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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1849
Page
1
The Plainfield Gazette announces weekly publication on Thursdays with rates for village and mail subscribers. Advertising costs include 37 cents for one insertion up to 16 lines, with two insertions 62 cents, and longer rates for three and six squares. Mail and office delivery details are provided for subscribers.
Long advertisement for Lippard's Washington and His Generals in two volumes. Promotes 538 page octavo work with battles Germantown Saratoga Quebec Brandywine Trenton Paoli Red Bank and a new proclamation scene. Sold by T. B. Peterson Philadelphia with mail delivery on payment of one dollar. Also includes poems and notices about newspapers and printers.
In August 1777 near Peekskill a British spy Nathan Palmer, a cornet-turned-tory lieutenant, flirts with Rosa Milford at her mill as he plots with General Tryon. Rosa discovers his treason and exposes him, leading to his arrest and execution by hanging at Old Put’s Gallows after a swift trial.
In August 1777 Israel Putnam reports a spy execution at his camp, Nathan Palmer, a lieutenant in the king's service, condemned and hanged. The note, dated Heap Quarters, mentions the nearby hickory tree at Peekskill where the execution occurred, reflecting wartime decisiveness.
A South Carolina College pranksters trap the Doctor in his carriage in a woods expedition. After loading the carriage with several students, jokes about the heavy vehicle escalate until the Doctor confronts them, then quietly returns home, leaving the tale untold to his family.
The excerpt recalls Hackett and a Dutch dwelling hinting at a road to a barn by a standing house. It notes a be fore causé remark on Providence and rivers by great towns. It contrasts summer long days with winter shortening, illustrating a philosophical reflection on nature.
Poetic fragment describes a soul growing rapidly inside a shell until it hatches into a cherubim. The imagery emphasizes transformation and ethereal birth through inner development.
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