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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1850
Page
2
The Plainfield Gazette lists pricing for village and mail subscriptions with advance payment terms. Rates include one year at 1.25 dollars for village readers and 1.00 dollar for mail subscribers, with 0.50 dollar surcharge if not prepaid, plus ad pricing up to sixteen lines and discounts for multiple insertions.
A brief notice states that job printing is being offered neatly at the lowest cash prices. No other details provided.
DAPPLETON & Co New York publish a multi part Dictionary of Machines Mechanics Engine Work and Engineering edited by Oliver Byrne. It promises near two thousand pages and over fifteen hundred plates with practical treatises, drawings, and lists of related works from Paris London and beyond. The project aims to place extensive engineering knowledge before workers and students, with forty numbers at two cents each, to be completed within 1850.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey announces summer arrangement starting Monday 1850 from Elizabethport to the White House New Jersey reducing staging distances to Easton 25 miles and Schooley's Mountain 14 miles. Trains depart New York by the Red Jacket at 9 am connecting with the New Jersey Railroad at Courtland Street. Freight passenger times listed for Westfield Plainfield Somerville White Town North Branch and others with steamship connections and conveyance to Easton Wilkesbarre Bethlehem Allentown Mauch Chunk upon arrival.
The excerpt argues against rejecting the article on public worship and defends keeping scripture balanced across passages. It critiques those who claim to lead while calling for unity in church practice and cautions against judging motives, emphasizing order and decorum in communities influenced by public assemblies.
A hotel keeper in Cincinnati turns the tables on local hucksters. He buys geese from farmers, then selects the pick of the flock. The tale includes comic mispronunciations and a vignette about a lawyer son who asks for more capital after a marriage settlement.
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