Cautions on Banknotes and Obituary Notices in 1822
The paper warns against circulating One Hundred Dollar Notes from the Franklin bank of Baltimore due to skilled counterfeits. It also notes Ohio legislature's $15,000 appropriation to deepen the Pittsburgh to Wheeling river channel. Obituaries include Robert Taggart in Milton aged about 67, and Jane Meomery, widow of Rev. William B. Montgomery, with a devotional elegy describing her Christian life and mission among the Osage.
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Franklin Bank of
Baltimore
Milton
Robert Taggart
The Rose and the Sharon in Hervey Garden
A gentleman plucks a rose for his wife to recall the Rose of Sharon. Mr. Hervey replies with lines praising the giver and the rose, noting the Creator and the incarnation, hoping the wife remains faithful to the Sharon devotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob
Israel
Sharon
Anecdotes and religious reflections from distant lands
A collection of short anecdotes and moral reflections. It recounts an Arabian proverb about prayers and slippers, Ali’s retort to a Jew, a Montreal woman who bought twenty five Bibles for her destitute neighbors, and Jefferson’s commuter tale at a Baltimore inn with an apologetic landlord.
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Ali
Montreal
Baltimore
Jefferson
Tiger Dragged Man Into Jungle Near River Bank
On a Sunday morning in June 1821 a man was seized from the river bank by a tiger and carried into the jungle. Witnesses include a Coolie who saw the man dancing and singing, and Sepoys who followed the trail and later found blood and tracks leading toward the jungle. The hunter prepared to strike as the tiger sat ready to spring.
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Tollenis Trak
Och
Tiger Hunt Tolls Unseen Heroes and Political Critique
An account of a tiger encounter describes a Sepoy heroically pursuing and killing the animal with bayonet fire and rifle despite injury. The piece then attacks the Hiester administration, contrasting it with Governor Findlay over treasury management and public debt, calling for prudent borrowing and fiscal restraint.
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Findlay
Hiester
Gov
Remarkable Intrepidity in Tiger Fight by Turner
Mr Turner formerly of Kildswich in West Riding of Yorkshire, while serving in India, faced a Bengal tiger. With comrades fleeing and leaving muskets, he fired his musket at the beast, then fixed bayonet and endured a brutal close encounter. He tore open a wound on the tiger and escaped with his life.
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Bundook Saheb
Fie
Turner
Kildswich
West Riding of
Yorkshire
India
Action Earned Him the Title of Manager in East India Company
A daring deed left the enemy lifeless at his feet and earned him the name of the Manager. The East India Company then settled upon him a pension for life.
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East India Company
Royal Tour Praises and Pelting Gifts From France
A correspondent recounts Prince’s journey from St Omer to Calais with a light wagon supplying money to townsfolk and giving snuff boxes and rings as gifts. The piece argues British praise for the king’s virtues and notes French spectators’ favorable reception. A beggar in Ste Amers reportedly won three Louis d Or in the end.
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St Omer
Calais
France
The Powers of Blarney in Loyalist Satire
A fragmentary verse piece mocks Irish and London figures with a jaded praise of blarney. It recalls Paddy Whack, Derry Down Pat, the Irish heart, and a Doctor with Manchester steel and a London Sir Billy type, all in a satirical tavern tone. The spoof blends political suspicion with bawdy humor.
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Nate Paddy
Derry
Pat
Greenisle
Dublin
Manchester
Billy
London
Reverend S B Sheps Herd to Preach at Stone Church
The Quague friends note that instead of the first sabbath in January the Rev S B Sheps Herd will preach at the Stone Church near Mr James Geddes on the first sabbath in February.
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Quague
S. B. Shepsherd
Stone Church
James Geddes
James Dougal
Columbia County
Tole
Liberty Township
N Wilson
Limestone
Derry
Madison
Charles Clark
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Danville
Legislature of
Ohio
Pittsburg
Wheeling
Harmony
Osage
Jane Meomery
Wm. B. Montgomery
Jane Montgomery
William B. Montcomery
Heaven
Christ
Adam
W. Po
Red Sea
Moses
The
London Observer
the Times
MR. Jefferson
United States
Gungt Sauger
Hiese
Mauare
Blarney
Friends In Chilis
James
Dougal
Clover Mill
John Fausnaught
Brobst
Immonsel Axon
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