Anniversaries of Missionary Societies 1850 Grants
The General Missionary Committee and the Missionary Society of the M E Church allocate 150000 for 1850, including 4200 for Foreign and 85500 for Domestic fields with Indians and resident populations. Amtoas Stamey’s Sailors Society reports 23407 receipts and 25200 expenditures for the year ending, amid broader maritime gospel work. Aspate Tract Society notes 939602 volumes and 270670500 pages circulated, receipts 300425.78, balance 110.23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawk Asp Poartas Missions
General Missionary Com Mwittee
Manety
Missionary Society of the
M. Fh
Amatoas Stamey
Friexp Society
Broadway Tabernacle
N. York
P. Perit
Bey
J. Spaulding
Pacific
China
Brazil
Chin
France
Sweden
West Indies
Loines, Bedele
Aspatcay Tract Society
Tabernacle
New York
Tinos. Wiliams
Tappan
Augnete
Moses Allen
American Bible Society reports growth in auxiliaries and distributions
At the seventh anniversary annual report the American Bible Society notes 64 new auxiliaries formed mainly in Western states and territories. Yearly receipts reached 284 614 74, up 34 744 67 from the prior year, and 635 395 Bibles and Testaments were issued. The releases extended across all states and territories, the West Indies, Spanish and Portuguese America, Canada and New Brunswick, to seamen, hospitals, prisons, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Romans, white and red and colored people in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amerrican Bipe Society
West Indies
America
Canada
New Brunswick
Post Office Bill Proposes Two Cent Letter, Five Cent Newspaper Rates
Senator Rusk of Texas introduces a bill for two cent postage on prepaid letters and five cents on newspapers not prepaid, matching current rates for half ounces. The proposal favors city papers with wide circulation but attacks country papers for equal rates over short distances. The paper urges House action to record votes on a fair cheap postage system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusk
Texas
Post-office Committee
Senate
Conger
House
Congress
Deathly Spontaneous Combustion Tells of a Flaming End
A Liverpool Mercury report recalls a tavern wager where journeyman painter Navier C- drank a lighted candle and burst into flame. Witnesses watched his lips glow blue and his body burn rapidly until only dust remained, with two doctors labeling it spontaneous combustion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette Des Tribunaus
Barriere de L’ Etoile
Navier C
Xavier
Liverpool Mercury
Soft soap shapes please all in gentle trade
A brief note on soap goods noting that soft soap in various forms pleases most buyers. It comments that adding more of the product yields better reception among customers in general trading. The item treats consumer preference and product quality in light buyer appeal.
Pheenomena of the Brain and Cabbage Planting Notes
An informal note discusses the brain’s insensibility while sensing pain and argues the convolutions serve intellect. It then gives gardening guidance for transplanting cabbage: prepare bed with manure, dig deeply, avoid trampling, and dip roots in soot and sulfur mix to deter pests and boost early growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wigan
Eize
Controversy and oddities blend in a mid century note
A letter from Mr Lives, American Minister, discusses the Nashville Convention and urges unity to preserve the Union amid civil discord. Separate items report England’s ivory trade statistics and a miller’s joke about the devil being dead, plus a California company steamship incident with a wife disguising as a male passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hlower Looxs
Mr. Lives
Berance
Nashville
California
Jewens
Cincinnati
Vie
Wheat crop prospects in Ouro County.
