---------- From: Richard Palmer <richardp@dreamscape.com> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:09:37 -0600 To: <NY-OLD-NEWS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: History of Port of Oswego Oswego Daily Palladium, Friday, March 26, 1897 Early Days On The Lakes _____ Captain Molther's Paper Read Last Night _____ Interesting Reminiscences and Personal Experiences of the Captain's Boyhood Day - A Comparison That Shows the Decline of Oswego's Commercial Prosperity. Captain John Molther, United States Inspector of Hulls for Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, read an interesting paper entitled "Reminiscences of Early Days on Lakes," before the the Men's Club of Christ Church at the parish house last evening. There was a large attendance of members, the number, including vessel masters and men who have sailed. Captain Molther told of his first experience on the lakes. It was on a scow schooner chartered to carry seine fishermen from Port Ontario to Chaumont Bay. The water became rough before Chaumont was reached and the fishermen were nearly all sea sick. One man named Coon had rolled himself and his loaded rifle up in a blanket and rolled about the deck. When cautioned of his danger he replied: "I don't care which goes off first; the gun or me." The next Fall Captain Molther made a voyage in the schooner White Cloud from Chaumont to Oswego, with a load of fish, the freight being twenty-five cents a barrel and the distance forty miles. Flour is now carried from Duluth to Buffalo, nearly 1,000 miles for ten cents a barrel. The trip was a remarkable one as the White Cloud encountered head winds and the provisions gave out excepting pork and fish. he awoke one Sunday morning and found the schooner moored to an old landing at Stony Point and there after a walk of two miles got a five pound loaf of bread that had been baked in a kettle in a fireplace, for a shilling, and it was just the best bread he ever ate. The harbor at Oswego was then different from now. The West pier was the same out to the stone lighthouse but there weres no projecting piers North of South as now. There were no docks under the fort bank in those days. The big lumber district had not been erected. The place was then known as Grampus Bay. The island in the river only extended down to about Schuyler Street. There were no tugs and vessels had to sail in and out of port. In those days the master of a vessel would think he was getting good dispatch if he unloaded 150 tons of freight in two days. Now they can unload 4,000 tons of grain and load as much coal in the same day. The principal vessels owners in those days were Sylvester Doolittle, Bronson & Crocker and Fitzhugh & Littlejohn. There was a daily line of steamers between Lewiston and Ogdensburg, stopping en route at Oswego, Sackets Harbor and Kingston. The landing dock was then the popular resort. Among the prominent shipbuilders of Oswego was Mr. George Goble, whose yard was at the foot of West Second Street, and who today is hale and hearty at the age of seventy-eight years. The number of vessels hailing from Oswego increased rapidly between the years 1850 and 1857. The panic of the latter year was disastrous to vessel owners. In 1855 the firm of Penfield, Lyon & Company, millers, owned the schooners Melrose, Merrimac and Manitou and built the schooner George Steel at Three Mile Bay. In 1856 there were four schooners launched in Oswego in one day, namely: Titan, Dreadnaught, E.W. Cross. The name of the fourth Captain Molther could not recall. After 1857 vessel building ceased until 1861. In 1862, Goble built the schooner Thomas S. Mott for the gentleman whose name she bore. Mr. Mott paid for building more vessels in Oswego than any other resident of the city. In the sixties the most prominent vessel owners were Thomas S. Mott, George Finney & Daniel Lyons, Morgan M. Wheeler and Michael J. Cummings. All vessels built for Lake Ontario trade were made to conform to the capacity of the locks in the Welland Canal. Vessels built previous to 1870, with a carrying capacity, of from thirty-five to forty thousand bushels, were not greater earners, pro rate, than the canal vessels. One reason was that shippers were not rich enough to buy large cargoes When the immense amount of money spent during the Rebellion had been concentrated into a few hands and the channels between Buffalo and Chicago had been deepened to sixteen feet, while a twelve-foot vessel could get to but one dock in Oswego, the crisis came and with a free Erie Canal, Oswego's importance as a lake terminal ceased. In the old days Buffalo and Oswego were rivals for the business of the West. Buffalo won because the United States would not build a canal around Niagara Falls. It was Buffalo, also, that advocated the abolishing of tolls on the state canals. This was a blow to the forwarding and commission business of Oswego, as all grain using the Welland Canal was required to pay a duty of six dollars per thousand bushels. When state canal tolls existed the tolls from Buffalo to Syracuse equaled the tolls through the Canadian canal, and as the Oswego route was the shortest, it was the cheapest and best. Captain Molther alluded to Oswego's liberality in bonding $1,100,000 for railroads and says the bonding proved a curse, rather than a blessing. The city has paid more than $2,000,000 in taxes for interest on those bonds. One reason why Oswego has not grown in proportion to other cities may be found in the confidence which holders of real estate forty years ago had in Oswego as the location for a manufacturing and commercial city. Waterpower sites were considered more valuable than gold mines. Flouring mills were the principal manufacturing industries in Oswego. Big, pretentious buildings that gave employment to but a few. The Kingsfords were the only manufacturers in Oswego that employed men. Thousands turned to the lakes in those days for employment and found it, and the "Shipmasters' Ball" was one of the features after the close of the season of navigation. There are but few of the descendants of the men who were prominent in business thirty years ago, prominently connected with business today in Oswego. Among the exceptions are Kingsford, Sloan, Mott, Ames and Oliphant. Returning to the question of shipping, Captain Molther says that between 1861 and 1874 Goble sometimes had two or three vessels on the stocks at one time. Investments in vessel property brought large and quick returns. One of Mr. Mott's vessels, launched in August, 1872, cost $25,000. When she was laid up at the end of the season of 1873 she had $17,500 to her credit. The banner year was 1872. In 1873 there were 684 vessels enrolled in the Oswego Custom House. In 1896 there were twenty-seven. The largest vessel ever built in Oswego was less than 400 tons measurement and would carry about 700 tons. The average trip to Chicago consumed from thirty to thirty-five days. From six to seven round trips were made in a season. Steamers now make sixteen or seventeen round trips in a season. Captain Molther closed with a comparison of the business of the Suez and Soo canals.

