Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-03-03
ANOTHER TYPOGRAPHICAL MISERY.
From the Boston Times.

Three honest Swapping boys from the Green
Mountains came doaon upon US Yesterday They
said they come to see us print. We are noted
for our civility. and told them to inquire for the
Devil, who would show them all One of them
turned black in the face, but third happened to
know something about the performance, and quiet
ed their fears by telling them not to be skeared.'
They were accordingly ushered into the region Of
types, which they perambuated, expressing the
most perfect establishment. g wanter Know II
these ere is what you make all the noos papers
with" said one drawing his arm across his face and
in tone of confident wonder. Yes, sir, said we,
with bow of the utmost urbanity. Here sar-
donc grin curled our DEVILS lips what's these,''
said he casting his eyes on column OF original
politics, which we had this very morning distilled
from our precious brain. They are types, SIR
( Types | thought types was them are leete things
them are Ieetle hunks of iren, amt they = " yes
but these are set up for an impression ~
they stickP said he, and at that moment laid hold
of the middle of column, with his thumb anu mn
ger. and despoiled nearly column OF close m'nlon,
Heigh 2 and he shuddered, and offered to- nix 1t
again. We were out patlence-ouv devh Sack
ered-the pressmen roared-and the whole choir OF
composors ioined in one of the most heart-rending
choruses we ever witnessed In the meanwhile,
the men of the mountains were departed. We en-
treat ali yisiters to keep their hands in their pock-
cts, tie up their cloak capes and ak no questions.
The committee of the Bunker Hill Monument
Associations iii their address calling Tor additional
contributions. give this account OF what mas peen
done and what it is their design to do ms mon
ument will be the highest of the kind in the oootd,
and only below the height of the Egyptian Pyramids.
1t will form, when completed, an obeilsk thirty
feet square at the base, aud fifteen at the top 1t
will consist of eighty courses of the Quincy granite,
each course two feet eight inches in thickness The
whole height. when laid, will be two hundred and
twenty feet No traveller will then inquire for the
battle ground. The monument will endure un'ii
the foundations of the earth itself are shaken. onr
descendants in the most remote ages will have tins
perDetual memorial before them. OF the virtues ana
valnur of their ancestors and of this ever enduring
memento of the price and the value OF liberty Tho
while quantity of stone necessary to complete TINS
work IS 6, 700 tons. Of this quantity twenty eight
hundred tons are already laid in the Ia first courses,
and five hundred tons more already dressed, on the
hill being the quantity required Tor I'VE courses, and
with that already laid, making more 'hah nan ,he
quantity necessary for the whole structure. lwe'vc
hundred tons are already split out in blocks to d.
mensions for the various parts of the Monument, az
, Ouncy and have been placed IN situations Where
; tSay can be best hammered. The remainder, TWEEN
ty-two hundred tons, be split from the quarry
in ninety days. for three hundred dollars; consa-
cradle nrorress has been made in preparing the ledge
, for that purpose. The committee continued the
work as ony as they considered themselves justified,
and only ceased at the hill on the first Of septem
her. e. on the seventeenth Of January at the quarry
At the February of the Municipal Court at Boston.
Charles Thomas Reed, for making and uenng forged
note of hand for $780, whereby he defrauded Niiam -
summer ESQ., of that sentenced to days soi''
arv and confinement afterwards to hard la
Dor 8 years in the State Prison.
It's seldom (says the Boston Commercial Gazette) thaf
Court is called pronounce the sentence OF the law un
lar scb nainful circumstances peculiarly apply TO the
c.se If this individual. Born in auence, aud OF hgh'y
respectable family after having moved in the first circle %
life with elegant taste and no small share sa .on
signed to that OF the most debased The example Of ia
unfortunate young is iorcble demonstration o. nu
man insecurity no knows what in the hour OF Stern
necessity and under the fevers influence OF dss,pstoh
and urged by the solicitations Of supposed isna NE n
may be tempted to do. Though such cop,n ~ ,s
even vet it must be remembered the cSnis o. Pa'S