Month: December 2008

December 30, 1857  Greensburg, in this State, according to the Democrat, much be a very queer place.  The coroner holds an inquest, and the doctors make post-mortem examinations, merely on suspicion of a man being dead.  The Democrat is responsible for the following story:  For some time back, whenever a man dies within six miles … Read more

December 23, 1857 Married on the 17th inst., by Rev. F. W. Kremer, Mr. Cyrus Bleistone, of this borough, to Miss Rosanna Fox, of S. Lebanon township. Married on the 3d inst., by Rev. Mr. Stein, Mr. William Behler to Miss Sarah Ann Gassert, both of North Lebanon township. Married on the 10th inst., by … Read more

December 16, 1857 Lancaster – On Tuesday last, a woman named Tomlinson, was brought before Alderman Leonard, on complaint of neighbors for ill treatment of her stepchild.  The child’s appearance, without any other evidence, was sufficient to send the mother to the Penitentiary for the remainder of her natural life.  The poor little girl, ten … Read more

December 9, 1857 The Connellsville (Pa.) Enterprise gives us the following.  A blind family, consisting of four persons, John, Catharine, Bartholomew, and Samuel Hostetler, were born in German township in this county – the whole of them being at the time of their birth, and are at the present time destitute of eye-balls, but have … Read more

December 2, 1857 Shocking Railroad Accident – On the 18th ult., a shocking accident occurred on the R. R. at Pottsville.  A married woman, named McGlency, while walking on the track, saw a train approaching, and to avoid it stopped on to the adjoining track.  As she did so a train came upon her from … Read more

November 25, 1857 FAST WORK – A Mr. Miller, one day last week, for a wager, undertook to husk 35 barrels of corn, from sun-rise to sun-set, which he more than accomplished, having husked 37 ½ barrels in less than nine hours, besides typing up the fodder.  The feat was performed on the farm of … Read more

November 18, 1857 WOMAN STARVED TO DEATH IN PROVIDENCE.  – Among the deaths in this city last week, was that of a female in the Sixth Ward, about forty years of age, whose physician’s certificate states that the cause of her death was ‘want of nourishment.’  What a record for a city where the friends … Read more

November 11, 1857 We learn from the Carbondale Advance that Mr. Quackenbush, and the widow of the late J. Aitken, have each brought a suit against the township of Providence, Luzerne county, for damages, in consequence for the accident which resulted in the instant death of Mr. A. and the serious injury of Mr. Q.  … Read more

November 4, 1857 Man Drowned. – Suspicious. – A man named Hugh McCune, the keeper of a boarding house on the line of the Lebanon Valley Railroad, was drowned in the lock of the Union Canal, near  Hummelstown, on Monday evening of last week, under circumstances warranting the belief that he met with foul play.  … Read more