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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15
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Kirby smiths Romance

Inc rOtn..---- - -. --.s.". --.--J SHlltn
life had its origin in the first battle of Bull
Run, where he was badly wounded, a mus
ket ball passing quite through him from
shoulder TO shoulder. He lay helpless on
the ground until some soldiers, attracted
by the whinneying Of his horse, which
stood over him, came and bore him to shell
ter He was then taken to Lynchburg and
nursed there by q Miss Selden, who
brought him back to health and soon after
ward became his wife. In later days, at
Shreveport, Ia 1884, General Smith could
I've seen hoeing little patch Of ground to
raise vegetables for his wife, who had be-
come an invalid. and that same year he
sold his faithful horse, which he loved
next to his wife, in order TO procure food
for her. General Smith was man of con-
spicuous honesty. When the war wa.
ended and he was fugitive on his way to
Mexico, he borrowed dollar here and
there to obtain means to send his family
home, though he had with him at the time
$4,000 in gold belonging to the confedsr-
act,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

Ine Fail Mounva-.. Paper company OF
Bellows Falls, VT, II getting about 1000, :
600 feet OF spruce lumber from its woods
near the head waters Of White river. This
is about twice the size of the drive of last
year.
The Brooks Arms company of Portland
Is to have an EXHIBIT at the Worlds fair In
q booth which is to be an exact reproduc-
tion of down east" sportsman's camp
Two fine moose heads especially prepared,
besides many other mounted animals and
birds and complete camp outfit, will be
shown.
Among other improvements which the
proprietors of the Asiatic building In
Salem, Mass, are to make In the struc-
ture is the remodelling of the half occu-
pied by the Essex lodge of Odd Fellows.
1t Is the purpose to convert the two upper
stories into the hall Marble stairs and
tiled floors are included In the improve
ments
The county commissioners and the legis.
lative committee have selected the so
called Harvey lot as the site of Exeter's
new court house, for which the lcgisla-
ture authorized the expenditure of $4,000.
Upon the lot stands a dwelling, long the
residence of DIR. Samuel Tenney, revolu-
tionary surgeon, historian and author.
and in 1900 to 1906 representative in con-
gress.
w. r. Clifford, the Skowhegan (Me)
taxidermist, whom the recent Legislature
gave special commission to take a pair
of moose for exhibition purposes at the
Worlds fair, has been successful in his
undertaking. He returned Thursday from
the woods Of the upper Kennebec, after
securing two Of the finest specimens
imaginable. The bull was a big one, while
the cow, shot at Bald Mountain, would
weigh 400 pounds. They will be at once
mounted and shipped
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

THE journal uses over column of
ots valuable editorial space to suggest
that the Democrats stand aside to let
the Republicans win, or else that the
Republicans stay at home and
allow the Democrats to sur
prise themselves with the Of
ices. This suggestion is brilliant
enough to have dispslled the clouds that
hung over the city this morning, but
The continued weeping Of the heavens
eomehow tended. to destroy ones faith
IN the efficacy of that sort of political
wit or humor that needs SO much space
- express contemptuous Indifference
TO the welfare of the state.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

are vast wastes of sand, mud and de-
bris.
All this is anything but encouraging
and proves that there is serious fault
somewhere. The Chicago papers seem
interested in keeping the bad state Of
things from the outside world, but the
truth is coming out, and pretty bad
truth it is.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

"PooR OLD HUTCH" has at last lost
bis restaurant, the sole remnant Of his
once great fortune. The world will
have but little sym pathy for the ruined
s'plunger," even though his expiring
efforts to corner the market on pie have
proved less disastrous to mankind than
his former manipulation of wheat.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

THE Legislature Of Tennessee has ad-
journed and all its members are en-
toute to Washington to look over the
crop Of plums. If Mr.. Cleveland does
ut want to see simultaneous adjourn
ment Of the legislatures of other states
pow in session he win be careful to shut
The door in the face of the Tennessee
delegation without delay.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

In St. Louis at the municipal elections
Che other day kodaks were used to
photograph the faces Of ward-heelers.
The heelers came out of the ordeal in
good condition, but the same cannot be
said of the cameras.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

fore last. The "world, the flesh and
the devil" as represented by the gaiety.
loving young folks, has triumphed over
long -visaged sanctity as typified in Rev.
Mr.. Todd. The moral is obvious.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

THE Kentuckians are getting no
Offices now, and within a week $4,000
barrels Of whiskey have been burned. A
general exodus from the state may be
expected before long.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15
THIS EVENING

PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE. g." Incog."
B. +. KEITHs OPERA HOUSE. g." Yon
u Yonson."
xOTHRoPs MUSEUM. 7-"unele Toms Cabin
WESTMINSTER THEATRE. s-"Faust Up Too
Late"
INFANTRY HALL. s-Festival in Aid of St. Jo-
sephs Hospital.
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ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.

