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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1847
Page
5
A long, garbled verse jumbling names, places, and events from many regions. It mentions Castilian, Minn, Kayland, and various figures, hinting at upheaval, conflict and personal lament. The piece reads as a stream of vivid, disjointed impressions without a single clear narrative arc.
A Boston theater row ends with Yankee Dickenson defending a woman from a French officer. They duel in the lobby. Dickenson defeats Captain D Lorme, the Frenchman, and vows never to fight again after witnessing the victim’s agony.
A first hand account from Jalapa dated May 14 1847 contrasts Mexican society with American visitors. It praises Mexican women as beautiful well dressed and courteous to Americans while criticizing rural labor and farming neglect. The piece describes Jalapa’s architecture streets and fountains and notes the Catholic Church climate markets beggars and a Mexican officer funeral with American military honors. It closes with a street scene of beggars and a joke about a dog.
Describes a proposed Minnesota territory bounded by Canada West, Michigan, Wisconsin, the 43 deg 30 min parallel, the Sioux and Red rivers, and the St Louis and Mississippi rivers. Claims about area about 90 030 square miles, soil and climate favorable for wheat and grasses, Lake Superior access enabling cheap northern communication, and the Mississippi navigation to Saint Anthony Falls. Includes misc anecdotes and notes on a merchant incident and other brief items.
Lieut Col Mitchell and part of Doniphan's advance arrived at camp near Parras from Pas Rag. A detachment led by Capt Reed, with Don Manuel Ibarra, marched toward Rancho Del Poco to pursue Indians. The clash was fierce. Reed wounded, Indians suffer heavy losses, and a large haul of horses captured. Mississippi volunteers bid farewell to Gen Taylor with touching farewell scene.
Emigrants pass Cologne in a stormy departure toward Antwerp for New York and Milwaukee. Mothers cry, old folk pack scant chests, and youths seek shelter as wagon trains from Hesse Baden and Württemberg grow larger and better provisioned. A band of music led 300 voyagers onto ships amid the Rhine quay crowds.
A London letter notes Mouneani Arig’s feats in drainage road making and canal work as the population fills marshes and builds villages. It also reports a curious Egyptian revenue idea from paper manufacture using nemotes deposits. A Philadelphia court awarded $15,000 against the Bank of Kentucky to Leste Comms for procuring a pardon of the Scaskill bank cashier Levis, an absconder.
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