Immortality and Railways in America in a Curious Column
A column muses on immortality as soul refreshment, then surveys railways in the U S with 1500 miles in operation and 3000 more in progress. It notes 18000 Irish shearers heading home, autumn migration to England, and frugal Highland and Irish crowds. Also Persian marriages and Buckingham House lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Profervor Henry
Liveral
United States
Sturday
Liverpool
Birmingham
Cha
Nearaua
Dublin Company
St. George’s Company
Drogheda
Dundalk
England
Lancashire
Donnybrook
Scotland
Ireland
Persia
Buckingham House
Queen’s Palace
John
Duke of
Buckingham
Anne
Seine
Lines Written in a Picture Gallery
A narrator in a dim hall recalls ancestors and lost loves as he contemplates duty and despair. The poem reflects on memory, mortality, and the repetitive nature of life amid dreary surroundings and fading hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leman Rede
Esa
Stanzas for Music Contributed by the Author
Poem fragment praising love and a gondolier guide with sea imagery and romantic refrains. Repeats phrases about beams of light from beauty and maidens singing serenades. The speaker revels in hall and bower scenes where eyes shine and thoughts brim with bliss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lurline
Shires
Meunier the Assassin Arrives as Immigrant Debate Heats
A New York arrival report notes the French vessel with Meunier or Boireau, the anti Louis Philippe suspect, stirring U S debate over land emigration schemes in Galveston and Texas. The piece criticizes Galvestown branding and recalls a militia anecdote from Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meunier
New York
Boireau
Louis Philippe
Ireland
United States
Dupus
Aforxing Herald
Texas Land and Emigration Company
Texas
Galveston
Bay
Calvestown
Jonathan
Acres
Aeres
Virginia
Bradford Fair
Lams
Coleridge
Charles
Lamb
Hias
Involuntary Experimentalist Hero of a Dublin Fire Scene
A Dublin physician recounts surviving a deadly warehouse fire at Mr B s distillery. Trapped in a hollow copper vessel amid collapsing timbers, he records his heat battered ordeal with a thermometer peaking at 232 degrees, his rescue by firemen, and six weeks of recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
Wilson
Warren
Dublin
Harod’s Cross
Fust
Warner
Insurance Company
Birds of Western Africa and naturalist notices in British press
A review highlights Swainson's Birds of Western Africa with thirty plus colour plates and a memoir of Le Vaillant. It praises the work as valuable for natural history lovers and collectors, noting illustrations by Lizars and new editions in 1837 Britain. The piece also covers Child's Fairy Library and other fairy tale volumes for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sateen
Swat
Blagdes
Barkes
Dublin
Naturalists’ Library
Western Africa
W. Swainsax
S. Highley
Fleet-street
Carne
Swainson
Zoology
Lizars
Edinburgh
WM. Fran
le Vaillant
Pairmearads
Dutch Guiana
Attica
Child’s Fairy Library
Thomas, Cornhill
Germain
Gil Blaz
Don Quixote
Widow seeks coroner certificate after husband’s drowning
In New York a sorrowful widow named Mrs McAvoirty plus a companion visit the coroner's office seeking a death certificate for Jim McAvoirty. She explains the husband died in the North river last March and was thought dead, but rumors of his being alive prompt the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Journal of Commerce
Mrs. McAveiity
Mrs. McAveirty
Mrs. McA
North River
McA
Sartia
Mrs. McAvoirty
Jim
Jim McAvoirty
Mirs
Biddy
Algiers Not a French Possession Policy Revealed
A private letter reports England does not recognize Algiers as French, citing a treaty dispute over coal cargo duties. The incident shows independent English stance on Algeria since 1830 and prompts government explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
England
Africa
France
London
America
Washington
New York
Wea
Apothecaries’ Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brighton
Brighthelmstone
Bailey
Brighthelm
Skinner
Fontenoy
Bila
Cimen
Wiencing
Cisa
West Wittering
W.W
Chichester
Elia
Brightholme
Aldrington
Stillingfidt
George the Fourth
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cumberland
George
Lewes
Bank
Elizabeth
Belman
Ram
Casper Hauser
Indiana
Clerke
Orson
Bisy
Leileer Otore
Ray
Furdyece
Bankes
Si Rechefourault
Sonneret
Manillas
Lueon
Phal
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