A Mansfield paper reports farmers across the county note a backward but promising wheat crop for this season. Despite past locust damage, many say the wheat now looks fair, with hope for a good harvest if conditions hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouro
Mansfield
Adjourment of the Legislature in Warren 1850
The Warren County Legislature adjourned on the 15th after a long stormy session. About five hundred acts passed many deemed unimportant. Key measures include the General Appropriation bill Apportionment Revenue Auditor General Surveyor General County Surveyors Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys and constitutional amendment to elect judges by the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Bank
Clay
Davis
Foote
Clemmens
Senate
IL. F. Titnadge
N. Y
Judiciary Committee
Ball Cleared by Committee in Treasury Delay Report
The committee investigating withholding public funds from creditors exonerates State Treasurer Ball, branding the charges as political attacks by Locofoco opponents. They fault the accused system and account practices, not Ball, and condemn the report as unjust while urging acknowledgment of truth and duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ball
Washington Republic changes editors and Ohio politics noted
The Washington Republic reports editors Bullitt and Sargeant retiring, Allen A. Hall to run the paper amid cabinet clashes with Taylor Whigs. Noah's Sunday Times claims Jonah name found at Nineveh, while Judge Johnson resigns Hamilton County Superior Court post and pursues Ohio governor bid. Canadian parliament opens on the eleventh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Noah’s Sunday ‘Times
Nineveh
Layard
Jonah
Johnson
Ohio
Hamilton County
Cleveland
Apportionment Bill Passes Legislature Amid Claims of Fairness
The article reports on the apportionment bill's passage in the Pennsylvania Legislature with opposition factions listed, naming counties and aligned vote tallies. It notes reactions on fairness, then shifts to obituaries and local incidents including a canal commissioner’s death, a wagon accident in Washington and a prospective pro slavery newspaper, followed by a women’s medical college charter and a fatal tree-fall accident in Carroll County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legislature of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Errpot Ors
Meadville Jour
Austin Jones
Benjamin Jones
Carroll
Jamestown Jour
Local notices mix of ads and curiosities from Jamestown era
D M Williams builds a new sidewalk in front of the Post Office and advertises Spring and Summer goods. The piece recounts Native leader Corn Planter’s harsh anti trickery decree, a bone find in a building site, trade routes via Chautauqua Lake, a buggy crash in Sugar Grove, and various brief items on weather, railroads, politics, and curiosities from Buffalo to New York with mentions of rivers, steamboats, and old wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Williams
Jamestown
Chautauque Lake
Buffalo
Barcelona
Mayville
Chautanque Lake
Dunkirk
Cuba threat spurs government demand to bar expedition
May reports from Wasmaxeron detail Spanish minister Don Calderon de la Berea urging official action to stop arming and outfitting expeditions against Cuba. He cites rumors of 5000 to 6000 men rendezvousing at Chagres and the Isle of Lobos, with Gen. Taylor sending despatches to the Gulf squadron to defend the flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasmaxeron
Don Calderon de la Berea
Cuba
Chagres
Isle of Lobos
Taylor
Forwaring
Gulf Squadron
National Intelligencer
Havana
Washington
England
France
Batavia
David E. Evans
Holland Company
New Orleans
Ohio
New York
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Prench
Geological Society
Sheffield
Johnathan
Alexandrie Va
Tyler
Britain
Buans and Scaups
The
Journal of Medical Science
Warren
Mr. Ball
the Washington Republic
Sesatr
Philadelphia City
Montgomery
Chester
Delaware
Berks
Bucks
Lancaster
Lebanon
Northampton
Lehigh
Dauphin
Northumberland
Carbon
Monroe
Wayne and
Pike
Franklin
Adama
York
Cumberland
Perry
Lycoming
Sullivan
Centre
Clinton
Blair
Cambrian
Huntingdon
Luzerne
Columbia
Montour
Cradford
Wyoming
Susquehanna
Butler
Beaver
Lawrence
Allegheny
Washington and Green
Bedford and Somerset
Armstrong
Indiana
Clarion
Climatee
Mifflinall Union
Westmoreland and
Payette
Schuylkill
Reparsustatrives
Adame
Bedford and Cambria
Lehigh & Carbon
Lerke
Sacks
Monroe and Pike
Butler & Law- Mercer
Venango & Rener
Blair & Huntingdon
Crawford
Bradford
Miflin
Clearfield
M' Kean & Perry
Eirk
Clarion, Armstrong & Qcoury
Jefferson
Somerset
Columbia & Montour
Sulli- Delaware
van & Tes
Tioga
Wayne
Westmoreland and Green
Union and Juniata
ras—Messie
Brooke
Crabb
Cunningham
Darsie
Drum
Frick
Traslett
King
Konigmacher
Malone
Mathias
Muhlenburg
Sadler
Sankey
Savery
Shimer
Sterret
Stine
Walker
West
Spealer
Naye
Brawley
Vernon
Forsyth
Fraily
Pulton
Guernsey
Hogas
Ives
Jones
M.caslin
Packer
Streeter
Heusn
Deavy Or Hox
Janes M. Powrn
Allegheny City
Samuel Power
Beaver County
Mercer County
Naples
Morgan
Washington, Pa
Home Matters
Davis, Watson & Co
Noah Weld
Sugar Grove
John M. Olney
Miver Cromwell
Charles Stewart
Great Britain
Thomas Jefferson
United States
San Francisco
Cawks
Christ Church
Ujiazy
London
Egypt
Department
Henry Clay, Jr
Col. Clay
Kentucky Volunteers
Buena Vista
U.S. Military Academy
Artic
Trill
Com. Hull
Cisan
Quebec
Detroit Free Press
Hibernia
Eugene Lee
Paris
Louis Napoleon
M. Napoleon Bonaparte
Eugene Sue
Denmark
Austria
Iceland
Prussia
Austrian Council of State
Seige
Vienna
Prague
Wallachia
Russia
Nicholas
Athens
Committee On Piik Tings
Hovsk
Burt
Anong the Committee
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