Desolate love and courtroom satire in Craigallan tragedy
A desolate narrator mourns Reginald Graeme as a rider reports the Laird is dead. The scene shifts to a satirical court, where a red faced judge naps midsession while deputies and clerks marshall papers. A long moral sermon urges men to praise their wives and cherish domestic life, citing Stanford Advertiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Carvall
Craigullan
Reginald Graeme
Herve
Reginald Grieme
Craigallan
Regin
Grame
Cato
Lam Muea
Stanford Advertiser
Notorious Kansan figures sketched in colonial miscellany
A Missourian correspondent portrays Kansas border notables Calhoun and his lieutenant Slept, along with marauder Gen. McLean and Judge Cato, detailing their feared influence, debauched behavior, violent methods, and weaponry, comparing them to Rob Roy and Jeffreys while claiming abuses by Free State authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missin Democrat
Kansas
Calhoun
Union
Elthough
Lecompton
Mclean
Inverrary
Kansar
Rob Roy
Lowlands
Cato
Jeffreys
Petit Emperor at Tuileries In Paris Gossip Chronicle
The Paris correspondent reports on the imperial prince Louis Napoleon's son amid crowds at the Tuileries. The child is escorted by guards, Ladies of Honor, and a purse bearer, moving along the palace court yard in military fashion while a donkey on tours nerves causes a minor spectacle. The piece ends with a cynical line about aristocracy and wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New Orleans
Tyre
Prines
Lamented Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina
Article recalls the life of Hugh S. Legare of South Carolina, detailing his education at the College of South Carolina, service as Attorney General, minister to Belgium, term in Congress, and role as United States Secretary of State. It notes his death in Boston, public mourning, and posthumous plans for a Charleston monument, with references to Ticknor, Mount Auburn, and a proposed Charleston burial plaque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh S. Legare
Boston
Legare
South Carolina
College of
Europe
Belgium
Congress
Galhoun
Tyler
United States
Mer. Webster
Sveretary
Charleston
Bunker Hill Monument
Washington
Bullen
Tremont House
George Ticknor
Dr. Bigelow
Mr. T
Ticknor
Congressional
Mount Auburn
Richard Yeadon
Mr. Legare
Mora
Marquis Hastings
Syhia
Buckingham ‘Palace
Pictures in the Fire
A young wife named Fanny Ray resists buying a silk dress after visions of poverty and hunger fill her, her husband Henry urging restraint. The couple confronts hardship as the firelight spurs a moral reckoning, ending with a vow to help others less fortunate and a shared realization sparked by a changing heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart's
Soul
Lily
Mrs. Ray
Fanny
Effect of Gen Havelock's Death in India
Calcutta correspondent of the London Times offers a tribute to Gen Havelock, praising his 20 years in Indian service. The piece recalls his Afghan campaigns, loyalty to Lord Hardinge, tactical skill, stern yet beloved leadership, and Puritan faith, noting public reaction as generals fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
London Times
Haystock
Devenged
Lord Hardinge
India
Hersiam
Lawrences
Edwardes
Nicholsome
Lord Gough
Havelock
Baye
Alumbagh
C. Campbell
Catton
Lapp Courtship Customs Described in Digierin Letters
Fragmented description from Siord Digierin's Letters from High Latitudes explains Lapp courting. A groom-to-be borrows a brandy session with the bride’s father, while the couple may rub noses after a formal proposal. Branded deer tongues, extended betrothal, and delayed marriage feature in this ethnographic note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siord Digierin
Mother's Love in a Vermont Tragic Ballad
Readers recall a ballad about a mother who perished shielding her infant in a Vermont show drift. The infant survived to become a speaker in the Ohio Senate. The piece extols a mother’s love, urging sons to resist vice and honor their mothers to avoid bringing sorrow to her gray hairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Mountains
Vermont
Babe
Ohio Senate
Correct Speaking Habits for Youth Language Education
We advise young people to adopt good language early in life and abandon slang. The sooner slang is dropped the better, as neglecting education risks a life of slang talk. Money is unnecessary. use the language read and heard from the best speakers and poets to form refined speech.
Liquid glue for home use and its preparation
A compact note extols liquid glue as a handy domestic aid for repairs and veneering. It explains a method to prepare glue from good quality material by dissolving in hot water, diluting with alcohol, bottling, and sealing the mouth to preserve it, with warming suggested for winter use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner
England
Iife
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Ghahitewwater Register
Rawn
Hall's Block
Corner First
Whitewater
Walworth CO
J. L. Ran
Wis
Hecsten
Furl
Empuscra
Bil Hoade
Ieaksichs
Ipies
H. L. Rawn
E. A. Smith & CO
Commonwealth Buildings
Wisconsin
Hetail
B &. Smctet
Wiltia Birge
George Ti
Copland
Asl
Proupt
W Weil
I Rock
Walworth
Jederses
BANGS
I Provisions
Farviga
Dans Feulis
Vauisry Bro
First Street
Whitewat
Boots and Shops
We. &E
Edson Kellogg
Wist
West Commer
Udtstreet
N.S. Murpien
Metropolitan Wook
Center Street
M.D. Dare
Ilaltrond Street
Cooda
C. H. Congar
Cremdue, Marston &C
Dryoods
Central Black
Main Street
John Deichman
MW. D
J. L. Pratt
Cn-tom
Wischester & Dewolf
Bailroard Forest
Nepal
Ocestine
Merchants’ & Mechanics’ Bank
Capital
D. Graham
A. IE
Ecoville Cashier
Cornes W
Third
Center Streets
Frost
Metropoitan Black
J. Clapp
Corner Island Centre Streets
Whitewater Hotel
N. MM
Littlejohn & CO
B.F. Mabbett & CO
Edgerton
Madn St
Alef Anal Tilin & Cota Clothing
S. & T. Dobell
OB Field & Debelly
Coor
Starin
Cank & Co
Stora
Vyl 5
T. Dobell
Goulds
Cone
Canoga
R.gogld
J. Bawes
Street
Waitewater
Reginald Gramme
Maoorland
Reginald Greme
Meaven
Petit Hmperor
Rascal
Kilf
Arly
Phila Idelphiz
Ireland
Philmadelty
Father Day
Tatherian
A. Husba
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