Untitled CONNECTICUT OBSERVER
From Around the Globe
Domestic Affairs
Constantinople - Dervishes
Dakota - Dakota Language Book Published
London - Banker Fails
Philadelphia- Steam Ship Launch
Palestine - Rocky Country
New York - Importation of Wheat
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Patent Feather Dressing |
The Protection Insurance Company |
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Hull's Trusses |
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This paper contains much interesting information. Of note is the introduction of the new "Seated Liberty Dime".
It has a six-column layout with a banner along the top of the front page. Many articles in this newspaper deal with missionary work both in the US and worldwide. Additional ads are help wanted, dry goods, etc.The items listed and quoted are only a small portion of what is in this entertaining and historically significant newspaper.
This CONNECTICUT OBSERVER has strong religious content, deaths, marriages, murders, fires and everything you'd expect in a newspaper, except comics. If you've read this far you know what a find this CONNECTICUT OBSERVER is.
Here are some excerpts:
The Dime:
A friend showed us Saturday a ten cent piece of a new coinage; it is smaller in circumference than those formerly emitted. On one side are the words ONE DIME, encircled with a wreath; on the other is a fine cut figure of liberty - not the old head and trunk, that looked so flaring out from our coin - but a neat, tidy female figure, sufficiently dressed, holding in one hand a staff, surmounted with a liberty cap; the other hand sustains a shield inscribed with the word LIBERTY. The figure is in a sitting posture, and resembles, generally, the representation of Britannia on the English coins.
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Launch of the Pennsylvania:
"We learn from passengers who arrived in the steam boat from Philadelphia this morning that this noble ship was launched from the Navy yard yesterday afternoon about half past two o'clock, in fine style. … She is to carry 140 guns, thirty-two pounders, so that every time she discharges a full broadside, she will dispose of precisely a ton of bullets, to help make pebbless for the bottom of the ocean, unless she happens to hit the enemy."
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Sioux. -
..."Dr. Watts' Second Catechism for children has been translated into the Sioux or Dakota language, by Doct. Williamson of the mission to that tribe, aided by interpreters, and five hundred copies of it, embracing twelve duodecimo pages, have been printed in Boston.".
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Constantinople -
"… There are in Broosa at least twelve monasteries for dervishes, and the whole number belonging to the various orders of dervishes is not less than five hundred. They have a great influence with the common people, although the intelligence of the great body of them is below that of the middling classes of society here. With the Mussulman in high life, a dervish is not respected, unless he should be a learned man …"
This article describes the author's impressions of the Mussulmen and continues for 32 column inches.Back
Timothy Wiggin, Esq.
"the London Banker, whose failure is reported by the last arrival from Liverpool, is a native of Hopkinton in this State. He resided some years in this city, and then went to England, where he has continued ever since, and where he has been considered one of the most responsible and respectable Bankers in the American loans. - Notwithstanding the extent of his business, he has been in the habit of keeping his own books and negociating his own loans; and the amenity and suavity of his manners, added to his strict aad uncompromising integrity, has gained him the esteem of all with whom he has held any business transactions. The failure of such men is a public calamity, and can be accounted for only by those mischances of fate from which the most active business habits and the most acute foresight do not form an exemption."
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Palestine
Jaffa, Syria, Sept. 30th, 1836
The great quantities of rock on the surface, and the little earth that at times is to be seen, must at first strike the observer as a great objection to this country, and no doubt but it is an objection of some weight, and may lead to the inquiry, how could such a rocky land be called the land flowing with milk and honey - the glory of all lands.
There are many districts no doubt, that are badly infested with rock, yet the soil among those rocks is of a very superior kind, and were the rock somewhat broken up, and most of it the soft kind, and the large pieces piled, and the small mixed with the soil, it might be made very productive. -"
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Importation of Wheat - At New York -
From a table which we find in the New York Farmer, it appears that whole amount of wheat imported into New York,
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Bushels |
In the year 1835, was |
18,200 |
In the year 1836, |
493,700 |
1837, up to 19th April |
854,000 |
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1,365,900 |
At Rochester |
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In the year 1835, |
5,000 |
In the year 1836, |
223,700 |
To this time in 1837, only about |
10,000 |
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328,000 |
Besides these, considerable quantities have been received at other cities on the seaboard, and more or less must have reached Oswego, Ogdensburgh, &c. from Canada.
The 1,395,900 bushels, above enumerated as received at New York, was imported from the following countries:
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Bushels |
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Bushels |
England |
552,500 |
Germany |
393,600 |
Holland |
170,800 |
Italy |
153,000 |
Russia |
39,600 |
France |
35,500 |
Austria |
10,100 |
Prussia |
8,000 |
Sicily |
5,400 |
Denmark |
1,000 |
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Condition:
This one sheet, four page paper was apparently bound at one time.There are several round holes along the spine where binding thread undoubtedly passed. About that spine - it is worn through in some places, most notably near the top. However, none of this interferes with text or illustrations. There is one very small hole in the text on pages three and four due to a fold. It is through the descender of the letter "g" on page four and through the word "and" on page three.
There is light staining and overall yellowing. But it has a nice appearance.Unlike many copies of the Connecticut Observer, this one is cut quite evenly providing ample margins are both top and bottom. There are several creases, some lighter than others.
All of this being detailed my general impression is that this is in about good, or better,condition.
All text is easily readable.
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