Posted inMaritime & Naval History Ship Histories

Largest Ship In The World Sinks

RMS Titanic

This country and all Europe are at this writing shrouded in sorrow over the sinking of the Titanic, which took to a watery grave hundreds of her passengers last Sunday night. The boat was bound for New York on her maiden voyage and had as passengers many people prominent both in this and foreign countries. The most notable passengers for whom much anxiety is felt in Vermont and New England are Charles M. Hays, Mrs. Hays and their daughter. Mr. Hays is the president of the Grand Trunk Railway and a man deeply interested in the development of the Central Vermont Railway.

Posted inUS Civil War

April 22, 1861 – Explosion of a Stereotyped Phrase

The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat, under the head of “Our Sister States of the South,” says:

This is a common style of speech just now, and quite ad captandum. We should like to see some of the sisterly affection reciprocated. They deserted us in spite of our petitions. We did not feel the hatred and distrust of the Union that inspired them. Our judgment was, that our rights could be better secured in the Union. We had some interest in the Union beyond the loyalty which every good citizen should feel for established forms and habits – of political action, and which should not be disregarded for light and transient causes. We had “sister” States of the North our next neighbors; tens of thousands of them of our own blood. They were our personal and political friends. We had an interest in their friendship, for domestic peace on both sides ; we judged, and judged correctly, that this breaking up of the Government would lead to war, and that our soil, here on the border, would again be the dark and bloody land. We had always stood by them in the Union, in defense of a common interest, and had a right to expect some regard for our interest and our position. Has any regard whatever been shown?

Posted inMaritime & Naval History Mysteries & Unexplained

The Sea Serpent

Illustration of a sea serpent from an old manuscript with writing in Greek and Latin

A letter has been received at the Merchants’ Exchange, from Capt. Wales, (son of T. B. Wales, Esq.) of barque Wave, at Malaga, from Boston, dated Sept. 5, in which he states that on the 5th of August, about 6 P. M., Cape Cod, bearing E. by S. 30 miles, he discovered a huge sea monster crossing the bow, about a half a mile distant to the northwest. It at first appeared like the surf breaking over a rock or reef, but it soon arose in a perpendicular position, 30 or 40 feet above the surface, remaining for about 10 seconds, and then following horizontally, the body disappeared, leaving a wake in the water, and rising again in the same position at nearly regular intervals for the space of half an hour, when it disappeared entirely.

Posted inDaily News

Eclipse of the Sun

During the total solar eclipse, the Sun’s corona, only visible during the total eclipse, is shown as a crown of white flares from the surface. The red spots called Bailey’s beads occurs where the moon grazes by the Sun and the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some areas as photographed from NASA Armstrong’s Gulfstream III. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Thomas)

There will be an eclipse of the Sun on Saturday, the 25th inst., the greatest visible in the United States for nearly eight years, or since September 18th 1838. The eclipse will begin at Portsmouth (Market Square) at 18 minutes past 11 A. M.—Portsmouth moan time. The greatest obscuration will be at 36 min. past 12, and end at 50 min. past 1, P. M. Duration 2 hours 32 min.—Digits eclipsed 6 1/2 on the Sun’s southern limb.

The moon’s penumbral shadow will first strike the earth in the South Pacific Ocean, between the Marquesas and Galapagos Islands, at 19 minutes past 9, A. M. At this place the Sun will be just rising, with its upper limb apparently in contact with the moon’s lower limb. The eclipse will first be central and annular at 20 min. past 10 A. M. north of the Marquesas, near the equator. The central line will pass in a north easterly direction through the Pacific, and at 34 min. past 10, the eclipse will begin to be total. From the Pacific the central line will cross Guatimala, the Carribbean Sea, the island of Cuba, and into the Atlantic. At 13 min. past 12, the eclipse will be central and total on the Meridian, near the Bahamas.

Posted inDaily News

Views in Lucknow

Lucknow — The Town House of Captain F. Hayes, M.A. — From a Photograph
Lucknow — The Town House of Captain F. Hayes, M.A. — From a Photograph

The news from the capital of the territory of Oude will be found at page 18. We engrave upon the preceding page a general View of the City and the Town House of Captain F. Hayes, M.A., who acted as English Resident doing the absence of Sir James Outram.

Lucknow is represented is displaying a varied, lively, and even brilliant prospect, when viewed from an elevated position. as the Observatory, whence one of the accompanying Views was photographed. Lucknow may be regarded as entitled to an honorable distinction among Indian cities. in possessing an observatory. The following general view of the city is from the Bombay Times, just received : —

Posted inPublic Health & Medicine

News by Wire

Twenty-nine more cases of smallpox were reported to the authorities in Sydney yesterday. Fortunately, they continue to be of a mild type, and hopes are expressed that the outbreak will…