Utica Anti-Slavery Convention Report from Peterprone
Extract from a jet in the New York Advertiser recounts the Utica gathering of the Anti-Slavery Society held October 23 35. Garret Smith Esquire named president in Bedford and a vice president for the senatorial district. About eleven hundred dollars pledged, Utica as printing center, roughly one hundred enrolled in Utica and four hundred later. Nearly every county represented, rioters from various towns, grog shops raided, and the event described as politically charged.
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Utica
New York
Ily Advertiser
Peterprone
Lic
Gentycu
Whitesborough
Petersborough
Garret Smith
Wan
Bedford
New York Anti
Common Council i Unca
Melancholy Accident at Fulton Ship Ward Event
A crowd gathered near the Fulton ship ward when a cannon was fired to start a display. A young man named Thorpe, within six feet of the cannon, was fatally injured as the blast destroyed him. He remained calm and observed the damage with tears. Cincinnati Republican.
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Thorpe
Ttis
Cincinnani Republican
Road land tax sparks outcry from non resident landholders
A Rome correspondent reports a draft act from the last legislative session imposing a road tax on lands of all non residents. The tax, described as arbitrary and ruinous, is said to be payable to the Holy authorities where the land lies.
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Nlingis
Rome
Linvis
Death from hydrophobia in York County case
A Pennsylvania York County man died after hydrophobia symptoms appeared six weeks post bite by a mad dog. Matthew Black began showing strange sensations on the 20th, with spasms when water was offered, and died two days later during a paroxysm.
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York County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Black
Sad Death of Charles Hyde at Gold Street Shop
Charles Hyde, recently from England, was killed at K Hoe & Co on Gold Street on Friday evening in a tragic accident. While lighting lamps, he stepped onto a fast running grindstone near a guard, his leg crushed under the wheel for a minute before discovery. He was taken out insensible and later revived enough to recount the event.
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Charles Hyde
England
K. Hoe & Co
Gold Street
Yankee refused dinner over pewter tale at tavern
The Bangor Advertiser retells a humor tale of a Yankee barred from a tavern until proving his pewter. After a bell dinged, he surveyed the room, declared the landlord had seen his money and warned he had seen his dinner too even as he left.
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Bangor Advertiser
Petersborg and Roanoke Rail Road Dividend Declared
On the 2d instant the President and Directors of its Company declared a five percent dividend for the last six months. No better evidence of the success of this improvement can be required. WPet. dnt.
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Petersborg
Roanoke Rail Road
Wpet. Dnt
Petition to incorporate railroad company for Danville route
Notice in the Danville Reporter states a petition will be presented to the Legislature at its next session for the incorporation of a company to construct a railroad from the western terminus of the existing Eastern Rail Road on the Roanoke to Danville Evansham and surrounding areas.
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Danville
Roanoke
Danville, Evansham, &Co
Plans for a Commercial City on Potomac shore
The Globe reports a scheme to found a Commercial City opposite Washington in the District of Columbia. It suggests New York capital might back the project to aid Chesapeake and Ohio Canal trade, with tow boats taking vessels to sea instead of pilot boats.
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Globe
District of Columbia
Potomac
Washington
New York
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Tennessee House nominates Judge White for Presidency
The Tennessee House of Representatives passes a resolution nominating Judge White for the Presidency by a 23 to 2 vote in the Senate.
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House of Representatives of
Tennessee
Judge White
Senate
New Orleans Union highlights housing demand and high rents
The New Orleans Union notes demand for private residences and limited conveniences for families seeking homes. It points out abundant stores and offices but sky high rents, estimating decent housing under 60 dollars per month and around 1000 dollars per annum as a fair rent in the era.
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New Orleans Union
City seeks moderate pre tensions for new dwellings
A fragment urges reallocating capital to erect neat and commodious dwellings. The aim is to secure a permanent population by constructing such housing in the city.
