Grant Induces Hope For Peaceful Prosperity In America
The Bristol Phenomenal notes Grant and Colfax as a strong, popular ticket and predicts a prudent, economy minded administration. It discusses cabinet choices, promises honest governance, and optimism for a peaceful era after the Civil War. It also covers New England fish restoration efforts and the federal reconstruction of the South under Canby and Pease amid lawlessness and Ku Klux violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gurortyas
Nevis
United States
Jobus
Patience S
Salim
Fenneysen
Grant
Colfax
Canby
Gov
Pease
Congress
Simpson
Ku Klux
Texas Statehood Progress and Constitutional Prospects
The passage discusses Texas potential as a Union member and attractive destination for northern and eastern emigrants. It urges wise leadership to form an inclusive state government, notes a multi-party constitutional convention dominated by whites with some colored members, and highlights Texas vast territory with diverse climates offering growth opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Union
Rhode Island School Superintendent Report Highlights
The Rhode Island educational report urges strong supervision of the Department of Instruction and cites Dr. Chapin. It argues knowledge must be balanced with personal culture and discipline, listing school counts, staffing, and funding, with 535 public schools and 800,117.91 dollars for education. Conservative Republicans at Atlanta endorse Gen. Grant and his administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seroort
Department of Instruction
Rhode Island
Horace Mann
U.S
Atlanta, Ga
Gen. Grant
Republican Arty
Gen. Ead
Neglected Mendelssohn Grave in Jerusalem Kirchhoff Berlin
The grave of Mendelssohn in the Jerusalem Kirchhoff at Berlin is reported neglected and overgrown with weeds, reflecting insufficient maintenance of the historic site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelssohn
Jerusalem Kirchhoff
Berlin
National Union Republican Convention Set for March 4 1849
State Central Committee resolutions call for a State Convention of the National Union Republican party at the State House in Providence on March 4 at 1 o clock to elect general officers for the coming year and handle related business. Delegates from towns and cities are requested in number equal to their representation in the General Assembly. Wit H Reyworps, Chairman, Tuomas A Whiteman, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Union Repubitian
National Union Republican Party
State House
Providence
Wit. H. Reyworps
Tuomas A. Wuitman
Sullivan and Erie Coal and Railroad Company prospects
Towanoa, Penn., January 1809. M C Mercur, president, outlines a $1,200,000 capitalization with one million paid in for five thousand acres of coal lands and a twelve foot vein of soft anthracite. A railroad links mines to rivers. lumber from lands will bolster profits. Bonded debt of one million secures property rights. lands and road are expected to grow in value.
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Tae Sullivan
Erie Coan and
Ra zCap Company
Towanoa
Penn
M. C. Fownsend
Sullivan and Erie Coal and Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Coal
Delaware and Hudson Canal and Coal Company
Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad and Coal Company
M. C. Mercur
Invention of Limpararay Biography Origin Story
A Munich domestic scene from 1793 unfolds the birth of biography. Madame Senefelder, her son Alan, and an impatient washerwoman spark a lithographic method when a dry ink moment fails and a ink paste on stone records the list, altering literary history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Madame Senefelder
Alan Senefelder
James Parton
Atlantic Monthly
Tar Various Uses of Glass
A short excerpt praising glass for its cheapness purity and beauty. It notes glass keeps out cold lets light in and lets us see ourselves. It covers uses from domestic to gems to lenses and telescopes revealing new realms of vision and astronomy per J Toowbridge in Our Young Folks for March.
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J T. Toowbridge
March
Death of Fitchburg citizen in church pew collapse
Sunday at Rev Emerson's church in Frromrure Fitchburg, Mr Brown Nourse, a respected citizen, fell from his seat and died in the vestibule shortly after. Officials attribute death to heart disease.
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Canron
Frromrure
Mass
Brown iIi
Fitchburp
Mr. Emerson
Nourse
Hartford Woman Leaves Estate To Four Institutions
The late Mrs. Harriet H. Hosmer of Hartford bequeaths 50000 to Hartford Hospital 50000 to the Theological Institute of Connecticut about 20600 to local charities and the residue divided into thirds among the American Bible Society the American Tract Society and the American Board of Foreign Missions with the last gifts taking effect after her husband’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet H. Hosmer
Hartford
Hartford Hospital
The
Theological Institute of Connecticut
American Bible Society
American Tract Society
American Board of Foreign Missions
Tide Reveals Hidden Rocks in Belfast Harbor
Ebbs and flows reveal rocks near Belfast Harbor Maine as high tides expose previously unseen formations. A local business firm blasts a rock obstruction near its shipyard to restore smooth operations.
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Trient
Belfast Harbor
Maine
Republican electors seek delegates to state convention
A meeting of the Republican electors of this town will be held at Town Hall next Tuesday evening to elect delegates for the National Union Republican State Convention to be held in Providence on the 4th proximo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Union
Providence
Town Hall
Festival decor marks Congregational Church festival
The town hall was decorated with flags and evergreens for the festival of the ladies of the Congregational Church and Society. The event ran Monday and Tuesday evenings and was considered a success.
