Boats Race and Security Goods Highlight Providence Post
The Providence Post reports a 16 mile boat race featuring the steamer Barrosy and schooner fleet with prizes including two cups a spy glass and a set of colors. It notes entries from Providence Newport and Scotland and mentions a notable lapsing entry Phenix. The article also promotes a local sale of burglar powder proof safes made by Messrs Miller and Song aiming for Providence manufacture and improved security for businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrosy
Sriphejhaibor
Perry
Isiatt
Dyers
Way Rock
N.E
BN. E
Jerry Angels
Providence
Hector
Newport
Providence Post
Phenix
Securit
Messrs.e
Miller Si Song Foun
Court House
Fishermen complain of neglect by British truvers and U S squadrons
Masters of vessels returning from fishing grounds recount lack of visits by United States warships and favor shown to British vessels. Reports claim American squadrons spent most time in port while premia were awarded at the Internet Providence. A large wooden building near Capt Joseph Cider’s mill is being erected to manufacture firearms. The week brought unusually cool weather with a heavy frost on Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Bedward's Island
Joseph Cider
Thamesetree
Gardner
Fragmentary 19th Century Notices From Fall River
The text records scattered items tied to Fall River events including tree planting on Constitution Street to Walley Street, Robins nesting and hatching, and Bristol Artillery activity. It mentions a Niagara Fire Co incident on a recent Wednesday afternoon and upcoming travel and court notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Artillery
Col
Pearse
Kingilipnae Co
Fall River
Niagara Fire Co
Tharedey
Special Session Acts in Newport Sept 23 41
The General Assembly at Newport considers and amends a range of measures including a charter petition for Pioneer Fire Company of Providence, a resolution to declare vacant Supreme Court seats with an October effect, and appointments for state counsel. Debates address prisoner Albert W Snow release and a magistrates court for Woonsocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Newport
Havsa
House
Messrs
Cranston
Sherman
Bullock
Bosworth
Gavitt
Tills
Weeden
Oie
Sexars—Pyinay
Monsine
Lane Ames
Massachusetts
Mr Weeden
Committee On the Judiciary
Cumbersland
Woonsocket
Coe
Ann E. Snow
Albert W. Snow
Cyrus
Sime
Burroughs
Spencer
Whipple
Arnold
Greene
Titus
Eilily
Peck
Albert W. Sulow
Anna B. Show
Courts of Common Pleas
Supreme’Court
Ollock
Dodge
Samuel
Ames
Cae
Rhode Island
Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas F. Carpenter
Bill
Messrs. Peck, Spencer
Gallup
Gener -Assembly
Senate
Voyage of world cruise and naval dispatches reported in Courier
Letters from the Courier & Enquirer detail a sea voyage from Madeira to Tangiers and Madeira again, claiming a 20 day world tour in four quarters of the globe. A Pensacola update notes the U S steamer Vixen with seven deaths and many sick aboard, leaving only eleven effective crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atesenmyed Nort Stet
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cainionines New Aer
Saddlay
Madeira
Courier & Enquirer
Constantinople
Africa
Gibraltar
Tangiets
New York
Quif
Cam
Exenever
Tennimur Morvausry
U. S
Swartwout
Pensacola
Second Advent Camp Meeting in Dartmouth
Believers in the speedy coming of Christ held a camp meeting in Dartmouth last week. The gathering began Wednesday morning and stretched to Sunday evening with a large attendance. Adventists have fixed May 19 as the period when winding up of earthly affairs will occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dartmouth
Electric Power Invention Shown At Furie Exhibition
At the Furie exhibition in Providence an invention by Mr. Calvin Carpenter for electric traction as motive power drew notice. Scientists deem the concept promising and likely to succeed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furie
Providence
Calvin Carpenter
Commodore’s North Star Sails From Civita Vecchia Amid Conspiracy Suspicion
The North Star, arriving in Civita Vecchia during a Mazzini conspiracy alert, prompted police to block landings as fears of American sympathies grew. After days of talks, the vessel sailed to Naples and reportedly sought refuge in Malta, later docking at the Bosphorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dore Vanderbilt
Sf Civita Vecchia
Pa- Government
Civita Vecchia
North Stars
Naples
Malta
Bosphorus
N. Y. Commercial
Inquest Delivers Unsolved Death Verdict in Providence Harbor
The body of a man found near Pombama Rocks in Providence River underwent a coroner inquest led by Coroner Gamaliel Dwight. The jury could not identify the deceased and returned a verdict that death arose from an unknown cause. Later identified as Jacob Trusty, a colored man who sank from a Cape May New Jersey vessel the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cononsa
Pombama Rocks
Providence River
Gamaliel Dwight
Jacob ‘Trusty
Cape May
New Jersey
Providente Journal
Great Law Claim in Boston by English Descendants
The descendants of Peter Oliver Governor Hutchinson and another old New England family in England are preparing through counsel in Newa for a legal claim to real estate in Boston valued at about fifteen million dollars. They would obtain land from Milk Street to Summer Street along Cow Lane to the water and claim all of Lechmere Point now East Cambridge. More will be known when lawyers are ready for action.
