Rhode Island Senate Transacts Various Bills and Petitions
The Rhode Island Senate and House processed petitions for charter amendments, railway incorporations, and militia regulation. Legislation included militia tax removals, a Warren and Fall River Railroad Co. act, and a unity committee on fisheries with members Childe and Clarke.
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Woonsock
Providence
Warren
Bristol
Senate
A of Representatives
Wheaton
Rhode Island Central Bank
Fumy
Mead Wid
Messrs
Jeockes, Blake
Needham
Manchester
Rodman
Brayson
Saunders
Mesara
House
Providence, Warren
Bristol Railroad Co
Anthony
Narregancett Bay
Bristol man offers two resolutions for committee
A Bristol resident named Blake proposed two resolutions as substitutes for one from the committee. The passage of the action was urged as a special order for that day.
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Blake
Bristol
Pacific Steamship Pacific Returns to Shannon Amid Rumors of Safety
Halifax dispatches report the Pacific was forced back into the Shannon river while leaving for the Atlantic. Some reassurance follows from James Campbell's letter via Halifax confirming severe weather and lack of corroborating news. The U S steamer Arctic arrived at Halifax with damaged machinery after searching for the Pacific.
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Pacific
Shannon
Ireland
Associated Press
Halifax
Hallifax
James Campbell
U. S
Arctic
Hartstein
New York
Boston Journal
John Adams Returns from Feejee Mission for Reparations
The U S Sloop-of-war John Adams under Commander E B Boutwell arrived home early Sunday from the Feejee Islands where she sought reparation for cruelties and plunder of American ships. Five engagements occurred with Polynesian cannibals, five large towns were burnt, and a treaty was ratified with King Tui Vite on behalf of the American Government.
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Panama
Fed
U. S
John Adams
E. B. Boutwell
Fejee Islands
Valpamiso
Feetown
John Adama
Feejee
Islands
Polynesia
Boutwell
Tui Vite Or Thokamban
Explosion Buries Thirty in Foundry Disaster
A boiler blast at M. Anderson & Co foundry in London Caxava Wasr at 24 o'clock today collapsed the building burying thirty workers. Firemen recovered five bodies and nine were injured as shock shattered windows at the Western Hotel and the English Church.
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London
Caxava Wasr
Aeam
M. Anderson & Co
Ice Extends Mile from Beach on Cape Cod
Telegraphic dispatch reports Cape Cod ice along shore extending a mile from the beach. Eldest residents recall no prior sighting. The extreme cold produced a heavy northwest gale overnight with strong west-northwest wind this morning. Boston Journal says the condition reflects severe weather.
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Care
Highland Light
Cape Cod
Measts, Brewer & Baldwin
Cape
Boston Journal
Clayton Bulwer Treaty plans loom in Washington
A Washington correspondent reports two possible steps by the Cabinet regarding the Clayton Bulwer treaty: either annul the treaty as proposed in the Senate or form a defensive alliance with Nicaragua without abrogating the 1890 treaty. Also noted are Georgia’s rejected emigration bill to Kansas and ice-bound Baltimore plans amid river freezes.
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Tae Clayton
Mr. Wilson
Senate
Nicaragua
Kansas
Georgia
Icebound ships and winter events across the era
A collage of 19th century notes reports Newfoundland banks icebound to August, New York policemen pay stoppage after burglaries, General Harney arrests a cantonment officer for mistreatment, Georgia bans slave manumission, Pathetic fires and frozen falls, Procrustean weather and travel tales from Providence to Philadelphia, Irish emigration funds, double births in Worcester, a Baltimore death freeze tale, and a lamp burn accident in Providence with injuries.
Insect Said to Cure Hydrophobia
M Guerin Meneville reported before the French Academy of Sciences a method against hydrophobia using the Golden Cetonides insect found on roses. When powdered and ingested it induces a long sleep and often neutralizes the disease. Entomologist Motschouski in Ruxais has conducted several successful experiments with the insect.
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Autzorp Cone von Hyoromosa
M. Guerin Meneville
French Academy of Sciences
Russia
Ruxais
M. Motschouski
Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps Ad
Ulcerous archaic ad for Wolfe importer and manufacturer offering Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps made from barley and juniper berry. Claims medicinal benefits for digestion, dyspepsia, gravel and fever. Sold in quart and pint bottles with yellow labeled cases by Rudolph Wolfe in New York.
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Wolfe
Schiedam
Hulland
New York
Medical
Dragon
Udolpho Wolfe
Beaver Shert
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