Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-25

5osToN IN OLDEN TIMEs.-The Boston Transcript
in notice of the newspapers published in Boston in
1857 of which there were ten, says:
The printer in those days was man of all work :"
1t negro horse was up for sale, the printer
the seller. The advertisements in these old papers
are curoses in their line.
What would the enghted readers of the Common
wealth newspaper do say 10 lis printer should such
notice be found in its advertising columns the follow
ing which appeared in the Boston Evening Post, print
ed by Thomas Fleet. in l74l:
ITO SOLD THE PRINTER THIS PAPER, the
very best negro woman in this town, who has had
the small pox and the measles; is as healthy q
horse brisk bird, and will work like beav-
err"
"To SOLD THE PRINTER OF THIS PAPER, q
negro man. about thirty years old, who do both
town and country business very WELL but will suit
the country best where they have not so many dram
shops as We have in Boston. He has worked at the
printing business fifteen sixteen years ham
die axe saw, spade hoe other instrument of hus-
bandry, as we'll as most men, and values himself,
and is valued by Others for his skill in cookery
Think of colored slave in Boston in 174l, prin-
tor for fifteen years, fond of visiting dram shops,
and valued for his skill a cock!
| CoLER1DGE ON KEMBLE-T always had great lik-
ing-I may say sort of nOndescript reverence-for
John Kemble. What quaint creature he was! |
remember party al which he was dscoursng in his
measured manner, when the servant announced his
carriage. He nodded and went on. The announce.
ment took place twice afterwards. Kemble each time
nodding his head little more impatently, but still
going on. AT last. and for the fourth time, the ser.
want entered and said, Mrs. Kemble says, sir, she
has the rhuematise, and cannot stay" Add ism,'
dropped John, in pNrenthesis and proceeded quiet
ly in his harangue. Kemble would correct anybody,
al any tme and in any place. Dear Charles Mat
thews-a true genius in his line. in my judgment
me he performing privately before the king
The king was much pleased with the imitation of
Kemble, and said liked Kemble very much. He
was one OF my earliest friends ] remember once he
was talking, and found himself out of snuff offered
him my box. He declined taking any-he poor
actor, could not put his fingers into royal box.
said, take some. pray you will obIeegc me- Up
on which Kemble replied, 1t would become your roy
al mouth better to say, oblge me;" and took pinch.
A novel view of the Eastern question is presented
in the London News Of the 2lst ult, by Mr. Urqu-
hart, the same whose writings under the political con.
dition of Turkey read here with so much inter-
est years ago, and whose opinions are entitled
to much weight. He asserts that Russia has neither
the purpose nor the power 10 make war upon Turkey
that she has deceived Europe into this Belief and tina
her real object in the occupation of the Prncpatef
is to revolutionZe Turkey and all the European gov
ernments where the material for commissions is abun
dainty furnished. So he may well say to England
and France beware Of the spring OF 1884,"
BEAUTIFUL MoKAL.-We find in an exchange the
following simple and touching paragraph. There ii
a wealth of beauty in it, and moral on which many
! a word might be said and lesson taught
"God will take care of baby beautiful infant
had been taught 10 say it. and it could say little
else, God will take of baby" 1t was selzet
with sickness, time when both parents were recov
ering from dangerous illness Every day II gre"
worse, and at last given up 10 die.
Almost agonized, the mother begged TO be carried
into the of her darling 10 give it one last EN-
brace. Both parents succeeded in reaching the
partment just as it was thought the baby bad breatheC
its last. The mother wept aloud, when once NOR
the little creature opened its eyes. looking up in be
face smiled, moved its lips. and in faint voice said
=. God will take care Of baby" Sweet consolini
words they hardly ceased when the infant was ii
Heaven.
BEAUTIFUL ExrRACT.-The velvet moss grows OIL
a sterile rock, the misleoe fourishes on the Make
branches, the ivy cngs TO the Wondering ruins, tn
pine and cedar remain fresh and fadeless amid tn
mutations of the receding years and Heaven be praIs
, ed something beautiful to see and grateful to tn
SOUL will, in The darkest hour of fate still Irvine it
. tendrls around the crumb,ing affairs and broke
arches of the desolate temple of the human heart.
/, A CoNUHDRUa What is the difference bstwee
a man who stabs another with intent to kill, an
} tho man who stabs hog and actually kills him :
ANswER-The first is assault with intent TO xii