Arrival of the Niagara from Europe after 14 days
The Niagara arrives after leaving Liverpool on the 24th ult with reports from Laverroot dated March 24. Prices for pork lard beef and oats shift amid ongoing European news as cholera fades in England but rages in Ireland. Charcoal boosts rose color in experiments, while politics and trade trends ripple across Britain and the Continent.
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Europe
Niagara
Liverpool
Laverroot
East
India
London
England
Ireland
Americas
Ornis
Oaennes
Rioting in Rio Grande reported by Rio Janeiro
A New York Times correspondent from Rio Janeiro dated February 11 describes a night raid by Buenos Aires forces into Rio Grande. He reports robberies plunder and arson among the wealthy and a suspected death toll exceeding 300 men women and children, many from elite circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Gande
Horace King Buys Norfolk House in Historic Transfer
Horace King, longtime porter at the Norfolk House, has purchased the property from the mnibusses. The deal, described in the Boston Journal, marks a notable transfer of ownership after less than twenty years in the business.
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Horace King
Norfolk House
Pesce Evet
Boston Journal
Peaches Worms Gum and Charcoal Remedy
A reader shares a garden tip from Mobile Tribune: placing two feet of soil around peach tree roots and filling with charcoal reportedly yields large wormfree fruit and healthier trees, while untreated trees remain wormy and unhealthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Tribune
Temperance in Iowa Licenses and Penitentiary Note
A report cites Iowa law enabling counties to decide on liquor licenses with few granted. The Penitentiary's annual figures show one conviction, two pardons, one escape, and no prisoners remaining as fall term nears its end, underscoring the stance against licenses per Excelsior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowa
Aha
Iowa
New Fuel Claim Boosts Steam Power Across Transport
A Boston chemist reports a new fuel created by mixing tar and water that allegedly yields intense heat. He claims it can power a steamboat safely across the Atlantic and carry a Providence to New York voyage for five dollars. The invention, like the cotton gin in its impact, could greatly raise land values and accelerate railroad locomotive use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Atlantic
Providence
New York
Shade Trees Bring Comfort to Communities
A New Era note praises planting shade trees and shrubs to improve yards. It argues that a few minutes of care create cooling, pleasant spaces for strolls and social chats, offering low cost and effort for lasting benefit.
Whale Drifts Ashore Near Newport Farm
The Newport News reports a twenty foot whale ran aground on the farm of Robert S. Chace Esq. It was unable to free itself from the shore and several boxes clung to the creature. The whale is expected to yield five or six barrels of oil.
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Newport
R. I
Robert S. Chace
Boston Journal Urges Sheriff to Use Chloriform at Goode Execution
The Boston Nation article calls for the sheriff to administer chloroform to Goode during his murder execution to ease suffering. It predicts future suggestive mercy where the murderer would chloroform his victim before the act for profit.
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Boston
Boston Journal
Goode
Proscription and defiance in a Locofoco paper
A Washington city Locofoco newspaper reports two more beheadings and mourns the victims. It then denounces the carnage with a defiant charge that the axe must be sharpened and more heads struck, claiming no Democrats will tremble, pledging resistance as in 1841 and 1840.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locofoco
Washington
City
Disinterment At Rock Island College Restored Body
Excitement rose in Rock Island Illinois after students at the Medical College removed a deceased person from its grave. Friends and county residents demanded the return. Professors Armor and Sandford denied involvement but pledged action. The body was returned unharmed later that evening.
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Rock Island
Ill
Medical College
Henry County
Armor and
Sandford
Court House
Bank Note Table Tennessee and surrounding banks
Data lists solvent banks by state with discounts and par values. Regions include Tennessee Alabama Georgia Indiana Kentucky Illinois Virginia Michigan Wisconsin and Eastern banks. Notes show banks previously discounted at 3 to 5 percent now urged at par across many institutions.
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Chato
Lafayette
Alabama
Franklin
Mobile
3Dis Eae
City Bank i Mentee
Clinton
Columb’s
North Carolina
Chillicothe
Circleville
South Carolina
New
Bks
Dayton
Georgia
Frank
Augusta
Indiana
S. Bk & Branches
Kentucky
Illinois
State Bank
Shawneetown
Tédis
The Law of Newspapers Rules for Subscriptions
Subscribers not notifying contrary are presumed to want continued service. Publishers may bill and send papers until charges are paid after discontinuance is ordered. If not taken from offices, subscribers remain responsible until settled. Moving without notice leads to responsibility for the untaken paper. Courts deem refusal to take or removal as evidence of fraud. Postmasters should keep a copy for those who refuse papers without paying arrearages.
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Great West
Cincinnati
Ohio
Downwine Affair in Broadway Stirs City Shock
New York editor Judson of Ned Buntline's Own newspaper was convicted Wednesday noon on Broadway after a female keeper Kate Hastings from Leonard Street confronted him with insults to her house. She pursued him as he drew a pistol. bystanders intervened and the editor filed a complaint with the Mayor.
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Judson
New York City
Ned Buntline
Broadway
Kate Hastings
Leonard Street
Unusually Severe Winter Yet Early Lake Erie Navigation
The article notes a harsh winter across Southern Ohio with heavy snow rain and frost in December through February. Despite this, Lake Erie is free of ice allowing uninterrupted navigation from Buffalo to Detroit two months early, and the Pennsylvania Canal opened on the 10th.
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Ohio
Franconia
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Detroit
Pennsylvania Canal
Scioto Gazette
Deacon Hunts Odd Oxen Prayer Reveals Hidden Secret
A deacon explains his oxen grew docile after he became a Christian by singing Old Hundred behind the road when they misbehave. He admits he formerly beat them in anger, which worsened their stubbornness, while the psalm tune oddly calms them.
