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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1849
Page
1
This item lists publication details by William M Drake and Eon Printing Office Frant Street. It sets village and mail subscription costs payable in advance, advertising rates per square and time span, and indicates agent Mr V B Palmer in New York. The notice dates December 21, 1848 and promises neat dispatch on reasonable terms.
The notice outlines the Elizabethtown Somerville railroad extension opened Oct 16, reducing distance to Easton to 25 miles. It lists schedules for New York and Plainfield routes with freight and passenger fares by rail and boat, including times from New York Pier and Plainfield, and cautions travelers to buy tickets at Elizabethtown as conductors will not sell them or accept boat fares.
WM. M DRAKE informs friends and the public that his shop opposite Doct. Craig's Office in Plainfield offers Wheat Flour by the barrel, buckwheat, Indian meal, feed, and a full groceries line including fresh ground coffee, molasses, tea, spices, and more. He pledges cash-friendly prices and gratitude for past favors, Dec 1848.
For sale 121 2 acres with seven acres in cultivation and well fenced. Located near the main road from Basking Ridge to New Market Depot. Price 200 dollars. For particulars inquire at this office. 1848.
Report from Milwaukie notes a large wheat reserve of 300000 bushels stored locally. No buyers or prices specified.
A poem by T. Buchanan Read extols labor across crafts and scenes from forge to forest to sea. It contrasts perpetual toil with divine rest, concluding by praising the evening when labor ends for the week and embers fade.
A Plainfield traveler recalls a hillside apple tree famed for fruit while recounting a 1836 accident nearby. He aided a neighbor with a heavy grain load. a miscalculated lever and a slipped runner hurled him into the air, yet his life was saved in a remarkable incident.
A narrator describes a dangerous incident escaping injury after slipping from an apple tree during a snow and sleet covered ground. He lowers the danger to a remarkable escape and plans to share the tale publicly, asserting honesty and credibility of the account.
An elderly narrator recalls a chaotic day with a troublesome cow. She describes mishaps at home and yard, a dramatic chase through doors and windows, and a frantic escape aided by neighbors. The tale blends humor with vivid, if rough, rural scenes and ends with selling the cow for twenty dollars.
A western paper reports a Cherokee court scene where an accused slave thief is ridiculed. The speaker asks jurors if stealing a slave could be equated with stealing a horse, lampooning the case and implying absurd outcomes.
A reflective note argues that during the era a prince titled Louis Napoleon was seen as more desirable than the office of president. The remark highlights royal prestige influencing political perception of leadership.
Narrative recalls Zeb the wrestler turned convert who refuses to fight, sketches a moonlit confrontation with former companions and a prankish scene where a clerk seeks future plans. The dialogue explores ambition, salvation, and the question what comes next after death.
A fragment portrays a comic exchange between a clerk and a young boy asking for names and addresses. The boy replies simply that he lives at home with both parents and that their house is where they all reside when they are together.
A convoluted report describes a person setting a sign and hat at midnight while a lam post is explained as a symbol. A tele device lies in the gutter as a passerby misreads a poor hog and faults a commoner, confusing it with wifi.
The Dayton Bulletin describes a curious claim that infants cry in two tones paired with gendered symbolism. It links the boys to Adam and the girls to Eve, with grown women in a fashion of romantic roles and bachelors seeking wives.
A humorous denunciation of wealth and class roles in marriage, mocking lazy rich girls and industrious poor girls. It ridicules what counts as a lady or gentleman in modern slang and ends with a comic exchange about love and marriage.
A late report lists ten associations and one hundred seventy eight churches connected to Baprissi px Micticax, indicating a broad organizational network across the region.
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