Ghost Story Across the Stormy Road to Saverdam
An elderly storyteller recounts a storm night from forty years past. A group, including Spanish merchants, bets on ghostly feats in a locked garden pavilion. A conjurer and a student feign hauntings, one student signs a deathly pledge, then both vanish with the money, proving the tale a ruse.
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Prios
Bayle
Toulouse
Antereve
Saverdam
Bourbienne
St. Gaberie
Chapper
Earl
Epirita
Bittterly
Francois Vialat
Thut
Wisconsin Debt Crisis Sparks Public Credit Alarm
The piece denounces mismanagement of state finances in Wisconsin, alleging deliberate efforts to erode public confidence. It details legislative expenses, outstanding balances, and county delinquencies, questions receivership actions, and urges investigation into embezzlement and tax collection failures. It notes depressed Wisconsin paper value and calls for accountability across counties and officials.
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Wisconsin
David Merrill
Milwaukee
Brown
Winnebago
St. Croixes
Marquette
Pond du Lacs
Portage
el Sa
David Merrell
New York
Madison
Russia presses ultimatum to Turkey in Palmerston era policy
Debates over Russian forceful moves in the Turkish empire surface with an alleged ultimatum sent from Constantinople via Gen Crabb to halt warlike preparations and recall Ottoman troops on the Danube, while hints of Wallachia Moldavia occupation unfold alongside commentary on Tonawanda harbor plans and other notices.
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Russia
Turney
Stratford Canning
London
Crabbe
Constantinople
Turkey
Danube
Wallachia
Moldavia
Sitoeral
Transylvania
Balkans
Sebastopol
Lord Palmerston
Baron Brunow
Parisian Cleanness and the Chiffoniers of Paris
A narrator describes Paris waste collection, detailing chiffoniers who sort leather bone iron and glass from street heaps at night and by day sweepers and bale men who carry refuse to depots. They are licensed and disciplined. the gutters are washed daily and connected to city drains. The writer respects their honest labor despite the filth.
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Paris
Paria
Viol
Sabfor Maura
Colman
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