185 YEARS AGO: Horse Stealing—A meeting of the owners of horses and those opposed to horse stealing in the Town of Otsego will be held at the house of Wm. Lewis in the Village of Cooperstown on Thursday the 16th of September at 1 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of forming a society for the prevention of horse stealing, and the detection of horse thieves. Sig. Many Horse Owners. September 13, 1841…
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135 YEARS AGO: The McCammon piano factory is the scene of bustling activity this week. Already, seventeen carloads of machinery and material have arrived from Albany and the factory so long silent resounds with the sound of hammers and the step of workmen.…
210 YEARS AGO: The Lottery—In the last class of the Medical Science Lottery, the number 12,129 drew a prize of 25,000 dollars, and was sold in eights. Seven eights were soon claimed and proceeds received by the respective owners. But to the surprise of the office which sold it, the remaining eighth had never been claimed.…
160 YEARS AGO: Matrimonial Awakening—Young men and bachelors cannot you inaugurate a matrimonial revival? Are you to allow the balmy evenings, with their soft and gentle moonlight, to waste away in unprofitable silence? Are you ever dreaming of dollars, and watching crops and gold fluctuations? Will you never tire of those four old black walls that seem to hold every thought and impulse?…
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...…
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.…