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Great Law
Peter Oliver
Hutchinson
New England
England
Newa
Boston
Milk Street
Fort Hill
Summer Street
Cow Lané
Lechmere Point
East Cambridge
Sailor Lost After Collision Near Gull Rocks
Saturday night a Newport pilot was knocked down and sunk near Gull Rocks when his boat was struck by a beating schooner. He had taken a schooner to Fall River earlier that day and was en route when the accident occurred. Additionally, three horses from local citizens died suddenly under strange circumstances, two as a span, with internal organs showing signs of distress. authorities suspect poisoning but have no clear cause or intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daownen
Stephen Crowell
Newport
Crowell
Fall River
Providence Ost
Parotuchet Gazette
Peace Congress to Open in Edinburgh in October
The great Peace Congress at Edinburgh is fixed for October 12 and 98 with a large attendance expected from both old and new worlds. During the first coexistence of the Metropolitan Hotel New York its resumption of wine has nearly seventy thousand bottles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Metropolitan
New York
Russian and American interests in Japan voyage details
The article notes a fever epidemic in Vicksburg Jackson and Yazoo City. It reports a steamship voyage of 459 lives lost. It mentions Em peror Nicholas’s active interest in the Japan expedition and a Russian squadron observing American moves. The Friend of China editor aboard the Pallas claims Russia cooperates with America to gain trade access and regulate relations with Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Jackson
Yazoo City
Elie
R Saat
Rossiacolt
Nicholas
Japan
Pallas
Dwinn
Astock
Friend of
China
Hong Kong
America
Russia
Jipan
Robbery at Babcock Watch Shop Leads to Arrest
Thieves entered Mr. George W. Babcock’s shop at noon on Saturday while he dined, stealing forty or fifty watches, old silver spoons, coffin plates, a gold seal with initials, and more. A man named Williams alias Ward, who signed in at the Earthouse, was arrested by the City Marshal after being tracked to the scene. He was involved in gambling at the Shades and fled through a back door. a cut hand and blood marked the break in. Williams’s room yielded the stolen property, including bloody watches and a handkerchief, along with lock-picking tools. He has been committed for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bown Rozeeny
George W. Babcock
Bugraxer
Weatiinster St
Babcock
E. Dee
Williams
Williams-alias
Ward
Crops Thrive In Connoricut With Large Tobacco Yields
The tobacco fields in the county yield heavily this season with leaves unusually large and thick as a Guilford grower notes. Corn harvests are strong though potato crops show extensive disease and rot, yet where healthy the produce is of excellent quality according to the New Haven Palladium report.
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Connoricut
Guilford
New Haven
Louisville Packers Sign Major Hog Contract
Messrs Webb Maxey and Co merchants of Louisville acting for Tweeters Maxy and Co pork packers have closed a contract to slaughter and pack about 10 000 to 12 000 hogs mainly for the Penile oie. The season’s first packing contract was reported at St Louis on the 16th with about 600 fat heavy hogs to weigh 200 lbs each and to be delivered in November at 3 dollars per 100 pounds.
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Parx
Messrs
Be, Webb, Maxey & Co
Merchants of
Louisville
Tweeters
Maxy & Co
St. Louis
Pivardy
Death of Mrs Elizabeth Perkins at Maverick Street
Mrs Elizabeth Perkins aged ninety nine years five months died at her home on Maverick Street East Boston on Saturday. She was likely the oldest person in Boston at the time of her death. A cattle train on the Boston Concord and Montreal railroad carried one hundred twenty five cars of cattle and sheep on Monday night.
