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Newspaper
Sunbury American
Location
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1850
Page
2
The New Haven Journal editors report on a house show featuring moving and reassembling figures and hidden spectacles. Despite convincing claims of sincerity, observers find no demonstration of supernatural agency and question adherence to natural law.
Reports from Galveston dated the 19th describe arrivals including Judge Wheeler arriving with injuries from a fall, and the U S Surveying schooner Morris working on a Bay hydrographic survey. News notes public school plans in Houston, a Supreme Court ruling limiting appeals, and a fatal robbery case in Fayette county. The Upper Trinity navigation gains confidence and the Ogden steamer’s Brazos voyage to Richmond shows smooth sailing.
A 14 or 15 year old boy is sought for a printing apprenticeship at the office. A secondhand Washington press, 21 by 30 inches, is offered for sale as the paper has expanded. The editor notes Congress has done little, and hopes a forthcoming compromise on slavery may settle the issue.
A conservative critique of a rival Gazette over circulation proofs and ads. The piece also condemns local street trees planted for decoration, urging uniformity and noting trees will likely not survive the year amid Montour County political developments and Blomsburg defeat.
Justice Zimmerman held an inquest on Noah Fasset a raftman from Bradford county drowned in the Susquehanna. The jury verdict was death by accidental drowning. The body was buried in the borough cemetery. Ferten's Daguerreotypes are the talk of Sunbury with the finest portraits yet seen. Potential customers are urged to visit Mr Fetter for a second self in photo form.
A post-marked letter from Treene Havre Indiana dated April 18 1850 states Dr Parkman who is linked to Prof Webster s murder was seen in Boston on a canal boat from Covington. The writer R W Dillinghamer a local dentist says he can identify Parkman as the fugitive and urges delaying Webster s execution.
A card from Campatoor dated April 17, 1850, notes a published letter from Miss Harriet Webster in response to an unknown New Hampshire correspondent who praised Dr Webster and family. The card regrets the publicity and asks papers that printed the letter to publish this clarification.
The Rev. Peter McEwxanuy of the Baltimore Annual Conference died suddenly on the 19th near Philipsburg Pennsylvania on the mountain. He alighted from his carriage to fix something and spoke of a stitch in his side before dying almost instantly. He had been in feeble health and was widely known and esteemed.
An extra from the True Democrat logs a steamboat Anthony Wayne wreck near Vermillion after boilers exploded. 84 aboard include 20 crew. 39 to 40 souls said lost. Also reports Nashville Convention vote standoff and Spain gold digging surge. a French tragedy of a married couple ends in homicide.
A concise note describes how the area is shifting away from other crops as potato farming dominates, with barley and oats receiving less attention and resources.
The Nassau Gazette reports a severe tornado in New Providence's southern suburbs including Grant's, Delaney's, and Bain's Town. Six killed, seventy four houses destroyed, three injured, and eight deaths from the collapse and violence of the storm.
The brig Boston reports Yellow Fever raging in Behia with high mortality among sailors and enslaved people in port. total province deaths reach 88,000. Thunderstorms precede a decline in cases. Vessels from Hayti arrive, and business improves as blacks plan to sail to St. Domingo in May. A Cincinnati Gazette item narrates a woman’s gift of a bright-eyed daughter to guardianship, revealing the girl inherits a substantial estate via her father. A Baltimore-Washington Union note recounts ship Frances Jane crew beating cook to death and brutal punishment of a black sailor, with the accused bound over for trial. Government clerks swap depositories. Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad seeks 8,000 tons of iron for rails. Pittsburg mills lack proper machinery.
The Ohio cruised from December 1846 to summer 1850 visiting the Gulf of Mexico Brazil West Coast of Mexico California and the Pacific. It aided in Vera Cruz and Tospan operations with Perry and bore on to San Francisco the Sandwich Islands Valparaiso Rio Janeiro and Boston before repair.
A fierce storm on the 29th caused widespread damage in Mexico City with a south west hurricane, sparking fires that burned three quarters. About 100 families lost homes, damages reach 500000 dollars. The French Foreign Legion aided the relief, one member wounded, Jose Maria Miranda narrowly escaped death. Substantial subscriptions were raised led by the President and the Minister of Relations formed a relief committee.
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