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Wheat Crop

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The cry of "Winter killed uhoat" won't answer for thin region. [Livingston Co., N. Y.] I have travelled for many miles in this vicinity, and inquired of fai'mers generally in teference lo the subject, and ihe universal resprnse s, that the erop gives indicacations as promising as last season. - Cor. Roch. Dcm. A Lady with wiioji Godliness was Great Gain. - There is n lany re-iding not a thousand miles from Brighlon, in independent circumstances who purchases at a time four or five pounds wortli of men's shirts, collars and other orticles wliichshe gives to a poor wornan to sel!, and in order to assist the sale, slie gives the woman a letter, signed vviih her own name, which stie is instructed to lake to various persons. The letter hegins - "In the name of Jesus:" and then states that the bearer is a peison in distress, .?.nd that any person puichasing llie collars which slie (the lndy) " has made herself," wil] confer a favor on her (the said lndy.) Thus armed, the poor woman commences her operations. The collars which the lady bought at ld., 8d„ and Is. each, she marks a price on herself. The sixpenny ones are to be sold for two shilling, the eightpenny ones at two and six-pence, and so on. If the womnn srll above 30s. worlh in a dny, she is pnitl one shilling by her patroness for her day's work; if she sell a less number, she is pnid only six-pence a day. - She complains that she is not sufficicntly renumeraled ; and tlm is how these

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Signal of Liberty
Old News