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Newspaper
Versailles Dispatch
Location
Versailles, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1860
Page
2
A brittle 1860 letter discusses local politics and demoralizing establishments while noting recent rains. The writer mentions a gubernatorial hint to pull advertisements, opinions on rain and crops, and a desire for a reporter to cover meetings for full citizen detail.
A Long Island era letter recalls the 1860 Independence Day celebrations near Pennsylvaniaburg with Sunman station displays, German beer halls, and parade speeches. It notes German traditions, drinking, dancing, and a clash of crowds, contrasting past and present observances and urging decency and reverence for the holiday. An aside reports New Bedford Mass hosting six whale ships bringing sperm and whale oil and baleen.
A young girl in Camden, daughter of Riley Tait, found an old pistol in the house and fired at her sister, the shot entering the baby's hand and forehead near the eye, causing death. A reader offers home remedies for eye injuries and a tea-based treatment for eye irritation.
A 1860 letter from Denni Plewii of Holton denounces a rival Quilp in a political dispute over Democratic county conventions. The piece also describes a patriotic demonstration at Holton on July 12 1860 with a procession, speeches, music, a Declaration of Independence reading, and a basket dinner.
The piece notes a demand for a daily overland railroad to the Pacific and urges citizens to support allied principles. In Terre Haute Indiana a negro man was found dead in an unoccupied house. another man was later found dead with an axe embedded in his cheek, suggesting foul play in a sleeping arrangement with the house occupants.
Report notes that the prohibition on publishing epigrams in the French press has been withdrawn. Markets remained dull with the Bourse and rentes closing modestly and francs quoted around a large 20 million figure mentioned in the discussion.
The New Mexican Mail arrived yesterday announcing Santa Fe mountains have burned for three weeks and were extinguished by heavy rain. Captain Scurgess with six cavalry companies from Texas camped on the Arkaneasiver. Major Sebrix with four cavalry and two dragoons at Big Timber will join soon.
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