The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06
NEW YORK 1874 YEARs AGO.
II City Slave Trade-Queer Advertisements
An Old-Time Theater Notice.

n LII tuC JCdi 4fO1 NcW DIX was
queer little place, with slave mark
Ia at the foot of Wall street, and publ
ne notices of runaway slaves, or of II
+ public sale of men and women, wel
n posted in the streets. Here are son
" notices from The New York Gazette
y, y 1851:
% Run away on Sunday night, the 81
instant, from Judah Hays, a Negr
- Wench, named Sarah, aged about t6il
- ty years; she is likely wench, of
- mullatto complexion; was brought u
- at Amboy, in Col Hamilton's family
!, and has had several masters in til
Jerseys. She dresses very well, an
has a good parcel of cloaths, an,
3 speaks good English. Who ever take
= up the said Wench and brings her tt
her said Master, or secures her in any
$ County Gaol, SO that he may have hel
again, shall receive 40 shillings reward
and all reasonable charges.
! The Public Whipper of the city o.
: New York being lately dead. if any
person inclines to accept that office,
with t2O year, he may apply to the
Mayor and be entered.
A very valuable negro fellow, get
ting too much liquor, got into canoe
in the harbor, and after padding
about little, tumbled over and was
drowned.
This is to give notice that Elizabeth
Boyd is going to remove next door to
the Widow Hogs, in Broad street.
near the Long Bridge, and
VIII continue as usual to graft
pieces to knit jackets and breech-
es, not to be discerned; also, to foot
and graft stockings and gentleman's
gloves, mittens, or initiates made
out OF old stockings, or runs them in
the heels. She likewise makes child
ren's stockings out of the old ones.
Among the articles advertised to be
sold by Ebenezer Grant, in Hanover
square, are; Jamaica rum, by the
flye gallons, Common Prayer Books,
Weeks Preparation for the Sacra-
ment." Here is an editors appeal
Kind readers, you have now had
gratis three supplements running, o
that it would excite such of you who
are upward of two, three, four, and
i've years in arrears to remember the |
printer.
An Irish servant maid, who has two
years of her time; to be sold. INQUIRE
of the printer hereof.
The Albany Post sets out on Satur-
day next; letters may be left at Mr..
McEvers, near the city hall, or at the
North River, at the house of the said
Post.
Last Monday night several of the
glass lamps put up about this city
were taken down by persons unknown,
and left whole in the meat market.
1t is thought to be done by some daring !
rakes IN order to convince the owners ]
how easy those lamps might be de- :.
nollshed without discovery. !
ALI our common water carriage be-
ng so long stopped has occasioned a I
7ast rise in the price of firing in this a
'ity, to the great distrss OF the poor, as C
veil as others. a
A likely negro wench and sucking Il
hid to be sold. The wench about 19 b
ears OF age; can do all sorts of house, t
york, and very handy. L
An Irish servant man, aged about
8 years, to be disposed of for four II
ears servitude; he will answer either q
ountry work or gardening. L
The Posts for Boston and Philadel- al
hia will set out on Monday, the 3Oth W
lst., at O'Clock in the afternoon. IT
recisely, to perform their stages week. Ii
during the summer Sc ason. pr
In an obituary of 1852 of Isabella Nor Pr
8 Widow and Relief of His Excel Sc
ncy Lewis Morris, ESQ.,, late COVER ~ ~
Or OF the province of New jersey" y
he is described as Liberal without III
'odigality, frugal without parsimony. "a
leerful without levity, exalted with az
1t pride, In person amiable, in con- as
rsation affable, in friendship faith 90
l, of envy void,'' Hg
In an advertisement of a race to he ne
N at Hampstead Plains in 1852. there VIC
a notice appended: eff any Foul We
ay, the Judges of the race may give th'
g money to any horse they please. we
is expressed in the written articles Iai
A city paragraph runs as follows: SCI SCI
'We are desired by several gentle a ~.
N, well-wishers of the CITY. to en- s sc.
at the respective inhabitants to use on'
'lr utmost endeavors, during the ~,
rm weather to keep the streets nm,
eet and clean, as it is everybody's cia '
lcern, being the most effectual for
ans, under God, for our perserva- NO
4 from Sickness" ~
t appears that the theater-goers of on
had some of the same causes of gu
nplaint that exist now, as may be i"a a.
n by the following: ;nn,
Whereas, Several reports have 's'
n unkindly spread that Mr.. Kean,
his benefit night on Monday last, #
caused greater number of tick Ora
to be printed than the house would swe
l, this is to certify that, according to Il
he best of my knowledge, there rem
e but 161 pit tickets, 10 boxes, and of e
gallery tickets printed in all, and NAL
well known that larger number clan
'eeN III VIC nouse al one time. rece
ID r JAMES Parker. "Wt
. B.-Tho' it was then determined dam
to receive any money at the Door, stats
as afterward found to be a meas cans
impracticable to DO followed thS
out Great Offence, and such and
Sc Business who could not permit new
! to come in time have since had Coos
: money returned bssn
hereas, it has been reported that 49,
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