Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-07
Old Connecticut Newspapers,


beginning and the ending of the whole matter
We cannot do it.-Kentlteky Statesman
Old Connecticut Newspapers,
Among the objects of interest at the Middle
sex county fair are files of old papers, each of
which contain matters of interest We CLEAN
from them few matters which will entertain
our readers. The Connecticut Gazette, pub
lished in New London by Samuel Green, in its
issue of January 81, 1921 has advertisements
which Illustrate the difference in modes of
travelling The New Haven and Providence line
of stages left the Elm City every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evenings, "on arrival OF
the New York mail: breakfast at New London
the next morning, dine at Plainneld, and sup at
Prov whence" Returning, leave Providence the
same day at p. NJ, "sup at Plainheld, breakfast
at East Guilford, and arrive in New Haven at 5
O'Clock" twenty-four hours from Providence.
"For seats apply at Motifs stage office, New Ha-
ven; Thophus Scranton, Junior, East GuilfOrd;
Aliens City hotel, New London; Dyer, Raymond
or Kinney's hotel Norwich; Eaton's, Plainfeld;
Blake's or Chapotin's, Providence" From the
same paper we learn that the Hartford and New
London mail stage made trips twice each week,
running through Norwich and Colchester. The
Fairfield Episcopal society lottery is advertised
managers, jeremiah Sturges, Phineas TAYLOR,
Thomas F. Rowland, Zachariah Clark, 3D. Men
ton is made of the sudden death of Amos
Thompson, Of Middletown, Upper House.
Meadows" (Cromwell.) Charles A. In
gersoll clerk of the district court,
of Connecticut, certifes that a medical
book, by Samuel H. P, Lee, of New London
has been copyrighted. Another copy of the Ga
zette issued in 1898, advertises the Con-
necticut state lottery for the benefit of
the retreat for the insane. Kinney &
Raymond run a stage between Norwich
and New London every other day to con-
rect with the steamboat Long Branch, which
made two trips weekly for New York. VIM. B.
Taber kept the New London hotel. The Gazette
of May 30, 1916, has full report of the organi-
cation of the American Bible society. Lyman
Beecher, N. W. Taylor, Ichabod L. Skinner and
other Connecticut citizens were prominent in
organizing it. The steamboat Connecticut had
been launched in New York, and would soon be
completed 1t was 225 feet keel, five longer than
the Fulton. Maine voted to separate from Mas
sachusetts. An issue of the same paper, dated
Feb. p, 1899, publishes official proof that the
French minister Talleyrand demanded private
bride of $500 900 for the directors and ministers
of the French government before he would sign
q treaty for the cession of Louisiana to the
United States. The Gazette for 1889 contains
the proceedings of Gen. Washington's inaugu
ration as president.
Politicians are interested in examining the
Log Cabin, published by Horace Greeley & Co.
in 1910. One OF them contains poem entitled
"When this old hat was new, one verse of which
is as follows:
''When this old hat was new ptwas eighteen hum
bred seven)
Charles Ingersoi did declare, by all his hopes of
heaven,
Had he been able to reflect, he'd been tory true,
And never have thought 1t a 'reproach' when this
old hat was new"
James Brooks, of the New York Express, pub
fishes lengthy account of his visit TO General
Harrison. Van Buren's administration was
charged with spending in three years thirty-one
millions more than the whole revenue of the
government. The following lines were published
in q congressional speech:
MARY Rogers are case
And SO are Sally Thompson;
General Jackson are horse,
And so are Colonel Johnson"
During the "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" cam
paign a procession marched through Utica
which was five miles longl Harrison carried
Connecticut by $3.50 majority. VIM. w. Board
man was elected to congress over c. A. 1ngersoll
by majority of 1856.
The Norwich Republican and Stoningtou Tel.
egraph, for October Z, 1929, published in Nor
witch by VIM Faulkner, notices the dedication
of the Mariners church at Mystic Bridge, the
building Of the Stonington breakwaler, the
marriage of John F. Trumbull of Stonngton,
sailing of the schooner Penguin from Stoning-
ton to the Pacific ocean on a sealing voyage.
VIM. c, Gilman, secretary of the New London
county temperance society, calls a meeting in
"Rev. Mr.. Tutte's meeting house, North Gro
ton," (Ledyard). The sloop Teazer conveyed
passengers and freight between Norwich AMI
Albany. The Norwich and Boston mail stage
(yia Providence) made trips every day-ffteen
hours each way.
The Stonington Phoenix for September 20,
1880, and September 7, 1881, states that the fare
from Boston to New York, by way of stage to
New London and thence by boat, was reduced to
$3.50. Joseph Hyde kept the Norwich City
hotel. The Splendid low pressure" steamboats,
Oliver Ellsworth Capt Waterman), and Nc.
Donough Capt. Havens) each made two trips
to New York from Hartford per week. A stage
from New London to Lyme was run by Wm. G.
Ramsdell, connecting with the Hartford boats at
Lyme. Fare from New London to New York by
this route $3.50. The steamboat Matilda made
daily trips between Norwich and Saybrook, con-
Meeting with the Hartford boats for New York
The New London marine and fire insurance
company was in full operation with a capital of
S250,00O. A large number of slaves in Virginia
and North Carolina Tebelled against their own
ers, killing number of them.
The Phoenix or Windham Herald, published
in Windham, Connecticut, by John Byrne,
"north OF the court house," eight copies issued
in October and November Of 1898. A maig.
nant, putrid fever was destroying the people of
Philadelphia at the rate Of one hundred per day.
In the "new federal city," Washington the
presidents house was one story high, the capt.
tol and hotel in considerable state of forward
ness, and upward of fifty houses are finished.
There were twenty-one regiments of state mill
tia. The Indians in Georgia and the west were
and Others attacked white settlements in New
York and Tennessee. One hundred and seven
teen whites had been killed in "Mero district,
territory south of the Ohio" John Brainerd
was appointed sheriff of New Haven county in
place of Col. Fitch, deceased. A lengthy address
to the legislature was presented, protesting
against deyoting the moneys to be received from
the western reserve to the support of the clergy,
and asking that it might be used in building
permanent stone bridges on the main roads.
(FhiS became the school fund.- Gov. Samuel
Huntington ordered Thursday, Nov. 14th, to be
a day of public thanksgiving.
The Stonington Yankee for Oct. 6, 1924, pub.
lished by VIM. G. Storer, shows that the Borough
hotel was then kept by Paul Babcock, and the
the republican members of the legislature ex-
pressed their views on the proper man to nomi-
nate for president, as follows John Q. Adams,
1874; Andrew Jackson, IA; William H. Crawford
Z; Henry Clay,2.
The National Intelligencer for 1909, published
in Washington, is mainly filled with congress
sional reports 1t also contains such advertise
ments as the follwowing: For sale, a valuable
family of negroes, consisting of a man who is
carpenter his wife and seven children-all young
and healthy" Thirty dollars reward will be
paid for the return of q negro man named
George, thirty-6ve years of age, who has proba-
bly, gone to Rockingham county, Virginia, in
pursuit of person he claims as his wife, who
was sold by me to man in that county," "Ten
dollars reward will be paid for the return of a
mulatto man named Peter, blacksmith, who is
supposed to be lurking near Fairfax Court
House, where his mother is owned."-Neoo Ha-
zen Palladium.
The CoRDILLERAs MoUNTAINs.-Th path
had become so narrow writes a traveler) that it
seemed to me, as it wound itself round pro-