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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 16, 1875

Page

3

Population growth and transit disasters feature in Boston Post

The Boston Post notes an estimated statewide population of 1.7 million with a 15 percent rise in five years and details a locomotive boiler explosion at Fitchburg Railroad Prison Point yard causing property damage and injuries. It also reports the Cunard steamship Batavia’s arrival in East Boston with passengers and mail and announces next sailing and mail pickup.

Wright Commonwealth Boston Salem Newburyport Sunday Herald Fitchburg Railroad Prison Point Edward Hackett Park and Common Streets Messrs McKenzie and Tobin Episcopal Church Bew and Richmand Streets Byram Union Street

Savage Assault at Tremont Street Saloon Sparks Robbery Threats

A group of six roughs confronted Mr George Chick on Tremont near Clay, with Stephen Corcoran leading an assault. Chick repelled the attack, then was attacked again. a billy club and a pistol were used. Sergeant McNamara intervened, leading to arrests of Corcoran and Doyle. Corcoran suffered a head contusion. Chick is a Tenth District special officer. Additional brief items note vault capacity change, the Boston Museum season start, Hoosac Tunnel contracts, post office mail to foreign countries, a Metro railroad employee’s resignation, Charlestown Dispensary finances, Boston deaths, and other local notices.

Lowells E. K A. Pike Hawkes Woodhead Whitney Brown Madden King McGlynn Cook Dennis C.f Clay Morrill BOF Hd Yan Grafftons Live Oaks Beacons Lynn Graftons Grafton Lowell Young Whitney Howard Juniors Brockton Live Oak Nevins Harry Wright Boston Harry George Wright O’rourke Bents Leonard Manmiog Bostons Stars Cincinnati Sta Uartlords J. F. Manson Col. Barnes A. D. Carson Dusty Dustin Jim M. Carrol General Ol. Barnes Beacon Park Saturnay Ave M- Carroll Ds Dik B. Gedecel J.T. Manson B. G D. Carson Ray Jim Black Job Wm. Scollans Nellie S D. W. Beckler Juno D. W. Heckler Sculians Maggie S Smuggler Thursa Hannah McCoolied Fleet Street James McHouse Correction McCool Anise Altho White Mrs Sargent Minnie Smith Tabernacle Camp H. W. Conant Providence Cummines Middletown Wesleyn University Dr Paine Daniel Babylon Annie Whittenmeyer Philadelphia Moias Frances E. Willard Chicago Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union Ingraham Cleveland Womans Temperance League M. S. Ingall Plymouth Rock G. R. Porter Somerset Bridgewater Middleboro Cohasset Narrows Falmouth Wareham Wood’s Hole Bluffs Vineyard Island Oak Bluffs Kendrick Raileload Boston and Albany George 8. Blunt Albany Railway Mail Service Revere Beach Road Boston and Albany Railroad Company Springfield James Brannan Boston, Revere Beach and Lyon Boston and Albany Huntington Howard John Gilbert Manchester D. Plyes Franklin Street Blaney Peabody Sawyer Helen M. Stephens Pitts Street Merrimac Street Mary Sleaters Bowdoin Street Taylor East Cambridge Hanover Street Commercial South Market Henry Johnson Helen Toomey Hanover Elm Streets J. Sutherland Wade G. F. Baker Leidster J. B. Roberts Highland Avenue Lewis Park Roberts Thomas Fitzpatrick Sudbury Street Fitzpatrick McDonald’s Tremont Street Clay Street Stephen Corcoran George Chick Chick Corcoran Yle Campbell Tenth District Grant Bristol R. 1 Gen. Burnside South Boston Ges Licht Company James Reidy K Street South Treasury Boston Museum Hoosac Tunnel Troy and Greenfield New York San Francisco Wm. H. Gallacher Metropolitan Railroad Company Charlestown Free State House England Scotland Austria China Massachusetts J. R. Beckett Romeo Cervi Cambridge Richards. Stoddard Museum John Bull Charles Barron William Warren K. F. McClannin W. J. Lemoyne W. H. Crisp Fred Williams Frank G. Cotter J. H. Ring George E. Riddle J. Burrows J. Nolan Frank Carlos H. Murray L. J. Loring C.S. Mason G. Warner FP. Edmonds Annie Clarke Mary W Cary J. R. Vincent Fannie Hayward Louise Anderson Fannie Skerritt M. Parker Ida Gary Georgie Tyler Shewell Getz Prescott Lothian Charles R. Thorne, Jr Fanny Marsh J. J. Sullivan Marie Bates Emma Wilmot Harry Josephs N. D. Jones BE. L. Tilton Trevilie Lottie Murray Plomer Hunter Harkins Cheney Messrs Cowper Honey and Murdoch Neve B. Booth

September Galaxy and Lippincott's reviews and notices

The September Galaxy offers art, society, and science notes with Browne on Madame Ratazzi and Lucy C White’s London sketches. Henry James Jr reviews Tennyson’s drama as the John Codman piece on Mormons appears. Lippincott's features Volck Miss Underwood and Polynesia, Linton's Leam Dundas, Trollope on Sicily, and new serials. Wide Awake previews juvenile readers and praises Ella Forman’s Strangers from the South.

Junius Henri Browne Madame Ratazzi Lucien Bonaparte Albert Rhodes London Lucy C. White Tennyson Henry James, Jr John Codman Richard Grant White John G. Saxe Rose Terry Cooke Joseph O’conner Justin McCarthy Edwards Lippincott’s A.J. Volck Polynesia E. Lynn Linton Leam Dundas Edward C. Bruce Sarah B. Wister Charlotte Adams St. Bernard T. Adolphus Trollope Sicily D. Lothrop & Co Boston Ella Forman South Nora Pertry George Macdonald Julia A. Eastman Dr Rankin Jean Ingelow

Newburyport Mines Show Promise Amid Busy Operations

The Newburyport Herald reports strong progress at several silver mining sites including Bartlett on Sheep Island and Kent Island by Spofford Williams and Lowrey with twenty five men and five thousand dollars of new machinery. Chipman works boast a new shaft house and a three level underground setup with continuous work and heavy ore output. A separate note from Read Street describes a 22 year old Alexander McDonald’s suicide attempt, while local tax figures in Somerville reveal top individual and corporate payments and rumored alderman slates.

Pierson South Framingham Framingham Boston and Albany Framingham and Lowell Road Pottar Peach Beal Trull Industry Merrill Koby Gaston Sutton Thirty-third Lynnfield Rider Sherman Sherman Association Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteers Godfrey Rider, Jr W. S. Brown Geo. W. Robison Samuel Canning, Jr Old Camp Ground Gorman Donovan Lyons Ninth Regiment Providence Meagher Guards Washington Street Meaghers Rocky Point Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers Ashbursham Friends of the Regiment Newbury Butler Bartlett Sheep Island Kent’s Island Messrs Spofford, Williams and Lowrey Providence Company Kent Farm Patterson Boynton Chipman Lode Chipman & Shaw Chipman Works California Knowles State Street Sumner, Swasey & Currier New York City Chipman Silver Mining Company Newburyport Herald Cambridge Read Street Alexander McDonald Muller& Co E. W. Weston Raymond Fireman's Relief Association John Donovan Thomas Goodhue Somerville

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