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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 12: (search)
newspaper men and women then in Washington were among the most brilliant of the guild. All the metropolitan newspapers had bureaus in Washington, presided over by a coterie of men who were the equals, if not the superiors, intellectually of the men at the head of the bureaus of the metropolitan newspapers of to-day. Among them were such men as Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune; J. B. McCullough of the Saint Louis Democrat; Alexander McClure of the Philadelphia Ledger; Horace White, Mr. Sheehan, of the Chicago Times; Murat Halstead, L. A. Gobright, E. B. Wight, George A. Townsend, J. Russell Young, subsequently librarian of the Congressional Library, W. Scott Smith, Eli Perkins, Charles Lanman, Don Piatt, Ben Perley Poore, E. V. Smalley, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and a host of correspondents who have made enviable reputations in their calling. Among the women reporters who wielded influential pens as correspondents of important newspapers were Mary Clemmer Ames, Mrs. Lip
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ating of indurated metal on the outside of the article, which will not be subject to ordinary abrasion or the action of a file. A simple method of case-hardening small cast-iron work is to make a mixture of equal parts of pulverized prussiate of potash, saltpetre, and sal-ammoniac. The articles must be heated to a dull red, then rolled in this powder, and afterwards plunged into a bath of 4 ounces of sal-ammoniac and 2 ounces of the prussiate of potash dissolved in a gallon of water. Sheehan packs a layer of limestone in the bottom of the box, and then layers of a composition alternating with and inclosing the iron to be steelified. The composition is, — charcoal saturated with water, 200; chloride sodium, 30; sal soda, 12; pulv. rosin, 5; black ox. manganese, 5; mixed. Lute on the top, heat, remove while hot, and plunge into cold water. Case—knife. A large table-knife. It was formerly kept in a case or sheath, and the name is a remembrance of the good (?) old times w
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
." M Y Johnson, of Calena, ill, was recently arrested there for disloyalty and carried to Fort Warren. After getting there, he made some "astounding revelation" to a follow prisoner, who he took to be a Secessionist. This follow-prison had only been put in for violating the substitute law, made affidavit before the Provost Marshal of New York. of which the following is the substance. That on the 2d of September, Madison Y. Johnson, of Galena, illinois, and another person, named Sheehan, or something like that name, also from Galena, arrived at the fort as prisoners. They at once avowed their sympathy with the violent Secession prisoners who were there before Johnson was the most outspoken, be conversed freely on the subjects connected with present difficulties avowed himself in favor of the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy in preference to the Constitution of the United States ! That be was opposed to a continuance of the Union as That the war ought not to be co