Rochester, Monroe, NY
Rochester Daily Advertiser
Apr. 25, 1837
MEMORANDA
The Thames tunnel has advanced 730 feet passing under the deepest part of the River, 135 feet from the place where
the masonry once gave way, and will soon be finished. What has become of the proposed tunnel under the Hudson at
Albany ! Too great a bore to be rashly undertaken.
The fact that one ox, fatted in Madison county, lately sold for $1,000 in New York (the quarters weighing about
500 lbs each) shows what may be effected by thrifty farmers in raising stock.
The journeyman printer who found a check for $3,400 in New York, was rewarded by the owner (Mr. ROGERS - his christian
name should be given) and the mighty sum of one whole dollar. Such liberality is encouraging for honest poverty.
The proposition to exclude Bishops from political privileges in the British House of Lords, was lately rejected
by a majority of 105.
Geo. THOMPSON, who stabbed BUSTARD in Barnum's Hot l, Baltimore, is sentenced to the Penitentiary for 10 years.
Mrs. PHILLIPS, near Schoharie, lately continued in fit of sonmolency for sixty days and nights, although strong
efforts were made to awaken her.
Houses of Industry are being established in the several districts of Upper Canada.
Philadelphia and Baltimore are making liberal appropriations for ice-boats to keep open the navigation of the Delaware
and Patapsco during winter.
4,320 unmarried ladies in Charleston, S. C., between the ages of 15 and 50 !
Rev. Mr. HARVEY'S Baptist Church in East Cambridge, Mass., was lately burnt - insured for $3,000.
Failures in the shoe trade in Salem have caused several failures in Lynn, Mass., &c.
The Albany Journal states that a man named KIBBY is indicted for three attempts to burn a house on the corner of
Lidius and Green streets - adding that "the affair wears something like a Helen-Jewett aspect.
Power, the celebrated comedian, fell from his horse in Baltimore, and broke his collar-bone.
Apr. 28, 1837
MEMORANDA
Segars charged with powder have caused some accidents — which might be the less regretted if the filthy practice
of smoking could be thereby explored.
A man in Philadelphia attempted to blow his brains out, but luckily his skull was bullet-proof.
A Prussian print, after stating that the manufacture of beet-sugar is extending in Austria, mentions a discovery
of importance connected therewith. It is ascertained that excellent paper can be made from the residurn of the
root after the juice is extracted — which residurn is also useful for feeding cattle.
The way they live in some places is worthy of notice these hard times. In one of the hard featured villages down-
cast, a stranger jocularly asked a boy "wha' the people do for a living." "Do" - why when strangers
come here we skin them; and when they don't come, we skin one another."
Ab'm VAN BUREN is private secretary to the President.
The King of Prussia is fast declining with chronic ?ffuetlon of the liver.
A Russian U. Kase excludes all Poles from any high employment till after five years service in the Russian army.
The Spanish Cortes, on the 18th March, was expected to discuss the system on which the island of Cuba was hereafter
to be regulated.
On the farm of E. CULLINGS in Schoharie co., two ewes produced 7 lambs (one 4, the other 3) at a birth - all alive
and kicking.
Some whiggish wags expunged Mr. BENTON's name from a tavern register in Wheeling, by drawing black lines around
it. Mr. BENTON has cracked too many serious jokes upon their party, to be nettled by such a good-natured quiz.
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