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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1852
Page
2
An 1852 notice to patrons explains the Mail newspaper will grow in size to meet rising demand. The owners credit increased patronage, urge prompt payment of overdue subscriptions and ads, and state enlargement timing depends on unsettled accounts. March 1852.
A puzzled Northern Pennsylvania reader riffs on the 1840s political clash between C. B. Curtis the Democratic nominee and J. H. Walker, now Pennsylvania Speaker, noting Curtis votes and rumored district changes while lampooning a possible miscertification or misaddressed seat.
The report notes the Warren County Bank bill passed the House and faces Senate fate, likely veto by Gov. Bigler. It cites Democratic ire over vetoes by Gov. Johnston and warns political leverage mirrors shift in power. It also discusses a Senate bill, 25th Congressional district realignment including Erie Crawford Warren counties, deemed appropriate.
The Jamestown Journal appears in a refreshed format signaling prosperity and is praised for its enterprising publishers Palmer and Upham. The Neosophic Gem from Randolph Academy N Y shows scholarly quality in a small neatly printed sheet by the ladies of the institute. Aldrich Morris printers. The Erie Observer notes F M Farrell plans a penny daily called the Daily Sun. The Cornplanter was up last Saturday evening.
The London Lancet notes a tradesman's wife died after consuming pins. Postmortem finds nine ounces of purple pins in the stomach and a mass of packed pins in the intestines, weighing about a pound. A town meeting to aid Chillicothe fire victims was planned at Pittsburg.
G W Scofield delivered the Home Matters lecture on Land Reform praising limits on land ownership and protection of the Homestead. He argued for restricting land to settlers, capping holdings, and exempting homesteads from sale, using vivid figures tied to childhood memories.
The Grand Jury for the Jane term names Joseph Carver foreman and a slate of jurors including Isaac Arthur Elk Clark R. Bean Sheffield William A. Blakesley Conewango James H. Burton Pinegrove Henry Barr Sugar Grove Alfred Cady Columbus Bradley Chandler Sugar Grove Harry A. Dunn Conewango J. W. Davis Youngsville EK H. Danforth Warren Robert English Kinzua Michael Gorman Jr Deerfield Samuel Grossenburgh Mead Ransom Goodwin Pittsfield J C Gifford Freehold Samuel J. Hall Warren Robert Miller Pine Grove Boon Mead Warren C L Matterson Sugar Grove David Nugent Youngsville John M. Olney Conewango Alonzo Peck Pine Grove Henry L. Rowe Freehold.
A long OCR fragment lists individuals by surname and given names across towns including Pleasant, Freehold, Sugar Grove, Deerfield, Warren, Pine Grove, Spring Creek, and others. It reads like a judicial or property docket roster for the July to June term, naming many residents and their locales.
On the Cornplanter Captain Ezekiel Gordon ferried passengers and a nameless infant was born aboard. Henshaw and wife vouched for paternity as Franklin and the register failed. Johnson guided a christening that named the infant Captain Ezekiel Gordon Henshaw, to be honored in service, a Steamboat novelty.
Citizens of standing grew queasy aboard a steamer and turned back toward port on the Sabbath. The note humorously suggests even Justices, Lawyers, Merchants, and Gentlemen showed boat sickness while the Clara Fisher carried heavy freight this week.
The Elk Advocate notes Powell's improved appearance and prompts remarks about likeness to another person. The exchange questions libel implications and whether the two men resemble each other.
The article condemns surprise parties as nuisances and urges decisive measures. It notes David Allen near Wrightsville broke his leg on a raft accident at Hemlock, drifting to the Tionesta mouth nine miles away. Watson's introduces new goods. Bennett Jewelry moves to Summerton & Church store, near Carver House.
A letter reports the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers rising sharply in April 1852, flooding lumber rafts and washing away landing sites near Pittsburgh. Rafts broke loose, many carried downstream toward the Ohio, with several crew missing and boats scrambling to stay afloat while landings vanished.
Wisconsin papers report a great rise in water inundating Grand Rapids. Bridges were swept off and several houses were flooded, causing evacuations and property damage.
The House advances bills for an $850000 North Branch Canal loan and a $10000 Executive Mansion in Harrisburg. It also reports a repeal bill on the Reading Railroad supplement and passes $1556.37 for Gov. Kossuth’s reception. A Sabbath liquor ban in Lancaster passes, the 31 Gallon Law fails, and a Capitol Punishment abolition report notes 70 executions in 54 years.
The Clarion county sheriff Derr Prowine will sell on May 1 sixty nine properties including nine furnaces several mills and many well improved farms. The notice condemns locofoco tariff politics and attacks Democratic leaders over labor issues while citing hardship from European competition and slavery.
The piece attacks Democratic aspirants for the Presidency and attacks Governor Marcy. It recalls party infighting and accuses Marcy of intrique and misdeeds while noting reactions from Barnburners and Hunkers. It also reports unrelated London and Western rail notes and a Kentucky emancipation tale.
A Kentucky native writes home from Missouri describing the land as cheap land and a sultry climate. He jokes that locals die fast, observes Christian hypocrisy among Missourians, but still says the country is fine for emigration and urges others to come.
The Whigs of Congress are fixing a time and place for the next National Convention and consider holding it west of the coast, at Cincinnati or Louisville, to share travel burdens with Western members who have borne much of the cost in the past.
Tuomas Moonk was buried near Bromham in a cottage’s close and laid beside one of his daughters as per his wish. The village church was packed with local poor and the adjacent village rector offered respect for an old friend. Only Mr Longman the publisher attended beyond a few gentlemen. The note recalls Dickens and a Morgan County Georgia Union stance on national conventions.
Rev John Sailor W D Brown and S W Dana appear in a sequence of dated entries from April 26 1852 to May 10 1852 detailing ecclesiastical or civic notices involving named individuals and events.
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