Oswego Daily Palladium, Sat., Aug. 31, 1872 ROBBING SAILORS - For men who travel so much and are brought in contact with so many sharks, no class are so easily gulled as sailors. The world over they aee the prey of keepers of low dives and are plucked with the least unconcern as though their hard earnings belong to others than themselves. In New York and other large sea ports they are drugged, "shanghied" and put aboard of ships outward bound on long passages, with no clothing except the scanty garments they wear, with their advance money safely stowed in the pocket of the land shark, while they have enough for "tobacco money." And when they return after a two or three year voyage, with a pocket so full of money that it vies them a "list," how eagerly they make a "pier head jump" and steer straight for the hell dives, to be robbed, beaten, and shipped again the next day, while in a drunken stupor, for another long voyage. On the lakes no advance is made to seamen, so the land pirates must wait until Jack has made a trip befoe he becomes fruit for them. Oswego has always had a good name among seamen as a safe place where he was free from the toils of the thieves, but it seems we are about to lose our reputation, as robbing sailors had commenced here. One night last week a sailor was paid off, leaving his vessel here, with fifty-two dollars in money, and as his toggery was not very good purchased a suit of clothes for twenty-seven dollars, and with the balance of cash in his pocket started down Water street to see what was going on. Dropping into one of the dens where a large, masculine woman was tending bar, he hoisted in two or three drinks of poison and then was ready for anything. The vampire bartender saw Jack had money, cajoled him out of four dollars to buy a dress and then informed him that the house was free to him, and as he was drunk he had better go to bed. The sailor took the advice, went to bed, and slept in drunken stupor until late in the morning, when he got up and found that his clothes were gone and with them his money. He called the landlady (!) and when she appeared made known his grievance. She was horrified that such a thing should happen in her house, - that clothes and money must have been taken by another drunken sailor, who stole out before dayloght. After some little time she finally clothed the plucked pigeon with a ragged, cast off suitm and turned him adrift without his breakfast. Like nine tenths of the sailors, rather than make a complaint to the police, he looked upon it as a natural consequence, shipped again on a vessel just ready to leave for Chicago and was off.

The New York Times, 23 June 1903 HAS RICHEST OF MINES Pedro Alvarado, a Poor Laborer a Few Years Ago, Now Has Incalculable Wealth. PARRAL, Mexico, June 22.--The richness of the Palmillo mine, situated here, is attracting the attention of the mining world. It was discovered about four years ago by Pedro Alvarado, who was a peon workman in a mine at 60 cents a day. He still owns the mine, which is believed to be the richest in the world. The American Smelting and Refining Company, through its Mexican branch, the Guggenheim Exploration Company, has just made an unsuccessful effort to open negotiations with Alvarado to purchase the mine. Alvarado has nearly a thousand burros carrying bullion from his mine to the railroad. At the works of the Palmillo mine he has a steel cage in which there are bars of gold and silver valued at $60,000,000. Lately a new vein had been struck in the mine which assays about $100 gold and $500 silver to the ton. Alvarado recently offered to pay the public debt of Mexico as a donation to the government. His offer was rejected by Minister Limantour.

Republican Advocate Batavia, Genesee Co., NY March 25 1831 MARRIED. In Pembroke, by J.D. SAFFORD, Esq. Alfred SHEPHERD, Esq to Mrs. McQUAIN--Mr. Ira FALES, to Miss Malinda CRANE, all of that town. In Le Roy, on the 20th inst. by Wm. HOLBROOK Esq. Mr. David YOUNG, to Miss Cornelia Van VALKENBURGH. *** DIED. In this town, on the 18th inst. an infant child of Mr. Stacy HOLDEN. In Bethany, on the 24th ult. Mr. Stephen WRIGHT, aged 72 years, a patriot of the revolution. At New London, Conn. Mrs. Ann HUNTINGTON, aged 77, widow of the late Gen. Jedediah HUNTINGTON. *** Galvanism.--The Boston Ralladium relates an amusing and singular incident which is said to have occurred a few evenings ago at a lecture room in Boston. Some galvanic experiments were to be made, and a large dog being selected for the purpose, he was executed about fifteen minutes before the commencement of the lecture. It being necessary to expose muscles or nerves to the action of the battery, the dog's tail was then cut off. At the first application of the galvanic power, poor Tray, who had been only stunned by the blows he had received from the executioner, roused himself, and, with a jump, and a growl, seized the first man in his way by the calf of the leg, and then in spite of canes and umbrellas, he ran spattering blood profusely upon every body, to the door, which the scientific company were very glad to open for his escape. *** >From Mexico.--The Register Official of Feby. 22, contains a decree of Congress, sanctioned by the acting President, BUSTAMENTE, granting a pension of $3,000 per annum to citizen Bernardo Gonzales ANGELO. A pension of $3000 has also been granted to the wife and daughter of GUERRERO. * Oajaca, Feby. 15.-Yesterday, Gen. GUERRERO was shot in the town of Cuilapan, two leagues distant from this city.--He availed himself of the necessary helps and preparations for a good death, which fact he experienced,-for with resignation to his punishment he only concerned himself to go into eternity as a true Catholic, who, if he feared the tremendous judgment of a severe and infallible judge, confided in his inexhaustible compassion, and was very far from saying like Cain, "My punishment is greater than I can bear." *** To Rent. (from the first day of May next.) The yellow house on court st. formerly occupied by Benjamin ALLEN,, and now occupied by R.A. DICKINSON and S.B. SHERMAN. - Apply to H & E.C. KIMBERLY. Batavia. *** To Rent. The Academy, near the Episcopal Church. It is well fitted up with benches, desks, &c., and two good stoves. It has been lately occupied for a select school. Apply to H.&E.C. KIMBERLY. Batavia. *** The Co-partnership heretofore existing between Philip E. SMITH and N.W. TOWNSEND, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.--All those indebted to said firm, and those having demands against them, will call on N.W. TOWNSEND who is duly authorised to settle all demands. Philip E. SMITH N.W. TOWNSEND. Attica. *** submitted by L.C. Schmidt

