Statewide Ticketing for Auditor General Race
For Auditor General, Thomas E Cochran is the candidate noted for York County in the state election context.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1859
Page
2
For Auditor General, Thomas E Cochran is the candidate noted for York County in the state election context.
Republican County Convention set for Tuesday to nominate Assembly member, County officers, and appoint delegates. Senatorial Convention to meet near Smethport on September 21. Mila six one ways for prize cattle and stock from Little Valley fair invite cross county competitors. premium rates per mile outlined. Secretary Joux Maniey notes by law and lists dates August 1859.
The column says the Overland Mail cost the Department 3.6 million over six months with 60 thousand receipts, a 3.5 million loss, and criticizes spending cuts elsewhere. It notes Kentucky and Tennessee election shifts with Democrats winning governor and state offices by 7 to 10 thousand, and opposition gains in Congress. It mentions Flora Temple’s record trot in New York, Sugar Grove Fair scheduled Sept 2, and a Crawford County Agricultural Fair in Meadville Sept 14–16. It adds a Peoples Convention in Clearfield County on August 16 to nominate a ticket opposing Democrats.
The Times report describes the Villafranca preliminaries: Italian Confederation with the Holy Father as honorary President. Austria cedes Lombardy to France except Mantua and Peschiera, which go to Sardinia. Venetia under Austrian crown. Tuscany and Modena return with amnesty. both emperors urge papal reforms. full amnesty promised. A second note reports a Jeffersonian drill day rumor dismissed when inspectors found the Rifles peacefully gathered by a keg of lager.
The 68th Regiment will encamp in Jamestown from September 7 to noon on September 10. Companies C and D from Buffalo, plus a company from Randolph and one from Warren, are expected to join.
A dramatic shooting within the Ohio Penitentiary left W. R. Shade alias Richmond Dort mortally wounded with buckshot to the legs and back near the heart while fellow convict John Sweeney was wounded in the legs and neck but expected to survive. Guards fired on a group attempting a mass escape as inmates rushed toward a cornfield. The incident, noted by prison physician Dr. Hamilton, halted the mutiny and likely thwarted the escape plan.
After a quarterly M E Church meeting in Winchester Illinois, members suffered a “bilious attack” causing widespread illness and laughter at the misadministered antimonial wine. Peter Cartwright, the Presiding Elder, avoided dinner as others fell ill and a joking remark about vomiting the devil out of the church circulated. An express from Denver City arrived with $600 in gold at Leavenworth on the 2d, and wine accounts looked favorable.
A horrific murder occurred in Hamden when Margaret Gow killed her son William, age about 25, with a sling-shot containing a heavy stone. Neighbors found the body after the son failed to secure his door, and Gow then planned to attack her daughter, washing blood from the floor and arranging the scene. Coroner Dr. Calhoun held an inquest and Gow was committed to jail.
A compendium of local items includes social events at Mr Falconer's and Johnson's Hall, a promising railroad pier on the Jamestown line, a fishing tale of a seventeen and nineteen pound conewango catch, a jail well accident in Columbus, seat bids for a Warren Methodist preaching, and various notices on weather, fruit, building projects, and neighborhood curiosities.
A diary style reminiscence recalls a moonlit serenade beneath a window and a banter filled critique of a Jamestown and Erie trip. The piece lampoons a fellow traveler’s vanity and warns readers about newspaper travel notes while praising polite English hospitality observed by Cowan, Scofield, and Brown.
An advertisement extols Costar's Rat Roach Exterminator Bed-bug Exterminator and Electric Powder for insects. Endorsers include J C Cover W Curtis Osborn & Parsons George Rose and R Wright praising universal satisfaction and demand, with wholesale agents listed nationwide.
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