, 1889-05-22
THE GOOD OLD STYLE.
INSIGHT INTO THE CUSTOMS OF
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO..

The First New York DIrectory-CIppings
from the Newspapers of That Time.
Events in New York Life That VIII Make
the GothnmIte Smile.
A little more than a hundred years ago,
on Dec. 0, 1875, the announcement OF the
first New York city directory appeared in
Tho New York Gazetteer and The County
Journal, and in the succeeding February the
first number was issued 1t contained the
names OF all the citizens, their occupations
and places of abode; the members In con-
gress, the grand departments Of the United
States for adjusting public accounts, mem-
bers Of the senate and Assembly, with their
places OF abode while on duty in the city;
ministers of the gospel, physicians, counsel
ors at law, arrivals and departur of stages
and the principal tradesmen.
To these details was added an almanac
with tables of the different coins, suitable for
any state, and ''digested in such order as to
make an exchange between any of the Unite
States plain and easy."' And withal 1t is a
very small volume This useful production,
it was explained, would stand each sub
scriber IN" about six sRilinrA
THE ATTEST NEWS.
An interesting light Is thrown upon the
daily life OF this town of a hundred years ago
by the following extracts from the few news
papers which were published at the time and
contained very little save such news of a
purely local characters
A correspondent compliments the ladies' for
reducing the size of their head gear, so that
they can enter a coach, sedan chair or tho
door of n modern apartment with n cap.
Some time ngo their heads wero bigger than
those of the inhabitants OF Patagonia, whilst
their bodies resembled those of Liliput, but
now their features are set Off by a becoming
head dress.
The tavern keepers harvest will soon com
mence In this city; as the comedians are going
TO visit the southwark, tho young and tho idle
will naturally resort to tho taverns and tip
pling houses.
&This is the day appointed for the execution,
at the New Gaol, of james Carr, a white man,
and Thomas Lee, anegro, who were convicted
Of burglary.
Last week a notorious gambler and cheat
was sentenced to hnrd labor. Tho above
gentleman is at present chained with a Ne
gro TO a wheelbarrow, and usefully employed
at the public works of this city.
Whereas my wife Nancy has behaved in q
very indecent manner, which renders it i'm
possible for me to live with her, all persons
are forewarned from trusting her-George
DalzelL
The new limo of stages to Philadelphia will
start from Mr.. Smiths at Paules Hook ferry
opposite New York, drive through Newark,
Elizabeth Town, Woodbridge, Brunswick,
and so to Princeton, where they meet the
stage from Philadelphia. They run every
day Saturdays and Sundays excepted. Fare
to Phila. -Four Dollars.
Receipt for making n Modern Fashionable
Lady. Two pounds of cork, hvo yards of
whalebone, one pound Of hair, six pounds of
wool or cotton, two drains of white lead and
half q dram of rouge. These with n proper
quantity of bones for the skeleton, and q
little flesh and blood for the muscles, etc,
with a skin of a mouse for eyebrows, one
pound Of powder and half n pound of
pomntum, will complete the business
To DO Sold a Negro Man about SO years
old, sober smart and understands all kinds of
town and country work. Also the time of a
Negro boy Il years of age. Enquire at the
Intelligence Office % Water st opposite the
Coffee House
1t has been suggested by n superior genius,
that the city could be improved by adopting
the duke of Bridgewater's system of canals,
one of tho advantages set forth was, that tho
citizens might ride from the ship yards to
the old battery, and that n revenue would
arise by the establishment of a ferry, that
the proprietors of the Coffee House should
convert part Of that building into an elegant
tavern, for the entertainment of such ladies
and gentlemen rs would not choose to travel
In q storm.
We are informed of an unfortunate en-
counter TINT took place on Friday afternoon
last april 2D, about @ o'clock, behind the
hospital, between Mr.. Samuel Cursor, mer-
chant of this city, and Mr.. Burling, a gem
tlemhn from Baltimore. They were accom-
,N,pfnl Iv fuF, - tL,t,- Frt,,,I, leo
Mr.. Farquhar and Major Fairlie; the distance
agreed upon was only four PAGES; Mr.. c. re-
quested his antagonist to fire frst-this he
did; and Mr.. G.. fell on tho spot, having re-
ceived n wound near the groin, which Is
pronounced mortal. Circumstances which
led to this desperate decision, probably arc
reported enormously, and exaggerated by
the friends of either party, and in tho rela-
ton arenot material-the event is sufficiently
distressing.
AMUSEMENT n II FASHIONS.
Several of the citizens to the disgrace of
good order and common decency, erect signs
and show boards In such an extravagant
manner, hat they not only encroach upon
the privileges of their noighbors, but dis
grace and deform the police of tho city.
A person lately from London, now stop
ping at No. 81 Little Dock street South
street between Whitehall and Old Slip has
a composition for sale that will destroy the
very troublesome vermin commonly called
Bugs.
THEATRE. This evening A Comedy called
The Benevolent Merchant, to which will be
added The Devil to Pay, or TIE Wives
Metamorphos'd-
Ladies and Gentlemen are requested to de
sire their servants, to take up and set down,
with their horses heads towards tho East
Dr. " .uzgl