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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1849
Page
3
A worn traveler named Ambrose collapses near his old farm as heat and hardship exhaust him. Neighbors rush out in the middle of the night to carry him inside, apply remedies, and mourn the toll of his long, arduous day before the story continues.
The city reports 54 cholera interments today and 16 from other diseases. On Monday June 25 the Board of Health notes 20 new cholera cases and 8 deaths since the last report. Letitia S Blaisdell bill aimed at commuting death to life imprisonment moves toward signature. Cord (N H) Rep notes legal skepticism over southern editor juror service.
The Crescent City arrived from Havana with 151 passengers and about half a million dollars in gold dust. The New Orleans Pica yune reports 496 500 in gold dust 50 000 in specie and 50 packages of merchandise aboard. Texas frontier depredations and cholera in Mexican towns are noted and New Hampshire votes against abolishing capital punishment.
The Hannibal Journal prints a playful set of riddles about idle children hovels cooks and a lovesick woman with wordplay on letters and sounds. A post office note reads to my dear ant Sally She Cawgar EI nize I had a short ager spell to day.
In this place on Sunday morning Rich ard H. infant son of Thomas B. and Lucy Ann Woodland. At Locus Grove near Rahway, on the 22d inst. Hugh Hartshorne, in the 69th year of his age.
The Gazette lists current and corrected weekly prices for flour meal rye flour wheat corn oats per bushel and per cwt with figures for butter lard eggs potatoes and hams. Prices shown include per bushel and per dozen measurements as applicable.
A card from three physicians endorses Dr Pearson s Pulmonic Expectorant as a safe effective cure for cough bronchitis chest pain spitting blood heart palpitations and incipient consumption. They report cures after other methods failed and urge families to keep the remedy ready against cold and influenza.
An advertisement promotes Dr Pearson's Carminative Balsam as the best cure for dysentery cholera morbus and summer complaint. It urges portability for travelers and praises Mrs A M Sandford's positive testimony. The ad lists S A Pearson M D as proprietor and notes wholesale retail sale from No 108 North 4th Street Philadelphia with agents in New York and distribution across the United States Canada and West Indies.
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