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Deacon Hunt
Costs Mount in New York State Natural History Project
The Natural History of the State of New York has spent 413000 and two departments remain unfunded. Three years more work and at least 100000 more are needed. Original estimate was 104000, total cost now will be not less than five hundred thousand.
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Natural History of
State of New York
U. S. Mail Independent Stage Office
Cincinnati
Walnut Street
U. S
Batavia
State Office
G. W. Lukens
Dexter & Huston
Felicity
Alfred T. Polkard
Moses Larkin
Adm
Alfred T. Pollard
Marriages in Van Buren and Goshen Townships
Several union notices list marriages by various ministers. Howard Morris wed Ann Exiza Dopson of Van Buren county. Joshua Dra married Mary Jamieson of the town. Dowry Curtiis to Hannan Watts of Williamsburg township. Jacob Myers to ExizeSTH Wheeler of Goshen. William Duran wed Exizameta Binxley of Goshen.
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M. F. Shinn
Howard Morris
Batavia
Ann Exiza Dopson
van Buren County
Iowa
L. D. Harlan
Josnua Dra
Union Township
Mary Jamieson
J. S. B. Frazier
Dowry Curtiis
Market Prices and Sales Report for Flour and Grain
Commercial records for Wednesday April 11 1849 show flour sales of 318 barrels at 3.28, 436 at 3.25 and 321 mixed brands at 3.25. Wheat tops at 70 cents with millers paying 65c, corn 25 27c on arrival, oats 25 28c retail 30c, barley 60c and rye 55. Hay bale 10 11 per ton river, loose 12 13.50. Provisions include barrel pork 300 bills at 9, prime shoulders 3 0 to 3 90, sides 4 0 to 4 75, hams 4 70 4 75.
Market Report April 9 on Grain, Meat and Whiskey Prices
On April 9 sales include 1500 bris Flour at 3.87. Corn sales total 4000 bushels with 36c for yellow and 38c for mixed. Pork sales reach 300 bris at 10. Bacon sells at 54 54 for sides and 4c for shoulders. Whiskey market is dull with prices down.
Physician H P Collins To Devote Full Time To Medicine
Dr. H P Collins announces he will devote his full time to the study and practice of medicine and surgery. His office is one door west of Dustin Jenness & Co with stairs to the upstairs in Batavia dated April 12 1849.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dustin, Jenness & Co
Batavia
Great West newspaper seeks western readership and clubs
The Great West announces increased facilities for the new year with contributions from Western authors and a strong line of departments including original poetry, humor, correspondence, and agricultural essays. It promotes Western identity, faster news via Telegraph, and club incentives with varied subscription packages and agent opportunities.
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West
Southwest
Eliza A. Dupuy
W. D. Gallagher
Emerson Bennett
W. Gilmore Sims
John Tomlin
John S. Robb
T. Ware Gibson
Otway Curry
Phebe
Alice Carey
R. 8. Nichols
Anna Cora Mowatt
Celia M. Kellum
Anna P. Dinnies
M. V. Fuller
Anna P. Rickey
Osgood
Sigourney
Great West
Jerry Nobbs
Falconbridge
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Rabbe
Feas
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Piedmont
Lom
Sardinia
Soleil
Department of Trade
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Holland
Paris “Horticultural Review
Judge Meigs
Farmer’s Club
American Institute
Robert Berauds
Portamt
Rio Janeiro
N. Y. Express
Proscription
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Tennessee
Cincinnati Market
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H. P. Collins
Syl
Emil Friedman
Thomas Kennelly
Court of Common Pleas
Clermont County
William G. Laycock
R. W. Clarke
B. Hubbell
Amelia
N. B
Millenery
DR. J A- Weaver
Main St
Ellen Marshall
Srants
Seth Boon
Yankee-land
Au Revoir
Crescent City
el Dorado
Agricultural Department
Telegraph
Philadelphia
Grea&t West
Vance
Main Street
John Grant
Alexander
Buyai
Itf
Harden & Everhart
T. Wilson
Mr. Noble
Ethel
Goshen
Williamsburg
Amelida
Withamsville
JA. Weaver
John Dickey
Joseph Burns
Elenor Mack
Isaac Mack
John
Fallen
Joseph Woodmansee
Joseph T. McKibben
Joseph McKibben
B. Huber
John Kain
A. Coombs, Jr
A. Coombs
Benjamin
Otis Preble
H. Whiting
Frederick Whiting
Christian Binkley
Henry Whiting
James Kinnear
Thomas Goff
Henry Moyer
Eliza Moyer
John G. Rogers
Rachel Ann Fagan
L. B. Leeds
George Lear
Silas V. Jordan
George Pricket
Bethuel Covall
Joseph Martin
Josiah
Emery
Jacob L. Teal
Guardian
Henry Apple
John Trees
William Abrams
Bethel
J.R. Grant & CO
Jacon Pricket
Nicholas Pricket
Golambus Jacwiades
William Howard
Agat
Onroe
Ee County
Monroe
David
Nathan Nic
Notegand
William Carnes
Ein NS
Clermont Erdes
Pate Township
Little Miami
Beverly
John Hutchings
Folin Campbell
Pbell
Huling
Eve Sera
Vincent Cérdry
Frantin
Moszs
Waxrpen
Tate Township
Robert. J. E
Larret. W. Carver
James’ Vanxospon
LA . W. Carver
Terment
Clermont
State of Ohio
Supreme Court of
John Jolliffe
C. Baum & Co
Emil Priedman
D. J. Frazer
Ohio Pike
I Mielner
Mason's Lodge
Prug & Book Store
Drug & Book Store
Howell’s
Upham
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