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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
February
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Royal PftiZc- It is Gajd ihat tho bare plato at Windsor CcistJe, is valued at $8,500,000. A single gold service of Geo. IV. contains all the utensils requisito to dine one hundred and thirty gueste. - Thcrc is in tb is colíection a vessel which belongs to Charles XII. of S weden - another taken from the Kïng of A va. Otherswere taken from Armada and others again wcre brought from Chit na, Bunnah and India. There were ojso thirty dozen gold platc3 wortb$120 eacli, b-esides splendid gold shields and snuiF-boxes. worth Trom $30,000 to 40,000 apiece. - JVeeds laeAlers. A rare Characier. - A correspondent of tho Lynn Wasbingtonion. gives the folloving account of one of the Marblehead representatives: One person now living among usis v.'ortby a passing notice - Samuel Chinn, one of tbcir represeniatives elected to the. iegjsiature of Mnssachuselts He is 35 yearsofnge - a strong healtby man - and to use his own language - h e 'has bad ncither ach nor pain.' For the last ten yoars' this man lias lived on a simple vegetable diet, causing not the voice of mourning among the berds and fiocks whicb grazo peacefully upon tbemountain side; and the last four ycars he bas lived on notbing- nothing but dry un-ground Avheat and fruit. He makes 'his breakfast of fruit- ihe other two'mealsof wbent,patronizingneither burrstone rnills, nor French cooks. Last year he was elected a delégate to the Worcester democratie state con vea tion, and Tvïth a true democratie spirit he filled his pocket with wheat, walked to Worcester ín one day (a distance of 53 miles) attended the convention, and the nexi day returned home by the same democratie express, having patronized no hotels. He is now ready to walk 75 miles a day whenever interest or duty may require. Charüy, .vs. Tobacco. - A citizen of 'incinnati bas encloscd forty dollars to the trustees of the township, ta be distnbuted among the poor. This is the atnount he estimates he has saved, by abstaining from the use of tobáceo, ouring the last four yenrs, having been before that time an invetérate slave to the Indian weed. -

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Signal of Liberty
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