Russian Prison Horrors and Nihilistic Self Slaughter
A London Daily Telegraph dispatch from September details a Russian prison atrocity in Odessa and a self inflicted death by burning in Zhitomir. It recounts Sergei Somoff a jailed nihilist who burned himself after torturous confinement and a report from Geneva of Olimpiada Kaffero's brutal transport and mistreatment by the Third Section, highlighting police brutality under siege conditions.
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St. Petersburg
London Daily Telegraph
Zhitomir
Odessa
Sergei Somoff
Odessa University
Somoff
Geneva
Obschischere Djelo
Michael Dragomanov
Kiev University
Olimpiada Kaffero
Russia
Mile
Kaffero
Wysehnyi— Volotschok
Tver
Wysehnyi-Woloshok
Twer
Scarow
Wyschnyi
Wolotschok
Wilna
Kowno
Marianpol
Wolkowyski
Prussia
Gourke
Heroic Mexican Girl Fights Plague to Save Lover
In a pest house stricken with the exanthematic plague a young man survived with the steadfast nursing of a poor Mexican girl. He recovered as the couple left the house, while the world aside from them remains silent. Her brave act earns applause, yet she is denied recognition due to her race and poverty.
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Wasmartox
Robert Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas
Washington
Senator Douglas
Louisiana
John M. Coutts
Treasury
Col
Douglas
Enoch Totten
Senator Slowe
Wisconsin
Coutts
Totten
Keogh
North Carolin
Commons
Col. Douglas
Pest
Sara Scala
Tia
Helen
Christ
Hell
Ney
Alamo
Social Lutcs and London Marriages in Gossip Letter
The piece notes Victoria C and Tennie Clafina in London social circles, rumored engagement to titled British gentry, with Mrs Woodhull’s lectures cited as a path to status. It mentions Saint James’ Hall lectures, Kensington Church bells, and speculative matches with rank and fortune. Also revived DeBow's Review in New Orleans and political musings on Hepcock and Bayard.
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America
London
South Kensington
Emperor’s Gate
United States
Miss Tennie
Clafina
Moore County Millstone Company Forms From Quarried Rock Tract
J. E. Taylor of Westminster Md buys the Moore County millstone quarry near Carthage, acquiring 390 acres and plans to market Moore County grit with new machinery. The deposit is described as inexhaustible and superior for grinding, under the Moore County Millstone Company banner. Also noted is a quip about a stingy old gentleman and a September immigrant count in New York.
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J. E. Taylor
Taylor Manufacturing Company
Westminster
Moore County
Carthage
Moore
Taylor
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Eydt— Kuhnen
Paris
New York Journal of Commerce
Senator Conkling
Brooklyn
Gordon
Savannah
Jasper
Fae the Journal
Conkling
Journal
Georgia
New York
Union
South
Baltimore Sun
Washington Lawyers
The
Ginston Sentinel
Geo. M. Mathes
Gho. W.graham
Raleigh, N. C
Preston Roan
Mast
Eugene E. Gray
Mast & Gray
Winston
N. C
Forsyth
Onice
Court House
Jones
Thompson's Drug Store
I. W. Durham
Practical Marble Worker
Winston, N. C
Beck & Moore
Barrow & Back
Canmack
Pastos
W. T. Vogler
Main Street
Merchant's Hotel
Jfk
Bensling
Robert D. Johnston
Jas. A. Gray
Fire Insurance
Ithe Beat Fire Company
Tobtacco, &c
Ant We
Winston, WN. C
Atlanta Medical
Solleg
Logan
Sea Seadling College
Safull
Thad. Johnson
Aqiasra
Henry
Foy
Talso
Ty ‘Apeiroden
Rere
G.t.foust
Hamburg
Sewan
Oses
Rives & Co
Malta
Winston Male Academy
Chaasical,” Mathematica! Scientifical and Commercial
Fan
Anit the Times
Adrens
J. A. Monror
A. ‘Princi
Winston Female School
Winston, N
N. 8. Davis
I. Martin
San Antonio Herald
England
Baltimore
DeBow
Orleans
William M. Burwell
Beck
Gen. Hancock
Bay—ard
Mr. Tilden
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