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lLtrQ9 lorluG( (iALENA EVOUIaEs - - -
WE sabscriber has provided Ter the .eeer,vod.,,o,
Doth by the day aud by the weeE with
or without fodging-atvery moderate prices. Ino~;r.
or the Gaiene House, at the nrst building on RoSsr
ttreetabove Third, opposite Whine Cooley.
sore. - jul7-s-ly VIM. TRUss0NE4
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. NInsIsSIPPI H0usE.

~ 51vlss,- MISSISSIPPI HOUSE. aathI
c0nNKR OF EAGLE AND HiLL srs., PAT I, ,NiNNrsurx
subsCribeg hss taken the above house and ntfed
up for reception Of bospders Ina u, lie upsur
passed by any hposs in9he Terrisery. u 4
Boarding BY the day Or week ON reasonable terms.
ys5 ~ E. E.E.THOMPSON. &.
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June 9, ls5S.-etf
BANKERS R9kTf RNp excHaAdE 4 H0AAKEs, Ss,,,rps
| - SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA.
VNAKE the liberty to inform the merchants and other
u business men Of the Territory, that they have
atey formed such business in the prnci
al cities Of the East and South be able to ford
| BANKING FACILITIES.
They will receive current bank notes on deposit,
for which they will give their certificates payable in
IKE iunds, or In coin exchange the East at
EXCHANGE ON THE EAST, SOUTH AND EUROPE.
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Collections promptly attended TO and proceeds for
warded, less exchange.
Land WarYants Bought and Sold.
ohcurrent oanA actes taken at highest rates. 40sm
MARBLE WORKS. The undersigned has been appoin
Il ted agent C. Kent 4 Fullers celebrated Marble
maunacory. whereby he enabled to f all orders for
Stones Busts and Mantles at the regu
" s. COMBS,
Nay lZt Near American House
M MISCELLANEOUb BOOKS-A large assortmenI
WI late publications, among which is the
Autobiography of an Actress,
Frank Forrester's Field Sports,
'' Fish aud Fishing.
And many other popular Books for sale cheap cash
,rA1nu,11,;XHX ;HX 11:;.anas,: 1ExRREss: v.ur,, 49,,
IM Eoss. RSs,; Sthp!st. Works, ss
Amanacs for 1884,
New Novels. at COMBS Bookstore
FOR THE LADIES.
MRas. Halls M New Hoy aoa9llla Receipts,
Mrs. Lssle,s Complete Cdokery,
New Receipt for Cooking,
June So,dtf No. 3. winslow House
NEW BOOKS.
/ LIE and Savings of Mrs Darlington.
- Flush Times of the Mississippi,
Russia As 1t IL,
Africa and the American Flag
G. HAMILTON CO.,
June eo.dti No. g. Winslow House
TO ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.
CSI received all sizes OF Wnatmsn's Drawing Paper
- !: fine >etts Mathem .tical Instruments.
sloan Model Architecture, 3 Vols.
Bsnlarin's Architect.
Modern Builders Guide
ana needed by them for sale cheap for cash
COMPS Book Store. near the American House. june II
4. kaO - i1A q co.
AVE just received large assortment of Nscelane-
vite their friends and the public generally look
at the stock, ct the PIONEER BOOKSTORE
sep ldtf Opposite the Post Office.
MUSIC! MUSIC 7!
NEW and splendid assortment Of SHEET MUSIC,
"A just opened and for sale by E. HOwITZ CO.,
sep l-dtf Opposite the Post Office.
80 !" HON rs OF THE NEW WOKLD,"
b E. HowIrz co.'s,
Sep. 1-dtf Opposite the Post Office.
BY EXPR ESS:
A NEW supply Of I" Fashion and Famine -
"A Nolte's Fifty Years In Both Hemspherea;
Edgar A. Poe's Works;
Veum Cloth, Copying Books and Brushes At
COMBS Bookstore,
Oct3ltf Near the American House
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MEND(llTAHOusE