There is at least one Brooklyn man who
sends his laundry to be 'done up" In Lon
don Strange to say, he is not dude, but
prosperous merchant.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

If Canadians keep on emigrating to
this country at the present rate the
question of annexation will solve itself
Ia most methodical manner.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

Missouri has passed Corrupt
practices" act. In their anxiety to get
the Presidents ear the colonies may
yet be betrayed into doing something
desperate.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

A stone coffin weighing 1900 pounds was
recently completed in Lexington, KY, for
Stephen Langford, an sO-year-old land
owner of Madison county.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

In Denmark it Is the law that all
drunken persons shall be taken home in
carriages provided at the expense of the
publican who sold them the last glass.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15
Improvements.

The Philadelphia Record suggests that
II would be a great joke on the Hawaiian
nonarchists IL some enterprising Ameri-
can should ''annex" the fair princess, who
Is now visiting the United States.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

American "ads" are funny enough,
but English lads are funnier. The
other day in The Referee one of the most
prominent advertisers was an undertaken
of the name u Berry, and after glow.
ing description ~ his wares, particularly
a new set of first class collins that had
Just been introduced from the Colchester
factories. Mr.. Berry cn1ed with these
funereal words:
After having once used any Of Mr..
Berry's goods you will never uss any
other. Boston Budget.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-15

Carlsbad, where many Americans have
literally drunk themselves to death while
taking their "cure," is to have a new
$780, bathhouse, with all the modern
i'm, provauanfe
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NOTES AND COMMENT.

Politics RUIN business firms and asso-
Citations. Take the western law firm Of
Stevenson & Ewing, for example. The
head of the business is now vice president
of the United States, while partner Ewing
goes as minister to Denmark. The busi-
ness will Of necessity go TO the dogs or to
some other attorneys.
ONE OF THE LoSGEsr titles, perhaps
the longest, which is borne by any official
of the United States government Is held
by Cashier Muhleman of the New York
sub-treasury, who has just been desig-
mated by Secretary Carlisle as acting as
sistant to treasurer United States in
charge, nd interim. of Office of assistant
There ought to be long salary attached
to that position.
1T APPEARS that there are something's in
this world that people cannot get used to.
A southern jurist, Judge Bleckley of Geor-
gia, once listened to suit for the removal
of a planning mill which had been set up
within 80 feet of the plaintiff. Before the
argument was finished he dismissed the
case with the following words: ''This suit
never should have been brought. There
are but two sounds on earth to which man
cannot become accustomed-the bray of
jackass and the tongue of a scolding
woman"
In 1880, after twenty years of protection
to the iron manufacture in the United
States, Great Britain was still far ahead of
the United States, producing E,749, ,293
tons, or AZ per cent. of the total product Of
the worlds four chief iron manufacturing
nations. while the United States produced
only 8, ,s35, f9i tons, or "a per cent Of the
same total. The free traders insisted that
iron was no longer an infant, and that the
duties should be taken of. Their advice
was not taken. II it had been taken the
ratio of production between the two coun-
tries would have remained about the same.
But under continued duties in 1890 our
production rose to 8, 9,157 900 tons, or 40 per
cent. of the total product OF the four
countries, while that of Great Britain fell
to 6.616,S90 tons, or 90 per cent. of the
same total. The two countries had
changed places.
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h. W. LADD co.

We produce it complete in our Dress
Making Parlors. We make the Hat
to go with it.
We display it made up-in Silks,
in Wools, in Ginghams in the new
est walking modes, and in the popular
Elton 0nting STYLE. with the Goat tho
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31
Seen In Dream.

In the summer of 1856 Mrs. John Tel
yea, then living in Wisconsin, dreamed
that her niece Mary, who was attending
school at Waukesha, 10 miles distant
had met with serious accident. the er'
act nature Of which she could not recall
wnen awake. but it so alarmed her that
sne told her husband the next morning
that ne must go Immediately to Wan.
Kesha, as something terrible had han
pened to Mary. He tried to laugh her
out OF her fears, but when he found that
she would go if he did not, he got into
ms buggy and started. He had gone but
short distance when he met a nessen-
ger from the school coming to tell him
that late on the evening before Mary
had fallen from tree and broken her
arm.-Arena.
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Patents and What They Protect.


