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Explosion In North Street.- About 8 o’clock this morning, the cylinder of a soda water machine burst in the manufactory of Daniel McConologue. , 141 North Street, with a report which startled the neighborhood, and two young men were seriously injured, while other workmen narrowly escaped…pieces of flying metal….]

That’s funny. Not funny that anyone was hurt but you can just see this as part of a 3 Stooges skit.

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[That Room Renting Ordinance.- Landlords will not understand that they are prohibited from renting a room or house to a slave, but must rent it to the slave’s master or agent. Adams, f.m.c., having rented a room to Celia, slave of Mr. Babcock, was arrested by Officer Hugh Sherry, and appeared yesterday morning before Recorder Emerson, who fined him $25.]

It seems this was a really big deal. The room owner was a Free Man of Color so it might be confusing to some. What if Mr Babcock gave her the money to rent a room because there was no place for her where he was?

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[Servile Trouble In Clark County, Mississippi,- Mr. Morphis, proprietor of the Verandah Hotel, at DeSoto, Miss., was a passenger on the down train yesterday evening. He informed us that a citizen, a planter in the vicinity, had come into the village just before he left, alarmed and much excited at having discovered a plot for murder and insurrection. Mr. M. had but little time before the departure of the train to talk about the matter. Somehow, it seems, it was discovered that a white man was visiting the planter’s negro cabins nightly for the past week.- Yesterday, a negro woman confessed to a plot to poison him and his family, and to do considerable mischief at the time of a camp meeting now about to be held in the neighborhood. The woman said the white man had promised to take her off to where she would be free, when the work appointed her to do should be accomplished. We are well acquainted with the gentleman, and regard him as a man of intelligence, and possessed of a well balanced mind, not liable to carried away by false alarms.- Mobile Mercury, 12th.]

There’s that poison story again. It kind of makes ya wonder if some of the abolishionist were wandering around doing this more than was reported here. Even if the substance proved to be harmless, we do not know how many may have really tried to use the poison.

Pam