CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 850 - 857 HOTELS & INNS (Cont'd) 850 DTD June 1; ed: 2/3 - That beautiful summer resort, the Tawawa House at Xenia Springs, will be opened today. It is now under the management of Dr. Silsbee, assisted by Mr. Kingsley, late of the Burnett, and Mr. Whitney, late of the Neil House. Everything, we are assured, will be done to make the Tawawa House one of the most attractive summer resorts in the country. 851 DTD June 3:3/1 The Hays house, Montreal, advertised in another column, is said to be a tiptop one. "We intend to visit it during the summer and shall tell all about its 'quality.' 852 DTD June 11; ed: 2/1 - Cook and Baldwin have opened the Waverly (2) (1) (1) 853 - DTD June 15; ed: 3/1 - Milford entertained 457 strangers at the ་་ (1) "This proves the daily immense." 854 - DTD June 22:2/3 - Judge Leavitt of Steubenville, and William H. Cochran, editor of the Mount Vernon (0.) TIMES, are at the American House. Charles Anthony of Springfield and Alfred Kelley of Columbus are at the Franklin House. 855 - DTD July 5:2/1 - Mr. White, editor of the Pittsburg GAZETTE, who recently spent a few days at the American House, Cleveland, says: "I am making my home here at the American, where everything is so agreeable, that it enables me to bear the annoyance of my unexpected detention with a good deal of philosophy. Mr. Milford keeps a splendid house and we commend him to the public as the prince of landlords." 856 DTD July 15; ed: 3/1 - The Little Mountain House is a delightful retreat during the warm weather. It looks out upon a splendid scenery the lake in the distance, dotted with sails, and fine farms in the foreground. It affords great attractions to the lovers of nature unadorned. Mr. Raynolds, the host, is very attentive. He sets before his guests wholesome viands in great profusion, and the breezes give one a marvelous appetite we've tried it, and can therefore speak feelingly. If our readers will bear this in mind and, instead of paying large sums to visit fashionable watering places, give Mr. Raynolds a call, we will be bound they will get the worth of their money. (1) (1): (2) 857 - DTD Aug. 13:3/1 - Our hotels are filled with strangers who are spending the summer here. It is much more pleasant than crowding to fashionable watering places. (1) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 858 - 864 HOTELS & INNS (Cont'd) 858 DTD Aug. 18:3/1 Old citizens are to be among us again. C. S. 859 Aug. 20; ed: 2/2,3 The Metropolitan hotel, erected by P. S. Van Rensselaer, has been three years in the course of construction, on Nibb's site, Broadway, New York. The cost of the building will amount to over $500,000. This magnificent structure is six stories in height and has immense fronts on Broadway, Prince, and Crosby sts. It contains 100 suites of rooms - each suite including parlors, dressing rooms, and bed rooms - besides an immense number of single apartments; all these are supplied with hot and cold water baths, as well as other conveniences common to the luxurious age in which we live. "Now, dear reader, what do you think of the programme of the Metropolitan, of more than a thousand guests being elegantly accomodated in this single house; and that too, at a price not exceeding that of the average of hotels." (1) (10) 860 DTD Aug. 21:3/1 - The handsome marble floor of the Weddell House is almost completed. It will be a great improvement. C. S. Butts will now devote all his attention to supplying his guests with everything comfortable, and under his supervision the reputation of the house will increase. 861 DTD Oct. 29; ed: 3/1 Hotelkeepers are about to enter into an arrangement by which all passengers going to and from the hotels will be charged one shilling. All the hotels are doing good business. (1) "We must say we decidedly object to this, and do not believe that there is any necessity for it." (3) 862 - DTD Nov. 13:3/1 - The Elyria COURIER says that the Franklin House of Cleveland is now one of the best hotels in the west. (2) 863 DTD Dec. 9:3/1 - J. P. Ross has purchased the lease of the New (1) HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT & FURNISHINGS 864 - DTD July 2; adv: 1/1 A new crockery and house-furnishing store is now opened, and offering for sale a new and extensive assortment of china, glass and earthen ware, in the new William block, 109 Superior st. Our connection with the importing house of Huntington and Brooks, enables us to offer goods at the lowest prices and of the best quality. We shall also keep a good assortment of a variety of articles in the house furnishing line, such as table cutlery silver plated and Brittania ware, looking glasses and a great assortment of fancy goods. The new store will be under the superintendence of H. E. Butler, who will be ready at all times to meet the demands of the customers. 