hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Sorting
You can sort these results in two ways:
- By entity
- Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
- By position (current method)
- As the entities appear in the document.
You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.
hide
Most Frequent Entities
The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.
Entity | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Abe Lincoln | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John J. Crittenden | 16 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) | 15 | 1 | Browse | Search |
United States (United States) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Williams C. Wickham | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Dante | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
November, 3 AD | 11 | 11 | Browse | Search |
Jonathan A. Belvin | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Henrico (Virginia, United States) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
View all entities in this document... |
Browsing named entities in a specific section of The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource]. Search the whole document.
Found 1 total hit in 1 results.
November 15th, 1829 AD (search for this): article 7
The truth about "Sam Patch"--his last leap.
A correspondent of the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat takes exception to a statement concerning the renowned Sam Patch which recently appeared in an English book, and gives the correct version of the story of that individual's last leap.
He says:
"Sam Patch's last leap occurred on the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1829, on a cold, cloudy, and dismal autumn day. The heavens, as if in keeping with the melancholy spectacle, were almost clothed in sack-cloth.
The sun refused to look upon the mournful tragedy.
But ten thousand human beings, more thoughtless, lined the banks of the river on both sides, perched also upon the mills and houses, and in trees, above and below the high banks, to cheer and encourage the poor drunken suicide in his self-immolation.
A scaffold was erected thirty feet high, on the island above the falls, as they then were, standing very near where the saw-mill upon the brow of the cataract now is. From that