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From: Pat Sabin <>
Subject: [USGenWeb-NE-L] Re: Maine Farmer
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 16:17:43 -0400


David,

I think you've already said, but I wasn't paying attention. Are you
uploading these to one of your Maine pages???

Pat Sabin

wrote:
>
> Dear Friends:
>
> GREAT FIRE AT SAVANNAH, GA
> On the 1st inst, there was a destructive fire at Savannah, GA, which
> destroyed property to the amount of $61,500. The fire was the work of an
> incendiary, $500 reward has been offered for his detection by the city
> authorities.
> [Maine Farmer 19 Mar 1846]
>
> Are you an Odd Fellow?
> No Sir! I've been married a week.
> I mean do you belong to the Order of Odd Fellows!
> No! I belong to the Order of Married Men.
> Thunder! how dumb! Are you a Mason?
> N0: I'm a Carpenter by trade.
> Worse and worse! Are you a Son of Temperance?
> Confound you, no! I am the son of John COSLING.
> The querist went his way with something of a flea in his ears - Albany
> Citizen.
> [Maine Farmer 9 Apr 1846]
>
> Fire at South Hadley, Mass On the 6th instant a very destructive fire
> occurred at the named place. The paper mill Howard & Lathrop, carried on by
> White & Sheffield of New York, - the paper mill of D. Ames, and a grist and
> plaster mill, were destroyed. The fire broke out in the mill of Howard &
> Lathrop, and the general opinion is that caught from a kettle of boiling
> pitch. Total loss estimated at $75,000; total amount insured, about $28,000.
> [14 May 1846]
>
> Fire: A destructive fire occurred on Tuesday morning of last week, at
> Morristown, New Jersey. The N.J. Hotel, a beautiful structure, and several
> other buildings were destroyed. Loss estimated at about $75,000. One
> gentleman, Mr. L. F. Bailey, druggist, boarding at the hotel, is missing, and
> fears are entertained that he perished in the flames.
> [Maine Farmer 14 May 1846]
>
> Oregon Important:
> The Journal of Commerce of Friday last says: We learn from very good
> authority, that Mr. PACKENHAM has received instructions from his government
> by the steamer Hibernia, to make a final overture for the amicable adjustment
> of the Oregon question. He is offer, substantially, the proposition suggested
> some time since by Mr. M'LANE, our Minister in London, to Lord Alberdeen,
> viz. lat. 49 as the basis. Leaving to Great Britain the whole of Vancouver's
> Island and the free navigation of the Columbia.
> [Maine Farmer 11 June 1846]
>
> Enjoy,
>
> David C. Young
>
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