Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-03-05

Borough, which, too. may interest some
of your readers.
Atths Borough of Norfolk. Nay ie, 1888.
The which day. in the presence OF the
Wofshipful Josiah Smith, Esq, Mayor of
the said Borough. Peyton Randolph.
ESQ, Recorder. John Hutchins. Robert
Tucker, John Phriipp. John Tucker. Will
son Newton, Christopher Perkins. Geo.
Abyrm. and Richard KeIisick. Gentle.
men, Aldermen OF the Borough aforesaid.
The Reverend and Honorable Doctor.
Thomas Dawson is made Burgess and
Freeman of this Borough and the whole
liberties and privileges and immunities OF
a Burgess and freeman thereof, is grant,
ed to him In the most ample form, as use
as. sia - JOSIAH SMITH, Mayor.
Dir. Dawson response to- this bighi
compliment was as follows.
M Mayo. aid Gsati ss.en o, de Cor.
am much Obliged 90 you for the grest
honor your have done me IN presenting
me with athe freedom Of youf Borough
sand give me 1eaSe TO assure you.e that i
most sincerely wish Success Co your I ade
and gna Sigation.1 May this town long
flourish under your fmm eaisteI direction
and this country under his admins alton,
upon whose account you have conferred
this honor upon me = ae aug o;u'.'l We
Death of Miss leslie, ahs ;Aathofess.a
Miss Eliza Leslie. q lady who was prob
ably as widely ekno Sn by her writings as
any one that has ever. lived IN ths United
States; died on Friday. at q Gloucester. N!
j., where she has beeenH eonited to shef
room for some months ftoom an iujhry REL
ceiyed there last fsphd'imr te ~ Miss Leslie
was q native of PHILADELPHIA, and was
sixty Shine years ofsge. Her family, oH
the ifather'sas side, were of Scotch descent,
her grand father having come from Scots
land and settled in sCeEil County, Marys
land, int1745n His wife was Of Swedish
descent Thg p hiIadelphia BGlletin. speak:
ing of the deceased, Says! o7's'Ho''% p'''
Her father. who was d man OF much
ingenuity, adevoted student OF mathemas
tics and natural philosophy. and a tamils
lar friend of Franklin. Rittenhouse, JET.
ferson and Others Of the great men Of
Philadelphia society in those times, went
to London towards the close of the last
century. and there his son. G. r. Leslie,
one of the greatest painters in England.
was born in the year 1894.
Mr.. Leslie returned to Philadelphia
in 1900 and his. children received the
best education that the schools in that
day afforded. Eliza received thorough
instruction in the homeIier as well as the
more elegant accomp lishments.. She. went
to Mrs. GoodfelloW's cooling School, and
her first essay at authorship was a little
volume called Seventy Five Receipts"
designed to assist ladies 10 housekeeping
| Afterwards she wrote number OF little
books Tor young readers. which we've ex,
celIent Of their kind, and were very pop
ular. The first genuine sensation, howey!
err, that her writings created, was tlfat
produced by the lively sketch called
''Mrs Washington's Potts" which ap
peared in 1889. This and other spirited
tales, in which satire was mingled with
general pictures of American social life,
were collected in volume published in
1888, called Pencil Sketches. Sewers
al similar yolmes were published subse
quently. Some years later she wrote
"Althea Vernon" and F" Amelia. or a
Young Lady's Vicissitudes." both OF
which were quite popular.
But it is as a writer on cookery and
housekeeping chat Miss Leslie is most
widely known. and there is not scarcely
home in the United States where her
name is not literally d household word. /"
Her various receipt books have probably
attained larger circulation than almost
any other American books ever written
She is also the author Of the "Behavior
Book" clever manual of the proprie.
les Of life, and she was engaged in wri
ting a life Of John Fitch, Of steam naviga.
ton fame, but we are not aware that II
ever has been completed.
Without any pretension as composer
OF Zine writing" or as woman of ima>
ginatiye power. Miss Leslie pleased by
tho simplicity Of her style, aud the
strong common sense which Characterize
ed everything that came from her pen.
In conversation she was always animated
and interesting. her remarks on events
and persons were pointed, and she bad a
fund Of anecdote and "Reminiscences where.
with to illustrate her remarks that seem /.
ed almost inexhaustible. For number
OF years she has suffered from i'll health
and various infrmiies. but her mind con
tinued clear and her energy scarcely
gave way to the inrbads Of disease. "'..'
Miss Leslie's family have all shown tai
ent ofvarious kinds. Besides her brother,
the celebrated artist. she has younger
sister who exeels as q painter. and other
members Of the family have been noted
for eonnOissehtshiP as we'll as creative
talent J - $50 = 'f''F - i's . ~
sGro4As AND Moas1s. PAT1 Ten DIP .1ru
Pas SERVING StEAMEs. These gentlemen
have memotializet ConoreHsss M the g.,