Curious New Yankee Inlet Launch From Wincasset
The Baltimore Gazette notes a two story dwelling launched at Wincasset on the first, bound for Edgecombe, arriving the same day. The piece evokes Brainard and his Methodist meeting house spoken of in Long Island Sound on its Gulf voyage.
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Baltimore Gazette
Wincasset
Custom House
Edgecombe
Tas
Debn Brainard
Long Island Sound
Gulf of Mexico
Indignation Over Son Beat Father Merchant Assault
A Boston Trans item reports a son and partner assaulting and striking his father Mr Lot Wheelwright senior, leaving him wounded in the head. The elder Wheelwright is highly respected in Brighton and the incident has caused widespread outrage and calls for punishment.
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Issault
Lot Wheelwright
Vic Insurance
Anes
Brighton
Wheelwright
Boston
Dreadful Catastrophe at Ford Creek Described
The Aiken South Carolina Telegraph reports a horrific night attack at a dwelling on Ford Creek. Inmates were butchered, valuables stolen, and the bodies of thirteen people burned, including Mr and Mrs S and five children, with German emigrants among the slain. A white man was seen nearby before disappearing. community outrage follows.
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S.C
Ford Creek
Legacy Legislator and Church Member Noted
The text notes an intelligent honest man long in the state legislature and a member of the Methods church. It states a $10,000 reward is offered for the perpetrator of the horrid act.
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Methods Church
Freshet Devastates Western New York Rivers
An overwhelming freshet in western New York rivers sweeps away mills bridges houses fences cattle and more, causing immense damage to property and livestock.
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New York
Notorious Swindler Banished From Natchez
A stout young man named Benj Lewis, ordered by Natchez vigilante committee to quit the state, is accused of long swindling. His profits came from a mork beggar or stud pireon used as an old woman to extract funds from locals, extorting several hundred dollars from sympathizers in the wood county. Lewis is said to have swindled inhabitants out of several thousand.
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Mississippi
Benj. Lewis
Natchez
Pearl River
Lewis
Insurrection Report From the Spanish Main
Captain Wainwright of the British brig Sylph arriving from Port Spain notes an insurrection on the Main with inhabitants fleeing in all directions. About 500 fugitives reached Trinidad a few days before the Sylph departed.
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Wainwright
Sylph
Port Spain
Rinidast
Trimidad
W.— Norfolk Peacon
Arkansas Territory Legislature at Linke Rock Report
Governor Pulton reports to the Arkansas Legislative Council noting a large population, questions on Congress powers over statehood, and the slavery issue. He warns private arm bearing causes violence, cites land sales and treasury deficit, and urges petitions to Washington for two arsenals and a US battalion.
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Arkansas
Legislative Council
Linke Rock
Sih
Pulton
Michigan
Congress
United Stnes
Ssuud
United States
Abolitionist Missionary Jamed Gun Seized in Monongahela Village
Reports say Jamed Gun a young abolitionist missionary avoided executions by hiding in a Monongahela Valley village. He was discovered in a cellar behind a turnip bin, aided by local women, then led from the town amid groans and jeers from residents.
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Jamed Gun
Pennsylvania
Mononga Held
Sun
Conviction for Perjury in Portage County Court
At a late Portage County Ohio court Col. W B Washington was convicted of perjury and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He was a man of standing and caliber in the community.
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Portage County
Ohio
Col
W. B. Washington
Property and Perjury Stir Legal Controversy
A report notes that a property owner driven by avarice triggered perjury proceedings. The case centers on alleged financial motives and the resulting courtroom actions. Strong entities include the property owner and the involved legal authorities.
Suspended Result of Insanity Verdict in Ridgewater Case
Walter Hayward aged 24 was found suspended from an oak tree near his Ridgewater home. He had married on the 12th last month. The verdict returned was insanity.
