Only a Country Girl and Topsy’s Savage Song
Excerpted pieces from Olive Branch featuring a dramatic poem about Topsy the enslaved child and a sentimental village tale of Helen Irving, a rustic-turned-bright city wife. It contrasts slavery era pain with a modern romance built on virtue, music, and social ambitions, ending with moral reflections and miscellany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Helen Irving
Helen
Frederick Lane
Hellen
Mr. Lane
Dickey
Primmer
Robinson Crusoe
Mother's Magazine
King Richard the
Fred Studdied
Fred Lane
Elly
Snowy Mountains of Eastern Africa and Kilimanjaro
The article recounts the discovery of snowy peaks Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya in Eastern Africa by missionaries Rebmann and Krapf near Rabbai Ambia. It argues the region west of these peaks offers rich geographical and commercial potential, and urges exploration by capable travelers to unlock climate, rivers, and civilizations in the Nile basin and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Africa
Kilimanjaro
Kenya
Rebmann and
Krapf
Rabbai Empia
Ptolemy
Abyssinia
Nubia
Nile
Lake ‘I'Sad
Barth
Zanzibar
Mount Kilimanjaro
Southampton
Aden
Mombas
Mombaas
London
Wales
Roderick Murchison
Switzerland
Usambara
Shoa
Mombai
Tronical Africa
Moyer
Quirky 19th Century Snippets on Visionaries and Vices
A collage of parodic aphorisms and anecdotes covers self government, gin and ale, phrenology, manners, and a humorous tale of a Wheeling man who endures a bee-filled scare. Vignettes mix satire with domestic howtos and oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bear
Cincinnati
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Eviza Cook
Topsy Neber
Topsy
Miss Evy
Olive Branch
Marion Summers
Mrs. Lane
Esau
Judas
Asuamep
Tug Soop
Hopper
Dublin
Isaac
Philadelphia
I. T. Hopper
Mrs. Child
Indiana
Committee On
Salem
Emerald Isle
THE
Warren Mail
L. Rogers & O. CO. Bates
Mead & M
LEOD
Hickory St. Warren
Mead
Diamond Sts
Youngsville
Warren County
James Andrews
J. L. Hall
Rail Road
Warren Co
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Warren Co. Pa
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
Erie
T. C. Spencer
Liberty Street
Warren, A
Johnson & Brown
Ludlow
Warren
P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Curtis & Miles
Law
Water Street
Warren, Pa
B. Curtis
John N. Miles
Scofield & Brown
Waterst
Glennew Scofield
William D. Brown
L. T. Parmlee
Carver House
Warren, Warren Co
Carver & Arnett
Exchange
Pennsylvania
D. M. Williams
E. Drc
Temperance House
Nesmith & Goodrich
C. Exchange
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Dorwin Greene
Mansion House
Parmelee & Gilman
Water St
Parmelee
H. Gilman
Summerton & Church
Carver
Taylor & Messner
Tanner's
Taylor
T. S. Messner
P.R. Bennett
P. S. Coxs
Court Horse
Hazeltine & CO
Variety Hall
G. W. Hazeltine
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
Ames & Davis
Benson & Verback
H. L. Towle
Snowy Mountains
Eastern
Harris
Gordon Cumming
Imaam
Muscat
Beke
Augustus Perermany
Wheeling
Virginia
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