Warren County and City Senate Debate Fails to Adjourn
In Hakerspunc on March 29 1855 a major House debate centered on a Senate adjournment proposal. Cummings attacked Cameron’s faction while Lott resisted, drawing partisan clashes and a sharp Speaker response. The piece notes ongoing efforts to elect a Senator, potential new legislation, and local weather as March ends.
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Hakerspunc
Tionesta Creek
Warren County
Big Run
Jefferson County
House
Senate
M’combs
Cummings
Philadelphia
Cameron
Fugleman
Mr. Cummings
Gen. Cameron
Messrs
M’calmont
Simpson
Curremings
Mr. Lott
Strong
George Law
Pennsylvania
South
Aurora or the Sharpshooters Scout conclude in two Nos
Our Ledger neighbors convey thanks for a week’s compliment and note they did not match the description in three advertisements. The story “Aurora or the Sharpshooters Scout” will end in two more issues, with the conclusion forthcoming.
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Ledger
Aurora
Inquiries on Local Papers and Support in Girard Borough
The writer asks how many papers have been established in Girard Borough in the last ten to fifteen years and where the man who plans to start another paper can be found. The True Republican was valued and could have been sustained with local backing to become a paying concern.
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Warren Mail
Borror
Warren
California
Utah
Girard
Odd Winter Miss Spring Quip Sparks Local Absence
The Elk Advocate columnist Powell joked that Winter straddles Spring. The remark drew a reaction and the subject left town soon after, leaving locals to ponder the ill wind that blows no good.
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Powell
The
Elk Advocate
Advocate
Salmon price differences noted between regions
The Sacramento River yields the finest salmon now in San Francisco at 3 cents per pound. In contrast, pickerel from Chautauqua Lake during winter ranges from 6 to 8 cents per pound, highlighting regional price variation.
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Curar
Sacramento
San Francisco
Chautauge Lake
Erie County liquor licenses prompt clash with Warren County
In the Waterford Dispatch, Judge Galbraith licensed many Erie County hotel keepers to sell liquor for the coming year while condemning traffic in Warren County, a contrast the paper calls strange and worthy of note.
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Waterford ~ Dispatch
Galbraith
Erie County
Warren ‘County
Erie
Improvements Boost Warren Business and Local Ads
In Warren the Stranahan Randall partners convert adjoining space into a store room. Verbeck buys the Olney building to create a Carvers store room, extending sixty feet. Hazeltine Co. opens a refined store in Johnson’s Block. A. E. Hall & Co. launch a new stock in the former Sammerton site. A new McKeesport Standard paper is noted, and Connecticut spring election results are mentioned with Know Nothing gains.
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Messrs Stranahan & Randall
Judge Merrill
Warren
C.W.H. Verbeck, Esq
J. M. Olney
Messrs.Carvers
Hazeltine & Co
Johnson
Pennsylvania
New Fireu
Messrs
A. E. Hall & Co
Sammerton & Church
Kansas Election Report from Bull Creek to Leavenworth
From Ixprrenvence Missouri dated April 1 1855 comes word that Kansas voters elected the pro Slavery ticket at Bull Creek Lawrence Douglass Doviphan Tecumseh Shawnee Mission Leavenworth and Hooky Point by margins from 200 to 800 The conduct was orderly A Kansas Free State editor was beaten by a mob after a speech Likely no Anti Slavery lawmakers were chosen A large procession celebrated the victory
Election Riot at Cincinnati Polls 1855
Reports from Cincinnati dated April 2 1855 describe riotous election violence with Know Nothings, Americans and Germans clashing. Ballot boxes destroyed. Dr. Brown severely beaten and possibly dead. cannon used in street confrontations. Eleventh Ward Germans favoring Sag nicht while American voters contest results.
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Cincinnati
Dr. Brown
Charleston newspapers propose fund for Captain Ingraham
The Charleston papers plan to raise a sum in South Carolina as a testimonial to Captain Ingraham for his Koszta conduct to buy him a home. The Mercury notes he was security for a friend and now his entire property is advertised for sale to satisfy his obligation for another. He has a large family, and the outcome is clear.
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Charleston
South Carolina
Ingraham
Koszta
Mercury
Botts Denies Virginia Gubernatorial Candidacy
Hon John M Botts writes to the Richmond Whig that he is not now and never has been a candidate for Virginia governor He says he is sick of political life and will not seek another public post.
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John M. Botts
Richmond Whig
Virginia
Old Soldier's Bounty Land Act Provisions and Amendments
The act grants surviving military personnel from 1790 onward land warrants of 160 acres each, with conditions on desertion and dishonorable discharge. It extends benefits to widows and minor children of deceased veterans, clarifies eligibility, transfer rules, valuation per acre, and coverage for Indians, Revolutionary War soldiers, chaplains, and certain 1812 and Plattsburgh volunteers. An incidental passenger birth occurs aboard a Wilmington to Baltimore trip, prompting names and reactions from Dr. Hintze and Rev. Dr. Balch as the mother safely delivers a boy in transit.
