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August 19, 1861 – Camp Notes

Camp Berry, Concord, Aug. 18.

The organization of the Third Regiment is approaching completion. Companies and portions of companies are continually arriving, and about 1100 men are said to be enlisted already. The larger portion of the regiment is on the ground, requiring the Commissary to furnish 750 rations at each meal, and the tented field makes a warlike appearance. Throughout the camp there is perfect harmony. The boys claim they have just the best officers that ever graced a New Hampshire regiment. Col. Fellows and Lt. Colonel Jackson have won the friendship of every man, and the matters in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments are arranged for the comfort and satisfaction of all.

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Dramatic Scene Marks First Day Of Murder Trial

TOMBSTONE. Ariz, Aug. 16. The first day of the trial of James Haverty, charged with murdering his brother, Richard, on April 21, came to a sensational close this evening when Mrs. Richard Haverty rushed at the man accused of slaying her husband, vigorously slapped his face, and then collapsed in the arms of friends. The incident occurred as Haverty was leaving the court room.

James Haverty is charged, with having shot his brother following an exchange of words near Ramsey Canyon about 40 miles east of here. The Haverty brothers were tor many years well known cattlemen in south eastern Arizona.

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August 17, 1861 – The Transfer—Coast Defence, Etc.

We are glad that the time when the forts, naval vessels, arsenals, arms, armaments etc., belonging to North Carolina is to be transferred to the Confederate Government, is near at hand.

That much work has been done on our coast we are willing to admit, and that we have many brave and gallant men on the Seaboard is undeniable, but still the defences are not what they ought to be, nor are the forces as numerous at some points as they should be.

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Entertainment for Children at Seashore Home

Children's Seaside House boardwalk. Photo: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Last Saturday two hundred and fifty crippled children of the Seashore Home listened with delight to the songs sung by Miss Louise Mack, of the Beaux Arts Cafe. The choruses of “Old Fashioned Girl” and “Three O’clock in the Morning” were favorites selected by the kiddies. Mrs. Rennie Cormack, of New York, played delightfully on the piano, Mira. Cormack also played and sang, as did Mr. F. Collis Wildman. Miss Suzanne Sackett made the arrangements.

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August 16, 1861 – Our Fifth Regiment

A Harrisburgh, Penn., paper gives the following description of our Fifth Wisconsin Regiment (in which is our Manitowoc Company,) as it passed through that city:

Fifth Wisconsin Regiment,—This regiment from the far North West, is now in this city, encamped near Camp Curtin. Some things are reported of these men worthy of note. They are chiefly lumbermen, miners and met living upon their own resources. They have been well clothed and furnished by their State, the Legislature having appropriated liberally for such purpose. The following are the regimental officers:

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Reformatory Life Has Not Dulled Love for Thrills in Miss Opal Isley

Photo of Opal Isley

Leg Is Broken in Fall While Trying to Escape From Girls’ School.

REFORMATORY life has not dulled the love for thrills in Opal Isley, 17.

The latest episode In Opal’s exciting young life was a fall from the third floor of the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont several days ago, while trying to escape, it was learned today. She lies in the Robert W. Long Hospital with a compound fracture of the right leg. A doctor attending her said Miss Isley ran 100 yards before she was forced by pain to drop to the ground.

The girl is under sentence for complicity with the robber band, led by her mother, Mamie Isley, who took several thousand dollars in cash and Liberty bonds from the Alert (Ind.) State Bank In May, 1921. She is pretty. Detectives declare that her mother used her as a tool.