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The Adams
Sentinel
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 21 1829
We learn from the
Norwich Courier, that the Silk Factory in
Lisbon, Ct., owned and occupied by Messrs. Z. P. & J. Bottum,
took fire on the night of 1st inst., and was
entirely consumed. We learn that a small part only was
insured, and that the loss to the owners will greatly
retard, if not entirely break up their labors in this new
and interesting branch of manufactures. This, it is
believed, was the only silk factory in
Connecticut, if not the only one in New England.
(Contributed by Nancy Piper) |
Gettysburg Compiler
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 23, 1822 Page 3
(Contributed by Nancy Piper)
Died at Lebanon, Conn., Miss Hepsibah Strong, aged
67 years. It is presumed that few cases have ever had a
parallel with hers. When she was 19 years old, she injured,
by a fall, the spinal marrow, in consequence of which, for
the long space of 48 years, she has never walked, or been
able to raise her head from the pillow; most of the time she
has been unable to bear the least noise, or the light; and
has gone through a scene of suffering, which nothing but
Religion could have enabled her to have borne. She possessed
in her youth a good understanding and a fine person, and was
on the eve of being married, when the misfortune happened,
which forever blasted all her earthly prospects. |
