Cochran Rifle Exhibition Stuns Turkish Court and New England
John Webster Cochran of Enfield New Hampshire unveils a nonrecoiling multi chamber rifle at the Fair of the American Institute in Niblo's Garden. He demonstrates rapid fire 100 times in minutes and earns praise from the Sultan and U S officials. His gun features a revolving iron cylinder nine chambers a coned percussion system and a pistol like ball that fits without windage. The invention claims superior accuracy without recoil and is slated for a 500 shot test at Niblo's Garden with a $300000 US patent sale to a New York trust.
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New York Evening Star
Cochran
New Hampshire
American Institute
Niblo’s Garden
Patent Office
Enfield
John Webster Cochran
France
England
Louis Phillipe
William the
Sublime Porte
Constantinople
Grands Vigier
Peru
Tarache
Eropean
Bosphorus
Haji Pacha
Hali
Mr. C
America
West
Fulton
Perkins
War Department
Niblo Garden
Moose Mountains
Niblo’s
United States
Richard & Richardson
South Street
Springfield
Massachusetts
Col. Bomford
Ordnance Department
U. S. Army
Georgia Legislature Correspondence of the Constitutionalist
In Millepcevinie December 15 the Senate passed the Ocmulgee Bank of Macon with 500000 capital, while the increase to 1000000 was struck out. The Newnan bank bill was rejected but later reconsidered. The House debated reconsidering the court for correction of errors and the Burns resolves, with votes on the table motion. The Senate proposed a railroad survey from Tennessee toward Athens Milledgeville Forsyth and Columbus with a ten thousand dollar appropriation and Tennessee negotiations, plus governor reports. The Governor refused to sign Merchants Insurance and Trust Company of Macon and Chattahoochee Insurance and Trust Company of Columbus, citing lack of liability and duration safeguards and urging caution in granting such charters.
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Yeas
Burns
Senate
Mitchell
Baldwins
Tennessee Line
Chattahoochee River
Athens
Milledgeville
Forsyth
Columbus
Bett
Tennessee
Georgia
Tennessee River
Rossville
Geonata
Merchants Insurance and Trust Company
Macon
Insurance and ‘Trust Company of
Chattahoochee
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Thas
Merchants Insurance and ‘Trust Company of
Insurance and ‘Trust Company
Mivurpcevine
House
Cuthbert
McDonald
Cone
Baxter
Union Party
Warner
Berrien
Madison
Spasahepeee
United States
Augusta
Court of Common Pleas
Georgia legislative notes on railway and court bills
Correspondence from Mitrenceville and Mivurpcevine reports House and Senate debates on the State Railroad Bill and the organization of a court of errors. Amendments reduce judge salaries to 2500 and set year 1837 spending, with details on routes and funding. Also coverage of city charter measures in Augusta and local county creations.
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Court of Ondinary
Richmond County
Augusta
Wm. Bryson
Daniel
Henry
Josephine
Jim
Jesse
Fire at City Post Office destroys post department models
A night blaze at the City Post Office complex caused the ground floor to burn as doors remained locked and keys unavailable. Clerks and citizens saved papers from the General Post Office while the Patent Post Office was consumed, with all models lost. Governor McDuffie’s farewell and Governor elect Butler’s inaugural address follow, stressing unity and defense of SC institutions. Santa Anna’s release from Texian custody later reaches Columbia and travels toward Washington.
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Baltimore Chronicle
Washington
General Post
City Post Office
Patents Office
Fice Department
General Post Office
Patent Post Office
Wise
Columbia
Gov. McDuffie
South Carolina
Gov. Butler
Senate
House of Representatives
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William Schley
Mitrencevillle
Supreme Court
McAllister
Friends of
Medical Society of Georgia
Mitteperville
Bank of St. Mary’s
Flint and Chattahoochee
Walker
Lookout Mountain
Coffee
Houston
Marion
Epps
Kosciusko
S. Carolina
Louisville
Dr. N. B. Cloud
Burke County
D. L. Holliday
Harper
Bryson
Admr
Savannah
James Primrose
Ostler, &c
G. B. Marshall
R. Mary Primrose
John Watts
Waynesborough Hotel
Beesides
Mulford Marsh
Wid
Charles Cavenah
Michael Wiggins
Adm
Wit
Lary’s Pond
Marbury Street
M. J. Wood
Jas. Burroughs
Court House
Waynesborough
Hale, Dick
Martha
Arthur Bell
John Reddick
H. V. Mulkey
Thomas Burke
Inferior Court
Columbia County
Columbia Court House
Louisa Jane Walker
Gabriel
Betty
Tucinda
Moses
Mary Walker
Wms Fletcher
Peter Knox
Abner E. Holliday
Matthew Jones
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