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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Publishers' Preface. (search)
e believe, the first guarantee of a tangible, monetary value ever given to subscribers of subscription books, that the promises made by publishers or their agents are to be carried out. To protect our subscribers and agents, we consulted the most eminent legal talent, and in answer received the following letter from General Butler, which will doubtless be received with more than ordinary interest, containing as it does the opinion of a lawyer second to none in the world:-- Boston, Oct. 5, 1891. A. M. Thayer & Co., 6 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, Mass. Gentlemen:--I have taken note of the performances now going on by publishers of important books, who, after they have made solemn engagements that their books shall be sold only by subscription, and put enormous prices on them upon that pledge, by which assurance the reading public have made purchases to the amount of some millions of dollars, have turned around, and, advertising that the exact copyright work will be given to anybody
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
asance and cruelty, April 22, on finding of a court of inquiry held in Brooklyn navy-yard, March 11, suspended from rank and duty for three years, sentence approved by Secretary Tracy......May 15, 1890 Dr. T. Thacher Graves, for murder of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. I., by poison, at Denver, Col.......1891 [While awaiting his second trial he committed suicide in the county jail at Denver, Sept. 3, 1893.] Rev. Charles A. Briggs, charged by the presbytery of New York, Oct. 5, 1891, with teaching doctrines which conflict irreconcilably with, and are contrary to, the cardinal doctrines taught in the Holy Scriptures, in an address at the Union Theological Seminary in New York, Jan. 20, 1891: case dismissed, Nov. 4; prosecuting committee appeal to the general assembly. Nov. 13; judgment reversed and case remanded to the presbytery of New York for new trial, May 30, 1892; Professor Briggs acquitted after a trial of nineteen days......Dec. 30, 1892 John Y. McKane, G
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
ed by buildings, the main building being six stories high and having several acres of floor space. Originally the meats were cooled by placing them in large boxes of chopped ice. This crude method was superseded by using large buildings filled with ice, the lower portions of which were thus made refrigerators. One such was built by Mr. Squire about the year 1881, which held 37,000 tons of ice, and had three or four floors for cooling purposes besides the basement. After the fire of October 5, 1891, which destroyed the hog-house and burned out the interior of this large refrigerator, Mr. Squire adopted the De La Vergne system of artificial refrigeration, and built a large building wherein were located two large machines with a daily ice-melting capacity of 300 tons, and had this large refrigerator building equipped with the piping necessary for carrying on the refrigeration. By means of this change the area for cooling purposes was largely increased, having now a total of nine ac