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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
owner of the houses. The Edgeworth Company, in Malden, on the eastern border of Medford, has commenced a promising settlement. From earliest times, the town chose annually a Surveyor of highways, whose duty it was to superintend the repairs of the public roads. He had full power to decide where and to what extent repairs should be made. As population and streets increased, several surveyors became necessary; and they received compensation for their time and labor. After the brick Alms House was built in West Medford, near the Lowell Railroad Depot (1812), Isaac Brooks, Esq., who had taken the deepest interest in the matter, proposed to employ the male paupers in repairing the highways. This plan was adopted; and, under the guidance of a general surveyor, the keeper of the Alms House went forth every day with his picked men and horse-cart. As this procedure converted the Alms House from a place of ease to a place of labor, it had the magical effect of thinning the number of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
had a happy home; was a Sunday-school boy, and always went to church, and only to think I have lost my leg, and may be I'll die and never get home again. He was among the first exchanged. Another poor boy I call to mind too weak to talk much, and yet who did talk a little and hopefully, had both arms and both legs amputated. In a few days death ended his sufferings. Something like yellow fever for a few weeks was endemic among the prisoners, and among our own troops too. The city Alms-house, a splendid building by the way, was appropriated as a hospital for these cases. Sitting one day by the cot of a New York soldier, upon whose brow death had stamped his seal, I kneeled to pray for his departing soul, when a gush of black vomit struck me full in the face and breast, and the prayer was interrupted by the poor fellow's apologies and assurances that he could not help it. I wiped his face more tenderly than I did my own and held his hand for half an hour later, when his spirit
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of Libby prison. (search)
had a happy home; was a Sunday-school boy, and always went to church, and only to think I have lost my leg, and may be I'll die and never get home again. He was among the first exchanged. Another poor boy I call to mind too weak to talk much, and yet who did talk a little and hopefully, had both arms and both legs amputated. In a few days death ended his sufferings. Something like yellow fever for a few weeks was endemic among the prisoners, and among our own troops too. The city Alms-house, a splendid building by the way, was appropriated as a hospital for these cases. Sitting one day by the cot of a New York soldier, upon whose brow death had stamped his seal, I kneeled to pray for his departing soul, when a gush of black vomit struck me full in the face and breast, and the prayer was interrupted by the poor fellow's apologies and assurances that he could not help it. I wiped his face more tenderly than I did my own and held his hand for half an hour later, when his spirit
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], What effect Lincoln's Message has upon the South. (search)
sly shooting a comrade named Wm. D. Wilson, on Main street, Tuesday evening, was before the Mayor yesterday for an examination, which it was found necessary to postpone in consequence of the absence of a material witness. The accused was sent to jail to await the result of the wound inflicted on Wilson, which is said to be of such a serious character as to lead to the idea of his early dissolution. Wilson was carried, after being shot, to the Infirmary, lately established at the new city Alms House. Both of the parties are said to have been drunk at the time the affair happened. They belonged to a company of Kentuckians, now in camp here. We would suggest to those soldiers who are so prone to use their knives, pistols and other weapons on their friends, that there are Hessians in our mountains and on our plains who can be shot at without dishonor, who can be killed with credit, and who ought to be annihilated with expedition. Let those belligerents who find it so difficult to
The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], A base and wilful Liar. (search)
Funeral honors. --A few days since, one of the Kentucky volunteers, named William D. Wilson, was shot through the breast with a pistol ball by a comrade named George W. Bowman, on Main street, near Dickinson's Hat store. The wounded man was taken to the hospital at the new Alms-House. The party who inflicted the wound was delivered to the commanding officer of his company and was let off, as we afterwards heard and announced in Saturday's paper. On the evening of that day the body of Wilson was escorted past the Dispatch office to the Danville cars, en route for its last resting place, in the soil of old Kentucky.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. McClellan and the Press. (search)
. The Mayor, as the adjuster of all domestic difficulties among a certain class of the population, is compelled to frown on the inflictor of those hard knocks that mar the body and despoil its comeliness, even though the contest be one in which the combatants exhibit a willingness to engage, regardless of the fact that they are females.--By means of peace warrants, numbers of women have found their way from time to time to the jail, and remain a burthen to the city treasury. When the new Alms-House is put to its legitimate use, a number of the subjects, both male and female, who now find a lodgment in the city jail, will be sent thither, where, we believe, arrangements have been made for putting them to work. The quarrels and resulting fights between the men who are generally arrested by the police, have always bad or fighting whiskey as a foundation. So, also, with the women who seek his Honor's protection by getting out warrants against opponents. It will be observed by a freque
The Daily Dispatch: July 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Southside. (search)
Fire. --The alarm of fire sounded about 8 o'clock last night, was caused by the burning of a farm-house located about one mile and a half north of the city Alms House. The firemen started with their apparatus, but on finding the locality of the conflagration, turned back. They had a wet time of it, starting as they did in the storm. The house burned was supposed to belong either to Dr. Deane or the estate of the late Judge Daniel.
