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  2. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S LAST HOURS.

    BEFORE leaving home he was much depressed, and wrote in a memorandum book what seemed like the intention of a will—commencing: "In the name of God, amen I, N.H., being in danger of sudden ...

    Article : 706 words
  3. A CORROBOREE AT STROUD.

    A TALENTED CORRESPONDENT thus describes a corroboree which was held recently at Stroud:— It is a dark, very dark night, and the village of Stroud is wrapped in the mournful stillness ...

    Article : 1,442 words
  4. LAW. SUPREME COURT.—WEDNESDAY.

    Mr. M. H. Stephen appeared in support of the defendant's plea; Mr. Darley for the demurrer. This was an action in which damages were claimed for the breach of a charter party. The plaintiff was the ...

    Article : 405 words
  5. HOW THEY DO THINGS IN CALIFORNIA.

    THE San Francisco papers of Saturday, 7th May, contain accounts of the total destruction by fire of a large furniture manufactory on the previous night; while on Tuesday, the 10th, they chronicle the ...

    Article : 77 words
  6. (From the Bulletin, May 7.) DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

    At about nine o'clock last evening a fire alarm was struck from Box 81, at Hayes and Franklin streets. If was at once discovered in that vicinity that the large building known as Weir's Furniture ...

    Article : 417 words
  7. BUSINESS FOR THIS DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 words
  8. INSOLVENCY COURT.—WEDNESDAY.

    In the estates of John Robertson, Robertson and Keele, and Robertson and Macdonald, Third meeting. Debts were proved, a report read, and written directions as to allowance, &c., given unanimously. ...

    Article : 433 words
  9. WATER POLICE COURT.—WEDNESDAY.

    There were a few inebriates punished for indulging in the public streets. William Bentley was apprehended by constable Flynn on a charge of loitering in Bridge-street, with intent to ...

    Article : 458 words
  10. (From the Alta Culifornia, May 10.) RE-BUILDING OF WEIR'S FURNITURE FACTORY.

    The destructive fire which broke out last Friday evening in G. W. Weir's furniture factory, on Hayes-street, and which was totally destroyed, at a loss of nearly 100,000 dollars to its proprietor, ...

    Article : 207 words
  11. A SINGULAR COUPLE.

    THE circumstance which, more than anything else, obtained the dingy old town of Hexham a lasting place in my memory was our taking lodgings with an oxtraordinary pair—an old man and woman, ...

    Article : 908 words
  12. THE MYSTERIOUS DOINGS OF SOROSIS.

    WE find in a late New York paper some particulars of the doings of "Sorosis," a society of ladies lately established, and from whose meetings all men are excluded. The last meeting for the year was attended ...

    Article : 817 words
  13. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—WEDNESDAY.

    John Walsh was charged with having assaulted and beaten Elizabeth Walsh. The offence occurred in a dance house, where the parties quarrelled, and the accused struck complainant in the face. The bench ...

    Article : 1,507 words
  14. A VISIT TO THE HUNTER AFTER THE FLOODS.

    THERE are few things pleasanter than the trip to Newcastle and back in fine weather, or more execrable than it is in rough. I've generally had the former for my trips, and my usual luck followed me last week ...

    Article : 2,777 words
  15. TALL TALK IN YANKEEDOM.

    ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, of Michigan, did his best today for the championship as sonatorial harlequin. The resolution having been taken up requesting the President to appoint commissioners to treat with the ...

    Article : 400 words
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