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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The London correspondent of the Traveller, rela'es the fullowing prelty bit of romance: "A Strapplng young country giri, along with her sweetheart, embnrked in oneoi' the emigrant shipa theh lyingat theqnay, with the iiitention ofsailing for America, and being the re mnrrled. The fair emigrant was possessed, morever, of L200, vvhich she directly placnd i:i tho liands of llie captain of the vcssel, and had liardly done so when her companion and intended applied to her for u portion ofit. - This she refuscd; whereupon he coolly bid lier good morning and ditembarked. The deserled damsc!, however, advanced to the gunwale, tlierc harangued a large mob, who speedily collected to hear her, and endcd, not by throwing hersell into the i'iver, but by assuring the eroSvd that ifany young fellovv ulio lieard lier was vvilling to take the place of tlie faithless swain, she was nuile ready to accep! of hls services upon the san. e terms. A handsome young rnason who ha{ipMsd to be nmoug the standers-by, inimeiliately offered him.self, and was accepted on the spot. The captain very properly sent to make inquines about him, and found that i lie was, us he represented himsrlf a single man, a lid the porties to this e. tempore match, sailed with that very ti Je for the shores of America."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News