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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1849
Page
4
The article discusses Pennsylvania’s public debt near forty two million dollars, annual interest and improvements costing about four million, and fears lawmakers will push further appropriations. It warns taxpayers to demand debt repayment and notes past actions suspending cancellations and the risk of extended funding for state improvements.
The inquest on the Astur Opera house riot victims returns a verdict supporting military firing on the mob while noting a larger police force might have reduced the need for troops. News covers post riot calm, sheriff actions, a fatal house fire in Cedar Grove, church and school incidents, and other late 1700s era items including archbishops, an Irish paper’s claim, and a note on gold dollar production suspension.
The Mayo Constitution reports severe distress from cholera and hunger in Connaught with many inmates of Ballina and Ballinrobe facing bleak conditions. Emigration patterns shift as Germans move to British colonies and America, with express trains aiding journeys to Havre and Antwerp and monthly departures from Cologne to Lille via Mouscron. London Chron. April 24.
The piece describes the Don Cossacks as a wild, unruly force kept under Russian protection and famed for harassing rear-areas rather than facing regular troops. It warns Russia would need all its Cossacks and notes Turkish valor when defending against a feared northern invasion. It also recounts a royal romance tale of a Duchess saved from a fire by her courier, who marries her, and a note on Carthagena divorce practices.
Descriptive notices from Watertown Jefferson county report a Sunday blaze destroying principal business houses and public buildings. The fire began in an old frame building and spread through the town shelving three banks and thirty stores along with the post office and surrogate office. One life lost from a collapsing wall. Total estimated loss near 300000 with 325000 insurance. Contents of post office and three banks saved. Other named sites burned include American Hotel paddock store on Locust street wooden block Episcopal Church Columbia Flatel Northern State Journal and Democratic Union Office.
The Whig work proceeds at Washington despite jeers and wails from Locofocoism. It will be done though in pieces, not all at once, as the world was not made in a day. A Mexican protest against treaty protocol is noted, with Senor Rosa sending copies to foreign ministers. Secretary of State Clayton may clash with another minister as the duties prove demanding.
Moderate estimates claim ten million volumes printed yearly in Germany and more than a thousand German authors listed in Leipzig fair catalogues. Other items note Mr. Clay's Louisville speech drawing crowds, a key will case with a hung jury, the death of Rhode Island politician Dutee J. Pearce, a Kingston Barnum style breach of promise suit, Houston's plan to purchase enslaved people for road work with $13,000 bonds, and a Cincinnati tombstone listing the age as 36 years, eighteen months, and eleven days.
A notorious convict escaped last week from Massachusetts State Prison in a sensational manner. The report details how Philipps, previously sentenced to nine years for burglary, engineered the escape during a Digging episode tied to a buried treasure story. A cab ride to Fall River and a mass distraction allowed him to leap the hole and flee, injuring the warden and Boston officials in the process.
From the Plains reports say many California emigrants perish mainly from cholera. Dragoons clashed with En Taw and Apache near Inos New Mexico with casualties on both sides. 40 Apaches slain in another fight with the Butaws. A California missionary notes inexhaustible gold. Moses Harris, a famed guide, died of cholera at Independence Missouri. In St. Louis 282 deaths last week, 192 from cholera, disease rising.
An energetic session in the Assembly debated the rebellion losses address. Col Gregg warned that Queen’s assent could absolve British inhabitants from oath duties while the Solicitor General urged the Speaker to mark Tory statements. Crises and recriminations followed amid accusations of loyalty shifts and criminal inquiries.
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