Headstones Over Soldier Graves Court Hearing On Road Layout
Proceedings in New Haven before Judge Hitchcock weighed for and against a proposed road from Rogers to Montonese street with a later adjournment. Witnesses testified the current layout improves access and is not railroad danger, amid Branford turnout and strong public interest.
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Rogers
Montonese Street
Hitchcock
William A. Wirt
John W. Alling
Zacher
Kimberly
Superior Court
New Haven
Branford
John Augustus Blackstone
Frederick Jourdan
H. Averill
Eli Goodrich
George W. Page
Mr. Sheldon
Pine Orchard
Judwin Doolittle
Joseph Fowler
Daniel H. Bearsdley
Gilbert Linsley
Editorial Notes on Stevenson Appointment and Troubled Times
The piece praises William H. Stevenson of Bridgeport for a staff appointment with General Smith, highlighting his railroad leadership, legal career, and city role. It recounts a trial accusing a prison officer of betrayal and potential malice, and describes community lore of witchcraft episodes, local iron works history, and public acts from 1655. It ends by surveying farmers outlook and prices, with varied opinions on tobacco, beef, pork, taxes, and debt.
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William H. Stevenson
Bridgeport
8. R. Smith
Stevenson
Shore Line Division
Consolidated Railroad
Watrous
City of
Smith
E. D. Sanderson
Clark
M. Singer
R. L. Ward
A. Hawkes
D. Hager
Aldrich
Congress
Co. E. Williams
Hamlin Found Guilty of First Degree Murder in Connecticut
Judge Carpenter butchers d uty in a court trial by judge rather than jury. Hamlin, a State prison prisoner, conspired with Allen to escape using pistols and deadly weapons. The court notes the escape plan was deliberate and murderous, intended to occur regardless of consequences.
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Shipman
Davis
Wells Shipman
Express
Hamlin
Spipman
Wethersfield
Carpenter
Connecticut
Allen
East Haven Witchcraft Tales From New England Delusion
East Haven records recount witchcraft rumors that circulated in the New England colonies before 1700. An elderly witness recalls a moonlit encounter with two women who vanished after a spoken plea, leaving a riding hood behind. Later, apples rattled from a tree as if shaken by unseen hands near a distant orchard. An old neighbor was suspected of being a tormentor.
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New Haven
Great Pond
Furnace Pond
Lake Saltonstall
North Haven
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Stoney River
Goodyear
Winstone
New England
Oddities and curiosities across the era in brief
The piece recounts distant incidents from a riot of topics. It mentions a Texas cattle drive nearing August heat with around 3000 head, a Cleveland judge crying while convicting his son, and a Prussian lake phenomenon with boiling water and shells. It also notes an Beaufort oyster tale yielding thirty four natural pearls and a Burlington Hawk Eye report on purported silver manufacture by Dr. Farriss Jr. in a Wesleyan setting.
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Polis
Tilden
Cleveland
Ohio
Rappelsdorf
Erfurt
Prussian
Saxony
Bread River
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Beaufort
Burlington Hawkeye
T. Farriss, Jr
Wesleyanies
Farriss
Autographic Telegraphing System Unveiled by James W. Lee
At an Electrical Society of the Ohio Valley meeting in Cincinnati James W. Lee described his electro-phonograph. The device writes a message at a distant station by a pencil at the sender and reproduces the handwriting at the receiver, raising questions about the legality of notes of hand and the nature of written proof.
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Electrical Society of the Ohio Valley
Cincinnati
James W. Lee
Local wit links memory to style in noted pranks
The passage highlights a man known for recalling the “peculiar cut of your jib” and your tile style, tying memory to identity. He has gained local fame by this faculty and has thwarted several practical jokers' schemes, earning respect for his sharp observations.
A New York Slaughter House Visit by Henry Bergh
Henry Bergh, leader of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, toured the city’s slaughter houses. The report details ghastly scenes with blood, gashed throats, and dozens of workers, prompting Bergh to demand humane methods and daily inspections by agents.
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Henry Bergh
New York Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Mr. Bergh
Cologne
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