Velocipede fad fades from town after brief surge
The velocipede craze raged briefly with a rink in the largest hall, but has dwindled, and no riders have been seen for a week. Some riders found their backs weak and quit the tread-mill style exercise.
Masquerade Ball at New Armory Delights Crowds
Last Monday evening the Armory hosted its largest masquerade event in years with a wide range of costumes. Dancing began at nine and continued until five the next morning as Fish and Thornton's Orchestra of Providence provided the music.
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New Armory
Fish & Thornton's
Orchestra of
Providence
March Term Opens in Bristol County Court
The March Term of the Supreme Court for Bristol County begins its session on Tuesday morning next, marking the start of the term with the usual ceremonial convening and docket readiness.
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Supreme Court
County of
Bristol
From Grant Takes White House Seat to Paul Opens at Remnant Store
A mixed notice notes General Grant occupying the White House on March 4 while Paul opens at the Remnant Store 51 Dorrance street Providence with Rhode Island’s largest stock of woolen cloths and remnants. Prices range from 35 cents to 100 dollars per yard. Also advertised is 89 Amber Cologne by N C Bedell.
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Paul
General Grant
Gen. Grant
White House
Dorrance Street
Providence
Rhode Island
New Jewelry Store Opens in Providence
Joshua Gray relocates to 235 Westminster Street Providence with a fine stock of ladies and gent’s watches jewelry silverware diamonds and more one door west of his old stand
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Joshua Gray
Diamonds &c
Westminster Street
Providence
New English Edition of The Lime and Eristies to Be Issued
Publishers announce advance pages of a major English work by Conybeare and Howson. Priced at 3.50 dollars, the 1000 page volume will include maps engravings and numerous cuts from new plates. Introduction by James McCosh lends Princeton endorsement. Published early March. subscribers and agents urged.
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W. J. Conybeare
Trinity College
Cambridge
J. S. Howson
Collegiate Institution
Liverpool
Messrs. KR. W. Bliss & Co
Hartford
London
James McCosh
Princeton College N. J
R. W. Bliss & Co
The Pureyotochan Journal March Issue Preview
The March Pureyotochan Journal lists content on social reform figures Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, notes on Ole Bull, Samuel A. Crowther, John J. Watson, and profiles of artists and writers like George Ottinger and Rocky Mountain Artist. Includes topics on religion, witchcraft, women’s question in Germany, Phantasmagoria sketches, and portraits with illustrations. Subscriptions priced at $0 cents per issue or $3 yearly. mail to S. R. Wells, 889 Broadway, New York.
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Pureyotochan Journal
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Ole Bull Samuel A. Crowther
John J. Watson
Peltier
Germany
George Ottinger
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Bristol Phen
New England
Drs
Corpax
Nebraska
Iris
San Francisco
T. W. SagRman
Newport
Key Wear
Florida
Georgia
Shelby
Ohio
Swallow
Boston
New York
Cincinnati
Lynn
Louisville
Fourth National Bank
Philadelpia
MacMullen
Philadelphia
Thb
Springfield
New Jenary
Tom Cashier
Fourth National Bank of
America
Canada
England
Blaoksaith
Tarrytown
N. Y
Isaac Angevine
Johnson
Josefa Spraccee
Jewett City
Boston, Hartford and Erie
Trinity Church
New Haven
President Lincoln
New Orleans
New York City
Harlem
Nevada
Commonwealth
Tennyson
Thomas T. Carlyle
St. Joseph
Tie
New Bedford Mercury
T R Merkham
Meriden
Conn
Stonington
Tom Hood
William G. Balch
James Steam Mills
Newburyport
Balch
Sargeant
Fitts
St. Paul
Mercantile Library
Harry Suara
Greenwood
Columbia County
Clyde
Joesl Entelligence
Wassington
Billy
N. C. Bedell
California
Pacific Railroad
Griffin
Tre Atlantic Monthly
Co-operative Housekeeping
Fields, Osgood & Co
Gopey
Latier
L. A Godey
Mariner
Hannihal
Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co
Delaroche
Moses
Oscar Pletsch
John L. Shorey
Mr. Speer
N. G. West
T. J. Griffin
J. C. Pegram
Attorner Asp Qoussezllox
North Maintreet
Cormer of
H. W. Boynton Homan
Church Street
Stata
Stree Onten
LEE, Higgimbom SY CO
Nafy
Henry Lee
Speers
Science
J. I. Behenck
Owea
Bchenck
Bchenob
Schenck
Dr. Schenck
Fils
Bond Street
Winover Street
G, C Goodwin & CO
J J. Peck
George A Spencer
Nancy B. Buffington
Briatul
Fall River
George R Bailey
Taunton
Susan BE. Springer
Alexander Howland
Middletown
Albert G. Barker
Swansey
Abby Piarée
Aeurine Fournil
Port OF
R. FE
B. Durfee
Durfee
Bchr
Wilson
Maresh Corwin
H ON. Gamp & Co
Fall
Una
L River
Matilda
Dix
I Durfee
Arto
Piten
Bristol Post
Otlie
Geo. W. Easterbrooks
Hope Street
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