- - MENDOTA HOUSE. - .--e.l
Would respectfully inform the public shst I have
"a, and prspsrsd % scconmodate bosrdsrs peruas
nent or tnanaieat.9 Sil1oh = - Il
pleassnsly located, and palms will be spsred IN my
So op6 ef TIE. moot comiortable q
the Weee2AW g - sHvo. ~. =. - -
.sJAlfDa DDuC1.
Nsaasts, July -. lesGsf
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FORBES & KTTTSON,
JOBBERS IN INDIAN GOODS AND DOMESTICS.
"AvE on hand large assortment of Ir!ian Goods,
III which they offer to the trade able terms
also Family Groceries, among which OF
Fruits, fresh aud preserved, Fresh peaches in cans
Star Candles, Fresh Ounces,
Tallow do Preserve Peaches,
Soap, Currant Jelly,
do Fancy, Currant Jam,
Hams Pie Fruit.
Teas of all kinds, Dates, Gtrons, Figs
Sugars, Raisins, Spices,
do Crushed Ia kbarrel Assorted Extracts,
Coffee, Spanish Olives,
lard, Lard Oil, Prunes,
Butter, Catsup, Lobsters,
Sardines, Oysters,
And everything required for family USE all Of which will
be sold Low.
STONE STORE CORNER THIRD ROBERTS STREET.
st. Paul. Sept. q. sept2l-dtf
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SAINT PAUL, FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 16, 1855.
st. paMI a00'ts.
J. Mem MAIiUN HOLLAND.

). MCMAHON hOLLAND,
Ah'""sy ssd Co&aseUor at Las asd .SoLie;.er =,
Choacoy.
SHAKOPEE, SCOTT COUNTY, ,MINNEsoTl
MINNESOTA RgFExENeEs.
Hov. w. A. German,
:; travis kosser, ESQ., Sec Min. Ter
Capt. ). II. Simpson, U. 8. Top. Ensr, af Paul
a. :. Morgan, Esq, Pioneer Office,
y. a. Robertson, Esq,
Hon. II. II. sibley, Mendota.
n. MARYLAND REFERHNcEs.
+; III II: o'Nesl, ESQ, secretary Of State
Judges Legrand, Tuck aud Ecleston Of fApnapolis
Supreme Court Of Maryland,
Hon. Alexander Randall,
John V. L. McMahon, Esq, Baltimore Md.
MINNESOTA LEATHER STORE.
AZ the Old Stand Of E. A. Collins E. Co., opposit
the Rice House, St. Paui.
ID 7. BRADLEY, dealer In Saddles, Harness
Trunks and Saddlery Hardware, Saddle Trees
Skrtihg, Harness and Patent Leather, Calf Seating
Bag and Top Leather; Carriage Trimmings Saddlers
silk; Bellows and Band Leather.
BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS STOCK.
Hemiock tanned Sole Leather; Oak tanned Sole ant
Upper Leather; Kip and Calf skins; French, German
Philadelphia and Cincinnati Calf skins; all kinds o
Ladies' and Gentlemens Morocco Red, Yellow, Blue
Green, Pink and White Linings; best Goat Buck ant
sheep Binding; Boot and Shoe Fndings; Boot Trees
Lasts, Crimp Boards, Pegs of all sizes; Shoe Thread
all kinds Iron, Zinc and Copper Nails.
CARRIAGE TRIMMING,
Executed st the shortest notice and in workmank,
manner.
Country orders particularly attended to.
" highest market price in Cash paid at all time,
Tor Beef Hides, Sheep and Deer Skins.
June 9. ls5s.-stf
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RICH'S SALAMANDER SAFES.
WILDERS PATENT.
A Large assortment of Safes, Of various sizes and
"A patterns with and without powder proof locks;
for sale at the Depot, 148 Water street, New York
Burglsr-proof Bank Vaults, and Vault Doors made to
order.
STEARNS 4 MARTIN, Gate Ron; stearns +
Co., successors to Rich Co.. l46 Water and corn.
Of Of Avenue and ST. Marks Place. N. " sole pro-
prietors Of Rchs Patent and the only makers of Saa
mandUr safes, combining Wilder and Richs patents q
WIN. CONSTANS r CO.,
Nov. 1e, 1e52-tf Agents, st. Paul.
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j. A. M. HOISINGTON,
POOK- BINDER third story of B. Presley's Brick
I'D House. Third street, will attend to all business his
line with which he may be entrusted. Books, Magazines
and Periodicals. bound in any STYLE Old Books rebound
and Music bound IN QUICK time, for the Ladies'
Saint Paul, Oct. 2. 1t -. ect3d
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p. S. DRUM.

