Wonderful Incident A Man Struck By a Falling Star
A London Morning Advertiser report describes a waiter named Pike at Thompson's coffee house struck by a falling star. He felt a burning sensation at the neck and chest, clothing showed no damage, a medical verdict suggested scalding or fused metal, and he remained in painful condition a day later.
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London Morning Advertiser
Pike
Thompson
Shoelane
Advertiser
Shoe Lane
Salisbury Court
Lucifer
Virginia and national news flash from early 1860s era
Governor Pierpont advocates Constitutional alignment in Virginia's Legislature. The District Court of Appeals met in Winchester with Judge Alexander Rives presiding. Reports reach of Kilpatrick’s marriage to Louisa Valderana, Brigham Young’s honeymoon, and a broad mix of civil rights, pensions, and local incidents across Maryland Missouri and Virginia, including bank dividends, memorial chapel plans, and church dedications.
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District Court of Appeals
Winchester
Alexander Rives
Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Campbell, Fulkerson
Sheffer
Harris
Parker
N. B. Meade
Joseph Worthington
Washington Country
Music in Autumn Wind and Memory of a Mother
A lyrical meditation on music in nature and memory. The speaker contrasts autumn sounds, river and cricket melodies, and household tones with grief for a mother. The verse laments loss, suggests angels and heaven, and honors a single enduring record of affection through sorrow.
Sermon on sugar at a tavern door told by diverse churchmen
A gutting Victorian style sermon recounts a scene at a tavern where varied ministers refuse to drink but would accept sugar. The tale mocks religio moralizing and ends with a jab at hypocrisy as the crowd debates the act and the bar keeper’s role. The report also notes ongoing efforts to remove loyal dead from an Anfistan battlefield burial site and the resistance encountered.
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Akafortia
Shugar
Suton
Nick Alose
Anfistam Battle Field
Nee
Biiandmberel
Confederate Archer brigade opened Gettysburg battle
In the third day of Gettysburg, Archer’s brigade comprising the 7th and 14th Tennessee regiments, the 13 Alabama, and the 5th Alabama battalion opened the engagement and first entered the Federal works. The group, led by General Archer of Maryland, is credited here by Tennessee veterans for its fighting in the army of General Lee. They argue Virginia papers overstated Pickett’s division’s role.
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Archer
Maryland
Virginia
Picken
Tennessee Paper
Unlucky Wedding Days Across Nations and Mines
A study notes superstition in marriage and death dates across Northern Europe with Scotland clinging to Saturday and December 31st traditions. It then reports the National Gold Mining Company of Montgomery County Maryland organizing with $500,000 capital, led by Gen J W Deaver and Capt John Frazier, claiming rich gold-bearing quartz near Great Falls. The nearby Maryland Mining Company reportedly produced seven pounds of gold from twenty tons of quartz at their mill week.
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Norway
National Gold Mining Company
Montgomery County
J. W. Deaver
John Frazier
Thhe Company
Great Falls
Great Aburnaice
California
Arizona
Potomac
Maryland Mining Company
Change of Faith and Moral Lesson From Rural Life
A lengthy reminiscence recalls a liberal farmer known for honest, generous measures and a moral tale about his belief that good deeds have value in this life. It then notes a Change of Religious Faith as Rev Andrew Stewart and wife join the Catholic Church in Hagerstown Maryland, after leaving the German Reformed ministry in Burketsville Frederik County.
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Hagerstown
St. Mary's Church
Edmond Didier
Stewart
Burkettesille
Frederik County
Wre
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