The Weeldn Gerald Wednesday Morning
The Weeldn Gerald dated Wednesday morning June 6 1849 reports a quiet start to the week with local notices and brief announcements from the town Board of Aldermen and merchants.
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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1849
Page
2
Steubenville Daily Paper Adverts Growth and Agents
Steubenville notices promote the Daily Paper with a five dollar rate, tri weekly four dollars, and weekly two dollars. Vic Heaton claims broad circulation across Eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia and invites merchants to use its advertising reach. The paper is in its 43rd year and lists agents in New York Boston Baltimore Philadelphia and others for notices and collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vic Heaton
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Pergrate
Younky B. Paunarn
Tribune Buildings
New York
Boston
State Street
Baltimore
North and Fayette
Philadelphia
3D and
Chestnut Streets
Job Printing Offered at Datty Venaro Jos Printing Orrick
Public notice invites attention to the Datty Venaro Jos Printing Orrick recently supplied with new fonts and latest type styles. It promises neatness and beauty in work, with low prices. Call at the Dairy Herald Office opposite Washington Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Datty Venaro Jos Printing
Orrick
Dairy Herald
Washington Hall
Whig Delegates to County Convention Planned in Jefferson
Jefferson county Whigs from townships and districts vote June, elect three delegates each to the Bloomfeld County Convention on July 4 to nominate fall candidates. Also notes 1849 crops look abundant across wheat, grass, and fall grains amid a cool spring and potential foreign demand tied to European tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson County
Bloomfeld
Thomas F. McGrew
Joan B. Doyle
James Gallagher
Central Com
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Europe
Cholera Ravages Near Rio Grande Estimated at One in Five
An Albany Atlas excerpt from a West returnee describes cholera near the Rio Grande with about 4,000 deaths among a 20,000 population. He notes strong men falling ill and dying within a day, illustrating the severity of the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio
Albany
N. Y
Rio Grande
California
Fugitive in Forgery Case Flees Bloomfield County
A man once linked to a forgery spree, who looted Dr. Crawford of about 90 dollars, vanished from Bloomfield County after a recent escape. Reports place him near Waynesburg in Green County Pennsylvania and say he is headed toward Virginia’s mountain regions as pursuers close in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Bloomfield
Waynesburgh
Green County
Virginia
Sincips
Reynolds
Helm
Lincoln County
Louisville Courier
Locusts Sweep Washington County Pennsylvania Orchards
Seven year locusts have appeared in the eastern portion of Washington county Pennsylvania. They sang at the office window with the familiar song of Pharaoh and are causing significant damage to fruit trees in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Died of Cholera in Crolena City
Parker Everett died at his residence in this city of Cholera, as reported by his physician after a Friday visit. This marks the second cholera death this season with several citizens showing early symptoms. Officials urge prudence in diet drink and exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crolena
Parker Everett
Locofocos dominate New Orleans offices under Peters
The new Whig Collector Mr Peters found that out of 150 subordinate offices 140 were Locofocos and buttern Whigs. If such was the rule under a Locofoco President why do party leaders complain of General Taylor adopting it. Is their cry of prescriptions inconsistent, unjust and hypocritical?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rae Locofocos
Peters
New Orleans
Locofocos
Butten
Locofoco
Taylor
German emigrants hired by North American Land Company
Ten thousand Germans have been engaged by the North American Land Company with partners in London and Germany and will arrive in the United States during the current season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
North American Land Company
London
Restitution in a Conscience Case From Norwalk Experiment
A Mr Newman of Huron county recovered a pocket book with $60 about fifteen years ago. Recently Rev. Agustine Bergen, Sandusky’s Catholic priest, paid him 35 dollars in gold. Bergen said the money came from a nameless confessional donor with directions where to pay it to the rightful owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Newman
Huron County
Agustine Bergen
Sandusky City
Swearengen scandal linked to almshouse inmate at Hagerstown
The Hagerstown MD papers note Rachel Cunningham, once Swearengen’s paramour, is confined as insane in the city almshouse after Swearengen’s plan to meet her in New Orleans led to his capture. The item hints at a prior murder and justice pursued in connection with the couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Maryland
Rachel Cunningham
Swearengen
Washington County
New Orleans
Cholera in Quincy Illinois Causes Ten Deaths in One Week
The Whig reports ten deaths among German emigrants in Quincy for the week ending the 20th. All victims were from one family. A widow, grieving her husband’s death, reportedly wrapped herself in his blankets and fell ill after his burial, dying the following day. Reports from the Plains note dissatisfaction among emigrants at Independence, with several companies disbanding or selling out and some forced to abandon the expedition due to debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Ill
