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To a Lady from Tarbor O Press
Poem lamenting a lost love addressed to a beloved stranger. The speaker calls the woman a bright star and reflects on missed chance and unworthiness. The verse laments separation and hopes she rests beyond this earth in a higher place.
Florida News Highlights Notable War Feats
A fragment reflecting praise for military valor with a controversial claim about capturing civilians including three children two Native women and a Black person in a historical wartime context. The tone lauds bravery and historic figure status while embedding problematic depictions of captured people.
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Florida
Van Buren Visit to the Hermitage Praises and Reflections
The Globe reports Martin Van Buren visiting the Hermitage to celebrate friendship with Andrew Jackson. Van Buren commends Jackson’s integrity and public service, declines a public dinner, and expresses confidence in the enduring principles guiding the nation while praising the unity and purport of the democratic cause.
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MR. van Buren
Hermitage
Van Buren thanks Nashville for civic greetings
In a cordial note, Martin Van Buren expresses preference for informal, accessible meetings with Nashville residents and their neighbors. He thanks the officers for their courteous conduct in discharging duties and pledges to continue friendly relations while in the state.
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Nashville
M. van Buren
Outrageous case of bigamy shocks Roxborough residents
Milton Chronicle reports Edward A Callaham, not the famed Edward Boling, jailed in Roxborough, Person County on Thursday for bigamy. He formerly lived in Granville County, remarried in Pittsylvania Va to Martha Harvey, then to Martha Jeffries in Roxborough. A rough past included wife beating and a peace warrant. He was captured after a late night confrontation and sent to jail as justice prevails. The piece also covers the Dismal Swamp Canal project and its progress toward open navigation by July or August, praising the canal’s engineering and the guiding leadership of the Board.
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Edward
Edward C. Boling
A. Callaham
Roxborough
Person County
Callaham
Granville County
Pittsylvania
Martha Harvey
Martha Jeffries
Ausbaund
Elizabeth
Pasquotank
Embrye
Gilmerton
Gilmer
Deep Creek
Elizabeth River
Williston
Norfolk
Petersburg Rail Road lays heavy iron rail to extend eight miles
The Petersburg Rail Road Company has commenced laying the heavy iron rail on their road. Thirteen miles of rail have been received, with a portion already laid. The company plans to have at least half the road laid with this rail.
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Petersburg Rail Road Company
Rail extensions boost travel from Blakely to Halifax
The Halifax Advocate notes an extension of the road from Blakely on the Roanoke to Halifax with an engineer surveying the line. It also reports the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad grading completed toward the Potomac, with superstructure underway and a September travel target. This plus iron rails on the Petersburg Road aims to speed and ease journeys between Washington and the South.
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Old Road
Halifax Advocate
Blakely
Halifax
Richmond and
Fredericksburg
Potomac
Petersburg
Washington City
South
Wil. Chron
Richmond man Fletcher Heath sentenced for murder in a jealousy case
Fletcher Heath was tried in Richmond for murdering a mulatto woman and wounding his friend Carter Wells with intent to kill. He received two years confinement in the Penitentiary. A second man was also sentenced to two years for stealing a negro.
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Fletcher Heath
Richmond
Carter Wells
Mysterious Murder Body Found On Gull Island
A female corpse about sixteen was found on Gull Island at the mouth of Grand River, Canada, showing signs of violence and likely murder. The body wore only a lace cap and flesh stockings, wrapped in sail-cloth, with four boards forming a crude coffin, hastily buried in sand. It was described as beautiful with auburn hair, and no coroner's inquest had occurred at the time of reporting from Buffalo, New York.
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Gull Island
Grand River
Canada
Lef
Buffalo
Econ
Free Negroes in Mississippi Security Act Triggered Seizure
The Mississippi legislature authorized justices to require every free negro, upon request by a free holder, to post one hundred dollars as security for good behavior or be jailed. after public notice the county sheriff may sell him. Free negroes are forbidden from entering the state and any found emigrating faces action by white citizens.
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Leanna
Somes Great Tribunal
United States
Kim
Mississippi
Severe Punishment and Ban on Free Negroes Implied in Law
The text states a sheriff administers thirty lashings and a sale if not carried out, and threatens fines for white persons who bring a free Negro into the State, up to five hundred dollars for the first offence and one thousand dollars for the second.
Fatal Duel at Louisiana race course ends in Judge Pichot’s death
A duel yesterday at the Louisiana race course between R C Martin of Assumption and A W Pichot parish judge ended with Judge Pichot mortally wounded at ten paces. He died almost instantly. The clash occurred in the morning. details from N O Picayune dated April 30.
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Louisiana Race Course
R. C. Martin
Assumption
A. W. Pichot
Parish Juge
Louisville Counterfeit Case In Coffee House Incident
In Louisville, a man showed off money in a coffee house attracting two sharpers. They followed him in a hack and demanded cash. He revealed counterfeit notes and tools of the trade, exposing himself as a brother chip in the scheme.
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Louisville
Methodists of Texas Add Two Thousand Two Hundred Members
The Methodists of Texas report a gain of two thousand two hundred members in the past eighteen months, reflecting steady growth for the denomination within the state.
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Methodists of
Texas
Iowa Legislature Refuses to Exempt Religion from Duty
The Iowa Legislature declines to grant exemption to a religious denomination from compulsory military service, maintaining standard duties for adherents amid ongoing debate and potential policy considerations.
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Friends
Iowa
New Book Book of Abraham Claimed Found in Egypt Catacombs
Times and Seasons reports a new Book of Abraham allegedly found in the Catacombs of Egypt by an English traveler who carried it to sway eleven mummies. Jo Smith is said to translate the work for the Native people.
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Egypt
Jo Smith
New Social System Gains Converts in Massachusetts Farms
The article notes Fourie’s social organization ideas spreading in parts of the United States especially Massachusetts where farmers adopt communal living. Members share labor and produce, with some communities planning manufacturing ventures where labor is the main capital. Historical caution is offered regarding such groups, with Shakers as a potential exception.
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Fourie
France
Massachusetts
Out of Employment in New York Harbor
The New York Sun reports about 500 vessels idle or for sale in New York Harbor. It lists 70 ships 34 barks 88 brigs 250 schooners and 61 other vessels with roughly a third inactive and seeking work or buyers.
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N. Y. Son
New York
A Dreadful Affair at Beaver Dam Depot
The Richmond Star reports a fatal shooting near Richmond at Beaver Dam Depot. James Hamilton was shot by Musgrove, a railroad employee, after a broken engagement with Hamilton’s daughter. Musgrove surrendered. authorities found two loaded pistols and a knife on Hamilton.
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Richmond Star
Beaver Dam Depot
James Hamilton
Richmond
Musgrove
Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton
Opodeldoc Recipe For Swelling Treatment
A remedy for swellings in horses or cattle uses two quarts of proof whiskey heated gently with a pint of soft soap and camphor added to dissolve into a liquid opodeldoc. Apply with a bandage soaked in the solution on the swollen leg or angle as a cheap healing measure.
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