Wilson Schools Offer Broad Non-Sectarian Education Amid Controversy
The Wilson Schools in Wilson, North Carolina, announce plans for a non-sectarian, comprehensive education for both sexes with a $850,000 endowment and new college buildings. Sessions run mid January and July for twenty weeks. board ranges from 3% to 10% monthly and tuition from 1 to 30 per session. The site at Wilson is praised for healthfulness near Greenville Bank Road and the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
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Primitive Baptist Order
Gilris
Greenville Bank
Wilmington and Weldon
Milmington
Weldon
Goldsboro
Irish family quarrel ends with knife stabbing in street row
A tale recounts an Irish household fracas on a Broad Street street where the daughter and son fight over breakfast, the father stabs the mother, police arrest all, and a witness named Barney Dugan recites the incident in alderman’s court amid comic misstatements. Another feature tells of a Marseilles love tragedy where a betrothed woman dies of surprise upon finding her living fiancé.
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Molly
Tim’s
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Gonate
Thes
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The Irish Stocking Treasure and the Bank of Ireland
A man stored eighty seven pounds ten in a Bank of Ireland stocking, buried in a garden. Mildew and ashes seemed to erase the notes, but a Bank engraver’s son reconstructed the original notes from the ashes, and the owner recovered the full amount. A humorous scene ends with the man rewarding a recruit with a war dance and a vanished appearance.
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Reilly
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Ted Corner
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Tam
Wettisoton Never Lost a Gun in Battle
An extract from Brialmont's Life of Wellington notes that Wettisoton never lost a gun to the enemy. He recalls capturing the siege train at Oporto and all guns at Victoria and Waterloo, with only three horseshoes later recovered near Madrid.
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Early Strength Trials in Dunbarton N H
Caleb Stark recounts a Dunbarton incident where a visiting stranger sought to test Johnny McNeil’s strength by challenging his wife Christian. She offers to throw him herself and, despite the stranger’s reluctance, trips him and pins him to the ground proving womanly resilience in a local test of strength.
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Johnny
Christian
Ile
Sayers Forfeits Champion Belt In Bell's Life Note
Bell's Life reports Sayers relinquishing the Champion's Belt with reluctance and handing it to the Stalerbridge Infant. Around 600 remains due on new belts, and Bell's Life asks Sayers and Heenan's supporters to raise funds immediately to avoid keeping the belts with the maker.
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Corn Growth Myth Explains Manure Smell Story
A dialect narration describes a farmer explaining that corn grows faster when manure creates a strong smell that pushes the plants to rise. The dialogue humorously portrays how corn “hurries out ob de ground” to escape the foul air, highlighting a folk belief about manure and growth.
Poor Man Dies by Self Despair in London
The dying exclamation of Luther Shaylor, sixty, who hanged himself in London on the 21st ult, reveals severe hunger. The piece contrasts American Republican era aid with English slave turmoil, calling out transatlantic sympathy and blaming conditions for the despair.
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Pompey
Sambo
South
England
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Singular case links sight and mind after cataract surgery
In Paris Presse a tale from St. Ela hospital describes a blind patient with double cataracts gaining first words after chloroform wore off. He uttered I see, showing mind returning with sight. The report links sense and intellect, noting mind depends on material conditions.
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Hospital St. Ela
Kaspar Hauser
Funeral Honors for General Pimodan in Rome Churches
A wire story reports General Pimodan killed at Castel filardo honored with funeral services across Rome. The Duchess of Fitz James learned of his death from her wife, who cried and hid the truth, then prayed at church scenes.
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Malane Pimodan
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