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Please Don’t Pick the Flowers
It has been reported to us that certain persons make it a habit to pick the flowers in the public park. These persons ought to be informed that such action…
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July 18, 1862 – Habits of General Halleck
A correspondent writing from Corinth, Mississippi, sends the following in relation to the Commander in Chief of the Western armies:
There is yet no sign of an immediate intention of General Halleck to leave Corinth. But with him what is apparently improbable today may be certain tomorrow. Events may forecast their shadows but the move ments of General Halleck do not. His plans lie always buried in that safest of repositories—his own head—until the hour for their execution has arrived. Not even the members of his staff, holding the most confidential positions, share their burden until then. Independence of conception seems one of the main characteristics of his mind.
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July 17, 1862 – A Yankee Life-Preserver
The Yankees, it would seem, go into battles as they would go into water, with life-preservers on. We have had exhibited to us one of these steel breast-plates found on the persons of prisoners, and taken from the dead bodies of the slain. It is in the shape of the two breasts of a vest, and is made up in its folds, being sewed between the cloth and the lining. Except by its stiffness, and weight, which is about three pounds, it has all the appearance of an ordinary waistcoat. These steel waistcoats are manufactured in New York, and are quite in vogue in the Yankee army, especially among the officers. They are purchased at twenty five dollars apiece, and are warranted to repel a musket or pistol ball at ordinary range.
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Reverend With Habit of Eloping Again Out of Sight
South Bend. Ind. July 15—(AP)—The avowed intention of Rev. Wilson Culp of South Bend to bring an end to his career of elopments and devote the rest of his life to his wife and nine children has evidently been cast aside, as he has again disappeared. Mrs. Dorothy Culp his sister-in-law, of Napanee, Ind., is also missing.
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July 16, 1862 – The Unknown Dead
We copy the following sad article from the Richmond Enquirer. The impression is that the deceased was the gallant son of John C. Taylor, Esq., of Granville County. If so, it will be gratifying to the friends of the deceased, to be able to identify his body :—
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Students Jeer Women
Germans Break Up Meeting of Congress in Austria
INNSBRUCK. Austria, July14 (AP).—A meeting of a women’s congress was broken up here last evening by interruptions caused by several hundred German Nationalist students, who whistled, stamped their feet and shouted jeering remarks whenever French or English women began to speak.
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July 14, 1862 – Death of Col. Cass
The gallant commander of the ninth Massachusetts regiment died at his residence in Boston, Saturday morning, from injuries received in the battle of July 1st. Col. Cass was an old resident of Boston, an old member of the volunteer militia, and his position and popular qualities gave him great influence among his Irish fellow-citizens. When the war broke out he immediately tendered his services towards raising the regiment which he has since commanded. The regiment has done noble service, and has met with fearful losses. Officers and privates who knew no fear, and no other place of duty that that of danger, have fallen like leaves before an untimely storm.
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“Superman” Flying Fortress Plagues Nazi Air Force
“Superman,” the plane—not the bird or the radio hero of Mutuals afternoon serial—is now riding the air waves over Germany. A Boeing Flying Fortress, member of the famous Eighth Army Air Force which has its base in England, has been named “Superman,” in honor of the fabled radio character.
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July 12, 1862 – A New Man-of-War
The New York Times of the 10th says: To-day another new man-of-war will be added to our navy afloat. The new steam frigate Monongahela is to be launched at Philadelphia, and the veteran Commodore Stewart, who has presided at the ‘baptism’ of so many naval vessels, will be one of the chief officers. The Monongahela is one of the six frigates ordered by Congress. The dimensions according to which she was to be constructed were: length over all, 235 feet ; extreme breadth of beam, 33 feet 8 inches depth of hold, 17 feet 10 inches; measurement, 1,600 tons. She may vary a trifle from these figures.
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July 11, 1862 – More Rebel Outrages in Missouri
Quincy ILL., July 10—A band of six bushwhackers visited the residence of a Union man named Pratt, sixteen miles from Canton, in Lewis county, Mo., on Tuesday last, but not finding him at home, plundered his house. Soon after they left the house, they met him and shot him dead. Fourteen buckshot were found in his body.
Yesterday a band of about eighty robbed the store of a Mr. Thurston, Monticello, near Canton, of every thing of value that it contained.