A business man in this CITY who is I'm
TO his ears in the work necessary ~
gamer capital to float an enterprise. and
at the same time to keep information a.
the nature of it away from busv rivals
found time last week to say: "Did voI,
ever think that a patent does NOT nafan+
IN this country? Well, it's a fact All
that the patent office does is TO Give vo,, --
a paper with some writing on # bnt if
another man steals your idea, and ooes
TO manufacturing your invention the
patent Office will not lift finger TO nro-
Iect you or to stand by its own decision
Inc fact that you've got a patent is a
point III your favor, but you've cot 70
hire lawyers and fight the thief in +bo
courts, and if he can stand it TO hire
lawyers longer than you can that settles
you' and you might as well mako him a
present OF your invention. There are lots.
Oh men IN the country who are getting
rich on the discoveries of other 1eonie
Al! they had to dc was to take 'en and
1ght the real discoverers into ,1ovaT+,,
Inc patent office, to be respected and fo
pc OF any use, ought to have the mower
~ cause the stealer of a patent to be sent
20 prison. New York Sun.
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Scotch Reticence.

A Scotch laborer was dying. He had
Tour little children. After living siiant
1or awhile he said he would like to see
them' and the poor wife brought them
10 the bedside. All he did was to take
t eacn or the three elder children bv the
hand and to say, "Gude day" '--0
!hen he said to the youngest, a wee
I'm tnl1g i = years old, "Will ye gle me a
I'm Inc mother, lifting up the wondering
'niiT' 1ITI salG' Say ta-ta to your ather."
o,,oa,'t3 na-Ia' sad the little hoy =. 4 loud.
cneerf"i voice, and then ran ont ~
the cottage to play. The Door G%3 fo+boa 81
closed his eyes; the tears ran down r'iIGa I,;a
cheeks, but he said no more. The ab1n h l,19
dance of his heart choked his utteranoa
he was weary, too, and so guide dav
wa was his only word Of parting.-"Twen-
ty-tlve Years of st. Andrews"
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Didn't Care to BE Pre,on,.a

The wife of well known naval officer
tells an amusing story of some of her
experiences in Washington society. On
one occasion when she was asked To re-
ceive at an army and navy german. a
congressman entered with a lady lean
ing upon each arm. One of the Aoo-
committee at once approached him with
the polite request that he give his name.
In order that he might be presented to
Mrs. Blank, who received the guests o5
the evening. o''0 -
No. thank you," was the nonchalant
reply. II don't care to be introduced.
have two ladies now to take care OF
and that is about as much as can man.
age. ."-Kate Fields Washino,tn,,
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Irish Lawns were never pret.
tier. 20 styles, 40 inches wide
l23 cents per yard.
Another 12k-center is China
Cioth-lOoks like silk-32 inches
wide and 3S patterns.
Th e high-grade American
Glnghams are first cousins to
the fine Scotch in appearance,
You will be pleased with them
for 8 cents instead of 125.
Vandyke thin wool fabrics in
grey, brown and drab overshot
mlxtures-38 inches wide and
reduced from IS to 50 cents. with
the stylish Vandyke silks re-
duced from $1.25 to rs cents for
trimmings, are one of the popu-
lar dress materials for combina-
tion.
When you want dress shields
get our French Lily perfumed
Nainsook and you will use no
~
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We have seventy-five STYLES
OF new and carefully selected
styles of China and Japan Mat
tlngs. Matted floors with rugs
are favOrite modes of furnishino.
Tor the summer months. They
make a comfortable room, easily
taken care of and free from dust.
The prices were never lower for
good Mattings ; $5, 81, So and SO
Tor the good kinds and jointIess
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You know the superstition which
CLAIMS that cattle have the gift of speech
at midnight Christmas eve. A Schles-
Wlg story warns us to take such asser-
tlons by faith rather than crave for
knowledge by sight. An unbelievino
farmer i once hid himself in his barn and
near. heard one Of his horses say to the other
Dit Jaer waet wy noch unser B,1ey 'Il,l, ios,,
1--WE ~, shall be rid Of our master this vearl
Inc prophecy so frightened the man that
ne fell i'll and died, and the soothsavino
morse horse drew him to his grave.-Harner'Ss
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AbOnt In-nnrnnnn