THE MARION ENTERPRISE Marion, Wayne Co., NY Sat., Jan. 7, 1888 Personal Mr. A.S. FINN and wife have returned home. Vernon RICE is recovering from a severe illness. J. WHITTLETON, from Ontario made us a pleasant call, Tuesday. Miss Bertie CORY of Webster was a guest of Emma BURRUD last week. W.H. LOOKUP and Mrs. A. GARLOCK, left for New York last Saturday. Alex THOMPSON, from New York, is spending the week at his parent's residence. Lewis ANTISDALE spent the Holidays with his parents. We understand Lewis is having excellent success as a teacher. Everett ROWLEY, from Waterport, has been visiting relatives here the past week. Mr. and Mrs. C.F. SWEEZEY pleasantly entertained a select company Wednesday evening. May GARLOCK acompanied her mother and Mr. LOOKUP to New York. The friends of A.M. GARLOCK are very sad on account of his severe illness, with little prospect of his recovery. Mr.and Mrs. C.E. ALLEN leave this Saturday to resume school work in Medina. Mr. and Mrs. Claud JAGGER have returned from their eastern trip. Ed. CROUCHER and Geo. GILLETTE and Dennison OLMSTED have returned to Rochester,and Ira CROUCHER to Canandaigua to resume school work. C.C. POTTER has accepted a position to work at his trade, at Pittston, Penn. He will commence work about Feb. 1. Mr. POTTER is a first class workman and his services demand a good salary. Thomas SHIMMINS surprised his parents, Christmas eve. by an unexpected visit. The welcome was a glad one. Thomas has been engaged in the cattle raising business, in Iowa, for the past four years. Submitted by Sandy Luss

Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican Dec. 7, 1848 MARRIED In this city, Nov. 3, by Rev. A. G. HALL, Mr. George TYLER to Miss Sarah PARSONS, daughter of James PARSONS, Esq., all of Riga. In Milo Centre, on the 22d ult., Mr. Charles R. KELSEY to Miss M. Elizabeth SAWYER. In Dundee, on the 16th(?) ult, Mr. Miram LONGCOY, to Miss Mary Jane DAVIS. In South Bristol, Oct 31, Ashael PENOYER to Miss Juliett HOLCOMB. On the 22d ult. Aaron WALLENBECK to Miss Sophia HESSENGER. In Mt. Morris, Nov. 23d, Mr. Daniel FRIAR to Miss Mary E. BODINE. Mr. Wilson B. WARFORD to Miss Nancy H. LEONARD. In DANSVILLE, Nov. 21st, John B. SMITH to Sarah D. BELLAMY In Farmersville, Nov. 21st. Mr. Thomas M. TOWNSEND, of Benton, to Miss Sarah M. RAPPLEYE. **** DIED In Farmington, Nov. 23d, Mr. Gideon PAYNE, aged 63 years. In South Bristol, Nov. 17, Hester Ann, wife of Roderic I. HOLCOMB, aged 39 years. In Dundee, Nov. 23d, Mrs. SWARTS, wife of Tewalt SWARTS, Jr., aged 66 years. At Honeoye Falls, Nov. 29th, of pulmonary consumption, Stephen A. LEACH, aged 6 years. -Funeral services by the Rev. Dr. VAN INGEN, at St. John's Church, Honeoye Falls, this Friday morning at 11 o'clock. In Mt. Morris, on the 22d ult, Hannah, wife of Andrew WHITENACK, aged 49 years. On the 25th ult, Mr. Jacob BUMP, aged 60 years. In Jasper, Nov. 17, Edna BELLEN, adopted daughter of Richard H. and Sarah SHEFFIELD, aged 22 years. In Lockport, Nov. 6th, Mr. Isaac PRICK, aged 73 years. In Geneva, Nov. 22d, Mrs. MARR, wife of Joseph BLOSSOM, aged 72 years. In Wheatland, on the 3d inst., Mrs. Mercy GARBUTT, wife of John GARBUTT. ** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS

The New York Times, 23 June 1903 WIFE LEGALLY BEATS VETERAN. ----- Kentucky Way of Dealing with Man Who Spent Pension Money on Liquor. LEXINGTON, Ky., June 22.--Henderson Cass, aged seventy-six years, was horse-whipped in public to-day by his wife by order of Judge Riley, before whom Cass was arraigned on a warrant sworn out by his wife, charging him with squandering his pension money and habitual drunkenness. Judge Riley obtained a buggy whip and instructed Mrs. Cass to lay it on the naked back of her husband until he promised to do better. After several hard blows before a curious crowd the veteran begged for mercy, and promised he would turn his money over to his wife every quarter. He was allowed to depart with his wife amid the cheers of the crowd. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Daily News Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Tuesday Evening, November 30 1886 SEAVER &. HALL ASSIGN. The Well Known Byron Merchants Fall For a Large Amount. The general assignment of the mercantile firm of SEAVER & HALL of Byron Centre and of the members of the firm, Hon. Chillers A. SEAVER and Seth C. HALL, was executed this morning and filed promptly in the County Clerk's office. Pliny B. FISK of Byron is the assignee. The assignment, together with the lists of preferred creditors, makes a voluminous document. The total amount of indebtedness given in the assignment is $15,591.43. The inventory of assets and schedule of total liabilities have not yet been filed. *** The Batavia Relief Association. Twelve members of the Batavia Relief Association, Poormaster CROSS and Secretary YATES met at Mrs. ENSIGN's last evening. The minutes of the last meeting were read. The number of persons aided the last week and the donation sent in were recorded, and it would seem a generous Thanksgiving was enjoyed by many whose needs would never have been known except through this organization. Thanksgiving collections from the German Lutheran church and from the Free Will Baptist church were handed in by representative of the same, also one dollar from a lady, which made the whole amount (cash) $10.50. *** NEIGHBORING TOWNS. Events of Interest in Pavilion, Akron. Christmas festivities are already announced as follows: On Christmas Eve the Baptist people hold forth at their church with a tree, we are informed. On the evening following at the M.E. church reindeer and sleigh will bring presents to each and all of the Sunday school children. The Ladies' Aid Society of the M.E. church will hold a basket social the residence of Mrs. D.B. HEATH on Friday evening, Dec 3d. Each lady present is expected to be provided with a box of eatables sufficient for herself and also for the gentleman who may chance to purchase the same. The small sum of twenty-five cents will be charged for the box and contents and the privilege of dividing with the lady. Coffee furnished without charge by the society. On Sunday evening next there will be union gospel services at the Baptist church under the auspices of the W.C.T.U. Rev. J.F. BROWN, pastor of the M.E. church, is announced to preach the sermon. The Baptist mite society met last evening with Mrs. J.C. WARD and on Friday evening next they meet again at the parsonage. The Hoe press and Shipman engine for the use of the W.G. & Son A. W. Co. arrived yesterday and was put in place under the supervision of Mr. A. SORGE of Rochester. Miss GILMORE of York is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. C.D. SAPP. The funeral services of Mr. Alonzo HEATH were attended from the Free Methodist church on Sunday. Mr. HEATH was until a few years ago a resident of the town of Bethany. The funeral was largely attended, being under the auspices of the Knights of Labor, of which he was a member. He was a veteran of the late war. Burt STEVENS of Batavia is visiting friends here. Burt is a brakeman on the Peanut. He got his hand smashed the other day and has a furlough until it gets well. Mrs. Chas. HILL of East Akron is quite sick, and small hope of her recovery is entertained. Mr. J.W. TUTTLE is getting ready to move his stock into W.N. HOAG's new block. Mr. LONGMOLE moves his jewelry stock into the new block also. The new time card on the West Shore makes Akron a first-class station. All passenger trains stop here. No place like home is what Mr. and Mrs. BOSTWICK say after a pretty extensive travel in the West. George says he could write a book, but he won't. The entertainment by the German church on Thanksgiving evening was attended by a large number of people. *** submitted by L.C. Schmidt

