Legislative and Congressional notes from Indiana and beyond
The observer reports sparse legislative news from Indiana at Indianapolis with debate over Texas annexation and Sullivan war resolutions. It notes Gov. Dorr imprisonment, canal funding bills, and a ghost of Irish office seekers, plus a prison romance and illustra tions of distant politics and public notices.
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Dorr
Indiana
Congress
Texas
Mexico
Sullivan
Mexican Republic
Indianapolis
War talk on Texas and Mexico violence mocks folly
The New York Evening Post criticizes a clerical mishandling of a five dollar cause and mocks the push for Texas annexation. It warns against war with Mexico while noting Kentucky election clashes where whiskey fueled deadly knife fights. It also notes a rumor that I D Stevenson may head the Patent Office.
DOING THE BARBER
An eastern shore man visits a Baltimore barber and asks for 124 cents worth of hair cut. After trimming and styling he asks if enough was removed. The barber points to the glass and confirms, the man offers the cut hair to the barber since he has no change.
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Ghent
France
Our City
Baltimore Argus
Natural notions on error and language quirks
A fragment bunch quotes natural behavior in a humorous miscellany. It pairs proverbs about water flow and ants with light satire on modern young ladies and a pianist clergyman, then adds linguistic jests about English, French, and early American politics. The piece ends with a loafer’s idle remark about time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Dow, Jr
Marriage Notice through Monday Evening County
Married on Thursday the 26th by John Clymer Eyq Henry Turipseep weds Miss Puene Veal in this county. The couple’s name change to Veal Turnipseed is noted with cautious optimism that the match will prosper and yield fruitful results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Clymer
Henry Turipseep
Puene Veal
Veal
Wabash County Probate Court Notice of Real Estate Sale
Indiana notices detail Daniel Weaver as administrator of John Weaver deceased seeking sale of lands in Grant and Wabash counties to cover debts. He urges heirs not residing in Indiana to appear at the February term in Wabash to show cause why the real estate should not be sold. Also a notice about a lost Wabash and Mine canal land certificate and steps to obtain a new one.
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Senate
Terre-Haute
Bransville
Erin
Joan Quincy Aprams
C. Alb't S. White
Wabash
County of
Grant
State
Indiana
Josepil Tiopkins
Clk
Gordon and Cox
Altys
Alexander McLain
Jasua Avaline
Peru
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Wabash and Erie Canal
Lafayette
Q¢rWe
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J. H
Gov. Dorr
Tippecanoe
Senate Cuamnen
Washington
Dean Sims
Free Trade
Pennsylvania
Cuamsur
Committee On Public Lands
Woodbridge
Vincennes
Terre-Hauta
Evansville
House
Oregon
White
Ed. Journal
Illinois House of Representatives
Committee On the Judiciary
Springfield
St. Louis
NEW York Evening Post
Tyler
Calhoun
Shannon
Murphy
Poland
Owingsville
Kentucky
N. Y
True Sun
I. D. Stevenson
Patents Office
Historican Mach
U. S
Geni. Washington
N. York
Pete
Maxin
Catlin
Dork
Charles M, Oldham
Wabash County
Daniel Weaver
Eatute
John Weaver
Adam Weaver
Jacob Weaver
Adam Weaver Jr
Salomon Weaver
Sarah Weaver
Albert Michner
Elizabeth Michner
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