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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1859
Page
2
York County voters see a state picket backing Thomas E. Cochran for Auditor General. Supporters urge trust in his fiscal oversight and public accountability.
The region reports excellent corn oats buckwheat potatoes and garden vegetables with light grass and injured winter wheat. Northward yields are strong while frost impacted areas lag. Flour prices soften with harvest and wheat crop gains are forecast. Town Council proposes a new Engine House site and a new German fire company impresses locals. Irish railroad row leads to arrests. A M Waters lowers prices on dry goods and Warren County Bank rebrands as North Western Bank opening last Monday.
The Brookville Jeffersonian reports Erie Conference session results for the Jamestown and Fredonia Districts. Appointments include J. W. Lowe presiding in Jamestown and J. Robinson assigned to Warren, with numerous clergy listed for Ashville Pleasantville Warren and other towns.
A New Orleans report details a fatal shooting at Amite along the New Orleans and Jackson line. Mixon and Melton exchanged gunfire. Melton died from a buckshot wound. Mixon was arrested and survived initial mob action before dying in jail. His family members threaten further violence, prompting residents to form a patrol.
In Manhattan a Mobile cotton broker R C Macdonald shot Virginia Stewart, his long time companion and mother of two dead children, in broad daylight on Broadway near Canal Street. He followed her to New York after she fled Mobile to escape his violence and jealousy, then drew a revolver at Taylor's Saloon and fired as she neared the Brandreth House. She survived initial injuries but remains in danger. Macdonald was arrested after a struggle with the police and a livery-stable keeper subdued his attempt to shoot himself.
In New Orleans the wedding of Miss B and Mr. P collapsed as the groom vanished and later reappeared abroad. The elder P blocked the match, sending his son on a Mexico trip, then the son returned married to Miss B’s rival, while Miss B secretly lived with him before revealing the marriage. The incident closed with a double romance and a completed, but unconventional, union.
Reports from Europe detail the North Briton arrival with Cyrus W. Field aboard and explain the armistice between France and Austria. Telegraphs note mediation by neutral powers, Villafranca talks, and Napoleon’s day orders. later, telegrams claim a peace signed with an Italian Confederation under the Pope and Austrian rights in Lombardy.
The Kangaroo Saxonia and Persia arrive on thirteenth and fifteenth, with vessels sailing to New York and Liverpool. Napoleon heads for Paris while Austria’s ruler moves to Vienna. England distrusts the treaty as Sardinia shifts government and Arese prepares a new cabinet.
A Montreal family’s daughter, missing seven weeks, was discovered in a Grey Nuns convent in Toledo Ohio. The girl born in England, educated in Paris, had renounced the world to join a convent. Her father, alerted by a French speaking monk, confronted the Superior and recovered his weary daughter, who was recovering in Saratoga after the reunion.
A Clarksburg Missouri? Register item reports a negro woman from M. J. Nixon on Wednesday warning of a neighborhood conspiracy among local enslaved people near Shinnston to flee and defend themselves. Ten suspects were arrested, with the informer in jail. She claims poison was shared at a recent convention to poison masters’ families. A separate note mentions a second oat crop near Fort Smith Arkansas.
Wasumeter July 25 note that Mr Gould from England aboard the Steamship Canada passed through Washington en route to Mexico. He serves at the British Legation and carries important dispatches. New Orleans papers from last Tuesday arrive. Tennesse brings a request from Gen Garcia of Tamaulipas for 3000 American invitations to join the Mexican civil war under constitutional government. Expedition to be fitted at Tampico under Gen Degollado and State authority.
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