Whig
Plains
Independence
Tariff ruling on sugar and molasses losses at sea
The U S Circuit Court of Baltimore ruled under the 1946 Tariff Act that no duty is due on sugars and molasses billed as shipped but lost by leakage or drainage during import voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S Circuit Court of Baltimore
Albany Burgesses Offer Guard of Honor to Gen Taylor
A London letter notes Poet Moore is "dead to the world" as a gentle fading of memory begins. In a curious aside, a daughter of Enoch is stated to have lived five hundred eighty years at marriage. The Albany Burgesses announce their guard of honor service for Gen Taylor at the September State fair, which he accepts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Moor
London
Moore
Albany Burgesses Corps
Gen. Taylor
Congress
Wm. R. King
Alabama
Col. Benton
Missouri
Senate
Col. King
Nobody but a printer explains the noble toil of labor
The Cincinnati Times editor rebukes the sneering phrase Nobody but a printer and defends labor as noble. He recalls Caxton Wordsworth Franklin and other figures, urging respect for those who earn livelihoods by toil and recalling justice seen in the penal condition prescribed by the Creator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Cincinnati Times
William Caxton
Karl Stanhope
Samuel Wordsworth
Benjamin Franklin
Statesman
Governor Armstrong
Massachusetts
George P. Morris
James Harper
Horace Greely
N.P. Willis
Robert Sears
Cameroun
Dix
Niles
Husbands fall to wives in Shelby and Screven case
A Shelby woman fatally stabbed her husband in the chest multiple times while in Screvenport Texas another woman killed her husband by cutting his throat. Both incidents reflect a shift in domestic violence reporting as wives are accused in deadly acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hussanp
Wire Kittine
Shelby
Screveport
Texas
Izzard
Chloroform in Obstetrics Praised by Scientific American
The Scientific American notes the American Medical Convention debate in Rochester endorsing chloroform use in obstetrics. It cites widespread etherization with no maternal injury in thousands of cases and claims anesthetics may be used in all labors and should not be withheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Rochester
A Good Resolution for Cholera Relief Advised
A meeting of St Louis citizens urged measures to curb cholera and aid the sick. Resolved, that citizens suspend business as needed on Friday the 18th to cleanse yards buildings and premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Sloop Plaunet Capsizes Near Geneva High Seas
The sloop Plaunet capsized about five miles below the airport on May 26. Cabt Cuas and Bograno of Geneva and Myron Warp of Ashtabula County drowned. bodies not recovered. Capt. Bogand and Capt. Clark rescued survivors. wreck lies northeast of Grand River light, eight miles offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoor Carsizep
Plaunet
Airport
Cabt Cuas
Bograno
Myron Warp
Geneva
Ashtabula County
Buffalo Express
J.J. Pacarr
Wayne
Ohio
Bogand
Clark
California
Grand River Light
Cleveland Herald
Shirt Collar Mania Strikes Baltimore Youths
The Baltimore Argue reports a strange epidemic among young men called the shirt collar mania. Victims are identified by tall standing collars and extravagant head height, with a so called medicine for the mind by a Yankee claimed as the only effective remedy. The piece mocks overreaction and calls for more measured treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Srrison Matapy
Baltimore
Letter from Greely Describes Odd Traveling Companion
From Cincinnati Horace Greely writes of a travel group in Wheeling. He portrays a comic fellow, a thirty year old Ohio tape retailer, who bores others with bluff humor and pestering chatter. The narrative mocks his fixation on the fair sex and ends with Greely accepting they may never meet again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flan
Horace Greely
Cincinnati
Ohio
Cay
Spike Society to Discuss Bridge Sighs and Sins Debate
In Boston the Spike Society will debate the question of what separates a bridge of sighs from the sins of a bridge. The club will also consider which young ladies are best, those who mince their manners or those who make mince pies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Spike Society
Boston
Inventions That Lift Civilization and Their Power
A long nostalgic discourse extolls printing the first great engine of knowledge, followed by the compass telescope microscope steam engine and electricity. It links these to global exploration, evangelization and progress, then shifts to a travelogue in Rio de Janeiro describing ports, officials, prices, and daily life during a spring voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Atlantic
Pacific
Heavenly World
Early California anecdotes and gold fever from 1849 letter
A Liberty Tribune excerpt recounts Col Doniphan and California immigration tales, gold mining earnings, and a column on rail and plank road ventures. The piece veers into a lengthy account of North Point and Fort McHenry, detailing British assault, American defense, leadership, and casualties, followed by notes on a new pocketbook coat and gold dollar coinage.
