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=Ye Olden Time Series.=
During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the publication of "YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF BOSTON AND SALEM," with brief Comments by HENRY M. BROOKS, of Salem, Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, 50 cents per vol.
Of this Series there are now ready:--
=Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.= =Vol. II. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.= =Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.= =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.= =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.= =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.=
The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles of forthcoming volumes:--
="New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginning of the 19th Century."=
="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."=
="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."=
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"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._
"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be history, they will contain much material for history."--_Literary World._
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_Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers,_
TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON.
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
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LITERARY CURIOSITIES
_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.
_The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN.
_No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first._--CARLYLE.
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
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Literary Curiosities
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON
BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886
_Copyright, 1886,_
BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
PAGE ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107 Adams, Rev. Mr. 8 Adams, Sally 8 Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125 Aldrich, Mrs. 105 André, Major 111 Arnold, Benedict 32, 33 Averell, Joseph 7
BARNARD, EDWARD 19 Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19 Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 19 Bayley, Matthew 105 Belcher, Governor 6 Belcher, Miss 5 Binney, Spencer 8 Birbeck, Morris 42 Blunt, John 39 Blunt, Mary Ann 39 Bons, Francis 103 Bowen, Henry 9 Bowes, John 102 Bradstreet, Anne 69 Breed, James 7 Brent, Eleanor 65 Brent, Robt. 65 Briggs, Enos 118 Brodie, Charlotte B. 9 Brookley, John 103 Bulkeley, Peter 68 Bullard, Polly 7 Bulow 111 Burt, Emily 8 Burton, Francis 12 Button, John 104
CABOT, J. 30 Cameron, Mary 104 Cass, Lewis 46 Cass, Miss 47 Casteguedo, F.L. 102 Checkley, Samuel 6 Checkley, William 6 Cheever, Master 125 Clough, Sally 11 Clough, Samuel 17 Cobbett, William 123 Columbus, Christopher 16 Consist, Francis 103 Cook, Nancy 12 Cotton, Charles 82 Cranston, Polly 6 Cromwell, Oliver 70 Currier, Samuel 11 Cushing, T.C. 62
DALAND, JACK 13 Davis, Benjamin 4 De Cugna, Numas 101 De la Roche Sur Yon 115 De Lametter, Christina 105 Derby, E.H. 117, 118 Desmond, Countess 102 Dexter, Lord Timothy 13, 14, 15, 16 Dodge, John 96 Douglass, Dr. 57, 58 Drakenberg, C.J. 103 Drinker, Edward 105 Dryden, John 72 Dumaresq, Phillip 5 Dunham, John M. 8
ECLESTON, MR. 102 Edwards, Pierpont 93 Ellis, Miss 103 Ellis, Mr. 103 Erskine, William 48 Erving, John 6 Erving, Nancy 6
FEARON, HENRY B. 107 Follart, John 104 Forbes, Mr. 48 Forster, Margaret 103 Foster, John 51, 52 Fox, C.J. 113 Franklin, Benjamin 116 French, Josiah 11 French, Moses 11 Froome, Mr. 103
GARDINER, REBECCA 5 Gardiner, Sylvester 5 Gibbon, Edward 96, 97, 98 Goldsmith, Oliver 32 Gore, Mary 103 Grant, Abigail 7 Grant, Alexander 7 Green, B., & Allen, J. 17 Green, S. 20 Green, Samuel, jun. 52, 53 Greenleaf, Anstess 4 Greenleaf, Stephen 5 Guthrie, Mr. 110
HALL, BASIL, R.N. 54 Hanson, Elizabeth 95 Hanson, John 95 Hanson, Rev. Mr. 93, 94 Harper, Miss 47 Harris, Benjamin 20 Hart, Rev. Mr. 10 Haven, Rev. Dr. 39 Herrenden, Elisha 11 Hill, Elisha 9 Hill, Jane 9 Hogg, Catharine 8 Holyoke, E.A., M.D. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 Hubbard, Rev. William 51 Huntington, Rev. Mr. 7
ISAIAH (VII. 20) 126
JACKMAN, BETSEY 11 Jackson, Daniel 10 Jackson, Edward 5 Jackson, Mary 5 Jackson, Rebecca 10 Jay, John 82 Jefferson, Thomas 112 Jenkins, Henry 102 Jennison, Dr. J. 5 Johnson, Dr. Samuel 49, 50 Jones, John Coffin 6 Jones, Polly 8 Jones, Thomas 8 Josselyn, John 57
KEIMER, MR. 116 Keyser, Miss 46 King Charles I. 83, 84 King Charles II. 32 King George IV. 112 King Henry VII. 81, 82 King James II. 20, 23, 32 King William III. 53
LAINCOURT 111 Lamson, Eunice 7 Lawrence, Mr. 102 Lawrence, Schuyler 10 Lemon, Eliza Peel 12 Loring, Caleb 7 Lovell, Master 126 Lushure, Elenor 11 Lyell, Sir Charles 55
MAFEUS 101 Maiden Aunt, The 4 Mansfield, Lord 49 McDonald, Mary 103 McIntire, Elizabeth 89 McIntire, Samuel 88, 89 McIntire, Samuel F. 89 McKeen, Donald 104 McLane, Miss 47 Millot 98 Milton, John 38 Minns, Chloe 10 Mirabeau 120 Montgomery, Robert 102 Moore, Larkin 12 Moore, Thomas 124 Morse, Rev. Jedediah 68, 110 Murray, W. 51
NELSON, MR. 106 Nicholas, J.H. 44 Noah, M.M. 10
OGLETHORPE, GEN. 103 Oliphant, Rev. Mr. 12 Osgood, Aaron 38 Otway, John 72 Oulton, Mrs. 29