MANUFACTURE and keen constsntlv an h.uA :.
~ compete assortment Of fancy and Windsor Chair
Also, Bureaus Tables, Stands Writing Desks, sekin
chase will do we'll to call before they buy
we are prepared to sell good article and o. cur term
are invariably cash, we afford to sell a. cAssp .
cheaper, than any other In the city. reasensse do
duetion made to persons buying sell agsn All erdsrs
from distance punctuslly attended to. E. V1TTl
Calens, May, le5l a.
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BY CHRISTIAN SUTTLER
Grocery Merchant, Fort street Saint Paul ~. N.~
X EEls constantly on hand {. general sssortrsut o
- 1roceries Also, Holland Herring, swiss {. lssrs
oysters, Sardines, together with ali the iuxvrisc Il r.,
season n.. "a an o. which he sells cheap for cash.
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WALL PAPER AND SHADES. 15
. 000 rolls latest Styles received BY Galena.
%sOOV Persons having rooms to paper would %
"eH 10 call early. octl3dn W. DAHL
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AMBROY OYSTERS.
A superior lot ofRobnson + Ments's mbrsy Oyster
"A In cans, and for sale by -,
w. CONsTANs, Levee, Lower Town.
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SheriH,A Sale.

WILL be sold at Public Auction, in the
town OF South Kingstown, on Thursday, June
20 800, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, on the premises,
all the right title and interest that
HENRY MARCHANT,
now, or late Of Providence. had on the 27th
day of April, 1853, at o'clock in the after
noon, in aud TO the following described Real
Estate, a certain tract Of land situated in South
Kingstown, containing, by estimation. one hun.
dred and eleven acres, with Dwelling House
and other Buildings thereon. bounded north
on highway, easterly on land of John G.
Clarke, southerly on land of Samuel Hoxsie.
westerly on the Usquepaug river. Also. a lot
OF land containing sixty-nine acres, bounded
northerly on land Of Samuel Hoxsie. easterlv on
the Syneger Brook, westerly on the said U.s.
quepaug river. Also, a lot of land containing
forty acres, bounded northerly on land late Of
Silas Brown, easterly on land Of John Brown
and partly on driftway, southerly, partly on
land ofRObert Brown, deceased, and partly on
land of Robert Fl. Sherman, westerly on land
of William Marchant, Jr., known as the Bab-
cock Farm.
Also, one other lot of land, containing sixty
two acres more or less, bounded northerly on
land of Rowland Braman, easterly partly on
land of George Gardner, and partly on land Of
Jabez Perkins, southerly on highway, west
erly on land of Jabez Perkins, or however
otherwise the same may be bounded. The
aforesaid lots will be sold to satisfy two eIecu-
tons levied thereon February II, 1855, one
in favor of Daniel P. Stone, against Henry
Alarchant, and the other, the Rockingham
Bank against Henry Marchant, if sufficient.
Sales to commence at the dwelling house on
the first described lot and followed up until all,
or so much thereof is sold as will pay said exc
cutions and expenses.
BERIAH n. LAWTON, Sheriff.
South Kingstown, May 27, 1855. 3t2l7
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Town Meeting.