0. A. Brooks and Co. (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 865 - 868 HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT & FURNISHINGS (Cont'd) 865 - DTD July 14; adv: 2/5 New China and Furnishing Store, Sartwell's Block, corner of Superior and Seneca sts. Rich China Vases, Colognes, Ivory and Common Knives and Forks, and Waters of every description. J. and W. P. Fogg, 105 Superior st. HOUSES, CONSTRUCTION OF 866 WTD Feb. 11:2/7 Houses to rent are very much needed. Mr. Hick ox, on Wood st., is to build on his vacant lot. Others can do the same thus benefiting both themselves and the city. 867 - DTD Aug. 31:3/1 - Dirt is being piled on the low flats west of - "There is no better investment than in dwellings; and whilst the demand continues as great as it now is, any number can be rented." (3) (1) (1) (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 Abstracts 869 - 874 ICE 869 DTD Jan. 1; ed: 4/1 The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN gives an interesting account of the method of procuring ice and snow by machinery. Steam is actually converted into snow by the aid of steam, and solid blocks of ice are procured in a few moments. This process was exhibited in one of the refreshment rooms of the World's fair. Mr. Masters of the Polytechnic institution, England, is the patentee. "We may be sure that our ingenious countrymen will soon introduce this invention into our country.' IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION 870 - DTD Sept. 29; ed: 2/1,2 The total number of emigrants from Ireland in 1851 was 257,372; 238,016 of these came to America. "Alas, that that 'brightest gem of the ocean,' capable as it is, or would be under a decent Government, of maintaining thrice as many people as ever at any one time trod its green sod, should be so deteriorating in number! It were enough almost to wring drops from the ossified heart of Parson Malthus.' See also Citizenship; Foreign Population INAUGURATIONS. See Politics & Government INCORPORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS 871 DTD June 22:2/3 - The old partnership of that very reputable firm, M. F. Tooker and Company has been dissolved, and a new firm formed of the senior partners, under the name of Tooker and Gatchell. The business will be continued as usual at the old stand in Parson's block, Superior st. (3) (3) (1) 872 - DTD Oct. 19:3/1 The partnership of G. D. Hayward and Company has been dissolved; and a new firm, Hayward, Woods and Company, has deen established. (1) 873 - DTD Oct. 27:2/3 The firms of C. Bradburn and Company and Gale and Scoville have dissolved. H. M. Chapin of the first firm and Rodney Gale of the latter have formed a partnership. See also specific industries INDIANS DTD May 19; ed: 2/2 - See Slavery (1) 874 DTD May 19; ed: 2/2 - The news from California is full of "Indian CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1852 excitement" and "Indian wars." Forty of the Klamath tribe were killed by the whites in Sciad valley, 15 miles below Scott river. It was said that 140 whites had been killed, and property in Scott's valley worth a quarter of a million dollars was destroyed. Indeed the counties of Klamath and Shasta seem to be overrun with Indians. Near the El Dorado they are very troublesome.' ་་ 875 - DTD July 21; ed: 2/2,3 The Indian appropriation bill was taken up, and Mr. Sibley of Minnesota tried to get in a small appropriation to keep the wretched Indians in and around that part of the country from absolute starvation in case of failure of crops or game. An eastern journal says: "The white people of this country having robbed the Indians for two centuries, are anxious for their utter extirpation, and look with greedy longing upon the lands upon which the remnants of the wretched tribe drag out their half-starved existence. 876 DTD July 28; ed: 2/4 - Captain Marcy, Sergeant Sherwood, S. R. Suydam of New York, Captain Sprain, and eighty soldiers were murdered by the Comanches. "The elements are gathering. These massacres, not rare, not made in one section, but occurring wherever the Indians dare to strike, show that they mean to war it with the whites to the death.... We fear we shall hear more of bloodier assaults of a regular Indian war on the Border." 877- DTD Aug. 21; ed: 2/2 - Yesterday's mail seemingly confirms the report of the massacre of Captain Marcy and his men. It is said that Colonel May of Fort Mason, who gives the information, has started in pursuit of the murderers. "We still doubt. It is very unusual to 'kill all' in an Indian attack, and we believe this story a hoax." 878 - DTD Nov. 23; ed: 2/2 - The TRIBUNE publishes the annual message of John Ross to the grand council of the Cherokee nation. Mr. Ross complains that the government has caused much embarrassment to the Cherokees by a postponement of its negotiations with the Indian delegation. (8) (4) (2) (1) "This is wrong. Our Government should be prompt to encourage and uphold the Cherokees in every way; to see to it that they suffer no injustice; to give them every opportunity for improvement, which, the United States Government can grant, or the Cherokees may need." (5) |