I Have Not Begun to Fight Yet First Mormon Settlement
A Springfield Register correspondent reports from Kirtland Ohio about the first Mormon settlement in Lake County near Cleveland. The piece traces the Temple and town decay, Brigham Young, Joe Smith and Brigham Young’s roles, the temple inscription, and the rise and fall of Zion era institutions. A long biblical excerpt follows with Paul Jones inspiring a battle motto I have not begun to fight.
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Kirtland
Ohio
Lake County
Cleveland
Joe Smith
United States
Brigham Young
Zion
Church of the Latter Day Saints
A. D
Seixas
Stewart
Missouri
Boston
Sheriff Recalls Daring Capture of Vermont Murderer
A Maine traveler recalls a Spring 1839 murder case in a neighboring town. The sheriff describes trapping a French murder suspect, subduing him in a cellar, and forcing his surrender with a staged ruse. The escape ends with the suspect jailed for life and the sheriff bearing a lifelong scar. Another note praises Albany Journal editor George Dawson’s nature writings during a trout-hunting trip in John Brown's Tract.
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Maine
Saddleback Mountain
Leste
Gou
Gude
Jim
George Dawson
Albany Journal
John Brown
Journal
George
Berkeley Rule Echoed in Genteel Discourse Motto
The text cites Bishop Berkley’s rule to avoid praising a man's virtues to his face or exposing faults behind his back, suggesting a standard for courteous conversation. It frames the ideal tone as one of measured, discreet communication in social discourse.
Facts About the Human Body From an Era Text
A historical overview explains bones totaling about 200 in the body excluding teeth with the spine as the central pillar from 24 vertebrae. It describes muscles as elastic threads moving bones via tendons, blood as arterial and venous, heart beats feeding the body, stomach and intestines processing food, lungs exchanging oxygen and carbonic acid, skin filtering impurities, and nerves acting as sensory and motor conduits.
Never Forgive and Never Sin in Forgiveness Lesson
A voyage tale presents General Oglethorpe vowing vengeance over Cyprus wine theft aboard a man of war, and John Wesley rebuking him with a calm question about sin. The anecdote concludes that to never forgive we must never sin, urging forgiveness as a spiritual duty.
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America
Mr. Wesley
General Oglethorpe
Cyprus
Grasshopper Plague Threatens Franklin County Farm Fields
Mr. Schenck of Franklin in Warren county reports a vast surge of grasshoppers. He notes the pest has risen for five years, claiming millions last year and hundreds of millions this year, risking total ruin of clover crops if no destruction method is found.
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Schenck
Franklin
Warren County
Ohio
Lawyer sues editor for libel over July speech
Michael Sanford of Hudson sued the Poughkeepsie Telegraph editor for libel over a July 4 1856 speech critique. Judge Brown charged that editors may criticize printed works but cannot attack private character, and jurors must judge if the piece is libelous. After a three day trial the jury awarded Sanford three cents in damages.
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Linsu
Michael Sanford
Hudson
Poughkeepsie Telegraph
Brown
Springfield Horse Exhibition Planned for September
A major horse show is announced in Springfield Massachusetts for September 14 to 17. The event promises a more liberal scale with premiums totaling three thousand dollars across twenty four classes. The Agricultural Society park, a sixty acre site recently graded and prepared for fairs, will host the exhibition.
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Springfield
Mass
Agricultural Society
Paris Ky execution reprieved and a sale to save two lives
In Paris Kentucky a man who had murdered another by the same value was reprieved and sold out of the state to avoid losing two valued lives. The incident highlights a grim economy of life and property in the era.
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Paris
Rat in Money Market Scene Sparks Quick Worries
A vivid description appears of intense strain in the money market as a bag of specie drops, prompting concern among traders and observers. The allegorical moment highlights market fragility and the potential for swift shifts in liquidity.
Henry Clay Speech on Oratory and Daily Practice
The document cites Henry Clay praising daily reading and speaking, recounting his twenty seven year practice of extempore oratory. He notes practice in a field or forest and even a barn with animals as auditors, crediting this routine with shaping his destiny. He urges students to exercise speech daily and compares Caesar's fear with Cicero's persuasive power.
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Henry Clay
New York State and
National Law School
Caesar
Cicero
Inland river chaos halts rail route over flooded wheat field
The Burlington and Chicago Railroad general agent described a flooded Mississippi route where passengers travel seven to eight miles by steamboat from Burlington to Oquawka station. A neighboring farm with two hundred acres of fine wheat sits under eight feet of water, while the steamer makes regular crossings over the submerged field.
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Mississippi
Egyptian bridge project to span Nile at midway point
Inox Brives at Newcastle England advances a tubular iron bridge for the Egyptian railroad crossing the Nile midway between Cairo and Alexandria. The river measures eleven hundred feet wide and a steam ferry currently handles transport while authorities delay until the bridge’s completion in about two years. The Pasha’s impatience sparked the decision after a previous four hour delay and a boat accident.
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Tue Nire
Newcastle
England
Nile
Cairo
Alexandria
Robert Stephenson
Lightning myths and practices through ages and cultures
The article surveys historic beliefs and anecdotes about averting lightning danger. It cites experiments and tales from emperors in caves to glass cages, notes odd cases such as a group of prisoners and a woman in a bonnet, and discusses clothing, color, and the uncertain safety of lightning protection prior to Franklin.
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Voltaire
Lovering
Harvard University
Japan
Lisknitz
Switzerland
Aisk
Milan
Franklin
Postmasters' Convention Hears Dems Must Heal Wounds
At the Illinois gathering the recon Administration speakers urged Democrats to be readmitted to the old line party only after fully repairing the anti Lecompton split. The remark warned that current wings must show unified backing before reconciliation.
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Recon Administration Postmasters
Illinois
Remonstrance at Wedding Echoes on Love and Duty
In a wedding crowd a guest remarks that this year has seen more women than men marry. A passerby replies with a wry, absent minded joke about nobody wanting to love or do anything, to which the other answers simply I don’t.
There is a man in Jersey Shore v6
A fragment notes an overheard remark beside a public seating area. The text records a man near a bin on a seat saying don't rise, with no clear context or follow up.
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Jersey Shore
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