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  2. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COURT.—Wednesday.

    This case was concluded yesterday. The defendant was the plaintiff in the famous Newtown ejectment action and the plaintiff in the present case claimed compensation for services rendered in that action, and ...

    Article : 778 words
  3. ATTEMPT TO BURN THE WASHINGTON PENITANTIARY.

    A DARING attempt was made on Saturday night to burn the United States Penitentiary. The plot, it seems, was laid by George Nelson, a discharged convict, whose term of sentence expired on the 24th instant. His ...

    Article : 569 words
  4. BENEFITS OF THE "PECULIAR INSTITUTION."

    SOME idea of the state of terror and alarm in which many of the Southern planters and their families are at present placed, may be gathered from the fact that many of them are selling off their property, and proceeding to ...

    Article : 1,878 words
  5. A RELIC OF THE GREAT WAR.

    HISTORICAL association, ever powerful in this country, is one of the most important influences that contribute to exalt the character of the British navy, and to fit it in time of need to perform the noble part expected of it. ...

    Article : 1,841 words
  6. THE SAILORS' HOME.

    SIR,—Vestries and committees notoriously have a tendency to corrup'ion, which is counteracted only by a wholesome dread of detection and exposure. Jobbery once discovered in the management of a public charity, ...

    Article : 402 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE.

    SIR,—If we were fools enough to take notice of the ravings contained in a certain daily paper, which professes to represent the musty notions of the old Tory Party in this city; we are likely to have the present ...

    Article : 502 words
  8. THE LAST HOURS OF WASHINGTON IRVING.

    MR. IRVING, aside from the asthmatic complaint, with which he has been for some time ailing, has also experienced, for several months, frequent attacks of severe pain in the region of the heart, accompanied by difficult ...

    Article : 3,090 words
  9. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

    BEFORE the Mayor, Captain Scott, and Messrs. W[?]rburton, Sutherland, Oatley, Culle[?]and Len[?]n. Fourteen persons were brought up for drunkennness. Two, Mary [?] and Mary [?] McKenzie, very ...

    Article : 747 words
  10. CURRAWARNA RACES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 646 words
  11. WATER POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

    BEFORE the Water Police Magistra'e, and David Peden, Esq. Mary Brooks, a prostitute, residing in Goulburnstreet, was fined 20s. for using obscene language, in ...

    Article : 174 words
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