Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Can’t Be True,” July 18, 1859

    Source citation
    “Can’t Be True,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, July 18, 1859, p. 3: 1.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Fayetteville Semi Weekly Observer
    Newspaper: Headline
    Can’t Be True
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    3
    Newspaper: Column
    1
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    CAN’T BE TRUE. – The Northern papers state that “one of the passengers in the late disaster upon the Michigan Southern Railroad, settled with the Company for the loss of his wife and child for $500.”

    There are a good many mean men in the world, (such as he who sold GEORGE WASHINGTON’S bones for $200,000;) but we must be permitted to doubt whether there is one who would barter off the still bleeding and mangled bodies of his wife and child for $500. It must be a mistake.

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