Washington gossip, scientific and religious items, editorials, and an extra copy of witty sayings. Also notes Corsican wood for brier-root pipes.
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Michigan
New York
Washington
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