Forty Tons of Specie at Panama and British Steamer
The Mobile and Tribune reports from Panama dated April 27 that a British mail steamer arrived from Callao with about forty tons of specie. About two hundred mules were needed to move freight, and several ships have lately arrived to load Americans bound for California. The crowding has driven passage prices up, while violence erupted as rowdies forced a room at a late‑night fandango, leaving two men from each side severely wounded and one dead the next day amid rising native hostility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
California
Apollo
Keoka
R. B
Stratford
New York
Rio
Hotel Pharon French House
North Point
Fort McHenry
Gen. Ross
Mr. Ingersoll
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Cothrane
Cockburn
Maleevim
Codrington
Admirral Napier
Sterrett
Levering
Howard
Aisquith
R Ifle
Richard Heath
Robert Goodloe Harper
Congress
Ross
John Sticker
Pennsylvania
Spangler
Metegur
Dixon
Maryland
Quantill
McDonald
Long
Fowler
Amey
Pinkney
Dyer
Brays
Montgomery
Slicker
Fifeteen
Nous
Brooke
Fort Mc’Leary
Stricker
Samuel Smith
Sth
Samuel Moore
Bladensburg
James Lowry Donaldson
Andre
Winder
Douglas
Virginia
Burd
Stansbury
Foreman
Rodgers
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Cobean
Findley
Baltimore Artillery
Harris
Marine Artillery
Stiles
Armistead
Kort McHenry
Cochrane
Green
Artilery
Patigue
Forte Rt Me
Callao
Isthmus
Judge Eldred Courtroom Quip Surfaces In Odd Tale
A fragmentary note from a Pennsylvania case describes Judge Eldred in court with a curious aside on etiquette and gender. The text hints at masculine curiosity and customary law notions, framed as a peri gal remark about manners and propriety in a court setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldred
Pennsylvania
Peri
Yankee Sullivan Returns to Old Trio in New York
Former pugilist Yankee Sullivan performs with his longtime trio in New York. The act features several seasoned performers from Old England, delivering a pugilistic exhibition styled showmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Sullivan
N.Y
Old England
Monster alligator crashes tavern in wild nocturnal escape
Report from New Orleans Delta describes a enormous alligator nearly sixteen feet long attacking a cabin near Sanuve’s, scattering sleepers and injuring no one. The creature, called a veteran from St. Tammand, fought off with axes and bludgeons as guards and dogs struggled to subdue it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guariend
Claiborne
Sanuve
St. Tammad
Walker
Confueyer
Smickeles
Egrees
Bludgmonster
Enor
Cowler
N. O. Delta
Portage County Cheese and Road Progress Highlight local industry
Officers of the RK company push a northern division road project with heavy bridge abutments over the Cuyahoga river. A six thousand plus dollar payment was made Saturday and the final estimate await completion this fall. Local workers and the community push the project with strong support. Portage County is praised for its cheese butter pork production boosting its commercial prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuyahoga
Ohio
Portage
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