Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-19
sIDELIGHTs Inside and Outside.

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| Application was made and the clear
ance lof the tea ships) refused with
the insolence of Office" Then he tells
| OF the appearance of the Savages.
Previous to the Dissolution of the
meeting held in the Old South to pro-
| test against the tea, a number of Per-
sons supposed to be original savages
by their complexion, approaching near
| the door of the Assembly gave the War
| Whoop. which was answered by few
| of those in the Galleries OF the House
where the Assembly was Convened. ST.
| lence was commanded and prudent
and Peaceable Department again en-
| joined on the Assemblage. The Saw
ages repaired to the Ships which enter
| tanned the pestilential TEAS and be-
| gan their rayages previous to the dis
/ solution of the meeting. They Applied
themselves to the Destruction of the
Commodity in Earnest and in the
Space OF two hours had broken 242
| Chests of TEA and discharged their
Contents into the Sea-
"A watch. am informed, was sta
toned to prevent the ENLIGHTENMENT
| of the Tea, and not single ounce of
the tea was purloined by the Populace.
! One or Two persons being detected in
/ endeavoring to pocket small quantity
were stripped of their acquisitions and
roughly handled. Nothing aside from
the TEA, was in the least injured, for
much Care was taken and those hav-
| ing the Matter in charge, seeing that a
small Paddock of no Value had been
/ broken, gave orders that the Owner,
thereof, who was the Ship Captain,
should be reimbursed to the Amount OF
the said Paddock"
\ But it must not be supposed that
these affairs absorbed the entire atten-
:, ton of the editor of those shurrying
4 times The Connecticut Journal of
Jan. %, 1858, says, in 'sthe latest and
NOSE creditable news from Paris" that
Mr. Franklin, celebrated for his ex-
periments and discoveries in electric.
) ity which he made in America and
carried to the utmost degree of per-
j lection, was lately in this city, where
i the learned and ingenious focked to
i see and hold converse with him.
This same paper printed under date
; of December %, g1772, the following
/ from its Philadelphia correspondent:
"A number of negroes of Alexan--
t dria, having entered into conspiracy
: to administer poison and thereby kill
their overseers, by which means sew
eral persons lost their lives, were cap
| tured and beheaded, and had their
heads affixed to the chimneys of the
| Alexandria court house, thereby set.
ting most wholesome example to
others"
!, Some of the advertisements are in
: structive and amusing and possess
5 great significance as indexes to the
f customs and manners of the times.
t For instance, the Independent Ledger,
}. published in Boston, contains this un.
= der date OF December so, 1878:
t Jonathan Blackwood hath for sale
y a most likely young Negro Boy, who is
eminently fitted for work in town or
n country
II The Boston Gazette, January IA,
If 1772 says:
/. Now ready for market, the instruc-
D. tive and pleasing poem in heroic form:
America Invincible, in three books
!, | dedicated to General Bates and other
d officers of consequence in the Ameri-
;. can army"
J. The Boston Evening Post, Novem-
6 Der Is, 1878:
!. This day is published James Russell,
4 near the cornfields of Union street. a
I uSlSSldulS duu Outlying sermon.
;. Christ Sent to Heal the Broken Heart
O ed. Preached at the Thursday lecture,
:, when one Levi Ames, a prisoner I'M
!, der sentence of death to be executed
!, that day. was present to hear the dis
, course by Samuel Mather."
. Same paper, same date:
= My wife Sarah and Myself, being
. unhappy in the married state. which
. has subjected me to great anxiety, and
2 for other reasons which shall not be
- herein published, hereby forbid any
:, person trusting her on my account,
:, and | will not pay debts by her con,
), tracted after this date, as witness my
y hand, Jeremy Wolcott."
u literary note appears in the Bos.
:" ton Evening Post of January 70, liza,
as follows:
= For the amazing price of As 3D.
may be purchased the most diverting
and marvellous narrative in the capac.
- ity OF Mary Rowlandson, who was can.
tured by the Indians and suffered
u many and divers privations of the
y most exciting nature at the hands OF
y, those wicked and heather savages u
d Here is an interesting advertisement
oI for Boston and Brookline householders
e to read from the Gazette August i
if 1771:
n Farm for sale at Brookline, con-
re tanning 81 acres, which same is good
0. land furnishing good tillage, pastur-
lie age and orchids. Benjamin White
lie The Connecticut Gazette, in the win
e. ter of 1771 publishes the followins
u peacefully bucolic want from no les.
of notorious person than Benedict Ar
/: mold. The paragraph reads:
er Benedict Arnold wants to buy {
ur number of large, genteel, fat horses
lie together with. hay and oats for the
lg consumption of the same and has tc
We sell choice cotton and salt by piece OF
ce quantity, as usual"
of few days later, in the same paper
'e- we read with start this advertise
ment:
le Moses Larned offers Three Dollar:
y, Reward for the safe return of ont
IL large, fat, black genteel horse, havins
wv a white star in the forehead, which
tie same has strayed or been stolen from