BOUND VOLUMES October 8, 2020 200 YEARS AGO The elephant Horatio has died. On dissection, his spine was found to be split and much fractured. The losses sustained by the owners, amounts to $18,000 or $20,000. It is said that when M. Robbin, the late owner, revisited the elephant after a long absence, this noble animal manifested the utmost joy at the sight of his old master. A girl, about 10 years of age, a native of the United States,…
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BOUND VOLUMES October 1, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Monument to General Jackson – The City Council of New Orleans passed a resolution for the appropriation of the sum of 50,000 dollars to defray the expense of erecting an equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson, in the public square in front of the Cathedral church. It is intended that the statue shall be executed by Canova, the Roman sculptor, the most celebrated artist of the age and that it shall be…
BOUND VOLUMES September 24, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Distressing calamity – Between three and four o’clock on Tuesday morning last, the family of Mr. Oliver Bentley of Plainfield in this County, were awakened from their sleep, by being nearly suffocated with smoke, and found their dwelling, a two-story house, in flames. The fire had progressed so far, that every effort to arrest its progress was useless. They therefore strove only to save themselves, and succeeded except for Mr. Bentley, aged…
BOUND VOLUMES September 17, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Infallible Cure for the Whooping Cough – Dissolve a scruple of tartar in a gill of water, and ten grains of cochineal, finely powdered; sweeten it with a fine loaf or brown sugar. Give an infant the fourth part of a tablespoonful four times a day, and from four years old and upwards, a tablespoonful may be taken. The relief is immediate and the cure in general is effected in four or…
BOUND VOLUMES September 10, 2020 200 YEARS AGO We, the undersigned members of the Visiting Committee appointed to examine the Students of Hartwick Academy under the care of the Rev. Ernest Lewis Hazelius, in gratification to our own feelings, as well as in discharge of the duty which we owe to the interests of Literature, are happy to take this public opportunity of expressing our entire satisfaction with the proficiency of the students of that Seminary, and of assuring Parents…
BOUND VOLUMES September 3, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Science – To witness the steady march of science in our country cannot but excite emotions of satisfaction in the mind of every true friend of literature. Nations, both ancient and modern, have received their rank on the historian’s page, not from the number of kingdoms desolated, the victories achieved or the extent of territory acquired, but from the aid they have furnished for the advancement of science. We see that science,…
BOUND VOLUMES July 2, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Important to Tanners – The patent right for preparing, using and vending chestnut wood for the purpose of tanning and dyeing in the New England states, is vested in the Springfield Manufacturing Company, who will soon have in operation machinery and apparatus for preparing the wood fit for use, and will deliver it to purchasers in large or small quantities, at any place within the above limits, for a sum that will…
BOUND VOLUMES June 25, 2020 210 YEARS AGO A new Republic appears to be rising in South America, at Caracas, including a vast territory and a population nearly equal to that of the United States in 1776, to the government of which, the people and their leaders are strongly attached. Should they succeed in becoming independent, they will be the second Republic on the globe, as, until this event the United States are not only the first, but the only…
BOUND VOLUMES July 12, 2020 210 YEARS AGO The pirates in the Persian Gulph have been wholly defeated by the English; the pirates amounted to 6,000 men; but 1,400 English troops landed at Rasul Kimaz, their principal seat on the Arabian shore, and gained possession of the town in about four hours. The enemy was severely cut up, and gave away in every direction, and the town was given up to plunder. June 9, 1810 185 YEARS AGO Two Negroes…
BOUND VOLUMES June 5, 2020 205 YEARS AGO At the late Court of Oyer & Terminer, held in this county by His Honor Judge Spencer, Samuel McCollom was convicted of stealing a pocket-book from a Mr. Henry of Cherry Valley, and sentenced to four years imprisonment at hard labor in the State Prison. Intemperance, the father of much mischief and wickedness, seems to have led this man to his present disgraceful situation. It appeared from his own acknowledgement to one…
