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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Newspaper Tidbits 1854-55
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:56:25 -0600


Burlington Tri-Weekly News; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; 14 Nov 1854
A court in Ireland has recently decided that the forgery of the name of a
person who cannot write is not a legal forgery.

Burlington Tri-Weekly News; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; 2 Dec 1854
One hundred and forty passengers sailed from New York for Ireland on
Monday, and 200 more are to follow. They are persons who are returning to
their fatherland, not finding things in this country as they expected.

Burlington Tri-Weekly News; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; 10 Apr 1855
An association is to be established in Toronto, for the purpose of inducing
emigrants from Ireland to settled in Canada in preference to the United
States.

Burlington Tri-Weekly News; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; 9 May 1855
Emigration from Europe to New York, has received a decided check. The number
that arrived in March and April 1854, were 34,906; in March and April, 1855-
up to last Tuesday-5,358, which gives the enormous decrease in two months of
20,458. In the period of last year 13, 506 of the emigrants came from
Ireland; but from the 1st of March to the 24th inst., the arrivals from that
country numbered only 1681, which exhibits a falling off to the amount of
11,825. This is attributable mainly to the distress that has prevailed among
the laboring classes in this country, within the past season.

Burlington Tri-Weekly News; Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa; 18 May 1855
A comic writer in the California Pioneer says that on the plank road near
Southwick's Pass, an inn or hotel is kept by a native American Irishman,
whose sign exhibits the harp of Ireland encircling the shield of the United
States, with the mottoes:
"Erin Go Unum."
"E Pluribus Braugh."


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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