Dreaming to a Murder Mystery in Languedoc
A Lyons junior partner recounts a dream of a village cottage, a hidden well, and a murdered peddler. Police search reveals an old couple confesses to the crime. both die penitently on the Tolouse scaffold. The tale ends with reflections on the press and invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier de Europe
Languedoc
Lyons
Jane
Pascal
A& Cratch
Oklmwan
Peddier
Tolouse
America
Daguerre
Scientific American
Eight Wheel Cars and a Yankee Pedlar in a 19th Century Scene
A Yankee pedlar extorts a sale of razor strops from a St. Louis merchant with a joke trade, then trade ends in apparent honesty. A cautionary note condemns eight wheel cars for railroads after a fatal wreck near Washington summit, detailing the disaster and casualties in a crowded car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Stropz
Strops
Western Railroad
Washington Summit
Col. Mountford
New York
Miss Rosele
Albany
Whittemore
Leicester
Mars
Sci
Betternut sugar and farm notes from the South Carolina area
An American Agriculturist notice describes butternut sap yielding a maple like sugar, needing clarification due to jelly formation, and suggests tapping trees in spring alongside maples and walnuts. A neighbor claims hog fat fed to hens preserves winter laying, while Commodore Jones projects California gold output at about one million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amercan Agriculturist
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Plainfield Gazette
M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd ‘Presbyterian Church
W. & Jewial Read
Bellas & Parasols
Courtlandtst
Western Hotel
Edward Deacon
Liberty Place
Cor
Maiden Lane
New-York
Goplprieds Birber & Hair Dresser
the Gazette
Plainfield
Thomas H. Own
Liberty St
Cherry-st. Plainfield
Pent Door
Kirkpatrick
Charles Tone ON
Arec
D. Bullman
Dunor
Ispr Yard
Bullman
Abner Osborn
Greenwich Street
Fulton
Vesey Streets
Furnith
Beekman St
N. Y
N. P. Kimball
Isaac S. Dunham
Somerset St
Walsh
Bennett & Company
Broadway
Kew York
Tecan
Minera
Thibodauxville
Sam
Seth
Mia
Miss Lovelocke
Love
Miss Love
Pappy
En Posant
Board of Health
Mahmoud
Agais
Iman
Miozstch
Bosphorus
Allah
God
Mahomet
de Vere
Commodore Jones
California
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