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Boston, Concord and
Montreal
Admiral salutes Ingraham in Besika Bay tale
The Admiral of the British fleet in Besika Bay learned of Ingraham's gallantry in the Kosta affair and manned all the yards. Seamen cheered nine times as guns fired a royal salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Besika Bay
Ingraham
Driver fined for yielding to pedestrian crossing in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati driver was fined twenty five dollars after driving against a pedestrian crossing the street. The judge ruled pedestrians have the right of way at regular crossings and drivers must stop for foot passengers. Counterfeit five dollar bills from the Fall River Bank were reported in circulation according to New York authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Fall River
N. Y. National
Yacht Race Between Olata and Hayes Off Newport
A planned yacht race between the Olata of Boston and the Hayes of New York was to sail at Newport around October 10 in a ten mile course out to sea and back. The prize for the winner is a silver pitcher valued at $500. A conspiracy to rob the New York Crystal Palace exhibition was thwarted, with authorities in Albany and the Atlas reporting on a failed plan involving a main gas pipe and darkness to plunder the event.
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Olata
Boston
Hayes
New York
Newport
Albany
Atlas
Bank Prepares Reform Amid Circling Bank Crisis
Fragmentary note indicates Boston banks faced a limit after noon and a plan to raise up to $200,000 for a new institution under the general banking law. The move aims at redemption and capital formation as the old arrangement is rescinded.
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Boston
Wandering Huntsman Arrives in City With Pack Of Dogs
Travelling hunter Sir George arrives in Montreal aboard the Michigan Southard Milroad with twenty one dogs three servants and four tons of luggage including guns and shooting utensils. He plans hunts in Minnesota then Texas and a Rocky Mountains extension in spring. Meanwhile New York rents astonish with a Wall Street room costing 6000 a year and Broadway lots leased for 21 years at 1 a year, signaling rising urban encroachment and hotel growth.
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Sir George
Montreal
Michigan
Southord Milroad
Minnesota
Texas
Chicago Tribune
Daughter of Capt Shabrick enters mercy convent in New York
A daughter of the late Capt Shabrick and a kin of Commodore ate the white veil at the Convent of Mercy in New York on Saturday, marking a religious vow.
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Capt. Shabrick
Neike
Commodore
Eat
Convent of Mercy
New York
Slater R. Herting Fatally Struck Near Providence Depot
Anoruen Fatal Rannoan Accident at the Providence depot left slater R Herting of this city dead after a train struck him while he stood near the track. He suffered broken ribs and died at ten o'clock last night. His wife was away in Worcester at the time of the accident.
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Anoruen
Providence
R. Herting
Slater
Gay
Worcester
Lme
Boston
Tragic Fall Kills Old Boston Resident
Boston September 27 Martin Beals longtime resident fell from a Worcester Railroad train platform last night and was killed instantly in a grisly accident as he dropped to the ground fractured in halves officials reported the victim was near the platform when the tragedy occurred and the incident shocked nearby witnesses
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Boston
Martin Beals
Worcester
Mike Walsh Injured at New York Ratification Meeting
Mike Walsh remains in a precarious condition after an incident at a New York ratification gathering. Doctors fear congenital damage to both the kidneys and spine while they entertain hopes for eventual recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Walsh
New York
Tts
Ns Phy
Mule road project and transcontinental travel plans
The text notes a proposed expenditure of sixty thousand dollars on a mule road over the Isthmus between Cruces and Panama, with tickets from New York to California to be issued in early October. It mentions passenger and luggage transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific in about twelve to fifteen hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cruces
Panamm
New York
California
Eners
Atlantic
Pacific
Potato disease spreading in many regions and crops light
The letter notes potato rot spreading in several areas including London and Italy. It suggests the potato crop will be very light this year based on current indications and reports from Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Italia
Repub
Wreck of Rebecca Near Van Dieman's Land
London papers recount the sinking of the British brig Rebecca bound from London to Sydney after striking a reef off the west coast of Van Dieman's Land on April 29. Captain Sheppard drowned. nineteen crew members and the captain's wife perished or were lost. Eleven survivors sent a distress message and, after days of exposure, were aided by locals and a dog that signaled rescue. Burgess and partner aided in locating wreckage and guiding a rescue party to safety.
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Eveven Snipwrecker
London
Rebecca
van Dieman’'s Land
Sydney
West Coant
Val Dieman’s Land
Anaveali
Bert Tae
Conta
Sapper Famid
Sheppard
Ask
Agin
Thay
Burgess
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Webster
Gardner Willard
Oia
L. C. Richmond, Jr
Constitution Street
Walley Street
Bradford Coffee
Willion
Fell River
York
Iverpool
Venty
Deoparch Halicd
Sisa
Wall Street
Broadway
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Union Square
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