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City Intelligence: The Scientific Convention

The business claiming the consideration of this national organization was yesterday brought to a close, when it adjourned sine die, previous to which it was determined to hold the next meeting…

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May 5, 1861 – Maryland Coming Around

Maryland is certainly coming around. The Secessionists yesterday made a bold push to get their Safety Committee business through the Senate; but they failed, and the Union men think it…

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How Chaplin Learns

A small, quiet man paid his admission fee and entered the Alhambra theater of Los Angeles where “A Woman of Paris" was 2 being shown to a crowded house. After…

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Mooseheart Band in Concert Here Tonight

The famous “Mooseheart Concert Party,” an organization of youthful musician graduates of the Mooseheart schools in Northern Illinois, will be heard in a musical program tonight at the Circle Playhouse.…

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May 4, 1861 – The Governor of Delaware’s Proclamation

Governor Berton, of Delaware, has issued his Proclamation in response to the President's call for troops, stating that the laws of the State do not confer upon him any power…

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Arrested for Rifling Mails

Hastings, Neb., May 2 — [Special Telegram to the Bee ]— Postoffice Inspector Fredrick caused the arrest yesterday of J. R. Gatewood, postmaster at Eustis, Neb., for rifling registered and…

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May 3, 1861 – Local Matters at Richmond

Artillery Camp.—We made a visit yesterday to the Artillery Camp, on the College Grounds, near this city, and found everything in excellent order and the troops in a fine state…

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Town, County and State News

During the past month the mean temperature recorded in Lewistown was 46. The maximum was 76 on the 19th of April and the minimum 18 on the 11th. There were…

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May 2, 1861 – New York State Troops

SYRACUSE, April 30. The Onondaga Regiment, consisting of ten complete companies of volunteers, is now full, and ready to respond to the Governor's orders. It is understood from Albany that…

Archaeology Mysteries & Unexplained

Expert Laughs at Pharaoh’s Curse

Cairo — Belief in “curses’’ attached to certain antiquities is ridiculed by Mr, R. Engelbach, keeper of the Cairo museum and one of the world’s greatest authorities on ancient Egypt.

Latest of the ‘‘accursed” remains to be returned to Egypt is a piece of bone, claimed to be part of Pharaoh’s skeleton which has been blamed for a series of accidents which have befallen Sir Alexander and Lady Seton, of Edinburgh.