1871-03-28 | #Cheatham
(Might actually be 1873, can’t tell) From Granville: Mr. Wm. A. Cheatham is building a store on Montgomery St. for son Benjamin (is this the Cheatham Building?) everything else is instructions for planting Mr. Fairchild regrets that he has no prickly comfrey or artichoke for sale
1870-05-25
Disastrous Fire in Henderson. Nearly the whole Town in Ashes. Began at Dr. Debnam’s Storehouse and the Kittle store. “fully believed to be the work of an Incendiary”
1852-12-08 | #Crime #Watkins
Guy who invented a rock-crushing machine takes out an ad warning others not to infringe on his patent Milton gets a branch railroad to the Richmond & Danville – Samuel Watkins is on the local committee to go meet with the railroad Death of a Mad Elephant. (“His agony was violent but short.”) :( Mason expelled for gross unMasonic conduct Blaise Skupinski executed in Phila. (News from the trial included a privileged convo with a priest and discussion of Skupinski’s circumsicion status, which was apparently relevant)
1851-01-01 | #Watkins
Angry op-eds about some traveling abolitionists in town Detroit: arrest of a Nefarious Gang of Outlaws Cannibalism averted in the wilds of TX Locusts Killing Hogs (the hogs are eating the locusts and getting sick, not, as I had assumed, the other way around) Some statistics from the Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Staunton We’re very excited about trains A Mr. Barnum has purchased some elephants for some reason Also, steamships.
1844-06-28 | #Cheatham #politics
Democratic party meeting at Granville, chair: Isham Cheatham; also there, Jas. M. Bullock Some complaints about the Whigs Henry Clay Birtherism???
1841-01-01 | #Watkins
Harrison/Tyler Ladies at the Edgeworth school seem to have… cognitive abilities? We are shocked Weird political term du jour is “locofocoism” Whig meeting in Caswell County, so Samuel (1800) Watkins was there Regulator Movement mention - “ill-judged and disastrous, though patriotic and daring” Jesse H. Lindsay wants to buy 10000 pounds of beeswax The Thoroughbred horse named Nick Biddle
1837-06-26
a guide to “shopping,” the hot new thing. Includes good advice like, remember that store staff are in fact human beings! Pickwick Papers in serial form Really long story about a clever dog “Considering the times” apparently financial situation was not great Court notices involving Archibald Davis & the estate of Southern Higgs. This would be shortly after his marriage to Southern Higgs’ widow.