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Rappahannock lines. (search)
first execution that ever occurred in the Southern Confederacy, in pursuance of the law of Congress prescribing the penalty of death those proved guilty of counterfeiting Confederate treasury notes, took place yesterday. The criminal, who was convicted several months since before the Confederate States District Court. Judge J. D. Halyburion, under the name of John Richardson, alias Louis Napoleon, expiated his offence at noon yesterday on a gallows constructed in the gaily east of the new Alms-House, and near the spot where, in former years, other malefactors had paid the penalty of their misdeeds. Richardson, altas Napoleon, had after conviction, been respited by the President twice; the last one expiring yesterday. A few days prior thereto he was brought to Richmond from the jail of Danville, where he had been contined for safety. On yesterday the prisoner informed Mr. Henry Myers, the Deputy Marshal, that it had been his intention on that occasion, had he not been so closely wat
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Contribution to the War. (search)
desirable state of affairs may have been brought about by the increased efficiency of the police, both civil and military. The following cases were disposed of to day: John Haley, of the 1st South Carolina regiment, having been picked up in the Second Market while corned, was dispatched to Castle Thunder, to be sent back to his regiment. John Norman, a free negro, and Molly, slave of Mrs Mary Muse, were brought up for fighting and disturbing the peace on 2d street, near the new Alms-House. The testimony showed Norman to be in fault, and he therefore received an order entitling him to receive a thrashing. Charles Russell, charged with stealing a horse worth $40 from Michael Moon, was acquitted honorably, there not being the smallest particle of of adduced to show that he did anything of the kind. un Purcell, a non-resident, was summoned before the Mayor to answer the charge of huckstering in the Second Market. He was fined ten dollars, and the chickens bought b
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
$2 per day, to continue until the 1st of May next. The ordinance reported from the Committee on Claims, fixing the annual salaries of the city officers, was taken up. The ordinance was amended and finally passed, fixing the salaries as follows: Major, $3,000; Judge of the Hustings Court, $3,000; Chamberlain, $2,500; Chamberlain's Clerk, $1,500; Auditor, $2,250; Auditor's Clerk, $1,500; Messenger of Council, $1,000; City Assessor, $1,875; City Engineer, $2,500; superintendent of Alms-House, $1,000, with and other privileges: Superintendent Water Works, $2,250; Assistant Superintendent front of Water Works, $1,500; Superintendent of Gas Works, $2,250; Inspector of $1,500; Superintendent of Pump $1,250; Assistant Superintendent of -House, $1,000; Clerk of First Market, 250 Clerk of Second Market, $1,250; Chief Engineer of Fire Brigade, $1,250; Commanders of Fire Companies, $250 each; Foremen. $187,50 each; Firemen, each $125; Engineer of Steam Engine on Third street, $1,0