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Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, The Charlestown schools (search)
ng writing and arithmetic. The schools without the Neck were examined April 9, 1822, but no return was made, except of school No. 3, under Mr. Parker, at which some handsome specimens of writing were particularly noticed. The number present, out of a total of 119, was 32 boys and 40 girls. The whole number of school children —outside the primary departments—was about 750, or 66 more than attended last year; $3,400 will be necessary for the coming year. 1822-23. At town meeting May 6, 1822, John Soley, Philemon R. Russell, Isaac Tufts, and J. K. Frothingham declined to serve on the board of trustees. They received the thanks of the town for their services, and Rev. James Walker, Nathan Tufts, 2d, Joseph Phipps, and Samuel P. Teel were elected to their places. Mr. Phipps was chosen secretary. The town also voted to buy the land, with the building thereon, now occupied by the female school, but Mr. Collier declined to sell for the present. May 11, 1822. Voted that Nath
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Shocking scene. (search)
Death of the Sultan of Turkey. --The death of Abdul Medjid, Sultan of Turkey, is announced in the news by the Great Eastern. The Sultan was born May 6, 1822, and consequently at the period of his death was thirty-nine years old. At the death of his father, Mahmound II., in 1859, Abdul Medjld ascended the throne. He found the affairs of the Empire in almost inextricable complication, and his naturally weak and pliable character would have secured his overthrow, but for the intervention of England and Germany against Mehemet All, who had led Egypt into revolt, and the Sultan's Grand Admiral, who treacherously surrendered all his fleet to the enemy. By the treaties of 1840 and 1841, Turkey was admitted into the political system of Europe, and from that day the Sultan has been passive in the hands of Western diplomacy. He was happily not one of those weak characters who refuse to be moved as well as to move. By advice of Reschid Pacha, his Vizler, a most enlightened and able