Wreck and mortality notes amid river and sea disasters
Reports describe wrecks and loss of life from the Empire and other ships. The District Attorney urges a coroner to consider criminal neglect and possible grand jury action, while authorities delay wreck removal. Emigrant ships foundered near the Gulf of St Lawrence. the Picayune notes flood damage and ongoing distress from a major crevasse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernot
Duches County
Churchill
Fiskhill
Oyer and Terminer Grand
New York
Maria
Limeric
Quebec
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Sunderland
Gulf
Torrance
Liverpool
Montreal
Colonels Fremont Party Reaches California and Other News
Colonel Fremont and his party arrived safely in California. In St Louis there were thirty seven deaths on the 17th inst with twenty four from cholera and one from starvation. A deranged Miller was jailed again after an attempt to break into a distillery. Watertown prepares to rebuild after a fire. A Montreal paper will advocate annexation to the United States. Presbyterian General Assembly to meet annually. A boy asks why orphans are happiest, replying they have no mother to spank them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
California
St. Louis
Miller
Hagerstown
Leitersburgh
Watertown
Jefferson Co
Ellen Wareham or Love and Duty by Ellen Pickering
T B Peterson Philadelphia announces Ellen Wareham or Love and Duty a three volume novel by Ellen Pickering author of The Poor Cousin Kate Walsingham etc. priced 25 cents or five for one dollar with mail delivery on remittance. Booksellers and news agents offered lowest terms with postal orders to No 98 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Editors completing insertions receive a free copy by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Peterson
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Ellen Wareham
Ellen Pickering
Kate Walsingham
Agnes Serle
Nan Darell
Cousin Hinton
Miss Pickering
Chestnut St
Phila
Adies Work Table Book for Ladies Offered by Publisher
An illustrated 168 page needlework guide titled A Ladies Work Table Book offers plain and fancy stitches with 67 engravings. The publisher T. B. Peterson advertises 50 cents per copy or three for a dollar, mailed postpaid from Philadelphia, with brief praise and a note that orders can be sent to No. 98 Chesnut Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Peterson
Chesnutt, Philadelphia
Lippard promotes Legends of the American Revolution book
The advertisement offers Lippard's Legends of the American Revolution a 538 page octavo volume priced at one dollar with bindings for the public to purchase through T B Peterson in Philadelphia. It describes the work as a compilation of legends, documents, and battles like Germantown and Trenton, derived from scattered papers and survivor accounts.
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Uni
Germantown
la Quebec
Brandwine
Trenton
Paoli
Bank
Lippard
T. B. Peterson
Chestnut St
Phi
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J.C. A
New Orleans
Kelly
Pea Patch
Deleware
New Jersey
Major Saunders
Burlington
Bishop Doane
London
Trieste
Malta
Paris
Journal of Commerce
Empire
The
United States
New School Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Jersey
Saghieim Doosiog
Met — Episcopal Church
Plain, New Jersey
Broadway
George Andrews
John Brn
F. H. Bryan
P. M. Wrench
Jo Laing
R. Frazee
Titsworth & Ham
Gazette Office
Ghba
John Lutz
Collet Hall
Rail Road
Elizabethtown
N. J
Croton
Marseilles
KZ Ey
Bristol
Gay
E. Kirkpatrick
Plainfield, N. J
Iron, Steel, and Metals
Jesse Baldwin
Market
Mulberry _ Streets
Newark
York
Sanderson, Brothers & Co
Naylor & Co
Parker Mills
Lazell, Perkins & Co
Griffin’s Horse Nails
Seon Hill’s
Wrights
Right’s
Massy
Bright Vices
Wil
Warble Manufactory
Market Street
Ik Asi Gooo
Broad Street
Plainfield
Grrounding
Jonny Lynd
Ribbson Shirs
Tittsworth & Duchers Tin and Stove Factory
N. B
Front Street
Tittsworth, Dane & Co. Sture
Eld
Stewart’s Bakery
J. Wind’s
Conen
John Boylan
Mary P. Vail
Merchant Tailors
Untler
David Freeman
Laing
Moses P. Ings
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