Tragic Well Death Shocks Grove City and Hymn History
A mother in Jackson Township near Grove City murdered her four children by throwing them into a well, then jumped in herself. Neighbors found the bodies soon after daylight. the coroner suggests possible insanity. The report includes an extended note on the Marseillaise and Rouget de Lisle, then local frontier dispatches about Fort Colville and Native hostilities, a moral tale from Sunday School Advocate, and Brigham Young correspondence detailing lineage and Mormon settlements in Utah, plus a cotton crop update.
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Grove City
Christiana Schilling
Jackson Township
Frederick Schilling
Rouget de Lisle
Stratsburg
Mount Jura
Dietrich
Dietrick
de Lisle
Ile
Deitrick
Marseillaise
France
Paris
Woman Shot by Disappointed Lover in Pittsburg
A 19 year old painter Thomas Smithson shot 17 year old Eleanor Henry in Pittsburg on Saturday about 11 am. The shot entered her back below the left shoulder passing through the lung. Smithson fled toward a river tow boat but was captured. Eleanor Henry, respected member of Liberty Street Methodist Church, remained alive with poor prospects of recovery.
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Thomas Smithson
Eleanor Henry
Harriet Henry
Second Street
First Ward
Simpson
Eleanor
Miss Henry
Liberty Street Methodist Church
Foggy justice and a whale tally in Orkney Islands
A humorous court remark questions how juries should decide a case where a grocery partnership, a debt note, a cow loan, and a broken warranty lead to a fatal misadventure with a cow. Separately, reports say three hundred whales were killed by Orkney Islanders in two days last month.
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Orkney Islands
Sunday School Banner Motto Reference
A dialogue about a Sunday School procession banner for the Fourth of July A sign painter discusses painting a scripture motto The tale ends with a quip about not having searched the Scriptures and a humorous remark on a Moore lyric.
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Wal
Misadventure With Old Whitey the Irish Servant Horse
A Buffalo Republic tale recounts Bridget the Irish maid fitting the plumb tree halter on a horse named Old Whitey. She claims to have fixed the creature but left him entangled in sheets and pillow cases. The horse stands secured in the barn on ironing days, a comic result of a simple task.
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Green Isle
Whitey
Bridget
Old Whitey
Buffalo Republic
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E. Cowan
Adams Robinson
Warren County
Warren
Johnson’s Exchange
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P. D. Fitch
Morrison House
C. W. H.verback
A. Geer
Allegheny River
Meadvile Academy
Teacher’s Normal School
T. PF. Thickston
Meadville, Pa
Carver
F. K. Eddy
Water Street
General
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Ten Co. Pa
Richard
Barbour
Temperance House
P. &. Cole
Court House
High Street
Warren, Warren Co., Pa
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
5Th
Philadelphia
Wrath & Herrixes
P. R. Bennett
L D. Wetmore
Johnson & Brown's
Scofield and Brown
Liberty Street
Glenn W. Scofield
WM. PD. Brown
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
Manufactur
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Exchange Building
R. D. Bartlett
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Stranahan & Randall’s
Warren, Pa
George Sailor
Parmlee & Co
Carver House
C. W. Rathbun
Point Breeze
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Chauncey Hulburt
Smrra, Murray & Co
Great Pennsylvania
Market Street
Church Alley
Lewis Arnett, & Co
Exchange
Hunter and Waters
C. H. Hunter
M. Waters
Hazeltine & Co
Variety Hall
Johnson's Exchange
Warren Co
P. Johnson
Danforth
J. Warren
E. H. Danforth
Stranahan and Randall's Store
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Geo
F. King
Taylor & King
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Waterford
Hunter & Waters
Don Dodd
Stranahan & Randall, Warren, Parice
Hymn of the Marseillaine
Troupte
Frazer River
Fort Colville
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Pew
Columbia
Snake Rivers
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Sunday School Advocate
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George
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Saville
United States
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Brigham Young
Canandaigua
Ontario Republican Times
Brigham
Alonzo Beebe
Great Salr Lake City
Whitingham Windham County
Vermont
Smyrna
Chenango Co
Great Britain
Genoa
Cayuga County
N. Y
Mendom
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No. 9
Johnathan Mack
Mendon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Lena Goff
Mack
Kirtland
Ohio
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Nauvoo
Ill
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Phineas Hi
Myself
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Joseph
Pittsburg
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Supreme Court of Missouri
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Congress
Goop
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Landor
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