[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 7 (reply #23).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Tax-chick]

George Borrow, 103-1881, was an English traveler, travel writer, and translator. Wikipedia notes: The Romany Rye (1857) puzzled many readers, who were not sure how much was fact and how much fiction (a question debated to this day).

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from July 14 (reply #28).]

July 16. Stagnated at home in the evening till half-past ten, when an alarm of fire started me out and I chased the conflagration up Lexington beyond the bounds of civilization into desert places where Irish shanties began to prevail, and the region being lonely and suspicious and the fire still a dozen streets beyond and nearly out beside, I came back perspiring. It was a varnish factory in the latitude of Fifty-fifth Street.

Coroner’s inquest in progress over the unlucky German, Miller or Muller, the “opfer” of the 17th Ward riot. Evidence hopelessly conflicting; impossible to form an opinion whether he was killed by the police or by one of his own party. Teutonia is watching the case with much interest, and some say that if the verdict be not against the police, there will be a grand insurrection and a provisional government proclaimed in Tompkins Square.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas