South Danvers Wizard, 1/6/1864, p. 2/3-4
ANOTHER WAR MEETING

South Danvers Wizard, 3/9/1864, p.2/2 
HORSE RAIL ROAD HEARING

South Danvers Wizard, 3/9/1864, p. 2/3
TOWN MEETING

South Danvers Wizard, 4/2/1862, p. 2/3
Destructive Fire in Salem - Extensive fire of the  drug and apothecary story of Messrs. C.H. & J. Price on Essex Street....A.A. Abbott, Esq., who had an office on the second floor, lost about 200 volumes of books.   Reprinted from the Salem Observer.

Alley, John B.
South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT – “We are indebted to Hon. John B. Alley for Messages and Documents relating to the war and the Report on the Fort Pillow affair and returned prisoners.”

Alley, Orlando E. 
South Danvers Wizard, 2/10/1864, p. 2/1
“Among the recent deaths of Union prisoners in Richmond, we notice the name of ‘O. Alley, Co. B., 18th Massachusetts Regiment.’  It is feared that it must be Mr. Orlando Alley, of this town, one of our three drafted men, who, while conscripted, was placed in the above regiment and same company…”

Almshouse
South Danvers Wizard, 4/3/1864, p. 2/4
ALMS HOUSE KEEPER – “We hear that Mr. Benjamin Scott, who has been for several years the keeper of our Alms House, has resigned that situation and moved to Salem, where he intends to farm upon his own account.  He had faithfully and conscientiously administered the affairs of our Alms House, and our best wishes for his future success attend him.”

Andrews, H. N.
South Danvers Wizard,  6/8/1864, p. 1/ 4-5
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON

Andrews, Robert 
South Danvers Wizard, 6/1/1864, p. 2/1
RETURNED with the Massachusetts 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery under People & Places M.

April Fool’s
South Danvers Wizard, 4/1/1863, p. 2/1
STRANGE OCCURRENCE - "Such an event as the remarkable caving in of the earth in the front yard of the Old South Church making a vast chasm, 88 feet wide and 40 or 50 feet deep, could not but create an intense feeling of astonishment and alarm among our citizens.  It is certain that it did not happen earlier yesterday than about 6 o’clock in the afternoon as several persons passed near the church at that hour and all was there in its usual condition.  Had such an occurrence happened on Sunday at the time the congregation was coming from the church, the consequences must have been fearful in the extreme.  We are not prepared to give a reason for the sudden sinking of such a mass of earth, unless the action of an underground current of water, seeking a more direct passage from Goldthwaite’s Brook to the Mill Pond, could have produced it. 
     It is historical fact that, at the time of the war of 1812, excavations were made under the Old South Meeting House to obtain saltpeter earth with which to manufacture gunpowder.  The old house occupied the land in front of the present church.  Whether the loosening of the earth at that time had anything to do with causing the catastrophe, we will not undertake to determine.  Each one on examination, will judge for himself.  We only caution the curious not to approach too near the edge of the chasm.  The Committee of the Society have caused the gates of the yard to be securely fastened, which is a wise precaution.  It is ascertained that the foundations of the church are not endangered, nor are the wooden flight of steps over the chasm displaced.
     It is curious, on looking down this deep pit, to notice the different strata of earth on the sides, showing how much the land has been raised by successive filling up, the original soil being nine feet below the present surface of the yard.
     Of the immediate cause of such a disaster, all is left to conjecture.  An earthquake, if such happened, might have produced it.  The railroad is within a few feet of the yard, and a heavy locomotive passed at about the time indicated.  On the assumption that the cavity existed, (by action of water), and that the surface crust of earth was held together only by the frost, the jarring of the ground, caused by the passing train, would go far to account for the sudden plunge of the surface earth into the depths below."

South Danvers Wizard, 4/8/1863, p. 2/1
DISAPPOINTMENT  -  "We are informed that not a few of a our readers were disappointed at not being able, last Wednesday, to find the huge chasm in front of the South Church.  Others read the description of it, intending to visit it at their leisure, while others, reading it more carefully, and perhaps a second time, found that the article did not positively state that such a hole existed.  It only stated that such an event, if it did happen, would cause surprise and alarm, and if it happened, hinted at some of the probably causes sufficient to produce such an occurrence.
     We are glad to find that the disappointment did not cause any ill-nature, and on the whole, it is better not to have the hole, on account of the cost of filling it up.  Anybody who would take serious offense at such a harmless affair, would be likely to considered less an April fool than a natural one.

Association of Journeyman Curriers
South Danvers Wizard,  1/27/1864, p. 2/7
THE CURRIER’S STRIKE.

Atwood, Capt. A. N.
South Danvers Wizard, 2/10/1864, p. 2/1
PEABODY INSTITUTE, LYCEUM - Capt. Atwood’s Lecture on Fishes of Massachusetts Bay.