Somnambulist St. Louis and Emigration Tale in Memoirs
Excerpt covers a French traveler’s somnambulist episode on a diligence to Paris, a mistaken identity claim, and later notes on emigration from New Zealand and a study on vitality transfer from the aged to the young. It includes quotes from Chateaubriand, observations of manners, and a medical cautions section about sleeping with the elderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faran
St. Louis
Paris
D la Lanterne
Brute
M. le Comte de Chateaubriand
Rue de Bondy
Rosambo
Citoyennes
D la Constitution
Chateaubriand
New Zealand
Islands
Australia
England
Fraser's Magazine
Sriventar Physionogican
James Copland
Fragmented 1848 Gleanings Mixes News and Wit
The piece compiles brief items from December 1848 including editor notes, political quips, railway cost contrasts, church and academic notices, and social jests. It mentions Cromwell’s horses stabled in cathedrals, plans for railways, gun cotton use, and odd anecdotes about public figures and advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerrold
Scottish Temperance Review
Dundee
Oliver Cromwell
Liverpool Albion
House of Commons
Chapel Anston
Messrs. Wright
Mooltan
Sheridan Knowles
Church of Rome
Greenland
Davis’s Straits
Kamine
Gen. Taylor
Madison
Thoosh
Albany Express
County
Limerick
Limerick Chronicle
London Zoological Gardens
Punjaub
East India Company
Manchester
Chapman
Archibald Prentice
The
Manchester Times
Murder of Miss Elizabeth Jefferies in Bristol House
An elderly Bristol woman, Miss Elizabeth Jefferies, is found murdered in her Trenchard street home. The house shows signs of ransacking and valuables are missing. A former servant is in custody after police traced a back way entry and a young girl’s statements suggest a group including a soldier and a man harmed the victim for her money.
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Horrtatz Muaper
Elizabeth Jefferies
Bristol
Trenchard-street
Miss Jefferies
Blir
Collins
Herapath
Births Mar 7 Rev Joan Mason Dugny Halifax and others
Birth notices report a son born March 7 to the wife of Rev Joan Mason Dugny in Halifax and a son born March 9 to the wife of Harry Tuttrron Eay in Portland Place, plus a son at Plaistow to the wife of Rev Joan Cunnan. Marriages list numerous ceremonies across Dudley Bolton Walworth Congleton Hull Manchester London Wotton-under-Edge Cirencester with numerous couples. Death notices include Alfred Barlee and others with brief tributes and elegies.
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Joan Mason Dugny
Halifax
Portland-place
Harry Tuttrron
Eay
Plaistow
Joan Cunnan
Independent
Dudley
J. Raven
Manchester
James Ileney
Smitherman
Mawdsley-street Chapel
Bolton
Lancashire
A. Bateron
Japez W. Davennour
Mania ‘Turner
Horwich
York-Street Chapel
Walworth
S. Green
Benjamin L. Giakln
Paternoster-row
Catherine
W. H. Watson
Newington-place
Kennington
Surrey
Independent Chapel
Congleton
R. M. Davies
Oldham
Rowen MacareTi
Rheiton Hanley
Many
J. Carron
RE. Matruigu
Grinie
Wotton-under- Edge
J. Watts
John Rawlings Witte
W. White
Wiayor
Mias Many Ann
W. Wank
Cirencester
Mary
Southuate
Berkeley
Gloucesterstire
Ann Slattrag
ANN Slattrag , Daughter of the Kev. J. Slatterie, Pastor of Wic Union Chapel
Oakhulme
Sheffield
John Wilson
Weymouth
Sara
S. Lewis
Cardiff
Parliament-street
Ankoony Wuurn
Maurice Fitz- Gerald
Kerry
Valentia
Dublin Castle
Pues
Arthur Wesley
Duke of Wellington
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Harry Lane
Messenger
Jamaica
West Indies
Chiefa
Tara
Danae
Fricutenina Culloren
Harriet Martineau
Dr. Smiles
Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company
London
Leicester
Newgate
Norfolk Chronicle
Oxford
Baron Alderson
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