New Year reflections and Civil War era notes
A year’s end meditation on time and mortality followed by notices of a silver tribute to Mrs. Brown from Petersburg troops, cold weather and ice, legislative updates, local gossip and a Virginian insurrection trial with Jerry and Joe. It also recalls Mason and Dixon’s Line history and a stance on slave labor by the Boston Liberator.
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Petersburg
Brown
Charlestown
R. T. Brown
Brockett
Joseph J. Maclin
Henry Stratton
CG. E. Waddell
R. R. Collier
The
Boston Liberator
North
Outrages in Kansas and a Family Plight Highlighted
Butler county reports another Kansas outrage as Bell and two Missourians are robbed of arms and funds after aiding a fugitive slave near Ossawatomie. The article also details James Blair’s plea to aid his nine child family, four deaf and four mute, seeking state education aid and Governor Hicks’s support.
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Butler
Bates County
St. Louis Republican
Bell
Lafayette County
Ossawatomie
West Point
Faylor
Canada
James Blair
Clearspring
Pennsylvania Institute For the Deaf and Dumb
Ireland
Blair
Hicks
Deaf and Dumb Institute
Philadelphia
Foray Victims Honored as Assembly Acts
A move in the Assembly aids S C Young of Charlestown and Mr Richardson of Berkeley, both wounded at Harper's Ferry. Francis Prozman of Hagerstown died after being run over. Various notes include not guilty verdicts, medical tips with saltpetre for fever blisters, and social items from Baltimore to New York.
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Jerry
Joe
Francis McCormick
County Court of
Clarke
MecCormick
Commonwealth
Andrew Hunter
P. Williams
Harper's Ferry
Brown
Dan’l. HI. Sowers
Alfred Castleman
Berryville
John Brown
S. C. Young
Charlestown
Richardson
Berkeley
Francis Prozman
Hagerstown
Joseph Leehlider
Frederik County
Joseph Sparks
Oscar Flint
Baltimore
Flint
Sparks
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