Mercer County political chatter and local events
The Mercer County column notes Ralf Clapp an Independent candidate for Assembly will speak Saturday evening in the Court House. It lists upcoming court adjournment, naturalization opportunities, and reports on Congress candidates Richard Arthurs and Daniel Barclay. Also covered are weather changes, local hunting, a Frewsburgh shooting match, a New York Softs ticket, Mercer County party nominations, a county fair in Columbus, and plans for future fairs.
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Ralf Clapp
Mercer County
Court House
Congress
Richard Arthurs
Jefferson County
Daniel Barclay
Nebraska
People capable of self government and south barbs
The Ledger defends the North's capacity for self government and condemns slave power and Southern influence. It criticizes Pierce, Douglas, and Nebraskan policies, defends anti Nebraska stands, and praises Howe's Nebraska speech. It cautions against party pressures and Know Nothing slurs while urging unity among Northern men to resist slavery interests.
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the Ledger
Whig Party
North
Washington
Harrisburg
Ledger
Old Fogg
Pierce
Douglas
Baltimore
Bigler
Pollock
Nebraska
Assembly
M’calmont
Strike on Chicago and Rock Island Rail Hit by Engineer Dismissals
The Chicago Press reports engineers protested the discharge of one for disobedience. About fifteen to twenty engineers quit work in threats to intimidate train crews. Four conspirators were arrested while thirty-one engineers left, yet no trains were halted. Also a vast mineral paint deposit near Flytown Alabama was unearthed, described as nearly inexhaustible.
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Pollock
Chicago and
Rock Island
Chicago
Flytown
Alabama
Nebraska Test and Democratic Orthodoxy Debate
The piece argues the Nebraska and Kansas bill is treated as a party test of orthodoxy by Democratic presses and politicians. It cites Senator Doug las and the Washington Union to illustrate conflicts over whether party loyalty overrides dissent.
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Nebraska
Douglas
Chicago
Bretheren
Congress
Kansas
Washington Union
Democratic Party
Milk price rise tied to water scarcity noted
The text observes that milk prices will go up due to water shortages, humorously remarking that milkmen are a funny lot.
Prairie settlers and travels near Broomington Illinois 1854
L W recounts a trip to Urbana Sangamond county and nearby prairie lands near Broomington Illinois in June 1854. He describes town life at McLean county, hotel conditions, mud filled streets, farm prospects, and land costs. He notes a prairie storm and a nearby wealthy Kentuckian with a 640 acre tract. He compares timber costs and building outlays and reflects on southern and Vermont influences.
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Warren Mail
Broomington
Ill
Farenp Cowan
Mclean County
Illinois
Chicago
Judge Davis
Maryland
Sangamond
Urbana
Virginia
Kentucky
Egypt
S. Arnold Douglas
Springfield
Cassius M. Clay
State House
Douglas
Senate
Chase
Ohio
Kansas
Nebraska
Antipodes
Sommerset
Vermont
Vermont election shows Republican triumph in governor race
Vermont voters backed Judge Royce as the temperance and anti Nebraska factions shifted together, giving Royce a statewide plurality of over 10 000 with results likely climbing to 11 000. Last year Fairbanks carried 2 839 votes more than Robinson who then became governor after the Legislature chose him.
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Vermont
Royce
Fairbanks
John S. Robinson
Hunker
Judge Royce
Post Office Department Funds Set for Next Year
The Post Office Department asks for 8 394 000 dollars from treasury revenues for transportation of mails and operations plus 2 344 464 dollars from the general treasury to cover deficiencies. The Postmaster General must continue Charleston to Havana mail service in August and September and establish a Mississippi River mail from Cairo to New Orleans and from Keokuk to Galena.
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Post Office Department
Treasury
General Treasury
Post Office
Charleston
Havana
Mississippi River
Cairo
New Orleans
Keokuk
Iowa
Galena
Illinois
Abolitionist Gerritt Surin Accepts Small Mileage
Representative Gerritt Surin of an interior New York district settles accounts with the House Sergeant at Arms. He refuses more than 90 dollars in mileage, though legally entitled to about 500 dollars. The 90 dollars cover travel at roughly eight dollars a day for going and returning, representing actual expenses.
