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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1849
Page
2
A Plainfield message argues against the need for doctors lawyers and priests in a New Hampshire town. The author claims nonproducing classes burden the producing majority and urges temperance and self reliance, criticizing churches and ministers as unnecessary in village life.
The piece argues public hangings hurt morals and that capital punishment should be public to deter crime. It praises Massachusetts code changes as key to ending executions, noting Washington’s effort and predicting last execution in the state. It cites remarks from the New York Tribune. The cor porate jury asks Rahway Directors to limit train speed to five miles per hour after a man died in a railroad accident.
Statement shows receipts total 28578 36 with school fund credit 111 92 for Plainfield. Expenditures total 25031 66 leaving a balance in the hands of the collector 3546 70.
The Caledonia arrives with £56,000 in specie and 40 passengers, 15 of whom stop at Halifax. She was bound for Boston and expected to dock at her wharf around 10 o'clock this morning after leaving Europe seven days earlier.
The La don papers note a joint production by the Courts of Great Britain and France addressing St Petersburg Cabinet over Russia’s interference in the Austro-Hungarian dispute and urging withdrawal. Law Lords hear writ arguments of O'Brien and Melpres, affirming the Queen's Bench Ireland judgment. transportation sentence expected to take effect soon amid rumors of prosecution abandonment.
The House of Lords upheld the lower court ruling in the OBrien and McManus case. The crown retains broad punitive options including hanging drawing and quartering transport or life internment. A Daily report says Attorney General Monaghan prosecutes and is in London in poor health amid widespread south and west Ireland destitution.
In Italy the French expedition toward Rome faced strong local resistance from the Roman States. In two engagements the French suffered heavy losses, and Captain Oudinot, unprepared for such a reception, withdrew four leagues from the city seeking reinforcements from his government. About 180 were killed and 400 wounded.
A European upheaval report links France Germany and Galicia to rising unrest as America battles inflation. a local frontier story recounts Isabella Gray and her lover Johnson slain by a Tory during the Revolutionary era, ending in shared graves dedication to liberty.
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