one speaker, referring to the prevalent
Ignorance about common THINGS sold
tnaT ne once saw laborer digging flints
IN the chalk and asked him if he +6onabf ,I'l
they grew. 0 '-iOUsn'
No" was the reply. 81 don't think
about it; knows they do"
Then place a flint on your chimney
piece and see how much it grows in a
All right, sir, and do you do the same
WIN tat1r and see how much that
grows. .-Youths Companion.
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A new line of Chenille Table
Covers are here in two widths
one yard square and one-and-a-
half yards square, both fringed.
and your own taste shall in1u-
ence your choice, at one price
for either-$1. Tapestry Table
Covers, II yards square, good
heavy everyday wearers, are re-
duced from $I.75 to $1.37.
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JOHN WANAMAKER.

Your parlOr can be made to
look pretty, cool and in inviting
for hot weather by using Floor
Linens and Linen slip covers,
The best pattern this season is
the First Empire" which we
had IN the different widths for
floors and in exquisite French
colorlngs for furniture, both to
match exactly in design-mak-
ing striking and beautiful eff
feet; On receipt of a postal we
send a man to make measures
and furnish estimates for this
work.
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The Linen Month

Jaluary is known in Chicago as the
linen month. A newspaper of that city
states that this is because the housewife
then does most Of her purchases for the
year, and not, as has been alleged, be-
cause the annual washing takes place in
that month. Exchange.
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A company has been organized at San
Antonio, Tex, to utilize the mesquite
bean. The chief object is to prepare the
pean 50 that beverage resembling
spiIee .I can be made from its decoction or
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

One lot of Curtain Poles in
cherry, ash and walnut. with
wood trimmings, are reduced
from rs to Is and IS cents Der
set; slightly imperfect.
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Our orders far excel any pre-
vlous season for Window Avn
lngs. We carry a complete line
of styles and fit up your win
dows on short notice from $3.50
up.
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THE sHIPMANs TALE.

listen, listen, my masters. speak naught but trutb.
= rom dawn to dawn they drifted on and on
not knowing whittier or to what dark end
NO" the north froze them, now the hot south
scOrched. 0' 9Ou'i
some called to God and found great comfort 60.
some gnashed their teeth with curses. and some
laughed ''-''' 9O'iio
a AN empty laughter seeing that they lived.
90 sweet was breath between their foolish lins
pay after day the same relentless sun:
Night after night the same unpitvinp stars
AT intervals fierce lightnings tore the cIonds
showing vast, hollow spaces, and the sleet
alssea, and the torrents Of the sky were Ioosed.
from time to time a hand relaxed its grin
And some pale wretch slid down into fbe dart
". win stlhed moan, and transient horror seized
Inc rest who waited, knowing what must he,
@UeVeIy turn strange shapes reached up and
IN Inc whirling wreck, held on awhile. and then
Shpt back again into that blackness whence
they came. "'494oe
An hapless folk, to be so tost and torn
30 racked by hunger, fever, fire and wave
ana swept at last into the nameless void
fFall girls, strong men and mothers with +boi.
babes! "4'H 'HeIr
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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MEMS Medium prices.
c,,,rc II eat patterns
SUllS and good styles
Anywhere from
$40 to $I5 or 500 you
ca n find something
which will last all Sum-
mer, give good wear
and look well as long
as you have it. Two
more lots of our own
make Of $lO~Suits just
in stock from the work
rooms, and if you can
get as good a suit any
where for the money
we don't know where it
is. Many of the SI5|
and $l6 Suits are also
of our make, which
means that the goods
is sponged. garments
sewed with throughout
with silk, and you are
sure to get satisfaction
in any one of them you
buy. Don't forget our
Furnishing Depart-I
ment or summer fur
nishing, negligee shirts,
underwear, ties, etc.
Prices right, popular
styles and plenty of
them.
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Dd Ut. d. '; s. Stout has located in
lover for the practice of his profession
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m@tIaa1takHr'x

