House Proceedings and Elections in Congress
The record covers a December session with moves to elect a clerk, votes for clerks and sergeant at arms, and debates on a printer and other offices. It notes resignations, adjournments, and committee appointments, plus Senate briefings and a notice of voting qualifications for a new state constitution.
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Ta Senate Nasances
Buchanan
Reevide
United States
Gecu
House OF Representatives
Barnard
McNulty
Mathew Si Clair Clarke
C J Ingersoll
Jackson
House
Senate
Choate
Massachusetts
Huger
Carolina
Calhoun
Secretary of the Treasury
Post Office Department
Blair & Rives
Gales & Senton
Jicob Gideon
Follansbee
Botts
Beardsley
Adams
Congress
Luxure
Messrs
Barrow
Walker
Septimus Tusson
Asbury Dickens
Secsratory
Edward Dyer
Robert Beale
Robert E Horner
N. Y. Express
Benton
Lewis F. Linx
Crittenden
Orion
Providence Journal
Public School Plans Outlined by Henry Barnard at Bristol
On Wednesday evening Henry Barnard, State Lecturer on Public Schools, addressed a crowded Bristol audience in the Court House outlining a town plan with three departments under one committee. A primary department for young children, a second for older students, and a high school offering college preparatory work, with ventilation and pleasant rooms at about four dollars per pupil annually from public funds. The lecture urged parental and committee support to raise and sustain public school standards. The third lecture by Rev. Thomas Shepard followed with wide attention. Citizens are invited to sign a Memorial to Congress for reducing postage, available at the desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Barnard
Court House
Gushee
Barnard Cloged
Thomas Shepard
Ladies urged to raise funds for new Armory lecture hall
The article urges Bristol ladies to imitate Warren society by staging a fair to fund a properly fitted Armory for public lectures. It notes the court house is too small for attendees and promotes community effort. The piece also covers a public documents issue from Henry Y Cranston and praises Moore's Providence Almanac 1814 with maps and directories for local cities.
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Bristol
Warren
Moore
Providence
Newport
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Fall River Ma
Dickinson
Boston
Prayer for Seamen concert at Congregational Hall
The monthly Prayer for Seamen concert will be held at Congregational Hall Monday evening at 6 o clock. A discussion follows on marriage and the duties of men to marry, urging young men to find wives and build stable homes. A heavy mail robbery is reported with the Albany post bag stolen at Hudson and funds possibly totaling sixty to seventy thousand dollars. Police and postal officials pursue leads and suspects including a Hudson man named Hough awaiting examination.
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Albany
Hudson
Rilver
Wasson
Humphrey
P. O. Department
Hough
Singe Proprietors
Missing Cumberland man after Hartford Hotel stop
Mr Laon M Greene of Cumberland Rhode Island formerly of Pawtucket halted at the Hartford Hotel a few days ago and after leaving has not been heard from except a woman’s report that he left the hotel the same day with two to three hundred dollars in his possession. The British Bark Caroline and Cutter Alert note praise for swift aid to shipwreck survivors and the revenue cutter’s role in rescue.
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Laon M. Greene
Cumberland, R. I
Pawtucket
Hartford Hotel
Jin
Caroline
Eastport Sentinel
St. An
Washington Monument at Newburg on Hudson River
The New York Express reports plans for a monument to Washington at Newburgh near his Revolutionary War headquarters. A granite or marble column 80 to 100 feet tall will overlook the Bay of Newburgh and West Point. Funds will be raised by voluntary contributions capped at one dollar per person.
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Cedvors
Agreus
Boards of Cannons
Washington Monument
Washington
Newburg
Hudson River
The
N.Y. Express
Bay
Newbury
West Point
Shocking Murder in Glengarry Sister slain by brother
Montreal Herald reports Montgomery of Glengarry took his sister to a neighbor’s house on the 1th ult. After Highland custom he grew quarrelsome and struck her fatally. He then trampled the body and she died next day. No arrest reported.
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Montgomery
Glengarry
Montreal Herald
Murdéter
New York Toll Receipts and Steamboat Explosion Report
The New York Courier estimates canal toll receipts at about 2 100 000 with 300 000 from auction duties, totaling two million four hundred thousand. State debt interest around 1 900 000, plus 400 000 for government needs, total expenditure 1 700 000, minus net receipts and 600 000 direct tax to cover repairs. A letter from Pittsburg American notes a steamboat Warren flue collapse on the Allegheny, causing eighteen aboard, twelve badly scalded and four or five not expected to survive.
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New York
New York Courier
Alleghsley
United States Brigs and Ships Cruise From Matanzas
Naval vessels Boxer commanded by Rullus and Somers under West sailed from Matanzas on the 25th to cruise. Vandalia was at Havana on the 28th, Raritan remained anchored on the bar below New York, and Jno. Adams was at Rio Janeiro on October 18 in good health.
