Famine in India and economic notes from New Orleans
A Madras public meeting seeks English aid as famine spreads in India with eighteen million affected and over 500,000 dead. Calcutta reports slight rains. six months of intensifying famine expected. Louisiana notes rising sugar values and plantation fortunes. Queen Victoria listed as the world’s richest woman with substantial income.
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Caccutta
Madras
England
Duke of Buckingham
Madras Presidency
Presidency
Cornish
Scotland
Ireland
India
Bengal
Calcutta
The
Times
Mysore
Victoria
Way Poor White People Treated at the North
Correspondent notes routine brutality in a Brooklyn children’s home for truants, where a head teacher boasted of whipping boys with a hickory. A 12 year old boy, Smallfield, describes repeated beatings for sleepwalking and truancy, prompting escape by rope. Witnesses report bruises and neglect, while a doctor confirms inhuman treatment. A mother recalls her child’s injuries and removal to the country. The piece contrasts white boys’ mistreatment with Mrs. Stowe’s sympathies.
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Raleigh Observer
New York
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Brooklyn
Beechers and Stones
Smallfield
Board of Education
Stairfield
Hallett
Noble stowaway boy on ship teaches truth
An English steamer four days from Liverpool finds a nine year old boy hiding among cargo with no family. He endures harsh questioning, recites the Lord’s Prayer, and pleads for mercy. The captain believes his story, and passengers resolve to aid him, while the tale ends with a moral urging truth and right conduct. Also notes Morganton asylum funding cuts and local distress among workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverspool
Halifax
Jesus
Eastern War updates from Kastendji and surrounding theaters
Reports from Kastendji show panic amid Turkish bombardment as two regiments hold the town, with evacuation planned. Bulgarian families flee Tirnovo toward the Danube amid expected Turkish attacks. Russian forces press Topekeng, claim five cannons. Suleiman Pasha advances toward Elena and the pass defile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ews
Kastendji
Knustendji
14Th Army Corps
Tirnovo
Danube
Devs
Topekeng
Osman Pasha
Tirnova
Athens
Times
Bucharest
Eugene of Luchtenburg
Gourke
Eski Saghra
Shamla
Suleiman Pasha
Kerdinaking
Elena
Timea
Adrianople
Vienna
Stinatieff
Globozia
Ratechuk
Caus
Guiiyevo
Suumra
Pyrgos
Kastilendji
St. Petersnure
Ministry of War
Constantinople
Bagdad
Euphrates
A Ministers Family and Faithful Providence
Rev. John Newton recalls God answering prayers for a dying West of England minister's widow and orphans. A stranger, once hostile to his ministry, funded £1,600 and Exeter clergy provided a life house and garden, placing the widow in comfort beyond her late husband. The note closes with a historical aside that the Chinese had emperors for eight hundred years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Newton
England
Exeter
Bald headed man spurns hairbrush sales pitch farcical scene
A Detroit shoemaker resists a wily saleswoman offering a metal hairbrush. The bald man jokes that he needs no brush, laments his bald head, and mocks the idea of charity. The piece then shifts to assorted society notes including fashion, marriages, and political commentary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Cauvassers
Detroitee Press
Bachelors and the Perils of Single Blessedness
A humorous sketch discusses the woes of bachelors as they face social pressure from married couples and the fear of rival husbands. It portrays single men as targets for gifts, snubs, and gossip while noting the sympathy of the writer for their predicament. A minister quips about changing topics, interrupted by a heckler from the gallery.
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Western Sentinel
George M. Mathes Eorror
Preston Roan
Havins
Winston
R. D. Hay
Main Street
Geo. W. Graham
Raleigh, N. C
D. P. Mast
Forsyth
Stokes
Surry
Yattkin
Havie
Davideon Eines
Omer
Court House
Winston Tin Shop
A. Stroupe
Holland Starehouse
Fair
Martin Grogan
Retag
General Merchandise
W. O. Wolfe
Marble & Stone
ACRO
Strobel
Fayetteville Street
Raleigh
N.C. SF
RS. T. B. Doutest
Salem, Nou
W. P. Lane
Satom
Surroun
Shaffner's Drug Store
Main St., Salem, N. C
Worth Carolina
Wilson
Liberty White
JF Shaffner
Salem
Louisiana
New Orleans Times
Federal Army
We. Aire
Ntagen
Carolina
Pilot Mountain
Blue Ridge
Santatown
Mt. Air
Roane
Mt. Airy
Dalton’s
Sonveyaances
D.N. Dalton
Vanville Times
D. N. Dalton
Dalton, Stokes Co
N-O
Work Storrep
Western Insane Asylum
Morganton
General Assembly
Laleigh News
Daniel Webster
Maine
Owen Brown
Owattom
Gibraltar
Putin Bay
France
Paradise
Philadelphia
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