PAINE, THOMAS 96 Parker, Elizabeth 7 Parnell, Paul 11 Parre, Thomas 102 Payne, Mr. 105 Pearson, Joseph 64 Pickman, Benjamin 30 Pittengill, Abigail 5 Plum, Lewis 12 Pork, Robert 8
QUEEN ANNE 16
RANDOLPH, EDWARD 20 Reeder, John 68 Richards, Giles 8 Richter, J.P.F. 83 Rimbault, E.F. 32 Robinson, Miss 8 Rose, Aquila 16 Rousby, Matthew 10 Rowe, Mr. 104 Russell, Benjamin 97 Russell, E. 94
SACK, SIMON 103 Sagar, F. 102 Scaredevil, Mary 117 Scott, Sir Walter 47, 48 Selsbry, Polly 7 Sewall, Samuel 51, 52 Seymore, Bridget 5 Silsbee, Miss 46 Silsbee, Nathaniel 46 Simes, Mark 39 Slock, Mrs. 105 Smallpeace, Robert 122, 123 Smith, Major 9 Smith, Mr. 104 Smith, Samuel 5 Spalding, Hezekiah 5 Sparks, Jared 46 Sprague, Charles 44 Stewart, Duncan 6 Stiles, Rev. Dr. 113 Stillman, Rev. Dr. 7 Swift, Jonathan 71, 72 Symonds, John 119
TARRING, WILLIAM 12 Taylor, Ann 10 Thatcher, B.B. 125 Torrey, Rev. Mr. 52 Trollope, Mrs. 56 Tuck, Rev. Mr. 53 Tully, John 20 Turner, John 30 Turner, Rev. R. 109
UPHAM, REV. C.W. 12
WAGNER, ELIZABETH 12 Walker, Thomas 90 Walter, John 7 Wardwell, Ester 38 Wharton, Eliza 89, 94 Watkins, Dr. 82 Webster, Noah 88 Welby, Adlard 40, 41, 42, 43 Weld, Mr. 111 Wendell, Oliver 5 West, Benjamin 95 Whipple, Plato 13 Whitman, Elizabeth 91, 93 Whitney, John 5 Willard, Joseph 98 Williams, Judith 6 Williams, Mary 5 Willis, N.P. 44, 45 Winsloe, Thomas 103 Woodwrod, Ebenezer 8
YATES, MARY 103 Young, William 6
LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
THE following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be unfortunate.
THE EDITOR.
That editor who wills to please, Must humbly crawl upon his knees, And kiss the hand that beats him; Or, if he dare attempt to walk, Must toe the mark that others chalk, And cringe to all that meet him.
Says one, Your subjects are too grave, Too much morality you have,-- Too much about religion; Give me some witch and wizard tales Of slip-shod ghosts with fins and scales, Of feathers like a pigeon.
I love to read, another cries, Those monstrous, fashionable lies,-- In other words, those novels, Composed of kings and queens and lords, Of border wars, and gothic hordes That used to live in hovels.
No, no, cries one, we've had enough Of such confounded love-sick stuff, To craze the fair creation; Give us some recent foreign news Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks, or Jews, Or any other nation.
The man of dull scholastic lore Would like to see a little more In scraps of Greek or Latin; The merchants rather have the price Of southern indigo and rice, Of India silks, or satin.
Another cries, I want more fun, A witty anecdote or pun, A rebus or a riddle; Some long for missionary news, And some, of worldly, carnal views, Would rather hear a fiddle.
The critic, too, of classic skill, Must dip in gall his gander quill, And scrall against the paper: Of all the literary fools Bred in our colleges and schools, He cuts the greatest caper.
Another cries, I want to see A jumbled-up variety, Variety in all things,-- A miscellaneous, hodge-pod print, Composed (I only give the hint) Of multifarious small things.
I want some marriage news, says miss: It constitutes my highest bliss To hear of weddings plenty; For in a time of general rain None suffer from a drought, 'tis plain,-- At least, not one in twenty.
I want to hear of deaths, says one, Of people totally undone By losses, fire, or fever: Another answers full as wise, I'd rather have a fall and rise Of raccoon skins and beaver.
Some signify a secret wish For now and then a favorite dish Of politics to suit them. But here we rest at perfect ease, For should they swear the moon was cheese, We never should dispute them.
Or grave or humorous, wild or tame, Lofty or low, 'tis all the same, Too haughty or too humble; And every editorial wight Has nought to do but what is right, And let the grumblers grumble.
From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated.
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"All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair and good alone." EMERSON.
In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were "amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most of the announcements. The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing for the "Boston Sunday Gazette." We copy some specimens from Boston and Salem papers.
On Thursday last, in the Forenoon, was married Mr. BENJAMIN DAVIS of this Town, Merchant, to Mrs. ANSTESS GREENLEAF, second Daughter of STEPHEN GREENLEAF Esq; High Sheriff of the County of Suffolk.
The same Evening Mr. OLIVER WENDELL, of this Town, Merchant, was also Married to Mrs. MARY JACKSON, only Daughter of the late Mr. EDWARD JACKSON; both young Ladies of great Merit.
Sept. 13, 1762.
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On Thursday Evening last Mr. _Phillip Dumaresq_, Merchant, was Married to Mrs. _Rebecca Gardiner_, third Daughter of _Sylvester Gardiner_, Esq; of this Town, an agreeable young Lady.
Dec. 19, 1763.
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MARRIED]--Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, to Mrs. ABIGAIL PITTENGILL, an agreeable young widow.
Dec. 22, 1790.
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Thursday evening last, JOHN WHITNEY, Esq. merchant, of the state of Georgia, to the amiable Mrs. BRIDGET SEYMORE, of Wesport.
June 2, 1792.
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