The Englishman's Exploit A Sea Sketch
A Penobscot Bay privateering tale follows Captain Nightingale and his crew as they arm a Rhody schooner to seize a British clipper. In a bold night action they capture the prize, improvise a plan aboard, and tow the foe away before sending the crew ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samus Tucker
Great Britain
Penobscot Bay
Telfast
Camden
Enoch Nightingale
Captain Nightingale
Obed
Nightingale
Mahegan
Fyook Nightingale
Jake Dackines
Jose
Jake
Rhody
Jabe Taskins
West
Jobe
Haskins
Jabe
Jonathan
Newt
Obed Nightingale
Eplon
Fi Herman
Aehoorr
Uaskins
Hilmary
Christendom
Eun
Belfast
Ingrale
California Widow and a Three Month Husband Absence
A widow in California and a pensioned couple share omnibus gossip about long separations after a steamer from Chagres brings news. A young married woman recounts her husband’s fifteen month absence while the elderly observer notes the child’s age of three months and the wife’s claim that she has written once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WM. I. Lenison
Enq
U.S
New York
Earselyéa
Kcian
Rogers
L S. Military and Naval Argus Office
Chatam NY
California
Penelope
Old Alpeous
Troy
Neptune
Pacific
Arere
Chagress
WN. O. Delta
The Two Eyes of Distance A Lesson From Airy
The speaker describes a test where hiding one eye makes judging candle distance impossible. With the head still, a single eye cannot gauge distance accurately. opening the other eye or moving the head allows accurate depth perception. The note cites Pro. Airy, Royal Astronomer, as source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Airy
Reyal
Curious Pacts and Peculiar Statistics From Old England
Curio infobits report on poverty, crime, and immigration across Britain Ireland and Scotland with figures on poor relief jails rentals and pauperism. Includes notes on Glasgow burials London workers and divorce law plus odd medical and weather era anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
England
Ireland
British Isles
Great Britain
Scotland
Ohio
Glasgow
London
Hungary
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THE
Plainfield Gazette
William M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd Presbyterian Church
J. G. Ludlow
Plainfield
New Jersey
Laing
Tistry
Carman
T. Bot
Vlainfield
Ludlow
Pr. Cheeswan
Ward
Skillman
Wilson
van Cleck
Terhune
New Brunswick
Charles
Rowell
New-York
Rewell
Chambers Street
J. H. Schoonmaker
Warp & Schinovwaken
Cracker and Biscuit Bakery
Fulton
Greenwich Street
EBO
Teny
Graham
Plainfield and
Schoonmaser
Fultenst
Greenwich
Geo. W. Metlar’s
Wholesale & Retail Clothing
Patersod Block
M. B
Joun Eadie
Mynxer Staeer
Newark
Jenny Lind
James Lucas
Dunham
Marble and Stone Yard
Yaa
Cherry and
Second Streets
Jaques Vanderbeek
Albany
Miesers
A. L. Scovitt & Co
Cooperstown
Sam
A. Lane
Pearl Street
N.Y
Langs
Aioe
A. L. Scovill & Co
Hall
Broadway
M. F Cusnine
Sylvanus Cobb, JR
Interior Department
France
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