Kaspar Hauser: mystery, death, and trials in Nuremberg
The narrative recounts Kaspar Hauser's confinement in a tower then with the Daumers, his rapid education and writing, sightings of a hidden guardian, and his violent death in Anspach. It covers public suspicion, investigations, and the hope of unmasking his origins while detailing his last hours and murder.
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Kaspar
Yiktel
Nuremberg
Hiim
Rasparine
Germany
Europe
Daumer
Kaspar Hauser
Dauner
Karl Stanhope
Anspach
Court of Appeal
Lord Stanhope
England
Widday
Hauser
Noted North citizen urges Georgia to secede after Lincoln victory
A writer from Marve reflects on Republican rise and warns Georgians that the North will not accept Southern rights. He analyzes party factions, fears abolitionist aims, and urges immediate secession as the only path to safety and equality, predicting federal power shifting to abolitionists on March 4, 1861.
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Marve
Macauley
Republican Party
Selo
United States
Lincoln
South
Seward
Chicago
Peices
North
Buchanan
Washington
Madison
Earth
Heaven
Georgia
Hamlin’s Ancestry Question at Bangor Report
A Bangor Maine correspondent to the Montgomery Advertiser notes a Southern journal hinting Hamlin was partly of African descent. He cites that Hamlin’s grandfather was well known to long-time locals and quotes Virgil D. Paria Naval Storekeeper at Itsmouth New Hampshire as confirming the claim.
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Hawwinan Hawais
Montgomery Advertiser
Bangor
Maine
Hamlin
Virgil D. Paria
Itsmouth
N. I
New Hanover County
Long Creek Town
Wilmington
Wilson
Rk. P
Dialog on election mood in Hartford store
In a Hartford store on North Main Street yesterday a Democrat and a Republican exchanged remarks after the election. The Democrat expressed dismay likening the result to being licked by dogs while the Republican offered a retort about the political climate.
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Hartford Times
North Main Street
J Ropaht
Azarns
Puthe
Demerat
Hemorors Indtpest Old Farmer and Two Daughters
A rustic tale describes an old farmer who forbids his two daughters from courting. The girls misinterpret a sheet signal and, after a playful mishap, the old man falls from the window and dislocates a shoulder. He later relents and becomes a father‑in‑law.
Anecdote Targets John Randolph Prayer Charade
A sharp rebuke to placating prayers is seen in an anecdote about John Randolph during illness. A visiting minister prays highlighting Randolphs generosity and service, but Randolph interrupts, warning that such rhetoric may provoke divine judgment.
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John Randolph
Randol H
An Appeal to the South by A B Longstreet
In this Southern Guardian column, A B Longstreet urges South Carolina to secede, praising the state as a unique, religious and prosperous realm while denouncing Black Republican rule. He predicts a triumphant withdrawal, notes tribulation as a passport to Heaven, and asks Southern presses to widen circulation.
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John A. Quitman
Churubusco
Col
Butler
Dickinson
Beyys
Beuys
Gladden
Baker
Patrick Leonard
Carolina
The
Southern Guardian
South Carolina
Union
Hall of Congress
United States
Commonwealth
Southern Press
South
A. B. Longstreet
Marriage Ad on a One Dollar Bill
Justice Waite in St Louis found a one dollar bill bearing a handwritten note claiming the marriage of Geo H Cox of Oshkosh Wisconsin to Celia Rice on October 4 1859. The note says the ceremony cost 60 cents for the certificate and 25 cents for recording leaving a quarter to advertise the marriage with a penniless future due to high ad rates. signed Henry Kegner pastor M C Church.
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Geo. H. Cox
Celia Rice
Henry Kegner
M.C. Church
No Heaven Yet on the Road from Little Rock
A young man asks the elderly traveler in a white cravat where he is bound. The old man replies he seeks heaven and has traveled eighteen years. The youth quips that if heaven is still distant after eighteen years in Arkansas, he will choose another path.
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Little Rock
Heaven
Arkansas
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Drrree
Cobb
People of
Ofer
Calina
Oecttinger
Ae Ae
New York
Peter Funk
Avolian
KH Blount
M. Romn
Olen
Necro Goofine
Ana
Pete Tots
Lee Peetity
M. Rountreel Aco
W. W. Winster
Walea
W. Winstead
Washington Depot
Wilmington and Weldon
Barnes
A. G. Ruffin
Gymol
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