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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 10, 1841
Page
6
A column collects varied items from a 19th century periodical: a verse meditation on guiding stars for virtue, a lampoon about the dooly used for troop transport, and extended extracts on Eastern manners, travel notes, poetry, and a Scots biographical sketch.
An eyewitness narrative from a snow storm halts a long-distance railway run from New York to Philadelphia. Two engines push a stuck convoy through drifts, passengers endure hours of delay, and women and children are ferried to Bordentown by sleighs as rescuers battle wind and cold. Sunday brings renewed efforts with ploughs and scrapers to recover engines and cars, delivering the stranded to safety in the hotel. The piece also notes other frontier news and public demonstrations in Birmingham and Norwich, plus a torture account in Athens and a robbery in Myddelton Square.
A crowded Privy Council hearing debated the jurisdiction of the court in the Wood v Hutchings will dispute. Sir Frederick Pollock objected to Judge Lushington’s participation due to prior advocacy for appellants, prompting postponement while affidavits and fresh attendance are organized.
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