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United States
U. States
Interior
Plattsburgh
King’s Mountain
Nicojack
South
Lewiston
Delaware
May
Wilmington
Del
Baltimore
Susquehanna
F. E. B. Hintze
Balch
McTavish
Shirley
Hintze
Balt. Sun
A Railroop in Nebraska Incorporation Passed
Nebraska legislature approves a Missouri River and Platte Valley Railroad Company charter with capital of five million dollars. The route runs from Plattsmouth to Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, and west Nebraska, plus a Nemaha mouth to Grand Island branch. Two letters to Mr Czar in St Petersburg, Russia were not prepaid.
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Nebraska
Missouri River and Platte Valley Railroad Company
Plattsmouth
Missouri River
Fort Kearney
Fort Laramie
Nemaha
Grand Island
Gardiner
Mr. Czar
Russia
St. Petersburg
Ladies and Whiskey A Great Time in Howell
In Howell a village gathering of women stormed a liquor store to stop a married man’s drinking. Armed with improvised tools, they smashed casks and bottles, emptied the store, then sent a committee to other sellers urging them to desist. The event ignited local cheers and commentary on public behavior.
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Howell
Sam
New Orleans
Wellington
Waterloo
Seeps and Statistics Congress funds seed and agriculture
Congress allocates forty thousand seventy eight dollars in the general appropriation bill to reimburse the Patent Office for prior seed expenditures and for agricultural statistics. The Agricultural Bureau clerk visited Europe last year to replenish seed stocks and seeds have been distributed widely nationwide.
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Congress
Patent Office Fund
Agricultural Bureau
Europe
Briox Brande on billion and biquadratic term origins
A brief note from Briox Brande explains the evolution of the term billion as a thousand millions in French usage and a million of millions in English. It defines biquadratic as the product of two quadratics and mentions a footnote about prepaid postage.
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Brande
Arrival of the Asia in port and Tsar Alexander II manifesto
The Royal Mail steamship Asia from Liverpool arrived in port at 9 PM Thursday. A lengthy Russian manifesto from Emperor Alexander II to his army praised soldiers and called for continued loyalty to Russia, with notes on Nicholas I's death and suggested peace hints. Reports discuss differing English and Russian accounts of Nicholas I’s last hours. A Washington joke about a forged love-letter letter to Congress reveals a practical joke impact on lawmakers.
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Royal Mail
Asia
Lott
Liverpool
Alexander II
St. Petersburg
Russia
Nicholas Pavlovitch
Alexander
Nicholas
Black Sea
France
England
Austria
Prussia
Fritz
Count Orloff
Delgorowski
Arlenburg
Sebastopol
Congressional
Washington City
Congress
Kentucky
House of Representatives
House
Louisville
Lightning strikes Wooten house. child killed in Wilmington
During a thunderstorm on the 9th instant the Amos Wooten residence near Wilmington North Carolina was struck by lightning. A little son was killed instantly and the rest of the family were injured to varying degrees. The bolt discharged two loaded guns, one melted near the breach.
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Amos Wooten
Wilmington
N. C
Negro Shot by Mistake at Ald Sinnot's Plantation
Simeon Landry surrendered to police after killing a man in the McCarty plantation yard near the riverfront tobacco warehouses. The victim was Ben Power, a levee laborer, shot through the upper left chest after Landry fired at an approaching figure he believed to be a robber. An inquest found Landry's confession credible. he awaits examination in prison.
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Simeon Landry
Third District
Ald. N. Sinnot
McCarty
Brooks
James Power
Ben
Landry
Corner Mitchel
Native American Organization endorses open American Convention
The chairman of the State Executive Committee Peter Sken Smith urges an open American Convention to be held in Harrisburg this summer to nominate President and Vice President for the American party. Natives organize Philadelphia clubs to support Commodore Stockton of New Jersey for President and Kenneth Rayner or another Southern figure for Vice President.
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Orpen American
Peter Sken Smith
Harrisburg
United States
Philadelphia
Com. Stockton
N. J
Kenneth Rayner
Illinois Wheat Acreage Rising in Record Year
In Illinois at least twenty percent more acres are planted in wheat than any prior year. Favorable winter conditions support growth. Richmond area woods teem with robins as many are hunted and sold at 87 cents per dozen.
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Illinois
Richmond
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Laona
Chautauque County
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Goodrich
H. J. Taylor
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Jtz
M’keesport Standard
M’keesport
Godey
Connecticut
Ma. Eorror
Bosting
New Having
H. L. Parsons
Kansas
Old Soldier’s Bounty Land Act
Livingston Courier
Howell, Mich
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Boston Atlas
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Herald of the Express
Santa Claus
Cincinnati Times
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