Fragmentary Tale from 1843 The Madman and the Mariner
A garbled 1843 fragment recounts a violent raid and a brother’s bullet ending a madman. It shifts to a romance around a mariner’s daughter linked to a Porto Santo governor and Columbus lore. The castaway Sart and a marriage plot drive the narrative, with inherited papers aiding the son-in-law’s prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong Moures
Jong Ae
Dlomean Estrello
Porto Santo
Columbus
Palestrna
Diverse early American notices mix news and curiosities
A compilation from Oxford Eagle lists a meteor near Memphis, sugar consumption, a New Brunswick postmaster fleeing to Canada, yellow fever in Havana, regional politics, counterfeit coins, and various local incidents. It touches plantations, rail and railroads, court actions, and public affairs across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Brunswick
Canada
Havana
New Chattanooga Factory to Make Wood Wares
The Chattanooga area is likely to gain a new factory for wooden wares due to timber cheapness and Seaboard shipping access. Other items note Water Valley police pursuing a death sentence appeal, and various national notes on culture, veterans, cotton, and a major European prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Auc
Special Appointment for Columbus Press Association Meet
A special appointment the President of the Association visited Columbus on the evening of the 28th to map an agenda for the coming meeting. The programme includes speeches at the Concert Hall and a parade by the Fire Department, with events at Gilmer Hotel and a press banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. W. Ferguson
Mississippi River Commission
West Point
Arthur
Vicksburg Herald
Columbus
Soa
Gilmer
Gorenvatans
Mollie McGee Snell
C. A. Brand
The
Neshobia Democrat
RB. C. Lee
OY Tle
Rapay
Norment
Brady
L . Mitche
Mnptch
Fire Department
City of Columbus
Gilmer Hotel
Press Association
Georgia Pacific
Columbus Hop Club
A. and College
Columbua
D. ER. Ferris
Dispatch
Frank Burkitt
South
Piedimont Cotton Manufacturing Company
Greenville
South Carolina
Sure Plus Fund
Ite
Tragic turn after Uruguayan wedding due to dog bite
A Montevideo newspaper recounts a young farmer near the Uruguay border who was bitten by a mad dog before his wedding. Doctors cued cauterization. officials saw no danger. After a three month postponement the marriage occurred, but soon after the groom died in a violent, mysterious outburst amid postnuptial festivities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Byrd
Franklin, Neb
Greenback Party
Benton County
Rty
Democracy
Oganiza
Montevideo Razon
Rio Grande del Sur
What is Work in the Modern World and a Supreme Court Rail Case
A essay discusses work beyond wealth and highlights science art and philanthropy as valuable unpaid contributions. It then reports a Supreme Court decision on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad case, affirming state power to regulate railroad rates and rejecting blanket immunity from legislative control. The ruling holds the grant not a perpetual contract and emphasizes state authority over public interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauder
Herald
Popular Science Monthly
Darwin
Minda
Supreme Court of the United States
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
Supreme Court
Illinois
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Supreme Court of
Cirity a Bad Memory Noted in Early Reading Advice
The piece discusses two memory aids: read with strong interest and actively rephrase after reading a page. It warns against skimming newspapers and reading trashy novels, citing a Boston Bulletin table of economic figures contrasting mill and farm production across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bostonspecial Bulletin
West
CMD
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Oxford
Eagle
Koncusko
Memphis
D. I Gaff
Batesville
Panola County
Lynchburg
Talmage
New England
Lord Derby
New Guinea
Taylor
Louisville
Kentucky
Cotton and
Iowa
Tion
Alfred Fielda
Rosencrans
Congress
California
Gaines
Tonquin
Anam
China
France
O.R. Bingleton
Clarion
O. B. Singleton
Mississippi
Jackson
Wash Battle
Isaac Walker
Miss
Leslie
Pennsylvania
Orange
Pap
Cas
Nye
Apeatle
Cincinnati
Blount Senead’ Tenn
Rugby
Morgan County
East Tennessee
Sedgemoor Station
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Illinois Senate
Govenor
Justice of the Peace
Chicago
Venduara
International Convention of Good Templars
Gen. Grant
Danville
Times
Richmond
Augusta Evans Wilson
Alabama
Mobile
Water Valley Central
John Branch
Coffeeville
Calhoun County
Tennessee
Miles
Boston
Crook
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Columbia, Tenn
W. Beets
Louisiana
Jabal A Early
Garland
Galveston News
New Orleans
Texas
Iezendorf
Virginia
Washington
Mahone
Brandon
Meridian
Ellisville
Europe
Beriting
the Press Association
Apteernuon
Dia Columbus
Hifles and Artillery
R. K. Jayne
LaFayette County
Democratic Executive Committee
Court House
J.T. Alvia
Knoxville Chronicle
Aura
Chronicle
Walter Evans
G. B. Baum
Lb. H. Wear
Ala
Cirity
St. Nicholas
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