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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1880
Page
2
A new illustrated paper for blacksmiths wheelrights and wagon makers will be sent on trial for three months for 25 cents in postage stamps. It resembles the Scientific American in appearance and will feature engravings illustrating various subjects. Address The Blacksmith and Wheelright No. 80 Beekman Street New York.
A visitor recounts a New Year excursion to North Branford in 1880. He notes street scenes, residences, a sorghum mill, a park, churches, and graveyards, with affectionate observations of gardens, trees, and local hospitality. The piece closes with plans for a spring return and a thanks to a welcoming hostess.
Police claim possession of the winning ticket before the New Orleans drawing after arresting the New York lottery office manager. The report also notes Bank of England details from 1649, John Battle’s 112 years, and a planned Pacific sea serpent tale with an automatic buoy adrift from San Francisco harbor.
A Washington letter notes a lull in public events aside from General Grant's visit and a few weddings and funerals. It covers Representative Manning's plan to reorganize the Supreme Court, sugar from sorghum and corn stalks, tea independence, Meeker era frontier tensions with the Ute Indians, and the destruction of Stewart Castle a $250,000 private residence built by ex senator W. M. Stewart.
The text explains winged seeds carried by wind, pod bursting dispersal, and animals carrying seeds via appendages. It notes the seed covering useful to humans and cotton fiber from seed hairs. It also mentions fruit as ripened ovaries and hints at continuing inquiry and a wind shift with echoes awakening.
State witnesses testified Wednesday December 31 contradicting Hayden in many points. News that Benjamin Stevens was dying arrived during the day. A small morning crowd and large afternoon audience marked the session as the state aimed to bolster prosecution and weaken the defense. Friday morning was dull. afternoon brought Benjamin Stevens back to testimony, with little new detail.
A string of humorous anecdotes and witticisms in the style of a 19th century miscellany. It blends puns about Wild Rose and Bull, drunken quips, undergraduates misquoting classical references, a misnaming of Gamaliel, a London and Cambridge humor, a Belfast or American flavor, comic deaths, and a blunt judge defending the Constitution.
United States Patent Office records for October list inventors and assignors from Connecticut including John Blake of New Haven acting for a patent attorney, Luke Chapman of Collinsville, James M Evarts of New Haven, Richard Gilman of Killingly, Henry E Russell Jr of New Britain, William Sparks of New Britain, Henry E Williams of New Britain, Albert Beans of New Haven, George Bryden of Hartford, Cornelius C Coleman of Branford, Gardiner Hall Jr of South Willington, and Joseph L Joyce of New Haven.
At a Norwich exhibition a deaf mute was made to hear with a Beaudiphone placed between her eyes. The Cheney Silk Works Corliss engine had an accident to its walking beam. A new beam weighs seven and a half tons and will take six days to cool after casting. Mayor Linds of Meriden, retiring after three terms, received a $300 Swiss clock and bronze stand plus a $600 certificate of deposit from the manufacturers and friends. A banquet followed with speeches by notable figures including Senator Platt.
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