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Gambling Away A Daughter

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-A fewdays since, says the Journa! de lo Meuse, an inhabitantof-Voiri, playing at hiliiards, stakcd the hand of hts on!y daughter, a handsome girl of eighleen, against his adversary. The mprudent faiherlost, and the winner has since insisted on payment being made, claimiug the young lady, fortune and all, orelee a sufficiení indemnity. The daughter olijects to the valdity of t!o bargain, and that gaming debts cannoi be enforced by Iav. Sho is right. - Tribune In the slave stales, where they gr.mble away daughters, the poor girls have uo option of refusal.