The New York Times, 23 June 1903 RUNAWAY TRAIN'S WILD DASH SPOKANE, Washington, June 22.--On the Spokane Falls and Northern Railroad, a part of the Great Northern system, a short distance from the centre of this city, a runaway train of sixty cars loaded with coals and without an engine rushed four miles down grade through the town to-day, demolishing a dwelling house, wrecking the Crystal Laundry, killing at least four persons, injuring eight others, and piling up a tangled mass of debris nearly fifty feet high. The train began to slip while standing on a heavy grade and soon gained a terrific speed. An empty box car in which W. H. Thomas, a workingman, and an unknown tramp were sleeping was first struck and demolished, both men being killed. Then the train crossed the street, ran over a rock pile and crashed into a six-room dwelling 300 feet from the end of the track, occupied by the families of John Slee and Mrs. Meyer. The house was smashed into kindling wood. Two hundred feet further on the frame building occupied by the Crystal Steam Laundry was struck and wrecked, and the force of the train was spent. Nine persons were sleeping in the Slee house. James Slee, the father, was pulled out of the ruins uninjured. The dead body of his nine-year-old sonElmer was found near by. Another son, Clarence, and the baby were injured and were taken to the hospital. Of the three children of Mrs. Meyer who was sleeping in the house, only one was injured. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The Daily News Batavia, Genesee Co., NY August 5 1918 TODAY'S CASUALTIES LIST, RECEIVED FROM OVERSEAS, CONTAINS NAMES OF 700 About 300 Not to Be Published Until Tomorrow Morning. Long Roll of the Dead. Those Killed in Action of the Day's List of 407 Make Total of 203. Washington, Aug. 5.--Casualties among the American troops in the severe fighting which they have been engaged since July 15th, when the German offensive was launched and halted at the Marine,are now being reported in the daily lists from General Pershing, though no estimate of the total has yet been reported. Today's army list contained 407 names, the largest number reported in a single day. Of the men named 203 were killed in action. An additional list of nearly 300 names, bringing the total for the day to about 700, was checked at the War Department today, in preparation for publication for morning papers of tomorrow. Today's list of 407 is divided as follows: Killed in action, 203. Died of wounds, 37. Died of disease, 9. Died of accident and other causes, 6. Died of airplane accident, 1. Wounded severely, 48. Wounded, degree undetermined, 100. Missing, 3. The marine corps casualty list contains only ten, nine of whom were killed in action, while one died of wounds. J.D. WADSWORTH of Geneseo Killed. Among the killed reported in the army list today were James L. WADSWORTH of Geneseo, N.Y., believed to be a son of Lieutenant James S. WADSWORTH, who is with the American forces in France. David MIDLGLEY of Jamestown, N.Y., Wyatt COVELL of Elmira, N.Y. and Mike PULLANO, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Churchville Man Wounded. Among the wounded were Roy HOFFMAN of Weedsport, N.Y., John E. HARMON of Churchville, N.Y. and Frank G. BURTCH of Cortland, N.Y. Increase During Last Week. Army and marine corps causalities reported from overseas last week increased 1,430,compared with 1,050 the week before. The total causalities reported are 15,196, including yesterday's army list of 283, the largest number yet reported in a single day, and marine corps list of two. Yesterday's army casualty list contained the names of 91 soldiers killed in action, eight died of wounds, five dead of disease, one dead in an airplane accident, and four from other causes. The only Western New York man in this list was Private Clarence S. HEALE of Batavia, N.Y. Private Clarence HEALE Among First to Enlist. Private Clarence S. HEALE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. HEALE of No. 38 Jefferson avenue, who died from intestinal obstruction while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, was only 18 years old when he enlisted, being one of the first Batavians to answer his country's call in the present war. *** DRAFT MEASURE BEFORE CONGRESS. Believed Planned Extension will Resulting an Army of Fully 7,000,000. Many More in Reserve. Washington, Aug. 5. The new army bill, embodying a recommendation that the draft ages be extended to 18 to 45 years will be introduced simultaneously in both houses of Congress before the close of today. Secretary BAKER, in discussing the measure, said that there was no intention of calling to the colors youths of 18 and 19 until the other classes had been exhausted. This policy was decided upon, he said, in order to give the youths an opportunity to mature before they join the army. Senator CHAMBERLAIN, chairman of the military affairs committee of the upper house, said that under the provisions of the bill men between 18 and 21 years old would be divided into three classes, subject to call by the President in such sequence of years as he prescribed. Senator CHAMBERLAIN added that the calling of men between the ages of 31 and 45 would be made by a similar plan. He expressed the opinion, however, that the younger men, those between 18 and 21 years, would be called first and that it would not be necessary to call those between 31 and 45. War Department officials believe that the draft extension will result in an army of 7,000,000 fighting men as a minimum, as it is figured that under the new order of things the total number of registrants will exceed 15,000,000. In estimates made regarding registrants New York state is credited with a total of 1,009,345 between the ages of 21 and 31 and 1,614,952 between 18 and 21 and 31 and 45. The minimum army of 7,000,000 would be composed of men of the type and physique now on the battlefield in France. *** STUDENT ARMY TRAINING CORPS IN 38 COLLEGES. University of Buffalo is Among Them. Thirty-eight educational institutions have been notified by the adjutant general of the army that they have been designated to make units of the new students' army training crops. Officers will be assigned to the schools and rifles, uniforms, and other equipment will be shipped. The institutions selected included Hamilton, Clinton; New York College of Dentistry, Syracuse, and the University of Buffalo. *** submitted by L.C. Schmidt

