Identifier: manualofcorporat00innewy (find matches)
Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for the years ..
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas) 1801-1869 Shannon, Joseph Hardy, John
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Publisher: New York : The Council
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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for a Wife, witha Farce called. The Lying Valet.—Ibid. Lindsay and Johnson, Peruke-Makers in Dock-Street, near theLong Bridge, hereby gives Notice, That one of the Partners, viz.Alexander Lindsay, intends to leave this Place in a few Days, forthree Months: Whoever has any Demands on him, may obtainimmediate satisfaction before he goes, or of his Partner in hisAbsence. N. B. Gentlemsn may be supplied with Peruk3s, dane in thebest Manner; and as they lately imported a good Assortment ofthe best Hairs, Peruke-Makers, may be supplied with them eitherraw or manufactured.—Ibid. New-York, December 24. Some Weeks ago we had Advices ofmany Robberies committed at Philadelphia, and it was thenthought the Gang intended towards New York:—How well thoseImaginations were founded, we cant determine: but of late wehave heard of several losses from Shops and Houses in this City,and several Eves-droppers have been observed, tlio not anyHouses actually broke open as we can learn. Last Week a Shop-
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657 lifter was taken, in attempting, as tis said, to carry off a Piece ofLinnen, and committed to Jail: and we are informed, one Gentle-man, on searching a Place he had Suspicion of, has found nearsixty Pounds worth of Goods, which had been stolen ffom him ;and several others have also found Goods they had lost. Peopleare cautioned to beware of unknown Persons coming into theirShops ; for it seems these have fallen upon a different Methodthan was practisd at Philadlphia : Altho we have some Rea-son to believe this is not the same Gang; yet perhaps the Infec-tion may spread, by the Philadelpldnns not being able to apply aproper Medicine in Time for that Distemper there : Therefore tishoped, that if any more Symptoms should appear, a little Alca-line Hemp may be prescribed to some of our Patients here, beforethe Disease becomes too violent and dangerous.—N. Y. Gazette,Revived in the Weekly Post Boy, Dec. 24, 1750. Tuesday last the Sloop Catharine, Capt. Ramadge, coming infrom the Bay

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