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Hoosier Conversation

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
March
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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-'Holló, Btrangeryon oppear to be travelling. 'Yfis, I always travel when'on a journey.' {I think I have seen you Bomewlieïe." 'Very likely; I have often been tliere 'And pray what might your name be?' 'It might be Sam Patch: but jt isn't.' 'Have you been long in these parts?' 'Never longer than at preeent - five feet n'me.' Do you get any thing new?' Yes I boutrht a new whetstone this morniDg.1 'I thought so you are the sharpest blade I've eeen on this road.The American Letter MailCompany. rec'ently cstablished, with Post Offices in New York, PhiladclphiaBaltimore and Boston, intend to extend their routes as far as they findencouragerrïent. Postage, only six.anda quarter cents for eaeh half ounce - stamps, 20 for a dollar - without regard to distance. object is. to test the Constitutional rïglit of Covernnient to monopolize the conveyance of letters. A citizen of Cincinnati has enclosed forty dollars to the Trastees of the Township, to be distributed aniong the poor. - This is the amount he estimates he has saved, by abstaining from the use of tobacco during Ihe last four years, having been bëfore that time an invetérate slave to the weed. CGQneen Victoria is four feet eiglit inches in hejgthj and Prince Albert five len inCfiCS. At a recent ineciing of a B ranch of the American Tract Society in Conn.. a clergyman stated, that in one , town in Florida, a Justice sent all over town for: a bible upon which to swear some witnesses, and not one could be found!The receipts of the American Colonization Society last year amounted to $43,000. A letter from Constantinople slates that the Sultan is learning the French language and geography, and isvery assiduous in the attaining of those acquirements. The Sultan's pursuing these studies is endeavored to be kept a secret amongst the Turks.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News