Old Baltimore Editor Samuel Sands Dies at 92
Samuel Sands a longtime Baltimore printer editor and publisher died at age 92. An apprentice in 1811 he helped publish the American Farmer the first agricultural paper in the United States. He also ran the Morning Chronicle and 1836 saw the Freeman's Banner promoting General Harrison. He served as Secretary of the Maryland State Agricultural Society. Death attributed to old age.
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Baltimore
Samuel Sands
American Farmer
Morning Chronicle
Freeman's
William Henry Harrison
Maryland State Agricultural Society
District Conference Notes From Mount Pleasant Durham Circuit
Pittsborough July 27 The Durham district Methodist Conference met at Mount Pleasant church July 23 24 with large attendance and strong reports. Dr Yates presided and praised the church building. Rev W H Moore and Rev N H D Wilson preached notable sermons. Delegates named E W Atwater J A Johnson C W Hunt A H Merritt. Local hospitality praised. Captain J A Pugh died after long illness. Crops suffer from heavy rains. cotton late. corn and wheat yields mixed.
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Pittsborough
Durham District
Mount Pleasant
Haw River
Yates
W. H. Moore
N. H. D. Wilson
Messrs
E. W. Atwater
J. A. Johnson
C. W. Hunt
A. H. Merritt
Man of Gas cartoon notes Blair absence in Congress
A Washington dispatch notes Senator Blair will miss the upcoming Congress session. The piece mocks his long, tedious speeches that once bored members to sleep. In China a few zealous critics fear his influence abroad and question fairness.
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Blair
U. S. Congress
Commissioner Morgan lauded for cutting Catholic Mission ties
Washington July 28 Commissioner Morgan of the Indian Bureau receives praise from religious leaders and party officials for refusing further business relations with the Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions. He says the order severing ties was just and will have beneficial effects and expects presidential approval.
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Washlgton
Morgan
Indian Bureau
Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions
Cardinal Gibbons
Burglars Reported in Farmville Virginia
A Farmville dispatch says burglars entered Paulett & Son and W P Gilliam Co stores and the post office. Paulett's lost 175 dollars, a safe at Gilliam's failed to yield, and a posse pursues three strangers who fled.
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United Press
Pretersbure
Farmville
Paulett & Son
W. P. Gilliam & Co
Paulett’s
Gilliam’s
Norfolk to Wilmington Charleston Railroad Progress Report
Dispatch from Norfolk notes engineers building the Norfolk Wilmington and Charleston line from Gilmerton Locks through the Dismal Swamp to Cornland with expected wallaceton and potential routes to Elizabeth City. The Wilmington Star reports three hundred bands at work eighteen miles beyond Jacksonville with ongoing grading. A separate notice touts P P P as relief for rheumatism from W H Wilder of Albany Georgia.
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Norfolk, Wilmington & Charleston Railroad
Gilmerton Locks
Portsmouth
Cornland
Wallaceton
South Mills
Elizabeth City
Wilmington
Charleston
Gilmerton
Wilmington Star
Jacksonville
Maysville
Mobile businessmen press direct steamship line to South America
A Mobile delegation led by A S Benn and Gaylor B Clark met Postmaster General Wanamaker in Washington to push inclusion of Mobile to South American ports steamship ads. They proposed a Mobile Tampico Grey town Colon route and will submit a chosen line in writing after returning home.
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Washington, D. C
Morgan and Pugh
Alabama
Mobile
A. 5
Benn
Commercial Club of
Gaylor B. Clark
Rittenhouse Moore
Wanamaker
Tampico
Greytown
Colon
Coal Creek miners brace for new trouble in Tennessee
A Knoxville dispatch says six convicts were moved to Coal Creek, Tennessee, an action seen as open defiance by the Tennessee Coal Mining Company. Miners may react, awaiting the Legislature's extra session actions.
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New York
Knoxville
Tenn
Coal Creek
Tennessee Coal Mining Company
Government Borrowing Under Harrison Administration
The Harrison administration borrowed 1.5 million dollars yesterday by extending bonds and plans to borrow 50 million more within six weeks. The Louisville Times notes this follows Cleveland's era with a 150 million dollar surplus revenues.
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W Harrison
Cleveland
Louisville Times
Hambleton Seeks Record Georgia Claim Against U.S.
Dr James P Hambleton of Atlanta seeks compensation for 3200 bales of cotton valued at 200 dollars per bale totaling 640000 dollars. Born in Virginia, he moved to Atlanta in 1855 and married Col Benjamin Easley’s daughter, a leading Dade county farmer.
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Washington
Georgia
United States
James P. Hambleton
Atlanta
Sam
Benjamin Easley
Dade County
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Nearing Death
The Grand Duke is dying with paralyzed limbs and is expected to pass away at any moment from Mecklenburg Schwerin. A Vermont reader reports relief from catarrh after using Ely s Cream Balm claiming cure.
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United Press
Berwin
Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Outrage Near Grissom Brings Fear and Arrests
A masked group abducted Mary Green Allen from her Granville County home, whipped her near death, and beat her brother-in-law Henry Merritt after returning. Fifteen suspects were arrested and tried with alibis. none identified. The incident shocked the community and spurred calls for justice.
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Grissom
P. O
Granville County
Mary Greene Allen
Henry Merritt
Offer to Sell Famous Bingham School Property in North Carolina
Educators offered the famed Bingham School property now moved to Asheville, N C for private reasons. The sale includes barracks recitation rooms mess hall furniture residences bathhouses or chards 380 acres of land and lawns. The seller notes over 30000 spent on improvements and invites applications to Mrs Wu Bincram Bingham School N C. Rheumatism cure claim for P P P is briefly mentioned with no medical endorsement.
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Bingham
Asheville
N. C
Richmond & Danville
Wu. Bincram
Bingham School
Rates for North Carolina Farmers Alliance Meeting Tickets
The Richmond and Danville railroad offers round trip tickets to Morehead City North Carolina for the annual meeting. Sales run August 8 to 15 1891 with return by August 20. Rates from Charlotte Salisbury Greensboro Winston Salem Wilkesboro Albemarle Asheboro Durham Oxford Henderson Raleigh Selma and intermediate points listed with varying prices. W A Torx D P A.
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Morehead City
N. C
Richmond
Danville
Bnein Cs
Albemarle
Asheboro
Durham
Oxford
Henderson
Raleigh
Selma
W. A. Torx
Ely's Cream Balm Relieves Severe Head Cold
Samuel J Harris a wholesale grocer of 119 Front St New York reports powerful relief from a months long head cold after one week use of Ely s Cream Balm calling it the best remedy known. A Deevut advertises eight month old green Mexican parrots for 12 50.
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Ely
Samuel J. Harris
Front St
New York
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