'|'HE Freemen of the Town of Westerly arc
L hereby warned to appear at the Union
Meeting House, in the village of Pawcatuck,
on the first Tuesday of June next, at 10 o'clock
A. M.-the 5th day of said month-for the
purpose Of holding Town Meeting to elect
Town Officers for the year ensuing, and School
Committee for the same time, also Justices of
the Peace, if thought proper, also to order a
Tax to detray the incidental expenses of said
Town, and TO enable said Town to draw it's
Of the public School Fund accord
ing to law, and to act and transact any other
business necessary and proper to be done at
said meeting, agreeable to the Town Warrant
of the Town Clerk to me directed, bearing date
at said Westerly, the 18th day Of May, 1855.
WEEDEN H. BERRY, Town Sergt.
Westerly, R. l., May %, 1855. 2t2le
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~ The General Assembly of thi,
State met at Newport, on Tuesday
morning last. The House was called tc
order by George B. Knowles of New.
port, aud Benjamin Fesscnden of Cum.
berland was unanimously elected Speak
er. Sullivan Ballou and Charles G.
Van Zandt, were elected clerks. The
two Houses met in Grand Committee,
counted the votes for State officers and
adjourned till Wednesday morning.
On Wednesday morning, the House:
joined in Grand Committee, counted the
votes for members of Congress, and
declared Nathaniel B. Durfec and Ben.
jamin B. Thurston duly elected. They
appointed for Justices Of the Supreme
Court-Wm. r. Staples, Chief, AlfreL
BoswOrth and Sylvester G. Shearman
Associates.
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Sherin''s Sale.

WILL be sold at Public Auction, in the
town of Richmond, on Saturday, the 23d Of
June, 1855, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, on the pre-
misses, all the right, title and interest that
REYNOLDS HOXSIE, JR.,
had on the 18th day of January, 1855, at IS
minutes past 2 o'clock P. NJ, in the following
described Real Estate and the buildings and
improvements thereon, viz: one certain tract
Of land situated IN said town of Richmond,
bounded northery on land of Benjamin T.
Reynolds, easterly on a highway, westerly
partly on Beaver River, and partly on land of
Thomas 7. uoxse, or however otherwise
bounded, it being the real estate late owned
and occupied by Reynolds Hoxsie, deceased.
The aforesaid tract will be sold to satisfy an
execution levied thereon in favor of John j.
REYNOLDS, and against Marnus w. Gardiner
and Reynolds Hoxsie, Jr., or so much thereof
as shall be sufficient to pay said execution and
the expenses. BERIAH II. LAWTON,
.i Sheriff.
Wexford, May "a, 1855. 3t2l7.
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~ The following circumstance is
said to have trauspired not hundred
miles from New Haven. A minister
having received call to settle was
waited on by the committee when the
following dialogue was had =" Have
yen family 7" eyes, wife and four
childrsss besides an sged mother" How
small a salary would you be willing tt
work for 81 desire q competence fol
my support but as for that matter,
am willing to refer it to your ability
and generosity" "What do you say tt
$95O ?" +" Well, it is not as large as
had expected; but 1 might manage Il
live comfortably with it. You furnish
q parsonage of course :" go, the par
soaage is Included in the salary. w,
call xhs parsonage 5000" "Surcly
yes do not expect me to live on $50
year," Well not exactly-but ",
won. be hard on you. You can max,
something outside. you like you Cal
preach half day every Suuday-or yo,
car, preach the ,ohole day for half gear
at your convenience. The rest of th,
time you can have for yourself! w
'front.' be hard on you 20
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are residing in the interior of North |
Carolina, among some distant relations
Of Mr.. Barton's.