PHILADELPHIA. Monday, May %, 1898.
cotton Dress Goods.
No one Pretends to tell
their full story here. No neec
to tell it.
Think of all that's best anc
brightest in such stufs. Let
Fancy help Fact and ideaIizf
Cotton loveliness - weave
color, daintiness.
Then look at these sorts.
Beyond your dreams.
From SC Challis to silk-and-
Cotton Ginghams at Coo, and
exquisite Velour Russo at 75c.
simply a succession of weave
or price wonders.
ObgO2rd of thirteen linn
9re9 area feet Of SHELF room giyen
0e,e'' to these goods alone?
1IETG 14Gy e INA" a quarter Of a
Year by year the near-bome
weavers are getting closer and
closer to the best from abroad
Maybe some of them are oet-
ting ahead. No matter. WE
reach for the best wherever il
can be had.
And many an extra interest
ing lot comes this way.
You know the 12ic Gino-
hams II at &c. They were the
talk tail OF the town till the 25c
ollk-striPe Ginghams came at
Ioc. Doubled the talk. You
near OF nothing really like
either OF them anywhere else.
Now one of the newest We
ONi NuSse-elegant in eVerv |
way, AZ in. and meant to be |
$50 may go at SOC.
"A step away are the delicate |
English Dotted Swiss (printed) |
1t 25c from 35c.
And SO it goes. Where the
unshine of Fashion and favor
trlke warmest is exactly where
'ou are like to find the most
price surprise.
The beauty of the Women,s
'ail Cloth Suits is not alone
heir natty neatness and win
ONE witness and Etonese
legance. They'll stand grief
ley'll stand washing--enioy
!. No need to pick the path
'r them. IS.
Duck suits begin at So.
Serge Suits, So, $3.50, So
Measufe the $3.50 Suits by
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

!. s.t, Gro9nd was broken at Wilmington
saturday for new Methodist cbnrCb
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

olxteen-year-Old Walter Duncan was
-nnocked ,licked senseless by an unknown vii.
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

ne Dover IadeTlwants the practice
~ ringing curfew bell introduced in
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

o,rad,,o DE. Joseph Carrow, who recently
.soo"tu .sEs@Iuated at Jefferson College, will
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linton and Georgetown are each IN
nave large new creamery. ~
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

os Inc nD9o Won C1lin Incubator Company.
- "a D31aware S City. have a display at
'he Worlds Fair, at Chicago. ."
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in other store.
U/0meN'S Bathzng .Sufks.

W0me@'S Bathing Suits.
Gutter in cut and prettier in
combinations than you've ever
known. Making finishing bet
ter, too-wherever they could
be bettered. There's as much
tor comfort in fit and set of a
Bathing Suit as in the fit and
set OF a Dress-almost more.
We've seen to it that moth
ing is sighted.
Begin at $2-girIs or wom-
ems.
Floor Linens have the floor.
Argument all on one side.
The whole Carpet contingent
call TOR them. It's a question
OF Carpet protection-with the
ireest of free trade on the
Linen side.
Floor widths, SO to IsOi
stair widths, IA to Sc in.
Rooms measured and esti-
mates made without charge.
Whether you go to Chicago
or not you'll be interested in a
Worlds Fair guide.
Sixty,fye big pages, lavishly illustrated
carefully and fully told. And with a
bouncing great map-table top size-of
me city Of Chicago and the Worlds
Fair Fair buildings and grounds. Ten
JOHN WANAMAKER.
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1000 feet. - Gus "U SI'|o a
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John G. Gray, Superintendent of the
public schools of Sussex county. has
been appointed chief of division in
the Pension Office at Washington, at a
salary of $4,000 year. Governor Rev
nolds accepted Mr.. Gray's resignation
on Tuesday and at once appointed
Roman Tammany, of Georgetown. su.
perintendent of the Sussex PnbIic
Schools to succeed Mr.. GRAY. Mr.
Tammany has always been Republican
until the past year.
Smyrna times., 1893-05-31

milton and Georgetown are each To
nave a large new cannery. and 49, "
school house for the former viIl.oe "
under wav Village Is
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d &c Jonn IN Stockton LittelI, son of the
Rev. I. Gardiner LittelI. D, n. rectoU tnT
paro: D. 81. Johns Episcopal Church, and
psI eIciVai Cook Pyle, son of Isaac c.
t:, yie, OF the Clayton House, Whining
90 Sou' We're ordained to the deaconate in
o., ~, johns Church Sunday. Bishop
Coleman oficiated and the sermon was
preached by DR.. Littell. "'''
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And were none saved?
My masters, not a soul!

Sn, Sn, SInlpman, Ill, woeful. woeful is thy tale!
Our hearts are heavy, and our eyes orc Si,,,,
W. What ship Is this that suffered such i'll fateS
World. 70 HoI'-the
Thomas Bailey AIdricb in Harnor,s
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the Sun, at Palmyra.
OF q yards on each