A Stage Driver Confronts Highway Robbers Tale
A stage driver recounts a perilous night from Danbury to Littleton. With money and letters stolen from the mail bag a robber aims to kill, the driver feigns a trap at a snow bank, captures the assailant, binds him, and saves the mail. The tale ends with reflection on fame, fortune, and the passage of time.
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Danbury
Littleton
Pete
Boston
Canada Line
Little— Ten
Ltold Fim Lle
Gowan’s Mills
Welock
Bull's Corner
Tie
Thad
Longea
Longee
Rageal
Concord
Sam
How Errors may be Repaired and Moral Lessons
An old speaker urges habits for happiness, admitting universal errors and sorrows. He stresses penitence, conversion of evil into good, and relying on a higher wisdom guiding all beings toward immortality. A Savannah bar story follows about a rat that drinks beer daily from a bartender's sample.
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Ax Orp Darkey
Criminal Court of the District of Columbia
Joln Wiliams
Sal
John Williams
Albany
John
Sali
Baltimore
Lyon
Freason
God
Marshall House
Savannah
Mount St Josephs Academy Planned at Hickory
A Roman Catholic girls school will open in Hickory under three Sisters of Mercy. The academy will be Mount St. Josephs, with experienced teachers who have moved to Hickory to establish a permanent school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Goop Ruavine Rou
Massachusetts Teachers’ Association
Hickory
Three Sisters of Mercy
Mount St. Josephs
Robbers Take Circus Wagon With Treasure At Leadville
Two men on harnessed horses stole a circus ticket wagon from Leadville carrying the treasurer and $1500. The showmen pursued and recovered the treasure but the robbers escaped.
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Leadville
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Geo. M. Mathes
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Gaston House
New Berne
N.C
S. R. Street & Son
the National Hotel
State House
Quare
Raleigh
Street & Son
R. M Bidgood
Lia
Winston
Combthce Misia Street
Alethodat Pe Chwred
Anstox N.C
Preston Roan
Winston End
I. W. Durham
Weil
Menili
Hiver
Goodrich
Maine
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New York
Rt. Y. McAden
Charlotte
D. MacRae
Wilmington
W. T. Vogler
Miami River
Crutchfield & Stedman
Beck & Moore
Callinas
Brests
James D. Patton
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Cary Street
C. Boxizs
M. A. Curtis
Winston, N C
Merchant's Hotel
Gov, Sermour
TNE
Wells College
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