A GooD REcexMENpArIox.- Please
ar, don't you want cabin boy ?"
=" DO want q cabin boy, my lad, but
whsts that to you A little chap like
You sint 1T for the berth"
"Oh, sir, I'm real strong. I can do
. great deal Of work, if amt SO very
old"
But what are you here fori You
don't look like city boy. Run away
from homo, hey ?"
Oh, no, indeed, sir; my father died
and my mother is very poor, and want
to do something to help her. She let
me come"
swell, sonney, where are your letters
OF recommendation I Can't take any
boy without those"
Here was a damper. Willie had
never thought of its being necessary to
have letters from his minister, or his
teachers, or from some proper person to
prove to strangers that he was an honest
and good boy. Now, what should he
do. He stood in deep thought, the
captain meanwhile curiously watched
the workings Of bis expressive face. At
length he put bis hand into bis bosom
and drew out bis little Bible, and With
out one word put into the captains
hand. The captain opened to the blank
page and read -
"Willie Graham, presented as a re-
ward for regular and punctual attend
ance at Sabbath School, and for his
blamelcss conduct there and elsewhere.
From his Sunday School Teacher
Captain Mcleod was not a pious man,
but he could not consider the case be-
fore him with heart unmoved. The
little fatherlsss child, standing humbly
before him, referring him to the testi-
mony Of his Sunday School teacher, as
it was given in his little Bible, touched
o tender spot in the breast of the noble
seaman, and clapping Willie heartily on
the shoulder, he said
4" You are the boy for me you shall
sail with me and il you are as good a
lad as think you are, your pockets
shan't be empty when you 90 back to /
your good mother"
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~ The English papers montion the

~ The English papers moution the
suicide of Mr.. Roylstone, who ten
years ago, was worth one hundred and
fifty thousand pounds sterling, which he
has since squandered in the grati6ca-
tion Of his appetite. He had agents
in China, Mexico, Canada and other
places to supply him With the rarest
delicaeies; and single dish sometimes
costs him fifty pounds. At length, on
the 18th of last April, nothing was left
him but a single guinea, shirt and a
battered hat. He bought a woodcock
with the guinea, which he had served
up in the highest style Of art. He gave
himself two hours for an easy digestion,
and then jumped into the Thames from
Westminster bridge.
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p~- This place and vicinity, was
visited, on Saturday night last, by a
severe thunder storm, which did con-
siderable damage to cattle, &c. Two
young cattle belonging to Mr.. David
Stillman, and also two belonging to Mr..
Perez Wheeler, Of North Stoniugton,
were killed by Lightning. The house of
MIR. William Vincent of the same place,
received considerable damage from a
stroke of Lightning.
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9bc n)esterlp Gfbo,
AND
Paweatuok Advertiser.
Westerly. May 81, 1883.

~ The Report upon Public Schools
and Education in Rhode Island, by the
Commissioner Of Public Schools, for Q
copy Of which We arc Indebted to the
psliteness Of that gentleman, furnishes
much valuable statistical and other in
formation in regard to the schools Of
this State. From it We learn that there
are in this town, twelve districts, con-
tanning twelve school houses, with 293
male and 254 female scholars, making
a total Of SAT, employing six male aud
niue female teachers. The proportion
of the fund of $50, 900 appropriated by
the State, belonging to this town, is
$663 20, and the proportion of the new
appropriation, is $47l IL, making a
total of $ll34 Al. The number Of
children under fifteen and over four years
Of age, is $40 under four, 25s; max.
ing the total number of children under
fifteen years of age, in this town, s07,
of which 5 are idiots, 5 deaf and dumb,
and insane. The amount of money
received by this town from the State
Treasury, was $663 90; from town tax,
5000 90 from rate bills, $l,7s5 II
from registry tax, $l73 II, which with
S37 90 unexpended last year, make
the total resources $2,S5s 81, against
So, 2,55S 90, expended for instruction.
The whole number of districts in the
State is 3S2, with 337 school houses
The number of male scholars, is l3, IN;
female, IL, ,sll making total ofo5 sos,
With 253 male and 364 female teachers
The number Of scholars, in the State,
between four and fifteen years of age, is
30, ,959, and l3,s9s under four years
Of age !; of which los are idiots, 6s deaf
and dumb; 233 insane, aud 55 blind.
The amount of school funds in the State
Treasury is $34,996 So amount raised
by town tax $el,ol3 OIL; by rate bills,
$lo,s22 76 registry tax, $6,ls4 70 $
from other sources, $2,s2l So; unex.
pended last year, $2,764 A3; making
the total resou5ce, for the year, $las,-
6o3 3s, of which $lo3,O4s SO has been
expended for instruction, and $7,34s,
for school houses.
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~ The Third Annual Report o.