The New York Times, 26 June 1903 HE WANTS TO BE A JOCKEY Police Asked to Seek Missong Boy at Race Tracks. The police of the East One Hundred and Twnety-sixth Street Station were asked yesterday to look for Hugh Weier, fourteen years old, of 119 East One Hundred and Twentieth Street. The boy is said to have an ambition to be a jockey. Most of his spare time he has put in around livery stables in the vicinity of his home, so his parents think he has perhaps gone down to one of the race tracks to seek work. Weier is of light comlexion, with light hair and brown eyes. When he disappeared he wore a gray suit, gray cap, laced shoes, and black stockings. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The New York Times, 26 June 1903 WOMAN AWOKE IN FLAMES ----- Injuries from Lamp Explosion Likely to be Fatal. Mrs. Mary Young of 171 Perry Street was probably fatally burned last night in her home, by the explosion of a lamp. She and her husband, James Young, keep a candy store on the ground floor of the house, which they own, living in apartments on the first floor. Last night about 9 o'clock Mrs. Young went upstairs to lie down. Without removing her clothes she lay on the bed, and went to sleep. She was awakened by her clothing burning, and found herself in flames. Frantically she ran to the window and sought to open it. >From the street Robert Miller of 712 Washington Street saw the woman standing behind the window, flames spreading around her. He ran upstairs and met Michael Hayes, who lives in the house. Hayes tore up some carpeting and ran to Mrs. Young's aid. He wrapped the carpet around her and put out the flames. Mrs. Young had fainted. At St. Vincent's Hospital it was found that Mrs. Young was very badly burned about the face, arms, and body. An alarm of fire was turned in, but there was no damage to the house. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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To Sarah and all, Noticed your expertise on British customs/phrases, so I had to venture in and ask if you would know what "Milton's Feast" is about. It is mentioned in an old letter of my gggrandfather's. He was born in Milton, Berkshire. Thanks, Evelyn On Fri, 31 May 2002 20:51:36 -0400 "Linda/Don" <donlinda@mybizz.net> writes: > RE:> "Lady Day" in England and the United Kingdom is March 25 > Sarah, > thank you for sharing your expertise on Brit customs/phrases-- > it makes this project of transcribing newsies even more special when > people > interact and help one another ! we can all learn so much from one > another, > : )Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Shewires@aol.com> > To: <NY-WESTERN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:04 PM > Subject: [NY-WESTERN] Re: NY-WESTERN-D Digest V02 #124 > > > > In a message dated 5/31/2002 2:06:32 PM Central Daylight Time, > > NY-WESTERN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > > > > "How old are you?" the enumerator asked an Irish woman. > > > "Eighty-three years next Lady Day," was her reply. What did > she > mean? > > > Another person, on being asked if he was born in this country, > replied: > > > "No, I was born in Vermont." > > > > > > > "Lady Day" in England and the United Kingdom is March 25, nine > months > before > > Christmas, in some churches, the Feast of the Conception. It is > also the > > reason the calendar used to have 25 March as the first day of the > New > Year. > > > > (My hubby is a Brit, still on a green card after 26 years.) > > > > Sarah > > > > > > ==== NY-WESTERN Mailing List ==== > > Comprising the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, > Chemung, > Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, > Schuyler, > Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== NY-OLD-NEWS Mailing List ==== > County and State Coordinators needed. For more information see: > http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com/volunteer.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican April 11, 1848 MARRIAGES In Phelps, on the 30th ult, Mr. D. C. BISHOP, of Rose, to Miss Mary Ann MEAD, of the former place. In Lima, on the 1st inst, Mr. William W. WARREN, to Miss Martha Ann CLARK, both of Avon. In Oaksville, Otsego Co., on the 22d ult, Mr. Jeremiah BRIGGS, of Penn Yan, to Mrs. Ruth HERRINGTON. In Penn Yan, on the 22d ult, Mr. Geo. WYCKOFF, to Miss Mary WEST. In Benton, Mr. Wm. G. RECTOR, to Miss Catheline KELSEY, all of Benton. In Richmond, on the 30th ult, M. C. MASON, of East Bloomfield, to Miss Ester BENTLEY, of Richmond. At Batavia, on the 30th ult, by the Rev. Mr. HOLTON, DeWitt C. REED, Esq., of Oakfield, to Miss Eliza A. MUNN, of Batavia. In this city, on the 4th inst, by Rev. Mr. HICKOK, Mr. Joseph CORBIN, to Miss Mary E. BALDWIN, all of this city. In Gorham, on the 23d March, Mr. Edward PIERSON to Emeline COLF(?) In Geneseo, on the 5th inst, Mr. R. G. NOYES to Miss E. TRACY, both of Geneseo. In Cuylerville, on the 4th inst, Mr. Benjamin S. WHITE, of Geneseo, to Miss Mary Ann PHILLIPS, of the former place. In Mt. Morris, on the 4th inst, Mr. Wheeler HINMAN, of the firm of Hunt, Talcott & Co, to Miss Lydia K. Seymour. **** DEATHS At his residence, in Irondequoit, of pleurisy and inflammation on Monday morning, April (19 or 10)th, William W. LEGGETT. In the town of Brighton, on the 9th inst, John COCHRANE, in the 53d year of his age. In this city, on the afternoon of the 7th inst. Mrs. Elizabeth Jane, wife of Erastus IDE, Esq., aged 23 years; formerly of Pittsfield, Mass. In Mumford, Monroe county, on the 31st ult, Mr. Cornelius SWARTOUT, aged 77 years. At the Seneca Castle, on the 30th ult, Mrs. Eveline, wife of C. C. WHITNEY, formerly of Montgomery Orange Co., N. Y. On Monday morning, April 3d, Sarah, wife of Reuben BARDWELL, Esq, in the 79th year of her age. In Greenbush, Rensselaer Co., on the 29th ult, Col. Nicholas VAN RENSSELAER, (an officer of the Revolution), aged 94 years. On the 4th inst, Henry J., only child of Gilbert S. and Marian W. JENNINGS, aged 1 year. In this city, on the 5th inst, of congestion of the brain, Charles DUNNING, youngest son of Erasmus P. SMITH, Esq., aged 2 years and 2 months. In Alabama, on the 2d(?) Inst, Emeline, daughter of Wm. McCOMBER, aged 17 years. In Canandaigua, on the 28th ult, Peter ATWILL, aged 82 years - a soldier of the Revolution. In Penn Yan, on Friday morning last, aged 38 years, Catharing, wife of Elisha REED, daughter of John KREFF(?), of Starkey. On the 7th inst, of hooping cough, Francis Morton, son of Moses DYER, aged 2 years. On Thursday evening, the 7th inst, George, infant son of William and Elanor KIDD. **** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS

