some paper from Raleigh

1851-01-01 -

  • 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. Let’s talk about steamships!
  • Married, in Williamsboro, Mr. Henry T. Watkins, to Miss Annie, daughter of John Bullock Esq.