The French journals and people are considerably confused and
amused with the classic and ancient names of our Western towns – our “Memphises”
and “Cairos,” and “Athenses” and Corinths.”
They have been having a small revolution in Greece, and a few days since
a provincial journal published in the following lucid paragraph, headed: “The
latest news from Greece.” “At the moment
of going to press we have received a telegraphic dispatch announcing that a
battle took place at Corinth, and that the rebels had been crushed” and then
adds the sapient journalist, “Thus, it may be hoped, is terminated the
insurrection which for a moment menaced the throne of King Otho.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2
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