Track work and weather dominate Warren region notes
The piece catalogs railroad progress and delays as iron arrives near Warren, with expectations to place cars within two weeks. It praises the track layer Jack Casement and notes passenger and freight traffic thriving at about $1,000 weekly. It also quotes Erie to Warren distances and fares, mentions The Atlantic Monthly and local spelling debates, serenade memories, favorable two week weather, and a large homegrown turnip from Mr. Cogswell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Youngsville
Warren
Jack Casement
Surge of New Goods Tops Town This Fall
A flood of arrivals from rail lines fills town with fresh merchandise. Waters & Rogers, Parmlee & Henry, Bartlett, Morrison, Mrs. Bennett, O. H. Hunter, Verback, Davis and Brock, Graser, Fred, Agnett & Co, Crandall, Smith & Messner, Williams, Randall & Mead, Colin, Fingers, Bennett & Jewett, Pierce, Shuur & Offerlee, Kerberger, and others showcase cloths, clothing, groceries, and trinkets. W. G. Rathbun expands his grocery by moving into a larger building and adds a foot bridge to the shore, signaling broad improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waters & Rogers
Carver House
Parmlee & Henry
Bartlett
J. A. Morrison
Fred
Variety
Agnett & Co
Crandall
Exchange
Smith & Messner
Williams
Randall & Mead
Colin
Fingers
Bennett & Jewett
Pierce
Shuur & Offerlee
Kerberger
Stone walk and new shop added near Exchange Building
Mr Arvett lays a fine stone sidewalk in front of his new house with two long stone stringers and inlaid flagging. Nearby Mr Stable the German butcher is adding a building on the East end of the Exchange, likely his shop and residence. Turners stages brought about 20 passengers from the cars at Pittsfield as travel shifts to this route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Stranahan
Exchange
McMullen
Cowan
Warren
Erie Dispatch
Parker
Jamestown Democrat
Turner
Pittsfield
Senor Overdo
Miss Bartlett
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York City
St. Louis
Jo. Smith
Nauvoo
Atah
Joseph
Great
Salt Lake City
New York Bank
Damacz versus A Ratroop damages verdict in Monroe County
A jury awarded Mrs. Perkins five thousand dollars against the New York Central Railroad Company for her husband’s death when a railroad bridge collapsed. The defense argued the free pass absolved the railroad, but the court instructed that bridge safety remains the carrier’s duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damacz
Ratroop
Perkins
Gircuit
Monroe County
New York
New York Central Railroad Company
Chicago Journal
Brown verdict and speech on slave rescue plot
Guilty verdicts are returned for John Brown of Harpers Ferry with sentence to be hanged on December 2. Brown defends his actions as aiding enslaved people, denies treason, and lauds biblical mercy while acknowledging no guilt.
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Aoger
Democrat
Waterbury
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Brown
Missouri
Canada
Jefferson County
Coppie
Warren Common Pleas
Suboena
Lucy
J. B. Brown
Shit. L
Warren Co
Common Pleas
Asa Danforth
Betsey Danforth
Court of Common Pleas
Warren County
B. Brown
Eliza Siggins
H. P. Kinnear
Isaac Siggins
I. P. Kinnearn
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Warren Mail
Stephen Strarit
Erie
Sunbury and
Belle Valley
Langdon’s
Jackson
Waterford
le Beeuf
Union Mills
Concord
Lovells
Columbus
Spring Creek
Garland
Irvine
The
Atlantic Monthly
Game
Ticknor & Fields
Dos’ Lixe Jr
W. Rathbun
J. Y. James & Co
Foust
Galbraith
the Gazette
R. Brown
Packer Rifle Company
Bishop
Jamestown Journal
N. Y
Senate
Assembly
Massachusetts
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Sindxa ScHool
Webster
Great Valley
Cattaraugus Co
Summerton
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George Stephins
George Hall
Abner Cady
Cunningham
Boston
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Edgerton
Alonzo Hawley
Cuba
Henry Wright
Olean
Ledger
Gerritt Smith
State
Utica
the Tribune
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Gov. Morgan
Virginia
Harper's Ferry
Messrs. Boore Mead
H. R. Rouse & Co
Titusville
Stephen A. Douglas
Judge Black
Harper
Poplar
Territories
Outo
Dennison
Ohio
Tom Corwin
Macacheck Press
Springfield
Corwin
Bull
Republican Party
Kansas
Ia “Brown
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Mason
Faulkner
Vallandigham
Yevonine Inc
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Cape Hatteras
Dumbarton
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Wowan
Strance
Mentor
Lake County
Cleveland
N. York Evening Post
Joe Dear Brown
Gov. Banks
Massachusetts Militia
Horace G
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Wilson
Sunbury and Erie Railroad
Bank of Commerce
Samual A. Black
Errie Gazelle
Louisville Journal
Gerrit Smith
Eivers
Down
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J. Foreman
Couse & McMillen
Jas. Darlin
R &E
Rob’t Elliott
Francis Black
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R. P. King
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Henry MaGee Elderkin
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Preston & Beals
JS. Turner
Irvine & Slone
Owen Feeney
Spencer, Palmer & Co Bushrod Woodin
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Stru Hors, Garnishee
Edward Reynolds
Seh
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P. Falconer
Dennison & Edgerton
Jamac
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Wm. P. Barber
T. Struthers
C. B. Barrett
R & A. Way
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A. Walton
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John A. Tarbox
John Dunn
Rob’t Thompson
Sen
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McFarland
S & Hook
H. Hiller
Orphans Court
Said County
Marshall Jones
William Chase
James Roy
Johua
Borden
John H King
Thomas B. Martin
John M. Olney
Guy C. Irvie
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Joseph Marsh
Benjamin F. Raynor
R. K. Russell
Register
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Kk. D. Bennett
Stranahan & Randall
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Wis
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W. Curtis
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R. Wright
Troy
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Philadelphia
T. W. Dyott & Son’s
Robert Shoemaker & Co
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B. L. Fahnestock & Co
H. B. Waite Youngsville
Henry R. Costar
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J. W. Benson & Co
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Benson’s
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County of
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Benj. Raynor
Four Mile Run
Pittsburg
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Wm. Thompson, Jr
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