Republican Advocate Batavia, Genesee Co., NY March 18 1831 MARRIED. In Rochester, on the 15th inst.by the Rev. Dr. COMSTOCK, Mr. Amos P. PARKER, Merchant of this village, to Miss Almira SHELTON, of the former place. * At the residence of Col. STONE, Gananoque, on Tuesday evening the 10th inst. by the Rev. Wm. SMART, John McDONALD Esq. of the firm of C. & J. McDONALD, &co to Miss Henrietta Maria MALLORY, both of that place. * In Le Roy, on the 13th inst. by the Rev. Mr. ROGERS, Mr. Timothy CLARK, Jr. to Miss Abbey FITCH, daughter of J.H. FITCH, Esq. both of that place. *** OBITUARY. DIED.-At Alexander, on the 12th instant, Mrs. Tryphena HAWKINS, Consort of Henry HAWKINS, Esq. in the 31st year of her age. Public taste has very justly condemned those lengthy, pompous and heartless eulogiums of the dead, which frequently occupy the columns of our journals to the exclusion of more valuable matter, and which are betowed indiscriminately on the meritorious and undeserving. But surely those amiable qualities of mind which so eminently distinguished Mrs. HAWKINS, and endeared her to a large circle of friends and acquaintences, may be allowed this brief notice; this passing, modest tribute of sincere and disinterested praise. It affords a sort of sad satisfaction to the living to bear testimoney to departed worth, though their commendations fall on "the dull cold ear of death." So long as those traits of character which command the esteem of the good and virtuous continue to be duly prized, so long, in respect to the circle of friends who so deeply deplore her loss. Mrs. Hawkins "will live upon all memories, though with the buried gone." Communicated. * In this village, on the 11th inst. Mr. Alfred TUTTLE, aged 27 years, formerly from Minisink, Orange co. ***

IMMIGRANT BOY DISAPPEARS. Found Starving, He Disappears and is Sought by His Benefactors Moses Bernstein, an Austrian immigrant boy, found starving in front of 3 Greenwich Avenue on Wednesday and taken care of afterwards by James Stewart, a restaurant keeper of 15 Greenwich Avenue, disappeared yesterday. He was still weak from having gone three days without food, and it is feared he has been overcome by illness in the street. The boy was found in front of the cigar store of Samuel Band, who carried him inside and revived him. The boy then said he came from Ulonow, Austria, two months ago, after walking through Austria to the Elbe, where he got work on a steamship coming to New York. He had $30 on landing here, and obtained work in a skirt factory. He said he worked from 5 in the morning till 10 at night, and in a month he had swollen feet from standing all day. He had learned operating, but could not work and he had to leave. He slept in parks or in hallways. The boy said that on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday he did not have a bit of food. Mrs. Band took him to her home at 133 West Tenth Street, but the boy could not eat, having passed the hunger stage. Mr. Band took him to St. Vincent's Hospital, where the doctors wanted him to stay, but he demurred, it not being a Jewish institution. Mr. Band then took him to the Charles Street Police Station. The Sergeant there said it would be necessary to lock the boy up to detain him, but Mr. Rand [sic] would not have that, and took him to the restaurant. Mr. Stewart said he would employ him. The boy was able to eat yesterday morning, and seemed a little better. He volunteered to help the restaurant keeper, and was sent on an errand. He did not return. He is 5 feet 4 inches in height, with dark complexion, wearing black clothes, black soft hat, and white outing shirt, without a collar. -- The New York Times, 26 June 1903 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/MA/Middlesex/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican Apr 4, 1848 LOCAL MATTERS The Body of Porter P. Pierce Found Probable Murder The mysterious disappearance of Porter P. PIERCE, a young man of this city, and the excitement occasioned thereby, is fresh in the minds of all. Everything connected with the affair, has remained involved in impenetrable mystery since the evening of the 26th of January, until Monday, when his body was discovered by a colored man, floating un the Genesee River about seven miles from the city, and about three quarters of a mile from the Lake. A Jury was immediately summoned by Coroner PROST, and from the testimony before it, we learn the following facts: The body had upon it the clothes worn by the deceased when he disappeared, with the exception of his two coats; suspended to the neck was his gold lepine watch, with the hands stopped at ten minutes before six. There was also found upon his person a gold pen, a pencil and pin cushion, but a bead purse known to have been in his possession, was missing. The right hand pocket of his pantaloons was turned inside out. The vest was unbuttoned, but perfectly whole, as was also the shirt. No money was found upon the body. The most remarkable circumstance connected with the whole matter, however, is the fact that there is a frightful gash upon the upper and back portion of the head, which, from appearances — and the testimony of physicians bear us out in this opinion — could have been caused in no other way than by a severe blow with some heavy instrument. The physician sworn before the Coroner's Jury, gave it as his deliberate conviction that the wound upon the head had been received before the body came in contact with the water. A portion of the skull had been broken, and jammed in upon the brain, the cavity being filled with clotted blood, while the upper portion of the scalp was as white as is usually the case. There were some other marks upon the head, but none but what might have been caused by passing over the smaller falls, or coming in contact with drift wood in the river. One important question remains of course to be solved. How could his coats have got off his person, if torn off by the water or floating wood, without the least injury to his shirt or vest? After a careful examination of the body, and of the facts in the case by a highly intelligent jury, they rendered a verdict that "he came to his death by a blow or blows inflicted by some person to the jury unknown." In this opinion, we believe the jury are sustained by nine