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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for May or search for May in all documents.
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Heavy Docket.
--There were, up to yesterday, 52 felony cases listed for trial at the May term of Judge Lyons Court.
This is a larger number than was ever know before.
The law required that twenty- four freeholders shall be summoned in each case as juryman.
To comply with it in the case of each offender who is to be tried, would necessitate the summoning of over twelve hundred qualified men, a greater number we suspect man is now to be found in the city.
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], The May anniversaries in New York. (search)
The May anniversaries in New York.
--Next week the anniversaries of the various "religious" societies of New England and the North generally are to take place in New York.
The Herald makes the announcement the occasion for a long sermon, and gives a wistful look back at other days, and says:
The very men who by their teachings should have attached the dissensions, smoothed away the jealousies, and calmed the angry feelings that had begun to disturb our tranquility and contentment ad, have they bestowed a thought on the heathen at them ? Have they even tried to fulfill their mission as peacemakers ? Let the atrocities of this most unnatural of wars; let the active participation of clergymen in the struggle — whether as instigators or actual combatants, for they are both — answer these questions.
The response will, we fear, be anything but favorable to the efforts of those who come to levy their annual tax of a million and a half upon us at the next May anniversaries