Newport, October 3.—The American historian, George Bancroft, celebrated his 80th anniversary at his summer residence at this place to-day. During the day a large number of personal and ...
Article : 217 wordsThe National Convention of Shipowners which meet in Boston this week (says the NEW YORK HERALD of October 9) will have no more important subject to consider than the striking decline of ...
Article : 425 wordsSan Francisco, Cal., September 17.—A despatch from Virginia City says: "An accident at the Consolidated Imperial mine last night resulted in the death of nine men, land one other ...
Article : 304 wordsSan Francisco, Cal., September 24, 1880.—A Boise City (Idaho) despatch says:—Six conviots, while at work half a mile from the Penitentiary overpowered the guard, obtained arms and fled, ...
Article : 78 wordsSamuel J Ramsey, a brother of Mr. George Ramsey, of Illinois, and n well-to-do farmer of Clayton township in Burlington county, North America, died at an early hour yesterday from ...
Article : 103 wordsNatchez, Miss., September 24, 1880.—The steamer Florence Meyer, from Cincinnati, struct a snag, about 3 o'clock this morning, at Bullitt's Bayou, 12 miles above Natchez, and sunk to the ...
Article : 80 wordsWashington, October 4.—Commander Huntington, of the United States steamer Alert, in an report to the Navy Department just received, says that while on a surveying cruise in the ...
Article : 322 wordsMilwaukee, WIS., September 20.—A despatch to the SENTINEL says:—"A mainden lady, named Nancy Heywood, living with her brother in the town of Rockland, Manitowoe county, was ...
Article : 97 wordsIn a work entitled " The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century," Jules Verne gives the following account of certain islanders called the Orotchys:—The huts of these islanders, who call ...
Article : 413 wordsGold, said Professor Egleton the other day at the New York Academy of Science, has hitherto been considered by chemists as one of the most insoluble substances in nature, but in reality it is ...
Article : 85 wordsWarren Smith, the American sculler, whilst practising on Bedford Basin near Halifax, the other day, was pursued by a shark, which several times tried to seize the boat in its jaws. The ...
Article : 274 wordsLondon, October 12.—Mr. Froude, the historian, has written to an Irish gentlemna a letter which is printed in THE TIMES to-day. He says: —The present state of things cannot last, and ...
Article : 209 wordsThe jury in the Goeraenoase, after being out all night, returned n verdiet this morning of murder in the first degree. Dr. Goeraon did not manifest the slightest emotion when the result was ...
Article : 433 wordsNofolk, Va., October 2, 1880.—This afternoon, about 4 o'clock, an accidental fire broke out among the cotton stored in the forward hold of the Old Dominion Steamship Company's steamer ...
Article : 555 wordsDetroit, Mich., September 20.—A terrible tragedy occurred at the residence of Andrew Tiffany, about two milels west of Janesville, Hillsdale county, on Sunday afternoon. Henry ...
Article : 195 wordsMr. Redpath is a Republican, of the most uncompromising order. As a Republican he whips. Mr. Jefferson Brick out of his boots, if we may be allowed for the moment to adopt such a mode of ...
Article : 486 wordsDenver, Col., September 15.—The Santa Fe NEW MEXICAN publishes an account of a duel between a Ute Indian and a Navajo, which took place last Thursday. A few friends of the Indians ...
Article : 64 wordsPIttston, Pa., September 20.—The family of J. D. Carl, of Pleasant Valley, consisting of himself, his wife, and one child, also Mr. and Mrs. Woodward, of Mill Creek, together with a hired girl, ...
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 4 Dec 1880, Page 41
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