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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1854
Page
2
canal commissioner George Darlibe of Allegheny and justice of the supreme court Daniel Smyler of Montgomery mentioned in the record as high officials associated with the case.
The Sunbury and Erie Railroad faced flutter after Boston financier Mr Crane pledged more stock than funds to meet, delaying a second Philadelphia million. James Cooper, President, assures readers that Crane Dillon & Co installments are not secured solely by Crane’s subscription and confirms city protection while several wealthy parties back the Venango Road. Punapexrnia, July 18, 1854.
A hometown cry decries council inaction on fire safety. The fire brigade warns that without sufficient water reservoirs and street mains, fires will run rampant and municipal leadership may face a new election with stronger help for reform.
One year after a charter was procured for a Bank of discount and deposit at this place, organization was effected with trustees J. Y. James president Oren Hook R. P. King Thos. Clemons John N. Miles Myron Waters and Lewis Arnett. An instalment of five dollars per share on the hundred thousand dollar stock was paid. The bank of issue as well as deposit passed last winter and awaits the Governor's signature to permit election of 18 directors and a cashier for full operation.
The paper lists the appointment of Rev H H Moore to the M E Church here, noting his able service and general satisfaction during the past year.
The Whig County Committee is named for the ensuing year including Warren, Youngsville, Columbus, Corydon and Sugar Grove among others. A convention is set for Saturday August 26 at 2 PM in Warren to nominate officers Prothonotary, Register and Recorder, Treasurer, Commissioner and Auditor, and to select an Assembly candidate.
The article reviews college exercises and commencements, focusing on Hamilton College and the Alpha Delta Phi Convention held on the 25th. It highlights G. W. Scofield’s oration on the Rights of Labor, Alfred B. Street’s poem, and complimentary notices praising freshness of thought and antithetical, chaste style. It discusses Scofield’s arguments on wealth concentration, the defense of labor, and the moral role of education in safeguarding labor against capital.
The report lists appointments for Jamestown and Fredonia districts including J H Whallon P E Jamestown E B Lane Ashville J Hollen N W Jones Frewsburg EK N Nollen Randolph T D Blin Mead Pinegrove 5 S B Burton Alleghany Valley J Marsh Panama H Kinsly Columbus O Parker A Barris Wattsburg J Flower D C Osborn Riceville C Irons Pleasantville J B Hammond Youngsville J N Warner Warren H H Moore Kinzua M Wood F W Wilson P E Fredonia G W Chesbrough Dunkirk Johnson Portland A Burgess Westfield J P Bignell Quincey J Whitely Mayville J Wingelsworth Sin clareville O P Brown Thomas Warner Ellington O L Mead Leon R Roberts Perrysburgh A Norton Villenova P Burroughs Forestville J Peate Silver Creek J R Hammond Erie J E Chapin. The next Conference is to be held at New castle Pa July 11 1855.
The community is informed that religious exercises will be resumed at the M. E. Church in this place next Sabbath at the usual hour.
In Cleveland we boarded a coach to Angier House a model hotel with spacious rooms fine table and prompt service. The city is described as a model with broad streets shaded by trees and Euclid Street extending seven miles to a village of the same name. Streets are wide plants dwellings and tasteful yards line the route and the surveyors named Euclid Street after the famed mathematician.
Reports reach Burraro that cholera has struck Niagara Falls areas affecting Irish laborers along the canal and near the Suspension Bridge. By last night about fifty deaths and many flee travelers, while work halted and prices offered for labor. A foul stench from a nearby shanty led to burning of bodies and equipment. several deaths occurred that day.
July 1854 dispatches report mixed enforcement of the Sunday law with grog shops opening after a Supreme Court decision. Mayors promise strict policing and public opinion backs them. Other items note Cuba funding talk, Fillmore’s brother death in St Paul, and a high Sunday drunkenness tally at the mayor’s levee.
Burrato July 27 1854 funeral of Miss Fillmore held this morning with a large crowd of leading citizens. Grief described as deep and general. Miss Fillmore praised as amiable and beloved. Mr Fillmore deeply affected. Earlier reports cited seventeen deaths at the Poor House though not officially confirmed. Board of Health met to direct reforms in Poor House management. Seven cholera deaths at Suspension Bridge, all on the Canada side.
The Nebraska Council Bluff outlines a vast territory with Missouri East and Rocky Mountains West, rich streams, likely Indian removals this fall, mild climate, abundant buffalo and game, fertile valleys but sandy uplands, minerals including coal and iron, timber along waterways, and overall scarcity of timber in parts. Boston notes Sullivan alias Haxford arrested in New Orleans for assault on Richard H. Dana during fugitive slave excitement. held to bail at $4,000.
The Burrato weekly cholera tally shows seven deaths in the city for the week ending Saturday with sixty foreigners among the deceased and eleven deaths at the falls. The Elizabethtown Hardin County grand jury has found a true bill for perjury against four Ward jurymen and bail set at $1,000 each. The Silver-Creek Gazelle reports diver Mr. Grey has raised and towed the wreck of the Line into port.
The text certifies that a house is necessary to entertain strangers and travelers and that Z M P Dunn is of good repute for honesty and temperance with adequate accommodations. It petitions the Court to grant a license to keep an inner tavern and notes that the application will be presented at the September Term of the Warren County Court of Quarter Sessions in 1854.
A Captain in mercantile service trading Bahamas to Florida suffered severe billious attacks and indigestion. After costly medical advice failed, he used Holloway's Pills and was cured in under six weeks. For two years since, he has felt no bile, indigestion, or liver disorder.
A Free Democratic Convention will be held at the Court House in Warren on Friday August 11 to nominate candidates for the Fall election and to transact other business. Each town is earnestly requested to send delegates. D. M. Williams announces a renovated store with a new stock and cash-only terms, posted in the Ledger and circulated to keep the public informed.
At the residence of her sister in Enterprise on July 14 Mary A. Johnson aged 22 of Stockton Chant. Co New York, died.
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