- The Third Annuai report Of
the Board of Trustees Of the State Re-
form School of Connecticut--for q COPY
Of which we are indebted to Francis 8.
Peabody, Esq Of the Senats--for the
year 1855, presented to,the May Session
of the General Assembly Of that State
furnishes much interesting information
in regard to that valuable institution.
The school has now been open about
thirteen months, during which time l5O
dslinqueuts have been received. Of
these, 81 we're committed for theft; Al,
for vagrancy; and 35 for stubboruusss.
Eighty nine of these are sentenced dur
ing their minority. Twenty-Five Of these
were foreign born, l25 native. Their
average is about twelve ons-third years.
The boys confined here are employed in
various trades, such as shoe making,
tailoring, basket-makiDg, farming, &c /,
&C.. The amount of receipts from all
sources, for the benefit Of the school
during the past year, is $4o,547 06,
against an expenditure of $4O,SO4 81.
The School department seems to be
judiciously conducted, as the Sfollow-
ing extract from the report Of the Super
shows
"Vcry few of the boys when received
could read and write we'll. A large part
could not write at all. In several in
stances the boys had not been taught the
alphabet. The greater part had been
and their habits of study we're
any thing but desirable. Notwithstand.
ng these uufavorable circumstances the
progress of the boys has been very salts
factory. A large share Of attention has
of course been given to the elements of
reading, writing, geography and arith-
metic. In these several branches, very
great progress is observable. Boys who
could not write their names when re-
ceived here, will now write letter to
their friends that many boy of similar
age in our best schools would not be
ashamed Of"
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HOHoway's Ointment and Pills, an
infallIble remedy Tor bletches on the
skin, Edgar Mortimer, aged 25. of
Third Street, Philadelphia, was for five
years severe sufferer with blotches on
the skin, the whole Of his face, neck i,
arms, and hands, being disfgured with
them like small pox; he consulted
several very clever medical men, who
told him it was the predicating symp-
toms of some disease, which alarmed
him exceedingly; however he took Hol-
loway's Pills Immediately, and rubbed
the ointment on the parts affected, aud
in two weeks the whole of the blotches
disappeared, and his health was consid-
erably improved. These remedies will
cure the most deeply seated old wounds
and ulcers, even of twenty years stand
ing.
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~ A pleasant anecdote is told ol
DR.. Franklin. The town Of Franklin
was named for him. While in France,
gentleman in Boston wrote to him of
the fact, and added, that as the town
was building a meeting house, perhaps
he would give them bell. Franklin
wrote the characteristic reply, that he
presumed that the good people Of F.
would prefer sense to sound, aud there.
fore be would give them a town library
This he did, and the library is now /.
very good condition, and has been Of
great service to the readers.
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p@- A Concord, IN. H. J paper SAYS

s% A Concord, IN. H. paper says
" On Friday night Of last week, at about
ten o'clock, somebody, being very gen.
erously inclined, left a nice little baby
apparently about three months old at
the door Of tho Rev. G. w. FlaHder' q
house in this city. The donor, proba-
bly, thinking the more secret ehe gift,
the more acceptable, made hasty re-
treat to avoid observation and hAs not
been discovered. This pastoral present
is smart little girl, lively as cricket
and totally unconscious, Of course, of the
freak of fortune which has made her ,
foundling."
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-05-31

H@- The contract for the construe-
ton of the new Custom House at Pre-
vidence, has been awarded to Albert
Curry Of Newburyport, Massachusetts,,
at $l5l 900, that being the lowest bid.
The structure is to be three stories
high, thoroughly fire-proof aud to be so
constructed as to be embrace ample
accommodations for the Custom House,
Post Office, and United States Courts.