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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1859
Page
2
A county clerk was authorized to phase the county order creation under编号223 and Sah incident. The fragment notes the authorization step and mentions the emulative order. Further specifics are unclear in the damaged text.
A discussion on supporting home newspapers over city reprints. The writer argues farmers and towns benefit from local papers by boosting commerce, attracting capital, improving morals, and exposing vice. Editors cannot do it alone. leading neighbors should promote subscriptions locally.
A newly constructed court house in St Louis reportedly cost 910000 dollars, reflecting the era's public works expenditure. The report notes the building's recent completion and its intended use by the local judiciary.
A plea urges early construction of a plank road to reach the Presbyterian Church Baptist Church site and the Seminary, arguing winter material scarcity makes delays costly. The piece asks who will start the project and recalls prior impassable roads and missed lectures.
A magistrate near here hears a horse swapping case with witness Jo Snider detailing overheard talk and a woman in a doorway. The judge presses for knowledge about the swap while Snider confirms he only knows what he saw and heard.
A local justice of the peace recently sold real estate and added his own signature as witness. The deed states Now comes John Doe and Mary Doe, his wife, and acknowledges this to be their voluntary act and deed. The observer notes the oddity of a witness being the signer.
A citizen inquired abroad for domestic help and found an elderly woman willing to take charge. As preparations began, she asked how long he wanted the girl and he quipped that she should be ten feet long. He did not obtain the help.
A columnist condemns stingy patrons who beg papers and pay nothing despite warrants of service. The writer recalls accommodating such men, then criticizing their demand for free exchanges and implying they tarnish the sanctum with their greed. The tone is sharp and admonitory about patron etiquette in a printing office.
Messrs Mants and Jordan claim to tame and cure horses with bad habits at the past week’s visit. They say a difficult horse owned by Mr E Hyatt was shod after brief treatment and submission followed. They offer to cure baulky and kicking horses and charge 3 dollars for full instruction at A H Wise’s Livery Stable tomorrow.
The Suprema Court of New York ruled that a divorce secured in Indiana is void if the spouse travels there to obtain it and then returns to New York. The decision upholds NY principles on domicile and valid foreign decrees.
A blurred satire notes editors accusing each other of copying work without due credit while a vagabond deserter leavs town with unpaid bills. He travels by rail trying to ride free by showing a self made Pass Him Around slip to a conductor who peers at the description.
Farmers invited to form reader clubs for the Telegraph with discounted annual rates. A five or ten subscriber club costs 125 dollars per year, twenty copies at one dollar each per year. Cash accompanies orders. Enthusiastic call for local assistance and wider circulation.
The Vincennes Times laments excessive lawyers and hotel prices while noting upcoming Circuit Court sessions with two murder cases and a crowded docket. It promotes coal supplier Legg & Co and Washington mines coal as cheaper, cleaner fuel now used broadly.
The Wheeling Intelligencer notes a new breed of chickens imported from abroad. these birds eschew feathers for fine white hair like lap dogs, with red ornamental heads. A couple visiting Pittsburg to view the fowl fancier’s imports sparked interest in the unusual birds.
The Evansville Journal notes mineral resources along the Ohio River and canals, predicting a future of vast iron, coal, and limestone deposits near Spencer Perry counties, with dense forests and multiple ore veins fueling smelting growth. a urging of capital and labor toward this rich geology.
A town scene centers on a blind phrenologist examining a bald judge's head. The wig is removed for a true reading, and the examiner declares the judge has a serious affliction, claiming he cannot be fooled by a fake head.
The state totals 476 317 scholars with average tuition of 4.26 dollars per pupil. The year’s school fund is about 1 000 009 dollars, roughly 220 dollars per scholar. Attendance usually reaches only about sixty percent, so actual beneficiaries seldom exceed 280 000 pupils. Costs per pupil vary with urban density and instructor load.
A Wall Street banker from Long Island asks a friend what he gave his blood mare the other day. The friend replies a pint of spirits of turpentine. They meet again two days later and reveal the mare died from turpentine, prompting mutual acknowledgments.
Mr. Q Ross of Cincinnati invents a door panel and window alarm linked by a wire to a six inch box placed in sleeping rooms. A forced entry triggers a ringing alarm plus lamp light and indicates the attacked area, with praised simplicity and potential broad use. A note on efforts to secure a Methodist Church preacher in the town is also mentioned.
Public notice of a sheriff sale directed by a court in Davie County for seven years terms and a one fifth undivided interest in extensive described lands across multiple sections and townships totaling numerous parcels, rents and profits to be sold at the courthouse door in Washington.
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