Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-02-11
NEW YORK 184 TEARS OLD.
Tho City Slave Trads-Queer Adver4i
mants-An Old Time Thoater Nottco.


'she City Slave Trsds-Queer Advertise-
m0nt1-An Old-Timo Theater Notice.
from The New York SUM-
Inthe year 1851 New York was q queer
little place, with slave market Of the
foot Of Wall Street, and public notices
OF runaway slaves, or of the public sale
OF men and women, were posted in it's
streets. Here are some notices from
the New York Gazette of 1851:
Run away on Sunday night, on the Sd
instant, from Judah Hays, a Negro
Wench, named Sarah, aged about 80
years; she is lively wench, of mulatto
complexion; was brought up at Amboy,
in COL Hamilton's family; and has had
several masters in the Jerseys. She
dresses very well, and has a good par
eel of clothes, and speaks good En-
glish. Whoever takes up the said weneh
and brings her to her said master. or
secures her in any county gaol, SO that
he may have her again, shall receive 40
charges.
The public whipper of the city of
New York being lately dead, if any per-
son inclines to accept that Office, with
EGO year: he may apply to the mayor
and be entered.
A very valuable negro fellow, getting
too much liquor, got into q canoe in the
harbor, and, after padding about a
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 will continue
as usual to graft pieces to knit jackets and
breeches, not to be discerned; also, to
foot and graft stockings and gentlemen's
gloves, mittens, or initiates made out
of old stockings, or runs them in the
heels. She likewise makes children's
stockings ont of the old ones.
Among the articles advertised to be
sold by Ebenezer Grant, in Hanover
square, are: Jamaica rum, by the five
gallons, Common Prayer Books, Weeks
Preparation for the Sacrament" Here
is an editors appeal:
gratis three supplements running: o
that it would excite such of you who are
upward Of two, three, four, and five
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
Past.
Lost 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. It is
thought to be done by some daring
rakes in order to convince the owners
how easy those lamps might be demol-
ished without discovery.
All our common water carriage being
SO long stopped has occasioned vast
rise in the price of firing in this city, to
the great distress of the poor, as we'll as
others.
A likely negro wench and sucking
child to be sold. The wench about 10
years of age; can do all sorts of house.
work, and very handy.
An Irish servant man, aged about %
years, to be disposed of for four years.
servitude; he will answer either country
work or gardening.
The Posts for Boston and Philadel-
phia will set out on Monday, the 3Oth
inst, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, pre-.
cisely. to perform their stages weekly
during the summer season.
In an obituary of 1851 of Isabella
Morris, widow and Relief of His b. GEL
lency Lewis Morris, Esq late governor
of the Province of New jersey" she
is described as Liberal without prodi-
gality, frugal without parsimony, cheer
full without levity, exalted without pride,
in person amiable, in conversation alta
BILE, in friendship faithful, of envy
void!"
In an advertisement of race to be
run at Hampstead Plains in 1852, there
is q notice appended: IF any Foul
play, the judges of the race may give the
money to any horse they please, as is
expressed in the written articles"
A city paragraph runs as follows:
| I'VE are desired by several gentlemen,
well'wishers of the city, to entreat the
respective inhabitants to use their ut
most endeavors, during the warm
weather to keep the streets sweet and
clean, as it is everybody's concern,
being the most efectual means, under
God, for our preservation from sick
ness."
It appears that the theater-goers of
| 1751 had some of the same causes of
complaint that exist now, as may be
seen by the following:
| Whereas, Several reports have been
unkindly spread that Mr.. Kean, for his
benefit night on Monday last, had
| caused greater number of tickets to
be printed than the house would hold,
this is to certify that, according to the
best Of my knowledge, there were but
i61 pit tickets, 10 boxes, and 121 gal
lery tickets printed in all, and it is we'll
known that larger number have been
iii the house at one time.
JAMES PARKER"
N. B.-Tho' it was then determined
not to receive any money at the Door,
it was afterward found to be measure
impracticable to be followed without
Great Offence, and such whose Bust
| ness who could not permit them to
come in time have since had their
money returned.
Whereas, it has been reported that
Mrs. Taylor, in playing her part in my
Benefit, endeavored to perform it in a
worse manner than she was capable,
and that it was done on account of q
falling out between us; This is to GER
tify that there was no such difference
between her and me, and I believe her
being so much out in her part was ow-
ing to her not getting the part in time.
THOMAS KEAN.
In m official account of the laying
out of the new streets for the city in
1907, signed by Gouveneur Morris,
Simeon Dewitt and John Rutherford,
commissioners, the following paragraph
occurs:
To some it may seem matter of sur
prise that the whole island has not been
laid out az city. To others it may bo
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