tenths of the community. The body was readily recognized by his father and brother, and a large number of friends, not withstanding the length of time it must have lain in the water. The scene witnessed as the parent and brother discovered the dead body, was painful in the extreme. Satisfied, as they had been for a long time, that he was lost to them forever, the reality was of course still more heart rending. The excitement in the city, since the discovery of the body, has been great, and a thousand ill-found rumors are afloat. Above we give all the facts and circumstances which have yet been developed. A more minute examination of the body will be made, and the opinion of medical gentlemen obtained as to the probability of the wound on the head having been caused by falling, or by a blow. The fact that his coats were gone, while no other part of his clothing was disturbed or injured , the turning of the right hand pocket inside out, the disappearance of his purse, and we believe his wallet, and lastly the peculiar shape and appearance of the wound on the head, all have a tendency to convince the public that there has been foul play in the matter. To form such a conclusion, requires no stretch of the imagination, and yet all may have been the result of accident. If, however, he had been crossing any of the bridges or races late at night, and fallen into the river, why is it that no possible trace of his whereabouts can be discovered after he left the door of the Arcade, about 7 o'clock on the evening of his disappearance? All is yet as dark as ever, so far as regards the important question as to how he came into the river, and may possibly remain involved in mystery forever. We await, however, the development of further facts. _____ Funeral Of Porter P. Pierce The funeral of Mr. Porter P. PIERCE, whose body was recovered the afternoon previous, took place yesterday at 2 o'clock from the Universalist Church. An appropriate and effective discourse was preached by Rev. Mr. MONTGOMERY, which was listened to by an immense throng, the church being filled from one end to the other. A large number of Odd Fellows, of which order he was a member were present. A more melancholy spectacle has not been witnessed in our city in a long time. Previous to being placed in a coffin, the body was again examined yesterday forenoon, by several medical gentlemen, who removed portions of the skull and the brain, and who, we understand, gave it as their opinion that the blow which caused his death, was inflicted previous to the body having come in contact with the water. In this view, we believe they were clear and decided.-- if such was the fact, by whom it was done, or under what circumstances, may, perhaps, forever remain enshrouded in mystery. At present it is so, but stranger things than the discovery of the author of this foul deed have come to light. The frightful gash upon the head may have been caused by falling into the river, but against such a conclusion, we have the deliberate opinion of several members of the medical faculty, and of nine tenths of the community who have heard the facts and circumstances. **** Death From Taking Laudanum — Thomas BENTLEY, an old and well-known citizen, died at his residence in this city, (lower falls) yesterday morning, from the effects, it is supposed, of an over dose of laudanum. Having been afflicted with a severe cough, accompanied with diarrhea, his son procured an ounce the day before, of which he had taken some two or three times; and at tea, he stated that he had not felt so well for some days. In the night a strange noise was heard, and on going to his room, he seemed to be dying. Upon examining the vial it was found to be empty, and the evidences are that he had taken all of it, as no trace could be discovered of its having been spilt upon the stand or floor. He probably made the fatal mistake by taking the laudanum directly from the vial without a light. Medical aid was procured too late to be of any avail. He was 54 years of age and leaves a wife and children to mourn his loss. **** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS

Republican Advocate Batavia, Genesee Co., NY February 14 1832 IS SHE WELL MARRIED? How often, when a young lady is married, do we hear the inquiry, "Is she well married?" One would naturally suppose that the affirmation of this question would depend on the farther inquiry, was she united to a man every way qualified to make a good husband--whether he was by birth & education, fitted to move in the same rank with herself--by nature, endowed with a heart to love and cherish her--by his industrious habits, was sure of providing her with a suitable maintainance. But he, who should put such a construction upon the affirmative of his question, would in the midst of our city dames be set down for a fool--a poor miserable fool. To be well married--I speak the language of a managing mother, with a dozen grown up girls on her hands--to be well married, is to be married to a fortune--no matter to whom, but as the phrase is, to how much. Aye, & how much think you, ye prudent, painstaking mothers, how much money will realize your fond expectations and secure to your daughter a good match? Oh, I hear you say, I am not ambitious of a Croesus for my daughter a husband, but he must be well to do in the world.--Well, madam, and what are your ideas of being, well to do in the world? Is it to be able to support your daughter, in the ten thousand extravagances in which you have brought her up--to gratify her passion for dress and parties--to pay off long bills, which she may be disposed--and she will not lack the disposition, I promise you--to run up at the milliner's and other shops--to be able too, to support the expense of a foolish rivalship with those of her acquaintances she may be desirous of out doing in show and splendor--to live in a dashy house, furnished with dashy furniture--to give dashy parties, and to drive a dashy establishment? If those be your moderate pretensions, and your unambitious expectations in getting your daughter married, my word for it, madam, you will be disappointed. She may dash away for a while but ere long her husband is a bankrupt--the income of a man 'well to do in the world,' cannot stand such expenses.--You may then have the bitter satisfaction indeed, of seeing your daughter married, and as you believe, 'well married,'--but when wealth is gone--and it quickly goes when at the disposal of a a young wife, like your daughter--what then will become of her matrimonial happiness? It is gone; gone, I fear irretrievably gone. Look around, madam, among your acquaintances of those of whom you once thought "well married." Learn wisdom by this lessons, and inculcate better sentiments in the minds of your daughters.

