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210 YEARS AGO: (Reprinted from the Niagara Journal) Steam-Boats—Repeated experiments which have been made in this country and Europe appear to have established a confidence that steam boats, if properly constructed, can navigate the oceans in safety, even in the most tempestuous weather...…

160 YEARS AGO: The Second Carnival which came off on our skating park Monday evening last, was a decided success. The illuminations, principally by paper-colored lanterns, were a very attractive feature. The music by the Seminary Band added life to the whole affair.…

185 YEARS AGO: Death by Freezing—A man named Conrad Valhyder, supposed to be about 80 years of age, came to his death on the 10th inst. The deceased lived by himself in a small house in Hancock, Delaware County...…

210 YEARS AGO: Amongst the numerous Petitions read in the house today, was one from Francis Henry, Billings Brown and Charles Mason, of the County of Otsego, complaining of irregular practices, at the late election in the Town of Pittsfield...…

160 YEARS AGO: There are in New York City today several hundred returned soldiers, who are homeless, houseless, and hungry. They have no shelter at night save the Police station-houses; no food, save the cold victuals obtained by begging....…

135 YEARS AGO: Dr. Lynn Babcock of Norwich, known to many of our readers personally, and to others as a noted teacher of piano music and conductor of concerts, and as a dealer in musical instruments, belongs to a rare type of Americans...…

210 YEARS AGO: Gas Light—We learn by the late English papers, that Covent Garden Theatre, and a number of London streets, are now illuminated by Gas Lights. They are represented as being infinitely less noxious and lastly more economical that the common lamplight by oil.…

Advertisement: I want all persons to settle up with me for Newspapers, particularly those living off the road, and I will engage to furnish them with papers as usual, provided they will be punctual in paying me. My dues are in small sums...…

210 YEARS AGO: There are five notices of applications in the legislature of this state affecting the interests of this county, all of which, should they be granted, would in a great measure, go to annihilate the County of Otsego from the proud and respectable stand she has hitherto held in the state.…

180 YEARS AGO: The Harm of Hoaxes—Burying Alive! Excerpts from a letter to Col. Prentiss, Editor of The Freeman’s Journal: “I was much gratified on learning that the melancholy story that the corpse of a young lady of Baltimore, who was supposed to have died in a fit, and was a day or two afterwards placed in a vault...…