The Swanswick Ball—Mr. Shaw (Editor of The Freeman’s Journal): It is an easy matter to sum up the ball given at Swanswick-on-the-Lake last Thursday night. Every one of the 130 departing guests gave voice to the simple truth when, in making their adieu—anywhere between the hours of three and four in the morning—they sincerely and elatedly thanked Mr. and Mrs. Pell Clarke for a “perfectly delightful ball,” without a grain of extravagance in the saying.…
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The citizens of Oneonta and vicinity are requested to meet at the High School room on Friday evening, August 24, for the purpose of organizing a Society to procure funds to erect a monument to the memory of soldiers from this town, who died while in the service or were killed during the late rebellion…
190 YEARS AGO: The party opposed to the Democracy, having failed of success under every cognomen they assumed, such as Federalists, National Republicans, Peoples-men, No-Party-Party, Tariff-men, Anti-masons, and last of all Whigs, have resorted to a new expedient to get up an interest favorable to the design of elevating themselves to power.…
160 YEARS AGO: Military Encampment—We see by orders posted about our streets that the 39th Regiment commanded by Colonel Hubbard, and the 41st Regiment commanded by Colonel Dunbar, will encamp in this village on land owned by E.R. Ford, Esq. for drill &c., commencing Monday September 17 and will remain until Saturday, September 22.…
135 YEARS AGO: News Items—The dancers at the Paris Opera—some of them—are paid $30,000 per annum. John B. Gough’s house is for sale. It has all the modern improvements except a wine cellar. A man drew a wagon weighing 520 pounds, eleven and a half miles in Mantus County, Ohio one day last week, winning a wager of $40.…
160 YEARS AGO: The Freeman’s Journal is now about the oldest country newspaper in the State, and one of the oldest papers in the Union, having been established by the late Col. J.H. Prentiss in 1808.…
135 YEARS AGO: Case of Elopement reported in the Albany Express—Last Thursday afternoon a telegram was received at police headquarters from one Jacob Winne of Oneonta, requesting the arrest and detention of his wife Sally Winne and Lemuel Higgins, who had eloped together, and would arrive in this city on the afternoon train.…
150 YEARS AGO: Are lead pipes poisonous? The question of lead poisoning is attracting considerable attention at the present time. There has been a large and influential gathering of scientific gentlemen and representatives of the Water Boards of New York and Brooklyn, and delegates from the Board of Education of the former city at the Manhattan Lead Works, to witness tests and inquire into the merits of the lead encased block-tin pipe.…
185 YEARS AGO: Advertisement—Carriage builders—The Subscriber is now receiving a very general assortment of materials for building and trimming carriages in the most fashionable style. He believes that builders will not be under the necessity of going to Utica or Albany to obtain materials for building a carriage.…
185 YEARS AGO: Complaints have been made to us from the post offices in New Berlin, Columbus, Sherburne and elsewhere, of delays in receiving this newspaper through the mail; in answer we have to say, that the packages for those places are timely made up by us and deposited in this post office for transmission to their destinations – so that the fault of delay is not with us, but must rest upon Mr. Granger’s subordinates...…
