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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1882
Page
6
The Ledger details subscription terms of 1.60 dollars per issue with prepayment options and added charges for unpaid fees. Advertising and delivery considerations reference Carver, Water Street, and Pa. addresses, noting extra postage or county restrictions on outside delivery. The notice outlines penalties for late payment and possible case additions.
Advertising rates listed for business cards and notices, including transient insertions, yearly ads, administrators notices, cautions, and public notices. Rates per line, with death notices up to ten lines, and general limitations on space for local news.
Sateldo dies after fueling public vilification. Peter Cooper turns ninety. Editorial piece laments temper and press vitriol while noting wheat and pork prices, New York margarine production, and moves in Congress. Letters advocate independent voting, urging cross party cooperation to curb boss rule in this borough and county.
The Albany situation has changed as the regular Democrats shift responsibility for delay in the assembly's business to Speaker Patterson. A caucus pact with Tamman y anti monopoly members led to Patterson’s election and a postponed committee announcement. Patterson is blamed for withholding committees, using them as leverage over minor offices.
The New Scientific American announces its offices survive a major New York fire with records preserved in a fire-proof safe. Munn & Co. offer patent assistance from 261 Broadway, providing free preliminary opinions on novelty and patentability. The piece also notes a bill disqualifying polygamists from Congress and defends the Senate’s moral improvement.
A period summary notes a steady decline in total wild animals slain in Hindostan from 1876 to 1880, yet a sharp rise in human deaths from wildlife and snakes, with Bombay presidency showing notable snake losses and calls for more anti venom research by Dr De Lacerda. The piece also recounts a Paris shoe critic's quip about Patti in New Orleans as a side anecdote with vivid details of a stocking mishap.
A Panty correspondent for the New York Times criticizes Gambetta's appointments, naming atheist Paul Bert to public worship, Gougeard to the navy, Cammenon to war, Bouvier to commerce, Magnin to Banque de France, and Floquet as a scandal ridden pick. The piece notes conservative Republicans' discontent and reports a feud with the New York World over cross editorial jabs.
The Orphans' Court of Erie County orders sale of Isaac B Lowe estate in Enterprise Warren County Pa on March 14 18 2 a. 2 0 at 1 0 oclock to satisfy claims. Real estate includes two parcels of land around Mitchell and Carpenter lots near Titusville with dwelling houses and outbuildings. Parcels total about two hundred perches and fifty two and one tenth perches with parcels described by metes and bounds. Administratrix Parmelia S Rowe and attorney F M McClintock announce cash terms of sale.
The register announces that mnid persons filed accounts of administration for estates in Warren County. The Orphans Court will hear on March 6 at 2 pm. Filings include the final accounts of Francis Bates and George Fobes estate, Levi Marsh estate, Samuel Maybee estate, Horace Beals estate, and others. Executors include Loa Land rank Gates, and others named. Filing dates range January to February 1882.
The document records licenses issued for various individuals across Kingua, Irvington, Warren, North Clarendon, Clarendon, Spring Creek, Youngsville, Sheffield, Tidioute, Irvineton, Garland, Russellburg, Pittsfield and other locales. Names include J H Williams, Rick Donovan, Michael Silk, G J Fenrl, W A Crowell, Solon D Wilcox, Caroline A Donaldson, Tobias, G A P Garfield, Benjamin Marsh, John D Grimes, George Jones, George W Metzgar, Hugh Planegin, Wm H Hathaway, L 4 Coleman, Walter Allen, Julia A Acocks, and E T F Valentine with J A Weible serving as clerk. Prothonotary's office, Warren, Pa., February 12, 182.
A list of cases scheduled for trial at the March term beginning March 1 1882 in Warren Pennsylvania includes Nathaniel Silve and others versus William Bates et al plus several other civil actions such as Great National Petroleum Company versus O C Babcock and James Thompson et al. Prothonotary J A Wessle notes the Prothonotary’s office date February 13 1882.
Letters of administration on the estate of Alice E Davis late of Warren borough Warren county Pa deceased have been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to the estate must pay promptly and those with claims must present them authenticated for settlement. S. V. Davis administrator Warren Pa Jan 10 1882.
Kinaua township school directors will apply to Warren County Court of Common Pleas for authority to borrow up to 51000 at not more than 8 percent interest and issue bonds to fund a new school building, per secretary J B Lyle.
Exchange or sale notices describe a large dwelling with 4 acres of land and fruit trees at North Warren and a comfortable house at Jackson Run crossing near Warren. Also listed are a slaughter-house site with 7 acres at Jackson Run crossing, a two story house with about one acre at Tidioute, multiple farms up to 500 acres in Warren and Crawford counties, dwelling houses and lots in Warren, eight tracts of land with timber and two saw mills in Warren County, and requests for descriptive circulars.
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