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Tue
Hon. Gerritt Surin
U.S
House of Representatives
New York
Fire Devours Rochester Central Road Engine House
A blaze at five p m destroyed the Central Road engine house near North street. Five locomotives, the wood sheds, 300 cords of wood, two flour cars, and the tracks were lost with damages near 100000 dollars and no insurance. Trains halted for the night.
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Rochester
Central Road
North Street
Astonishing cure story of Holloway's Pills
James Cooper of Fourth street New York suffered six years with dizziness and blood rushing to the head. Doctors gave little hope but after using Holloway's Pills he recovered completely in three months. The account claims the cure is proven by the patient and friends.
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Boop
Holloway
James Cooper
Fourth Street
New York
Sioux attack near Fort Laramie and mail from Leavenworth
A Fort Leavenworth dispatch reports an August 18 Sioux attack on an emigrant ox train near Fort Laramie. Brevet Second Lieut. Grattan and 20 men pursued the offender. the entire party were massacred. The head chief was among the dead, and reinforcements were ordered to East Laramie. Also noted is a Pittsburgh Allegheny City handbill accusing Bishop O’Connor and local clergy of crimes, with church members challenging the slander.
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St. Louis
Fort Leavenworth
Fleming
Fort Laramie
Grattan
Favor
McNulty
Express
Eart
Laramie
Autecep Lipet
O'Connor
Allegheny City
Pittsburgh
Alleghany
St. Paul’s Church
Steamer Lady Elgin Sinks After Rock Collision
Mitwac Kee report notes the steamer Lady Elgin hit a Manitowoc rock on Wednesday night and sank after reaching the pier. All 300 passengers were saved. The article also mentions Iowa's Jones County Agricultural Society endorsing divorce for breadless wives, a Camden depot peach shipment average over 4 000 baskets daily to New York, and a Virginia case of a 140 year old woman described as a negress dying last week.
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Manitowoc
Camden Depot
New York
Arrival of the Steamship Africa in New York
The Africa brings three days of late news including Crimea reports, Varna fire damage, and Austrian occupation advances. Details cover battles near Kars, Turkish/Navy events, and wartime dispatches with mentions of Paris rumors and naval movements.
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New York
Africa
Paris
Crimea
Varna
Kars
Asia
Adrianople
Bomarsund
Baraguay d’Hillis
Mr. Gray
Stockholm
Sweden
Moniteur
Vienna
Wallachia
Hermanstad
Cornstadt
Bucharest
Krajova
Lesser-Wallachia
Count Caronini
Moldavia
Gortschakoff
St. Vincent de Paul
Turkey
Austria
Adriatic
Pola
Lissa
Catharo
Klapka
Switzerland
Boomersund
Brest
Nabier
Frenchman slays three rattlers near Russell depot
A French employee of Postmaster Gridley in Russell killed three large rattlesnakes four plus feet long after encountering them while chopping wood near the depot. The snakes yielded thirty young, each about thirteen inches, totaling roughly forty five feet five inches. The incident is hailed as glorious slaughter.
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Gridley
Russell
Weather Raves In Heated Terms At The Chronicle
The Boston Chronicle describes recent weather as extremely hot with emphatic, playful phrases. It exaggerates heat by using escalating adjectives and humorous coinages to convey a scorching spell.
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The
Boston Chronicle
Joke on Westminster Bridge Mismatch of Names
An Irish man recalls meeting Pat Hewins on Westminster Bridge. They discover Hewins misidentifies himself and the speaker, and they realize neither man is the other’s name. The bemused exchange ends with the humor of mistaken identity.
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Westminster Bridge
Pat Hewins
Hewins
Donley
Faith
A New Paper Invention Promises Cheap Material
Mr Samuel Nolan proclaims a new process for making paper from a novel material sold at four cents a pound.
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Samuel Nolan
Sailor’s Wry Advice On Handling a Squall At Sea
A nautical quip advises how to avoid squall consequences by bracing, using the left arm to double a partner’s cape and seeking anchor on the cruising ground of smacks. The tone is playful seafaring humor with practical, nontechnical imagery.
Potatoes Selling At New York Market Prices
Potato prices reported from New York market show per bushel values in flux with buyers awaiting fresh lots. Sellers note variable quality and regional demand affecting daily quotes.
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York
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