Record of a paralyzed arm and a star spangled wedding
The Register notes Huan McCann in Albany woke with paralysis in his right arm and a surgeon doubts recovery. A Charlotte wedding featured white silk attire and blue pink bridesmaids with jewelry. Joshin L Lewis of Hoboken left over 1.5 million to the United States to cut debt. heirs contested insanity, settled with $968,589 to the government and rest to half-sisters and their children.
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Huan McCann
Ot Albany
Charlotte, N. C
Joshin L. Lewis
Hoboken
N. J
United States
Lewis
Birthday honors and civic gifts from Henry Shaw in St Louis
Tur 82d birthday of Mr. Henry Shaw of St Louis celebrated by prominent citizens. Shaw, a 63 year resident, helped shape the city with Missouri Botanical Gardens Tower Grove Park and sites for charitable institutions. Baron Revier, from Frankfort, first coined duplicating stock messages boosting telegraph toll savings. Reuter began by manifolding a single message and selling to brokers, inspiring a general news agency.
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Henry Shaw
St. Louis
Shaw
Baron Revier
Frankfort-on-Main
London
Reuter
Anecdotes of Lawyers and Complex Family Ties
A tale notes a shrewd lawyer helping a client evade an age requirement to pre empt land by having an affiant swear over a chalked floor 21 years old. It then explores tangled relations around the Duke of Westminster Beatrice Chesham and Katherine Caroline with intricate cousin links, ending with an 1878 issue on coin counterfeiting by Judge Lowell asserting mutilated coins remain counterfeit due to standards.
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Kaneas
Duke of Weatminster
Beatrice
Lord Chesham
Katherine Caroline
Chesham
Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Massachusetts
Telephony advances and Egypt trade outlook noted by press
A Belgian meteorologist demonstrates telephony with a single wire, enabling simultaneous Morse telegraph and voice transmission across distances from Brussels to Dover while London Times highlights Egypt's 1880 exports of 67.6 million dollars and two thirds foreign debt. The piece also cites population figures for Cairo and other cities and comments on English banking capital tied to canal transit.
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M. van Rysselberghe
Brussels
Morse Telegraph
Director of Telegraphs
Paris
Venice
Milan
Berlin
Hamburg
Nancy
Munich
Dresden
M. Rysselberghe
Dover
London Times
Egypt
Cairo
Alexandria
Damietta
Rosetta
Suez
Port Said
Great Britain
England
Reminiscences of Heine On Language Learning
A fragment recounts Heine's student memories describing Latin as complex and vexing with irregular verbs, the stern Latin/convent setting with a crucifix prompting prayer for irregulars, Greek condemned as devilish, Hebrew seen as easier, and a comically tangled note on etymology and language study, all in a weary, self-deprecating tone.
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Heine
Mary and the Angelic Visitation in verse
A poetic scene portrays Mary on her porch as an angelic figure named Rawls presents a luminous lily and proclaims Mary blessed by God. Mary responds with reverent words as angels and kings herald a blessed dawn and the coming of the Lord.
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Mary
Rawls
Two Wedding Days That Ended in Blood and Bedlam
A bridegroom narrates a turbulent path to marriage. He quarrels with Nell Bartley over pomp, misses the wedding, and hides in the church. A thwarted escape leads to a fall that leaves him battered and delirious, while Nell reacts in shock.
Noting the Truth After Nell’s Vow and Vestry Escape
In a candid scene, Bertram Langley seeks Nellie’s forgiveness after a dramatic vestry incident. Nell challenges his conduct, anger fading to tenderness as he reveals misfortunes. They marry quietly with family in attendance, a single bridesmaid and two wedding services.
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Nell Bartley
Riram Langley
Bertram Langley
Bert
Nell
Transsean
Kate
Nellie
Eli
Mr. Bartley
Jove
Gilderoy
Viewing His Treasures At The Safe Deposit Vault
The narrator meets Costentenus, a tattooed exotic performer, inside the Safety Deposit Company vaults. He speaks of money, photographs, and life stories in six years in the country, earning $100 weekly plus expenses, investing wisely while hoarding diamonds and jewelry including gold chains, rings, bracelets, and a jeweled scarf, giving a piratelike impression to onlookers.
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Safety Deposit Company
Ore Costentenus
Barnum
New York
Scene on the Towpath in a Night Scene
A vivid poetic fragment describes lovers strolling beneath a starry arch. They gaze at a bright ruby star and speak of the celestial orb, with a reply about Andromeda from the courter.
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Diomede
Andrommeda
Ake
Exploits of Our Navy in 19th Century Crises
A historical summary recounts naval officers protecting American interests abroad. It notes Commodore Porter's actions against Porto Rico privateers in 1823, Foxado defenses, Downes at Malayan forts, and Ingraham at Koszta, with praised actions by Kelly, Strain, Almy, and Sinclair.
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Philadelphia
Congress
Algiers
Tripoli
California
Mexico
England
Porto Rico
Commodore Porter
W. H.cocke
Fox
St. Johns
Platt
United States
Beagle
St. Thomas
Foxado
Lienta
Ritchie
Porter
Downes
Potomac
Friendship
Salem
Mass
Shubrick
Hoff
Ingersoll
Totten
Navy
Edson
Department
Kelly
Shanghai
Plymouth
Ingraham
St. Louis
Smyrna
Turkey
Martin Koszta
Koszta
Hoilina
Cayne
San Juan de Nicaraga
Almy
Fulton
Tampico
Saranac
San Juan de Sur
Nicaragua
Sinclair
Waga
Sugar production in America needs wiser farming
The article argues America should grow its own sugar with improved management and scientific agriculture. It notes potential in sugar beet culture in northern regions, urges perseverance despite past failures, and emphasizes improving yields through better practices and new crops.
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America
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