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From: Mark Murphy <>
Subject: [NCFRANKL] More NC newspaper excerpts
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:03:07 -0500

I keep getting favorable responses on these, so I'll send them as I
transcribe them to North Central NC county lists. Please feel free to
share.
-Mark Murphy

[Hillborough Recorder excerpts, 2 Jul 1834]
[transcribed by Mark Murphy, 25 Jun 2001]

BACON AND LARD.
A Quantity of BACON and LARD, for sale by
Stephen Moore.
*****
BOOKS LOST
I HAVE either loaned or lost the following Books, vis.
Letters on Patriotism, by Lord Bolingbrook, 1 vol.
Don Quixote, 2 vols.
Gray's Hudibras, 2 vols.
Tales of the Genii, 1st vol.
Burnit's History of the Reformation, vol. not recollected. This book
belongs to the
State Library, and I am extremely anxious to procure it.
Persons having any of the above named books, or any others belonging to
me,
will please return them.
V.M. Murphey
*****
WANTED.
AS AN APPRENTICE to the Watch Making and Silversmith's trade, a boy
fourteen
or fifteen years of age.
Lemuel Lynch.
*****
CONGRESS
Tuesday, June 17.
In the Senate, the following bills were passed, viz the bill regulating
the value of certain
foreign silver coins, the bill providing for the appropriation of an
unexpended balance
of a former appropriation for the payment of Georgia militia claims for
the years 1792,
1793, and 1794; the bill making additional appropriations for the armory
at Harper's Ferry
for the year 1834.....On the motion of Mr. Webster, the general
appropriation bill was
taken up.......A bill to establish a Naval Academy.....
*****
Death of Gen. Lafayette.
The last major-general of the glorious army of the American Revolution-
the brave defender of liberty- the great, the generous LAFAYETTE-
died at Paris on the morning of the 20th of May, in the 77th year of his
age...
[followed by Funeral Honors General Orders for the military by President
Jackson]
*****
CIRCULAR
To the Commander of each Naval Station. Navy Department, June 21st,
1834}
In conformity with the accompanying General Order from the President of
the
United States, in honor of the memory of General LAFAYETTE, you will, on
the
day following the receipt of this, cause twenty-four guns to be fired in
quick
succession, at day break, and one gun every half hour thereafter till
sunset; the
flags of the several stations will be, during the day, at half mast.
All officers of the Navy and Marine Corps will wear crape on the left
arm for six months.
LEVI WOODBURY.
*****
There is much speculation in the city, says the National Intelligencer,
as to the
probability of further changes in the cabinet......, and it seems to be
generally
supposed that Mr. Polk, of the House of Representatives, will be
nominated for the of
[sic] secretary of the treasury. All this is, however, as yet, mere
conjecture.
*****
Distressing Circumstance.- We regret to learn, that on Friday last, a
daughter of Mr.
Boltzer Hoffman, near the Broad-Axe Tavern, Montgomery county, who was
subject
to spasmodic attacks, unfortunately while engaged in feeding some hogs,
fell into the
pen, and was partly devoured by the ravenous beasts. When found life
was extinct.
Norristown Herald.
*****
DIED.
In this county, on the 20th Inst., after a lingering and painful illness
of near eight months,
Mrs. Bidy Link, wife of Capt. Silas M. Link, in the 31st year of her
age.
*****
A Swap.- Mr. Stouks was asked the other day how he could account for
Nature's forming
him so ugly. "Nature was not to blame." said he, "for when I was two
months old I was
considered the handsomest child in the neighbourhood- but my nurse, the
slut, one day
swapped me away for another boy just to please a friend of hers whose
child was rather
plain looking."
*****

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