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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1849
Page
1
The Plainfield Gazette lists weekly publication under William M. Drake & Son with office on Front Street opposite the 2nd Presbyterian Church. Rates: village and office subscribers one dollar twenty five cents annually in advance. mail subscribers one dollar annually in advance. fifty cents added if not paid in advance.
The notice states that job printing was carried out with neatness and dispatch on reasonable terms. It notes fulfillment of printing orders and satisfactory service rendered.
George Lippard presents a two volume work on the American Revolution detailing battles such as Germantown Saratoga Quebec Brandywine Trenton Paoli Red Bank and the Declaration of Independence. The 538 page octavo volumes are offered at one dollar or bound for fifteen, with mail order by T. B. Peterson Philadelphia.
A Lyons woman Henriette Armand pleads mercy for Louis Delamarre, a deserter facing execution. Napoleon and Josephine weigh mercy and love as Henriette disguises as a soldier, saves him, and the lovers are pardoned and united with a generous marriage dowry.
A colonial era account describes web footed diving pigs near Pottsville that feed by foraging offal in ten foot deep river pools. It notes their age linked diving durations up to thirty minutes, discusses instinctive adaptation, and mentions other odd animal observations and a church meeting vote with a 165 to 121 split.
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