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Howe
Ih Slime
Ives
I love to roam on a summer night in the hush
Poem excerpt from the New York Evening Star titled STANZAS by CONSTANTIA. It evokes night by a silent stream under the Lady Moon. The speaker describes the Whip-poor-will, reflections on water, the moon, and a longing for old friendships. The piece ends with a farewell to fond memories.
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Adicu
Constantia
Fair Women and Men in Love for Church Marriages
A lyrical verse contrasts fair women and men and their influence on hearts and marriage. It muses on blue eyes, warmth, and the inevitability of romance, urging the fair to marry and attend bells, while noting parental fault if a mother objected.
Stew for a Beef Dish with Onions Carrots and Spices
Wash and season beef, bind it tight, place in a pot with three onions. Add carrots, turnips, cloves and suet, cover with broth or gravy. Simmer gently, then add a splash of port and a glass of vinegar. Simmer again half an hour, serve at two and enjoy.
Homeopathy explained as a modern medical practice
A historical discussion defines homeopathy or Hannenism as a modern system originated in Germany. It states the principle like cures like and notes the use of stimulants for fever would worsen it, while depleted remedies would be used for chronic debility, contrasting with conventional practice.
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Germany
Homeopathic practice contrasted with common sense cure theory
The article reviews medical practices from physicians and Homeopathists, arguing that remedies should aggravate symptoms to aid nature. It condemns cooling and stimulating draughts and describes the supposed method, emphasizing the opposite of conventional care. It also recounts a sensational curiosity about a nine year old with a colossal head, detailing his physiology and unusual feeding behavior.
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Boston Post
Remarkable case of brain swelling and dropsy in child Bartolo
The report describes a boy named Bartolo, son of a Porto Rican father and Martinique mother, exhibiting extreme brain enlargement with apparent dropsy and water in brain cavities. Doctors discuss spongy cerebral texture and unravelling convolutions, noting only pain when touched or hunger on schedule. Bartolo, aboard ship from Martinique, will be shown briefly before departure to Paris and London.
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Europe
Gall
Porto Rico
Martinique
Bartolo
Paris
London
N. Y. Star
Wonders of Galvanism and Animalcular World
Wonders of galvanism claim high power from tiny amounts of water and zinc, citing Faraday and Davenport to suggest steam engines may become obsolete. The Britannica article on Microscope notes astonishingly small animal life in silicious rocks, detailing minute sizes, counts per cubic line, and weights in the polishing slate. Norfolk Herald
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High Authority
Professor Farady
London
Hare
Davenport
V. Y. Herald
Encyclopedia Britannica
David Brewster
Bilin
Norfolk
Light Houses and Cutters for North Carolina
Capt. Skinner of the United States Navy surveys Pamlico Sound North Carolina for suitable lighthouse sites and recommends erecting one on Boddie Island. He also endorses a revenue cutter at Pamlico Sound and another at Cape Fear.
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North Carolina
Skinner
United States Navy
Pamlico Sound
Boddie Island
Cape Fear
N. Y. Star
Hidden Treasure Found on Douglass Property
More hidden treasures found. Mr Burras Munday, while removing a heap of stone on the land of John Douglass, Esq., uncovered additional artifacts amid the rubble and near the boundary fence, prompting further excavation.
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Burras Munday
John Douglass
Discovery of gold cache in county lands
In the northern part of the county a few days ago a wooden box was found containing four hundred forty nine doubloons of gold valued at nearly seven thousand five hundred dollars. The finder is the overseer of Mr Douglass, described as an industrious and worthy man. Charlottesville Adv.
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Douglass
Charlottesville
Schoolmaster Fined for Blunder-buss Kiss Case
A New York schoolmaster was fined $100 after being found to have kissed a female pupil. The incident, described by some papers as a blunder-buss moment, prompted the fine in court.
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New York
Santa Anna to face trial after Mexican cavalry raid
A Vera Cruz letter reports a May 7 descent by 100 cavalry on Mango de Clave capturing the San Jacinto hero Santa Anna. Bustamante ordered immediate trial on arrival in Mexico for Texan war mismanagement. The letter forecasts execution and calls Santa Anna’s fate inevitable.
