GOVERNOR'S NOMINATIONS REJECTED IN SENATE AND APPOINTMENTS LIST
Nominations for county loan commissioners and public officers across Cattaraugus to Allegany counties are listed with names such as Anson Gibbe Hiram Harry and William Griffin. Rejections include Alson Leavenworth Moses Beecher to temporary loan commissioners for Cattaraugus and Timothy AM Porter as judge replacing Israel Day. Also notes incidents on dogs, a Virginian estate claim, and a near-miss bombing in Hartford plus press mentions of Liverpool and European affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cattaraugue
Alson Leavenworth
Moses Beecher
Tacacy
Cattaraugus County
Ezekiel Harrison
Peter Ten Broeck
Cattayaugua
Timothy AM
Porter
Dilegany
Johnn G. Calling
Samuel C. Wilson
Eric
Joseph Plum
Jonathan Hoyt
Vur
Rirecters
New York Trade Flows Tow Boats Carry Goods to Far States
New York April 29 The Albany tow boats carry vast quantities of merchandise bound for Ohio and other states. Boxes of dry goods go to Utica and Buffalo bags of calico to Chicago and hogsheads of sugar to Cincinnati. A Cincinnati merchant can buy sugar cheaper in New York than New Orleans. Freight via the Erie Canal runs about ten dollars per hundred pounds. Also noted is a eloquent meeting praising a statesman with tears and long applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
North River
Albany
Ohio
Utica
Buffalo
Chicago
Cincinnati
New Orleans
New York and Erie Canal
Enlargement of the Canal and Bible Society Anniversaries
The article notes funds remain from last year for canal enlargement totaling about three million with additional revenue, so work should not halt due to funding. It reports the American and Foreign Bible Society second anniversary at First Baptist Church with Rev. Cone of New York addressing the gathering and a Treasurer’s report detailing 842,822 receipts and balances, including 25,000 for foreign Scripture publishing and at least 10,000 for stereotyping and printing in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Assembly
Com. Adz
American and Foreign Bible Society
First Baptist Church
Cone
New York
Ada
Steamboat Highlander Disaster Kills Several
A steamer named Highlander, belonging to Newbury and plying between Newbury and Albany, burst her hull and sank last night. Two or three persons were killed. She sailed with the Swallow Rochester and Oscola bound for Albany. Also noted is Pittsburgh traders stockpiling Santa Fe merchandise, including wagons, impacting national trade and specie flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highlander
Newbury
Swallow
Rochester
Oscola
Albany
Com
Pittsburgh
United States
Wale Fisheries and Massachusetts Fish Exports
Massachusetts fisheries production exceeds ten million dollars annually. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser cites five year sperm oil imports at New Bedford: 1834 two hundred eleven thousand? note. 1835 one hundred seventy eight thousand. 1836 one hundred twenty eight thousand. totals for later years include one hundred thirty nine? thousand. estimated 109000 barrels for 1839.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wale Fisheries
Massachusetts
New Bedford
Buff. Com. Adv
Steam Boat Traffic Up the Mississippi and Missouri
Last year saw two hundred fifty trips on the upper Mississippi and 187 on the Missouri. There were nineteen regular steam boats serving the Mississippi route and seventeen on the Missouri run, suggesting steady river transportation activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Mississippi
Mlinois
Curious Belgian iron heating experiment disperses metal
A bar of iron heated to white heat and rapidly exposed to strong forge bellows melts instantly and disperses as molten metal in the air, sparkling like a wire burning in oxygen. More than a pound of metal is scattered in this manner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Burning Mine on Broad Mountain Still on Fire
The Pottsville journal reports the Jugular Broad Mountain mine remains on fire after recent rains. Observers fear the remaining coal pillars may be igniting, with no clear end in sight. Major Charles Hinton of Wake County, North Carolina, has been appointed Treasurer of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsvill Mporium
Charles Hinton
Wake County
Perth Carolina
Bristol Ad Talk of Healing Balsam and Life Stream
An old advertisement fragment from the News Herald urges trying a healing balsam described as the best remedy for illness. The distorted text references a doctor, a high pressure steamboat metaphor, and life flows, suggesting a testimonial tone for a patent medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Nuenga
Lake Me
Stall Gener
Fereland Herald
Gaz
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Moffat
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J. Stanley Grimes
Steele & Peck
Mainst
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Pelib
Asa Smith
Collins
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County of Erie
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Parley
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Hrame
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