Fruits of Santa Cruz and shark frolics in 1845-letter
Correspondence from Santa Cruz notes island riches and export crops like sugar coffee and tobacco, plus scenery and flora. It details planters, coconut groves, tamarind and orange trees, and a dangerous reef of mosquitoes and elephantiasis among slaves. A later item recounts a shark capture with a liver yielding lamp oil and a humorous schoolyard quip about a pretty girl.
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Thurlow Weed
Albany Evening Journal
Santa Cruz
W. 1
Porto Rico
Cuba
Europe
America
Enade
South America
McClure
Stevens
Cayuga
Thurlow
Weed
Law and work echo in debate over professions and farming
The piece argues against an overabundance of lawyers in cities, urging honorable farm or workshop careers as equally noble paths. It praises farming for independence, character, and happiness, warning against professional overconcentration and city life’s harsh competition. It notes a dawning shift toward valuing head and heart culture alongside hands-on labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodt. Stevens
Meridian
Aken
N. Y
Enid
Early Potatoes and Insect Notes Across Regions
The article describes Lancashire methods for preparing seed seedbeds to guard against spring frosts. It covers separating top and bottom end sets, air and lime treatment, and staged hardening before planting. It also recounts a New York Mirror note on a wheat midge occurrence and a Vermont meeting where women abolished spirits licenses, plus political commentary on Senate leadership and a Mississippi slave escape in Ohio County jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancashire
England
Louisville Journal
Tun Wuear
New York Mirror
Baltimore Conference Vote Keeps United Methodist Church Structure
The Methodist Episcopal Conference in session at Baltimore has decided not to alter the 6th restrictive rule of the Discipline and will not divide the church into Northern and Southern divisions over slavery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Baltimore
Sorrel sheep and horses in Alabama legislature tale
A Mobile Register report describes a legislative debate over a botanical medical college bill. A Monroe delegate, Mor rissett, opposed the bill after reciting a dubious tale about a sorrel sheep and sorrel horse used in a fever chapter. The tale influenced the vote, and the bill was killed. Also noted are acorn market curiosities in Godalming and assorted brief items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Register
Theta Bill
Alabama Legisture
Botanical Medic College
Wewaipke
Moore
Mac
Morrissett
Monroe
Yar
Howard
John
Mr. M
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A. M. Gest
New Haven
Tent
Bar
Cin
Gaz
Thomas and
Maxon
Turner
Frederick Edwards
Supreme Court
Chillicothe Democrat
Springfield
Chronicle
Damas
Senate
Owensboro
Ohio County
Mississippi
Godalming
London
Sussex
Eng
Famate Crerus
Cincinnati
Chicagi
Leslie Coombs
Kentucky
Brooklyn
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