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United States
Boxer
Rullus
Somers
West
Matanzas
U.S
Vandalia
Havana
Raritan
Philadelphia
Bar
New York
U. S
Jno. Adams
Rio Janeiro
Sailor Brings Update on Zebra Prisoners
Capt Bright of the Mary Bright reports from New York that on Nov 23 the Zebra brig’s master and mate remained in prison with no trial. The U S Consular Agent at Cape Haytien had not received any answer from the Provisional Government after 40 days since the demand for their release.
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Gonaives
Bright
Mary Bright
New York
Zebra
U. S
Cape Haytien
Demand for Jones in New York murder case
The Governor of New York demands the custody of Jones held in the parish prison charged with murder in New York City. An officer in charge of Jones planned to sail to this region on the 18th inst. Also noted, Mr. Sewell Underwood shot a seven and a half foot grey eagle, found perched in a tree, hit from thirty rods away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
New York
Jones
Sewell
Barre
Lectures on America by Mr Newhall in England
Mr Newhall of Iowa lectures on American production and the Mississippi valley noting how Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois could supply England with corn. He spoke in London Manchester Birmingham and Liverpool under the Anti Monoply Association to a crowded audience about reciprocal exchanges of goods.
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Lynn
England
Willmer
America
Newhall
Lowa
United States
Wisconsin
Illinois
Valley of the
Mississippi
London
Manchester
Birmingham
Liverpool
Anti-Monopoly Association
Hog Statistics and Meat Trade in Cincinnati Area
The report notes large hog packing activity in Cincinnati and nearby areas during late November with 10 000 to 11 000 hogs moved weekly. Prices for hogs around 200 pounds and up average near 250 dollars with lard selling at 6.5 to 7.5 cents. It mentions Indiana markets along the Ohio River and cites Congressman Wentworth of Chicago as a notable figure visiting the Capitol.
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Aarge
Cincinnati
Madison
Indiana
Ohio
Classification of society by the New Orleans Herald
The New Orleans Herald classifies society into four classes Men Gentlemen Women and Ladies with vivid metaphorical distinctions. Men are quarried from living rock while Gentlemen are shaped by fashion Women grow in warm soil under changing weather and Ladies are greenhouse offspring tended yet fragile in wind and sun.
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Orleans Herald
Counterfeit Fives and a Fatal Plantation Accident
The notes describe counterfeit fives from East Haddam and Bridgeport Bank in circulation in Philadelphia, with engraver absence and a boyish signing style. A distressing accident near Thaddeus Reese’s plantation killed an overseer’s mother in law and wounded two children, while the ship Birmingham was wrecked near Bahamas with three crew drowned. Digest of the Laws notes progress on a new state digest by Starnes, likely delaying the January assembly session.
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Haddam
Conn
Senvige Bess
Ogdensburgh
Coulterfelts
Bridgeport
Thaddeus B Reese
Lane
Mel
Birmingham
Robinson
New York
Mobile
Ellison
Horber Ieland
Bahamas
Cyrac
Hay
East
General Assembly
Dupes Starnes
Providence Journal
Printing instead of Writing
County Commissioner Chas Thurber has devised a machine that types with keys to print instead of writing. The device aims to aid the blind nervous or unskilled and Dr Howe of the local institution for the blind has spoken highly of its benefits for the blind.
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Chas Thurber
Worcester County
Howe
Embezzlement at Asian Insurance Co Reveals Large Deficit
The late Secretary Mr Lott's defalcation shows about fourteen thousand dollars misappropriated with profits surpassing forty six thousand dollars leaving a seven percent dividend for six months. The firm’s surplus then exceeds thirty thousand dollars as receivers hold old company assets.
Loaf Bread Hot Biscuit Buckwheat Cakes Recipe
To make Loaf Bread Hot Biscuit Buckwheat Cakes, take one quart of the best four, mix thoroughly with it. Add three-fourths of a teaspoonful of cream for tarar, then dissolve a teaspoonful of super carbonate of soda in milk, mix quickly. If water is used add a piece of butter the size of an eye.
London Smuggling Tale and Polygamy Sentence Highlight Oddities
A London smuggling incident ends with a carman and a tailor revealing a humorous removal of eighteen inches of hawser while claiming duty free status. A Louisville man, John W. Jones, is jailed for living with two wives, offering a comic take on polygamy. The column also cautions printers in a playful anecdote about a talkative compositor. Phonography by Isaac Pitman gains notice as a shorthand reform. Navy policy suggests no spirits for enlisted seamen and a story notes a Kentucky girl’s death by attempted poisoning.
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London
Chip
Jock
Jack
Tobacan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Commissioners of Military Claims
Henry Y. Cranston
Ehad
Savannah
Universalist
Fall River Monitor
Wentworth
Chicago
Capitol
Land
John W. Jones
Louisville
Iser
Boston Daily Advertiser
Isaac Pitman
Bath
Secretary of the Navy
Lamar
Maysville
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