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Santa Anna
New Orleans
Vessels Freed By Bustamante Amid Mexican Reprisal Report
The schooner Mechanic from Matamoros reports all American vessels and crews detained there have been released by order of General Bustamante. The Mexican fleet commander was arrested and imprisoned at Vera Cruz for capturing the ships. Santa Anna remains at his plantation near Vera Cruz, and reports of his transfer to Mexico City are false.
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Matamoros
Bustamente
Vera Cruz
Abolitionists urged to fund runaways test of devotion
The Portsmouth Times notes proposals to use seized profits from slave runaways to test abolitionist dedication. In New York a man named Herman sought his enslaved companion, offering $260, with church crowds contributing. The Star argues the plan is wrong as the enslaved person is 63 and likely bound for the alms house, while the South remains wary of losing faithful servants.
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Herman
New York
South
Jonathan
Portsmouth Times
Fish story reports huge catfish with contained child
An eyewitness relates that a large catfish weighing ninety eight pounds was caught in the Ohio River about a hundred miles below Louisville. Upon opening the fish, it was found to contain a negro child of considerable size, per the Cincinnati Whig.
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Ohio River
Louisville
Cincinnati Whig
Excellent Advice About Business Hours and Busi ness
The note urges avoiding calling it six business men during business hours and stresses keeping to business matters. It hints at practical etiquette for professional conduct and then returns to the idea of pursuing one’s own business after completing tasks.
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Wilmington
Typographical Butchery in the Knickerbocker Tale
A shabby visitor in green spectacles requests his verses be printed in the Literary Steamboat and General Western Alligator. The narrator reads two mutated poems TO ONE FOUND WANTING and TO ONE FOUND WASHING, noting the butchered typography and the man’s growing red in the face as the piece devolves into comic misprints.
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Knickerbocker
Orion
West
Dorsey Stakes Won On Central Course By Picton Colt
The Dorsey Stakes for three year old colts and fillies, value 8400 dollars, 62 subscribers, 300 entry, 100 forfeit, ran one mile on the Central Course Md on the 16th. Col. William Wynn's brown colt Picton by imported Lurborough out of Isabel la won, only 11 of 62 starters paid forfeit.
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Central Course
William Wynn
Picton
Lurborough
Isabella
Connubial murder conviction in Arkansas case
William F. McKee convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of Beaufort Scott in Arkansas. Catharine McKee, wife of Alexander, is Beaufort’s sister and she testified, believed by some to show bias, which helped her husband escape by shifting the blame to brother M. Y. Star.
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Wm. F. McKee
Beaufort Scott
Arkansas
Catharine
Alexander McKee
Beaufort
M. Y. Star
Presbyterians to Cite Local Courts at Next Session
The general assembly now in Philadelphia has resolved to cite before them at the next session all inferior judicatures that by common fame are charged with tolerating cross errors in doctrine and disorders in practice.
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General Assembly of the Presbyterians
Philadelphia
World’s wonders and wiser rulers praised by Lord Duberly
The excerpt extols North America as hosting the longest rivers, largest lakes, greatest cataracts, wild prairies, profound caves, strongest tobacco, biggest canals and railroads, and the wisest statesmen. It laments preferring any other quarter of the world, echoing Lord Duberly’s boastful tone.
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North America
Duberly
Lowell Market Man Uses Hen Eggs as Change
A Lowell Massachusetts market man, pressed for change, carries a basket of hens eggs to provide small currency. The piece humorously notes such eye currency could be penalized if lawmakers deem egg-based change inappropriate, comparing it to other nations where cows and calves serve as money.
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Lowell
Massachusetts
Gazette
Texas
Inquisitor
Mexico
Hat and handkerchief method to float a person six hours
A safety suggestion arising from the Ben Sherrod disaster proposes tying a hat into a handkerchief with the tie under the brim. By keeping the hat air captive with the brim downward the wearer could be buoyed by air for more than six hours in a life saving attempt.
The Ruling Passion in America Card Scene
A Chicago young gentleman, having won a fair lady, urges postponing marriage until her father’s important lawsuit is decided. The lady insists on prompt action, and the lover replies with a wry question about whether she can refuse him for six months.
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America
Chicago
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