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Newspaper
Aurora Weekly Standard
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1854
Page
2
The notice extols the January Purler Magazine highlighting editor Miss Alice Carey and calls the Western publication a mark of pride. Terms are two dollars per year, publisher W T Coccaineau of Cincinnati Ohio.
A filled set of editorials discusses a filibustering expedition from California to seize Lower California. The proclamation by William Walker asserts independence for the region, critiques Mexican governance, and argues for development under foreign protection. The note ends with ads for Blackwood magazines and Tennessee Farmer, and a brief river ice report.
A party of young men in an omnibus travels to a village for a school exhibition. After attending the show and socializing with village ladies, the men face crowded rooms and scarce lodging. They finally sleep in a garret, then return home the next day with mixed memories of the night and the town. The account closes with Mexico news on Santa Anna's Guadalajara plan and boundary talks with the United States.
The Illinois arrived in New York with California dates to the 7th ult. It carried Australia passengers who left Melbourne in October and brought over one million dollars in gold freight and 200000 in passenger cash. The Isthmus Railway near Panama is mostly complete and hires began with about 400 workers. San Francisco and San Jose Railway stock is fully paid, with a stockholders’ meeting planned. The Empire City from Havana was reported ashore at Banegate. Dr Wood of Urbana lost his dwelling to fire on the 1st inst.
City Council motions approve ordinances for importing street improvement from Mechanic to Judiciary streets and restricting horses on bridges. Officials authorize arbitration over damages to Out Lot No.1 from a city gutter. Dennerline and Con-way Brown named as arbitrators with Tumy as city agent. Meeting adjourned to February 13, 1893.
City ordinance bans running galloping or pacing horses or other draught animals before wagons on any bridge within Aurora limits and imposes fines up to twenty dollars per offense. It also fines tying vessels to bridges up to fifty dollars and punishes bridge damage up to twenty dollars per offense. Passed January 9 1864.
The document records a city ordinance authorizing a public sale by outcry of all lots and fractions fronting the specified street where taxes remain unpaid. Street Commissioners must certify improvements to the collector who marks the tax as paid. Passed June 9 1854. Solomon P. Tumy, Mayor. W. W. Conwar, City Clerk.
City of Aurora passes an 1854 ordinance to confine dogs for fifty days after publication with fines of five dollars per day for violations. The marshal is authorized to hire persons to kill dogs found at large within three days of publication. City Clerk W. W. Conway attests the measure, dated January 11, 1854.
Telegraphic wires from Europe describe ongoing conflicts and diplomacy including Russia Turkey Persia Austria and Britain with fleets at Sevastopol and Black Sea tensions. A Dayton Ohio fire wreck kills three and injures five. collapse buries workers at Brown Lockwood store and three-story brick building valued at 18,000.
At about 10 this morning a massive blaze destroyed the Metropolitan Hall and the large hotel, with extensive damage along Browary and Mercer streets. The Custom House block also burned, gutting a post office reading room and National History Society possessions. The government owned building suffered major loss, including Judge Ware's law library. several others were damaged with numerous injuries.
A fragmented note urges readers to invest in Christmas shopping at Pearson's Store. The message mocks stinginess and asks to hang stockings as the festive season approaches, recommending buying “nice things” at the cited shop. The date Dee. 22 appears as a printed detail.
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