Iceland Aims for Icelandic Roots and Northman Discovery
The speaker muses on Iceland as a distinct land connected to Nordic exploration. Iceland is praised for its geology and unique populace, tracing Norse settlement to 864 at Reikjavik and highlighting Viking explorers who named lands and introduced liberty. The note concludes with Alabama banks suspending payments on Confederate notes.
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Union Troops Advance Beyond Potomac to Munson's Hill
Gen. McClellan leads a forward movement crossing the Potomac with staff toward Ball's Cross Road. Wadsworth and Keyes advance. rebels evacuate Upton's Hill as Union forces reach Munson's Hill, capturing enemy detachments and seizing hay and grain from area farms.
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How it Happened that the Secessionists did not Take Louisville
Louisville escape credited to a lone railroad worker who derailed a grand Confederate train near Green River. A crowd of 400 cars 15 locomotives and 8000 men with gear stood ready but the rail spike wrenching by a Union ally halted the advance and saved Louisville. The incident recounted by Dr Ros Newton and officers.
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Fremonts Missouri expedition frees slaves and disrupts Secessionist nests
Gen. Fremont oted a Missouri operation guiding Col. Smith with 600 troops to Benton and Commerce. Twenty five enslaved people were freed and sent to St. Louis alongside seized horses and mules. Farms along the route were searched, owners detained or forced to swear allegiance, and scattered acts of sabotage and depredation uncovered.
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Stir Among the Colored People by Wm. Wells Brown Tour
Boston author Wm. Wells Brown travels through Canada urging colored citizens toward self elevation sobriety and emigration to the West His London audience heard a strong appeal to tilling the soil and abstaining from alcohol and tobacco Brown who escaped slavery twenty years ago rose to prominence and spoke at the Paris Peace Congress in 1848 and later lectured through Great Britain urging moral social and religious progress in Canada London paper notes his influence and hopes for his mission
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Origin of John O Groat House in Caithness
In James IV of Scotland era three Dutch brothers Malculin Gavin and John de Groat came to Caithness with a Latin letter of recommendation. They acquired Warse and Duncansbay lands and eight proprietors emerged. John settled a quarrel with an octagonal house and table. seating at each door head of table resolved conflicts. Thus began John O Groat's House. The Caithness history notes this origin.
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A Charming Revenge and Ostend Pursuit of Justice
A Belgian minister of justice, Mr. Tesch, is pursued by the deposed official Mr. Mastrican in Ostend. They are followed by police and a gendarme as the crowd laughs, ending with Tesch fleeing to Baden after an absurd scene. The text also contains various notices and brief items including conference appointments and miscellaneous observations.
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