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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1849
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising terms near Washington Hall with rates of $2.00 for yearly payment and $2.50 after delays, mentions arrears, and requires prepaid letters. It lists pricing for various ad sizes, impact of multiple insertions, legal ads by law, and emphasizes marking insertion counts to avoid ongoing charges.
Wheeler and Watson discuss a bank error where Wheeler pockets eight hundred dollars instead of three. The tale follows Wheeler's downfall from dishonesty, his firing, and Gardiner the teller's later exposure. Wheeler repents, restores five hundred to Gardiner, and seeks reconciliation with Adaline Burton, only to learn she left him for his own misdeed.
A letter urges Daily Herald readers to publish a plan adopted by the Steubenville Presbytery to establish a Depository of Religious Literature. The scheme would be run by a six minister and three elder committee, stock subscriptions from individuals and congregations, catalogued works, a land fund, and a circulating colporteur to spread evangelical materials while aiding the poor. The proposal requests favorable publication.
The Louisville Democrat reports a pistol duel near Newport Kentucky between Singer a Cincinnati schoolmaster and Smith an attorney. At eleven paces Smith was shot in the thigh and Singer in the arms. The crowd cheered three times and the combatants departed after the first shot.
The Falmo arrived from Buenos Ayres with advices to April 5. A French steamer sailed for Buenos Ayres carrying an Oriente Charge for President Oribe. The French Admiral will await its return. Doubloons traded as low as 493, with 313 on the 17th.
A young man named H. B. Wilson, formerly a clerk in the Pleasant Grove Post Office, was arrested and jailed in the New Jersey Penitentiary. He is linked to thefts of money from routing letters, with secret agents of the department tracing and exposing the crime as traveling letters were opened at stations. The suspect disappeared at Pleasant Grove but was soon found with money in his possession.
Fragmentary report notes fourteen Scotch immigrants chiefly farmers and Protestants arriving at a northern port area around Boston. The passage mentions a single church or mechanic line and describes their arrival at Ist. Bostov, indicating a rural settlement context and religious composition among the newcomers.
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