Republicans Raise Pine Pole At Sheffield Rally
Sheffield Republicans raised an 87 foot pine pole at Bower's tavern with a 19 foot flag and a Lincoln Hamlin streamer. A. Lawin of Buffalo funded the flag. KR Danham chaired a meeting where S P Johnson criticized the Democrats and urged support for Curtiin Pennsylvania Governor candidate.
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Sheffield
Bower's Tavern
Bower's Hall
KR. Danham
S. P. Johnson
Warren
Chicago
Col. Curtin
Pennsylvania
Tornado devastates Titusville July fourth damage and injuries
Readable notes from the Titusville Gazette and Meadville Republican describe a night tornado crossing Titusville on July 4. It wrecked houses and barns, toppled trees and rails, killed a horse, and left several residents with injuries but no reported fatalities. The storm also caused various unroofings and displacements across multiple properties.
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Titusville Gazette
Meadville Republican
Titusville
Brewer
O. Moon
J. L. Chase
Rev. G. H. Hammer
Mr. Winnings
Kansas Wheat Crop Fails Amid Severe Drought
A Lawrence Republican correspondent reports extreme drought across Kansas has ruined the wheat harvest and left most families without flour. He claims not one in twenty south of the Kansas valley possesses even a pound of flour or expects any for a year.
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Kansas
Lawrence Republican
Kansas Valley
Oil tests and local notes stir Warren County
Warren County grows lively with oil prospects in Youngsville and Lottsville as companies plan deep borings. A daily Irvine to Franklin horseback run aids access to Tidioute oil views. Community items advise prompt tax payments, deter jail escapes, and urge local sports clubs and fun in the Diamond arena.
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Irvine
Franklin
Warren
Tidioute
Youngsville Council Proceedings July 10 1860
The council met with Burgess John McKinney presiding. A unanimous resolution ordered the Burgess to issue a warrant to the Street Commissioners for a road tax of five mills on the last assessed property value. Funds to be spent under town council supervision. Adjourned. H. P. Kisyear, Sect'y.
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Yougsville
Megerinc
John McKinney
Burgess
Jas. S. Davis
Jas. T. Shutt
Wm. K. Chapel
H. P. Kisyear
Oil discovery confirms Williams well as Seneca Oil source
The Williams Watson Tanner Co. or the War ren Co. report a rich oil vein at Titusville known as the Williams well. The pulse of oil fills each barrel with little water. gas abundance was found earlier. A new site 50 rods from the first yielded a crevice opened last Saturday, pumping oil over the pipe.
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Tanner
Watson
Williams
Titusville
Messrs. Williams, Watson, Tanner & Co
Warren Co
Venango
Quan
Oil wells boost Titusville profits and local church dedication
Reports detail a Titusville oil well yielding one barrel every hour with a two barrel per hour potential. Barnsdall Mead Rouse & Co. reports 56 000 gallons sold by June 1 from a 3000 dollar setup, netting about 13 300 dollars in four months. The dedication of a new Baptist church on Liberty Street, funded largely by Willoughby, draws regional visitors with sermons by Rev. Glanville, Rev. Stockton, and Rev. Wells and a praised choir.
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Titusville
Theazette
Barnsdall, Mead, Rouse & Co
Willoughby
Liberty Street
B. Glanville
Frewsbury
Hl. H. Stockton
Panama
A. Wells
German Language Teaching Offered in Warren by Rev Weichsel
The Warren Mail notes Rev. Il Weichsel of German birth now resident in Warren offers German lessons for classes or individuals. Classes form immediately to meet demand. The notice argues German knowledge benefits all social stations from clerks and merchants to ministers and professors, citing Goethe and practical value amid a growing German population.
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Il. Weichsel
Germany
Warren
Christ
Werey
Europe
Goethe
Polar Expedition Sets Sail for Northern Seas From Boston
The third major American polar voyage, led by Dr. Hayes and joined by physicist SonTag, sails from Boston to explore the open polar sea, survey Greenland and Grinnell Land coasts, study magnetism and meteorology, and seek a winter harbor near Smith Strait. A Swedish Norwegian rival expedition also aims for the North Pole, testing disputed routes to the polar ocean.
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Hayes
Dr. Kane
Geographical Society
New York
Polar Sea
Kane
Greenland
Grinnell Land
Smith Strait
St. Johns
Upernavik
Esquimaux
Dr. Hayes
Mr. Sontag
United Kingdom
Scandinavia
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Polar Ocean
Executions and Trials Dominate New Jersey and Pittsburgh
Reports from Harden's execution in Marden New Jersey describe a protracted death on the scaffold and a delayed obituary, with sheriff resistance to public admission. Pittsburgh authorities publish contempt findings against thirteen councilmen, while Hayes's Arctic expedition sails from Boston. A princess to Cincinnati trip hints and a New York double murder trigger warrants for Jeffords.
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Brivivere
N. J
Harden
Harcen
Mr. Day
Kerk
Blairstown
Tarden
Lincoln at Home A Springfield Visit Describes Honest Abe
The Utica Herald editor recounts meeting Abraham Lincoln at his modest Springfield home. He portrays Lincoln as refined, generous, and principled, praising his candor, practical mind, and steadfast honesty. Neighbors extol his private virtues and character.
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Utica
Abe Lincoln
Apollo
Sinois
Douglas
Liveuln
Mr. L
Dred Scott
Mr. Lincoln
Notable Mixed News From Philadelphia to Japan
Brief items as a column note: Harvard professor Pierce travels to England for summer, Senator Douglas consults Dr Green about illness, John B Gough to return to the US in July, Melville sails again, Weevil damages Indiana wheat, Madame Bodisco's marriage weight reported, Heenan denial of marriage, Sam Houston convention planned in Schenectady, Buchanan era passports issued, Cleveland-Pittsburgh coal trade rising with May tonnage, Japanese ambassadors depart for Japan, strawberry and cherry shipments in June, Home Journal pole about beauty, list of local names, a seduction conviction in Pittsburgh, Lincolnsbiography quips, various notices on delegates and law cases, a drowning fear in Honolulu, street fight in Meadville, felon remedy from Texas Baptists, and Pennsylvania electoral scheme debated.
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