A French Mistake

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