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Walter Hayward
Iidgewater
Con
Jle
Outrage in West Springfield Attacks Aaron Day Family
A man abducted the eldest Day daughter from a bedroom in West Springfield Massachusetts on the night of the 19th alt. Me. The 12 year old girl awoke as she was carried outside and cried for help while her father woke and gave chase. The assailant fled and a $500 reward was offered by town selectmen for his capture.
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West Springfield
Mass
Aaron Day
Mr. Day
Daugher
W. Y. Sun
Ministers Denounce Abolition Society in Pastoral Letter
Bishops Hledding and Emory of the Methodist Episcopal church have issued a Pastoral Letter to the New Hampshire and New England Conferences urging preachers and members to abstain from Abolition Society lectures and to deny use of pulpits and church houses.
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Hledding
Emory
Methodist Episcopal Church
New Hampshire
New England
Abolition Society
Stacks of Old Newspapers Brought by Neosho to Memphis
A late Arkansas paper from Little Rock reports that nearly a ton of old newspapers, accumulating in Memphis since July, arrived at the Memphis post office aboard the steam boat Neosho. The local portion was several hundred items, deemed useless except for wrapping paper.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Memphis
Death of Mrs Earls Sparks Poison Suspicion in Lycoming
The Milton Farmer and Democrat reports the sudden death on the sixteenth at Money Dam of Mrs Catherine Earls wife of Dolin Earls. Neighbors suspect possible poisoning with arsenic and implicate her husband. Body examined by physicians. stomach sent to Philadelphia for chemical analysis.
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Milton Farmer and Democrat
Money Dam
Catherine Arts
Dolin Earls
Lycoming
Philadelphia
A Cow Worth Having From York Cattle Sale
Mr Barnitz of York Pennsylvania lists a choice stock of cattle including a cow that yields sixteen to twenty pounds of butter weekly. The Farmer and Gardener notes her milk can be converted to butter in under a minute with a spoon. Asking price is 300 dollars.
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Barnitz
York
Pennsylvania
Desirable Widow Sub scriber Up Town Says The New York
A readable fragment notes a desirable widow and a subscriber in uptown New York hints. The item appears as a brief society or classifieds fragment with unclear full details.
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N.Y
Sun Omits Praise for Upset Neighbor at City Hall Clock
A distressed writer laments the miseries caused by the head of a faculty unit living in the same house. He paints a sharp caricature of her traits including excessive noisiness, lax housekeeping, profane speech, and late night revelry, suggesting she is an unsuitable wife and neighbor. The piece ends with a plea to Dedhun for sympathy.
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Dedhun
Refinement and a Miss Returns to Her Father’s House
A refined Miss comes home after a year at a fashionable boarding school. Her brother, unsophisticated in speech, complains that she speaks above him. He notes her phrases are hard to comprehend and jokes that she has solar or learned talk beyond his grasp.
Union College Honors John Patterson With A M Degree
Albany Evening Journal notes Union College conferred the honorary A M on John Patterson of Albany a journeyman printer praised for long service in the craft since moving from Buffalo about twelve years ago. Patterson has earned about 3000 in savings through frugality and industry while pursuing mathematics and supplying his family.
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Tg College
Albany Evening Journal
Union College
A. M
John Patterson
Journeyman
Patterson
Buffalo
Ravenhouse
Franklin
Inventor’s Garment Promises to Delay Ladies Departure
A Providence man or his wife advertises a garble is claimed as a seark eateler that purportedly detains women after they are called. The piece mocks the inventor and jokes about securing a desirable match for the author or his wife, praising the “better half” for potential reward amid social satire.
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Arthur Addington
Providence
Cils
New Fugland
Winslow Brother of Mina’s Paramour Eyed in Crime
The New Bedford Gazette notes that Mark Winslow, who recently died by his own hand in a Boston prison, was the brother of Mrs. Chapman the paramour of Mina. It says he had grown gray in crime and was a well known figure in the vicinity.
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The
New Bedford Gazette
Mark Winslow
Boston
Chapman
Mina
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Tarboro Press
George Howard
Uiet
Albeen
Paul
Omasulo
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