Curiosities and Beauties in a Nineteenth Century Journal
A miscellany of sketches and observations. Quotations on laughter from Carlyle and Lamartine. a tale of a park scribbler turning poems into cash. a chase by eel and crab. notes on iron steam vessels and low-cost cottages. experiments in etched glass art. ship handling in the Baltic. a Leith caterpillar in an oak. famed oaks in England. meerschaum pipes. and a stage vision of Othello on the Volga with a German Desdemona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egribos
Negropont
Eski-Scheir
Anatolia
Brussa
Mount Olympus
Baldistero
Piedmont
Cornwall
Germany
Ure
Volga
Nishnei
London
Desdemona
Scribe
Demoiselle Muarier
Bremner
Russia
MARINE MONSTERS THE GREAT SEA SERPENT AND KRAKKEN
The article surveys historic sea monster reports from Orkneys to America, detailing 1808 Stronsa remains, a 70 to 80 foot Western Isles sighting, and 1817 1819 Gloucester Nahant accounts. It discusses a supposed 600 foot Norwegian kraken, a colossal cuttlefish theory, and numerous eyewitness affidavits, noting variability and calling for cautious acceptance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stronsa
Orkneys
Laing
Royal Museum
University of Edinburgh
the Royal College of Surgeons
Fleming
Scotland
Maclean
Bigg
Neill
Wernerian Society
Coll
Isle of
Canna
Rum
Linnean Society of
New- England
Gloucester
Cape Ann
Boston
Depenes
Lonson Nash
Linnean Society
Davis
Humphreys
Joseph Banks
Nahant
New York
Egg Rock
Lynn Harbour
South Shores
America
Boston Society of Natural History
Singular Tyrone Assizes Case Of Bigamy And Mock Trial
Henry Mullen alias O Neile faced trial at Tyrone Assizes for marrying Jane Moffatt while his first wife was alive. The second wife testified she bought him for £3, saying her father provided money from her first husband to support the sale. Jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to transportation for seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyrone
Henry Mullen
O’neile
Jane Moffatt
M.laughlin
England
Traverser
Traveraer
The Frantic Trial of Francis Medhurst at Hayes
Francis Medhurst, committed for manslaughter and held on a coroner’s warrant for wilful murder in the Alsop case, endures a tense sequence of examinations and remands. He pleads self defense after a confrontation at Wood End Green, receives Bible and prayer book, and is moved in custody from Uxbridge to Newgate amid public attention and legal maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Medhurst
Uxbridge
Joseph ‘Alsop
Frederick Sturmer
Wood End Green
Hayes
Newgate
Cooper
Windsor-street
Alsop
Count de Salis
Messrs. Stammers and Ludlow
King’s Arms Inn
London Street
William Wiseman
Bart
T. Dagnall
Medhurst
Cope
Medhurat
Family tragedy at Kippax hall linked to Medhurst heir
The Medhurst family of Yorkshire links to Kippax hall near Ferrybridge. The heir, Francis Hastings Medhurst, shot his wife after a quarrel over his field sports. He was acquitted by insanity at York assizes and placed under care with Moorcroft House. He receives 5000 per year for maintenance. The trial is expected around April 12 or 13 at the Central Criminal Court with Sir John Campbell leading the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medhurst
County of York
Kippax Hall
Ferrybridge
Francis Hastings Medhurst
York Assizes
Stillwell
Moorcroft House
Hillingdon
Uxbridge
Sicily
Murat
Messina
London
Italy
Major Medhurst
Central Criminal Court
Sth
Sir John Campbell
Gentleman Bail Refusal and Woolwich Fire Incident
In an Insolvent Court bail case a defendant described as a gentleman was rejected for bail by Commissioner Law who said the term is overused by unentitled persons. A Woolwich fire witness describes a man perched on a parapet viewing the blaze who is drenched by water jets and nearly suffocates from hydraulic pressure. A suspect, Harriet Samson, is remanded for theft at the Pantheon Bazaar Oxford Street after officers find stolen goods and a book knocked off a stall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olaus
Worming
Pliny
Pontoppidon
North Sea
Debes
Harpelius
Vorfecus
Urban Hierne
Baron Grippenheim
Stockholm
Burzens
Law
Woolwich
Terra Firma
Rooeery
Pantheon Bazaar
Marlborough
Harriet Samson
Mace
Paxthéon Bazaar
Oxford Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carlyle
Lamartine
Je Lamartine
St. Pont
M. de Lamartine
Gosselin
Madame de Lamartine
Cheltenham Chronicle
Glasgow
Chronicle
Willmore
Havell
Baltic
Berwick
Margate
Leith
Rennie
Britain
Clipstone Park
Duke of Portland
Westminster Abbey
The
Naturalist’s Library
Sandy Bay
Society
Scholiophis
M. de Blainville
British Isles
New World
Scandinavia
Hans Egede
Greenland
Bing
Norway
Europe
L. de Ferry
Berestrap
Evans Strom
A. de Capell Brooke
Sejerstad
Otersun
Schilderup
Sir Arthur
Nordland
Drontheim
Soroe
Tinmask
Tozen
Storfosen
Kergvanglelands
Bureeus
Fhrat
Annals of
Science
Pennant
Indian Isles
Shaw
Dens
Denys Montfort
St. Malo
St. Thomas
Angola
Robertson
Greenock
Montrose
Transactions
Royal Society of Edinburgh
John R. L’amy
Forfar
John Guild
Dundee
Meikle Roe
Friis
Bodeon
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