Rochester, Monroe, NY Rochester Republican Apr 4, 1848 MARRIAGES In Canandaigua, on the 27th inst, Mr. C. C. GREEN, to Miss Emily S. DANKS, all of Canandaigua. In North Livonia, on the 23d inst, Mr. Rockwell J. LEWIS, of S. Livonia, to Miss Emily P. CLARK, of the former place In Pultney, on the 22d inst, Mr. Charles W. HOBERT, of Potter, Yates Co., to Miss Eliza GLOAD, of Pultney. In Milo Centre, on the 2d inst, Mr. Lewis BEAM, to Miss Mary PLUMMER, all of Starkey. In this city, on the 28th inst., by the Rev. P. CHURCH, Mr. I. B. TAYLOR, to Miss Harriet A., daughter of Capt. O. G. FOX. In Hynesville, on the 12th inst. Andrew PAYNE, of Hawley, Orleans Co., to Miss Melissa PARKER, daughter of Preston R. PARKER of Arcadia. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Dr. M. GUNN, to Miss Jane A. TERRY, all of Ann Arbor. In Gorham, on the 22d inst. Carso CRANE, Esq., of Phelps to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Nathaniel F. CROSBY, of Gorham. In Clarkson Corners, on the 29th ult, by Rev. McHARE, Mr. Ambrose SANFORD, to Miss Elida L. BOSS, both of that place. In Canandaigua, on the 27th inst, Mr. C. C. GREEN, to Miss Emily S. DANKS, all of Canandaigua. In Shelby, on the 10th ult, Mr. Carlove REYNOLDS, to Miss Amelia A. NORTON, all of Shelby. In Carlton, on the 21st, ult, Mr. Wm. H. BENTLEY, Merchant to Miss Sophia TANRYPER(?) In Waterloo, on the 23d ult, Mr. Thomas FOSTER, of the firm of Foster & Co., Utica, to Miss Eliza P. SKAATS, eldest daughter of David S. SKAATS, Esq., of Waterloo. In Farmerville, Seneca Co., on the 16th ult, Mr. John J. BACHMAN, to Miss Elizabeth SINGER, all of Fayette. At Port Byron, on the 9th ult, Mr. John L. MAIN to Miss Lydia J. RANCIER, all of that place. In Genesee, on the 25th ult, Enos PAGE, of Greene Chenango Co., to Mrs. Lydia BALL, of the former place. In Howard, Steuben Co., on the 12th ult, Mr. Andrew BAKER, of Andover, Allegany Co., to Miss Asenath ARMSTRONG, of Kennedyville. In Cuylerville, on the 22d ult, Mr. Garret VAN ARSDALE, to Miss Diana WILSON. In this city, on the 31st ult, by Rev. Mr. CHEESEMAN, Miss Mary ROBINSON to M r. Charles W. WATSON, all of this city. ** DEATHS In this city, on the 27th inst, Charles (B or H), only son of Cephas S. and Caroline C. DACEY, aged 4 years, 5 months and 21 days. At Canandaigua, on the 25th inst, Walter HUBBELL Esq., aged 53. In Penfield, on the 18th inst, Joseph LATHROP, aged 22 years. In Penfield, on the 22d inst, of consumption, contracted in Mexico, Charles S. JOHNSON, aged 28 years. Thursday morning, March 30, at Byron, Jane M. wife of Charles B. HALL, and youngest daughter of Reuben BA?DWELL, Esq., of this city. March 18th, in East Henrietta, Lorenzo HILL, aged 15 years. In Ovid, on the 26th inst. Elizabeth, consort of Joseph YOUNG, aged 81(?) Years. In Pittsford, Monroe Co., on the 30th ult, of consumption, Mr. Asahel CANFIELD, aged 69 years. -->> Editors of Easters papers please copy. In Rushford, March 2(?), Lydia Jane, eldest daughter of David and Sarah A. RAWSON, aged 2 years and 5 months. On the 2?th ult, Daniel WOODS, aged 55(?) Years. In Newark, on the 23d ult, Charlotte wife of Henry PARKS(?), aged 67 years. In Genesee on the 29th ult, Frank, son of H. CHAMBERIL?, Esq., aged 2 years and 4 months. In Groveland, on the 2?th ult, Catharine, wife of Samuel YENCER, aged 67 years. In Starkey, Mrs. Sally Ann, wife of Wm. PERRY, and daughter of Jonathan MOORE, of Milo, in the 18th year of her age. In Albion, of consumption, Mrs. Mary L., wife of Rev. J. N. MURDOCK, aged 29 years. In Canandaigua, on the 23d ult, Jarvis Peter, son of Henry and Esther REDA?F, aged 9 months. In Rushville, on the ?1st ult, of scarlet fever, Miles Francis, only son of Miles M. WOODIN, aged 1 year and 3 months. In Farmington, on the 20th ult, after a short illness, Mr. John SHELSON, on his 53d year. In Brighton, on the 27th of March, of scarlet fever, Charles Adelbert, infant son of Peter V. and Sarah J. SCHANCK, aged 1 year, 6 months, and 3 days. Chicago and Milwaukee papers please copy. In this city, on the 2d inst, at the residence of her son-in-law, Phederus CARTER, Esq., Mrs. Lucina WRIGHT, aged 67 years. In Wheatland, Monroe Co., on the 26th of March, Joseph BLACKMER, Esq., in the 81st year of his age. He was born in Kent, Litchfield Co., Ct., Oct. 2d, 1767, his parents removed with him when about three years of age, to New Marlborough, Berkshire Co., Mass., where he resided until he arrived to manhood. He was married in early life, and in February, 1787, he removed to Westmoreland, Oneida Co., which was then almost an unbroken wilderness; here he and his associates endured hardships and privat?? In subduing the obstacles of a new country, which have seldom been experienced in later years, in (1808?) he removed to Wheatland, Monroe Co., where he has resided for the last forty years. His mind was well informed by reading, and he was a strict observer has ???? much (unreadable) civil and religious (unreadable). He has filled the office of Justice of the Peace and assistant Judge, and various offices of trust, and may emphatically be the nominated, a public spirited man. He died respected and a (unreadable) In Genesee, on the 24th ult, Harriet, wife of Dr. C. M. DAKE?, aged 39? years. **** Find ALL of the News Abstracts for Monroe Co., NY at http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/index.html -- GjS