Death of Amr Mull en. political uproar in 1844
From the Philadelphia Inquirer and Jefferson Democrat reports the death by apoplexy of Amr Mull en, Democratic candidate for Governor, after an evening at his home. The dispatch notes his age sixty-two, birthplace Lancaster, and the town’s mourning, with remarks on life’s instability and the need for self knowledge.
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Prom the
Philidelphis Inquirer
Amr. Mullen
Henry A. Muses Urag
Commonwealth
Jefferson Democrat
Reading Gazette
Democrat
Mr. Muhlenberg
Lancaster
Ates
Seth Eoential
Zora Shepherd
Newtown
From the Golden Rule and the Mississippi Calamity
A mixed item blends a moral verse praising compassion with a dramatic report on Mississippi flood devastation. The piece highlights the famine of support for widows and orphans, urging relief, while quoting observers describing extensive inundation from St Francis County to Memphis and the river’s vast, destructive reach.
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Mississippi
St. Fragois County
Ark
Memphis
St. Louis
Dent
Horrible Inmate and Odd Notes Highlight Local Chronicle
A letter from Isle Royale recounts a man and wife stranded on a remote island with the man dying in March and the woman living beside his corpse for nearly two months. Elsewhere a Pennsylvania contractor discusses Whig prospects and regional political shifts amid Van Buren and Clay loyalties.
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Isle Royal
Lake Superior
Isle Pointe
Cinz
Chronicle
Carerine Wroa
Pennsylvania
Yeoming County
van Buren
Centre County
Harrison
Journal
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James B. Scott
Winchester Republican
Dallas
Polk, Tonn
Gossip Jones
James
Jimmy Polk
Louisiana
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Nur Teziana
Jimmy Volk
South
Bobby Walker
Jem
Clay and Frelinghuyseu
Jimmy Pork
Jimmy Pos
Ocelsa
Jimmy Poli
10Th Legion
Harry
Jimay
Gerd
Junes
Yaines
Maines
the Brotherhood
J. A. Sheal
Concordia Int
Philo
Inquirer
Peath
Ghn
Murphy
Wa. Sharpny
Galveston
Boston Rays
Jallimore
Europe
Portland
United States
Aspe Masons
Phiddeus Stevens
Gay Iitner
Henry Clay
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