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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1850
Page
1
A catalog of assorted silverware including tea and table spoons, mugs, knives, cake baskets, castors, and cut glass bottles. Jewelry items such as gold pins, rings, pencils, chains, keys, and belts are listed alongside silver and gold items. Also offered are china vases, cologne bottles, smelling bottles, card plates, and various accessories.
Narrator recounts a brutal frontier attack by Aboriginal fighters on a cattle camp. Dick leads a fearless escape, riding through the assailants, rescuing Charley Anvils, and saving the narrator amid rifles, axes, and spears. They travel seventy miles with water for the exhausted party, earning the nickname Two-Handed Dick.
In Vermont near the Green Mountains a famed rattlesnake hunter recounts a harrowing past. A Harvard-educated pioneer and his wife settle beyond the Connecticut, endure frontier privations, and confront rattlesnake bites amid fierce mountain isolation. The hunter recalls a chilling belief in the snakes’ fascination and a tragedy that shaped his life.
An 1860 Beaufort Fourth of July gathering featured toasts from Edmund Rhet and others praising the Union while warning against disunion. Speakers including Capt John G Barnwell Col B J Johnson and William Hazel voiced pro Union or pro Southern separatist sentiments.
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