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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1858
Page
2
The writer argues that political mixups and shifting alignments across Democrats Americans and Republicans indicate voters increasingly think for themselves. They predict a new party formed by the people in 1860, led by citizen action rather than party bosses.
Local observers urge the Corporation Board to regulate liquor shops open on Sundays. They argue Sunday sales disrupt churchgoing and public peace, noting intoxicated behavior and calls for enforcing any existing laws to protect the sanctity of the Sabbath.
Washington progresses with over a hundred houses built this season yet shortages and high rents persist. Business across sectors improves, foreseeing population reaching five thousand within five years as coal, timber, and fertile land attract capital for manufactories. Davie county citizens urged to support local enterprise and mining flour exports to markets like New Orleans.
A disputed October 1858 letter from Vanderburgh County voices despair at republicans and independents, laments floods and yellow fever, attacks opponents, and endorses John Smith Gavitt for Sheriff amid a weathered political crisis.
Edward Davis, once of Pennsylvania, traveled from Clark's Creek toward the Santa Fe crossing when heat and sickness left him lost for nine days. He survived by gnawing raw snakes, drinking dew, and eating prairie scraps before reaching a German settlement on Lyon's Creek and later Fort Riley hospital under Dr. Madison’s care.
Thomas Henry of Atlanta Georgia was shot days ago and survived four days and nineteen hours with a pistol ball lodged in the right ventricle of his heart before death.
Burglars entered the E Brown store in Columbus Indiana and robbed it of three hundred dollars during the night of the 2d. The crime occurred under cover of darkness and police are investigating leads.
In a United States Circuit Court case before Judge John McLean the Geat Miners Sub. cieee dispute centered on land worth about 2 million dollars with extensive buildings. The issue involved Kinzie entries and a lake inundation due to a harbor pier, with ownership chain through the government and Central Company amid questions of void entries and subsequent patent legality.
Capt Isaac Bowen U.S. Army commissary at Pass Christian dies of yellow fever on the 4th. New Orleans records sixty eight yellow fever deaths in the past 24 hours, ten more than prior day. Weekly toll 380 of 540 total deaths. charity hospital shows fourteen deaths in the latest 24 hours.
A graphic rescue account from the Austria voyage describes an English mother on Southampton arrival who, facing flames, kissed and tossed her children into the sea. She then shared a final kiss with her baby before both vanished beneath the waves, while her other child repeatedly cried for his mother.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture offered an 85000 premium for steam plows. Fawke's Locomotive Steam Plow from Lancaster, Pa., was the sole exhibit, impressing prairie farmers as it turned six furrows in baked hard ground. The machine weighs about seven tons and uses a drum driver for propulsion, with a cross locomotive tender design. The crowd roared with excitement as the steamer operated efficiently.
The account catalogs legendary tallest men from antiquity and folklore. It cites figures like Maximus the Thracian and Roman emperors with heights ranging up to nine feet, plus giants such as Eyre and O’Brien and a Tennessee giant noted at 74 feet tall.
A young lawyer found a judge's badge at the Abany County Fair and with friends toured a display of cigars tobacco cordials ale and more. He wore the badge and received gifts but one presenter swore out a warrant alleging obtaining goods by false pretenses. The offense was proven and he was fined and confined to deter future frauds.
Mons Fuiz, a Frenchman who went to Jamaica for business, recounts being robbed whipped imprisoned and having property taken, describing severe indignities. On returning to New Orleans he tells Col. Pike the tale, who jokes that Jamaica rivals hell and asks which he would choose if dying. He replies he would rather go to hell than Jamaica.
A clergyman was charged with violently dragging his wife from a revival meeting and forcing her to go home with him. He denied influencing her views or attending the meetings, claimed his wife had not attended Lowell revivals, and ended by saying he never had a wife.
The Chicago paper estimates the fall of the astronomer explorer from a three mile altitude. It calculates thirty one and a half seconds to reach earth at a mean velocity of 495 feet per second. With a 160 pound weight the momentum would reach about 160 800 pounds, over 80 tons, capable of scattering the body into atoms or burying him deep into the ground.
The Rev. Mr Brooks perished in Salmon mountain California last February and his bones have just been found near a house. A watch a twenty dollar gold piece and a package of tracts lay nearby his remains. He died when almost in sight of shelter.
The total loss by fire at the New York Crystal Palace is estimated at 350,000.
The report notes troop movements toward Camp Floyd with Colonel Morrison’s command arriving on the 16th and the last Utah columns passing Fort Bridger on the 19th. A new route via Tenpinogos and Prego City shortens travel, offering wood and water but Indians and wagon losses threaten supply lines.
A notice states Dr C K Moore formerly of Meridian street corner of Georgia has left town after incurring unpaid printing bills and near a year’s rent. He is accused of swindling and may have gone to Chicago to practice medicine. The Indiana locomotive warns Chicago doctors to beware of his promises.
The New Albany Ledger reports Adams of the lower city threw boiling water into a neighbor’s child as the child looked through a board fence into Adams yard. The scalding is described as dreadful and possibly lifelong.
Tay Comstock of Madison county New York was condemned for murdering his parents and dismembering them by heart removal roasting and consuming part of the bodies. The sentence is life imprisonment. A Wisconsin clock maker reportedly produced a clock no larger than a quarter and praised as a perfect timekeeper. A Louisa county Iowa letter dated the 7th reports hard times for farmers with wheat oats and potatoes failing and corn near half a crop. Hartford Connecticut reports potato prices as low as seventeen cents per bushel. Only two cities in the world have more German inhabitants than New York.
An old advertisement describes Bingo's Axio List for corns claiming quick cures with two or three applications. It also extols Professor Wood's Restorative as a cure for baldness and hair loss, with testimonials and cautions about imitations. Sold by druggists and medicine dealers in the United States and Canada.
Dr Mann of Galion Ohio introduces Agne Balsam a remarkable discovery said to drive chills fever and ague from the system with no bad effects The notice claims widespread approval among users and urges readers to try it Sold by all good druggists.
A Connecticut schoolmaster asks a Newberryport lad how many Gods there are. The boy, after thinking, says Rhode Island has none, implying no gods there, a humorous regional retort.
A Northhampton correspondent reports a post office visit by a subscriber asking if The Friend of Virtue had arrived. The postmaster replied there had been no such person there for a long time, causing confusion and humor.
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