Inauguration of Governor Curtin and War News
The report covers Gov. Curtin's second term inauguration in Pennsylvania, praising his war leadership and urging unity to crush rebellion. It also details fraud concerns in government and notes the Supreme Court ruling on conscription, with editorial stance against treason and support for the Union. It ends with a vivid account of the Santiago Chile church fire catastrophe and heroic rescues.
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Supreme Court
Woods Ward
Lowry
Agnew
Democratic Party
Emancipation Lands Change South and Claim to Redistribution
The Treasury and President's men describe surveys of lands bought by the Government at a February tax sale in the Southern Department. 320 acre tracts are divided into 20 acre lots for colored freedmen, enabling preemption and free simple titles to lands they formerly tilled as enslaved labor. The piece frames this as justice and redistribution, with calls for loyalty to the Union and emancipation as a catalyst for economic modernization. A wartime official, Captain W. White, has been dismissed for alleged fraud and imprisoned. Maximilian may accept the Mexican throne and sail soon, while Chicago reports record hog processing at two million in the past year.
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Albany Evening Journal
Telegraph
Gov. Curtin
Senate
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
United States
State of
Union
Gettysburg
Rouse
South West
Warren County
Penna
Pine Creek
Enterprisey
Enterprise
Archibald Buchanan
John Buchanan
Oil Creek
la Corpplanter Township
Venango County
Penne
Buchanan
5. M. McChesney
Parker
Titusville
Crawford County
Pensa
Jones Parker
Barksdell, Med and
Warren
Murder at No 404 Spruce Street in Philadelphia
Felix Gill was arrested for the murder of his wife at their home on Spruce Street. The victim's body showed brutal wounds and a fierce struggle. Gill, a laborer, had recently inherited $20 000 and is jailed for a hearing.
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Puitapenpeura
Felix Gill
Spruce Street
Gill
Disaster at a crowded doorway claims hundreds in the city
Eyewitness accounts describe people crushed in a mass exit as bodies blocked the door. Fleeing crowds tore away limbs in the struggle to escape. Over five hundred high society individuals perished, mostly young women aged fifteen to twenty, with many households left bereft as one mother died with her five daughters. Two thirds of victims were servants and many houses were emptied.
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Valparaiso
Santiago
Chili
Camphene
Nelson
United States
Meiggs
Ovello
Solar
Dar
Wazeltine & CO
Fragmented 1860s Saturday Scraps and Market Listings
A jumble of historical notes notes assorted facts from 19th century times including property assessments in Pennsylvania, animal counts in England, passenger arrivals in Boston, a Dartmouth alumni annuity, Chicago’s growth, a Philadelphia warship project, a New York riot case ruling, Grant era veterans, emigration shoemakers, a marriage of a congressman, a Greek fire anecdote, a new North Carolina paper, railway safety stats, rumors of Hungarian revolution, and material price listings and grain markets. The mix reads like a collage of era notes and local price tables.
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