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No doubt it was with the intention of obtaining ours, thus reaping the harvest of unfurrowed fields, that these natives were induced to make so murderous an attack upon us. We neither saw nor heard anything more of our sable enemies, and on the 18th we departed out of their coasts. This watering place, Ularring, is situated in latitude 29 degrees 35', and longitude 120 degrees 31' 4".

In this way Governor Holden's Administration managed in two years to increase the public debt of North Carolina from $16,000,000 to $32,000,000. The state debt of South Carolina rose from $7,000,000 to $29,000,000 in 1873. In Alabama, by 1874, the debt had mounted from $7,000,000 to $32,000,000.

But that there still existed editors of the old-time caliber, this extract from the Richmond, Ky., Herald, October 29, 1879, shows: Miss Anthony is above the medium height for women, dresses plainly, is uncomely in person, has rather coarse, rugged features and masculine manners.

House, rue Percière, no 11. House, rue Bouvreuil, no 4. House, rue Etoupée, no 4. Houses, rue des Carmes, no 69 to 77. House, rue Caquerel, no 13. House, rue Damiette, no 29. Houses, rue Eau-de-Robec, no 186, 221, 223. Houses, rue Malpalu, no 90 and 92. Houses, rue du Change, no 2 to 8. Houses, rue du Bac, no 28 and 30. House, rue des Cordeliers, no 45.

It was the fortune of our 2d Corps, composed of the 27th and 30th Divisions, which had remained with the British, to have a place of honor in cooperation with the Australian Corps on September 29 and October in the assault on the Hindenburg Line where the St. Quentin Canal passes through a tunnel under a ridge.

All this caused so much delay that the fleet did not sail till May 29. Storm succeeded sickness to interfere with Philip’s plans. A tempest fell on the fleet on its way to Corunna, where it was to take on some troops and stores.

The lightning-conductors of the powder-magazine were blown down." 1837, August 2. All the ships in the harbor of San Juan were lost. 1840, September 16. No details. 1851, August 18. No details, except that this hurricane caused considerable damage. 1867, October 29. 1871, August 23.

I received the first news of Custer's fight on the Washita on the morning of November 29. It was brought to me by one of his white scouts, "California Joe," a noted character, who had been experiencing the ups and downs of pioneer life ever since crossing the Plains in 1849.

'Tis a part of his name, Exod. xxxiv. 7. A second consideration that makes the work of covenanting with God to appear a hard and difficult work, was taken from the nature of the work itself, which is to serve the Lord in a covenant way, and in the capacity of covenanted children, this covenant relation involving in it a walk and conversation in all things like the chosen of the Lord; and 'tis no small matter, so to walk, and so to behave as to be accounted worthy of a covenanted union with the Lord and interest in him, this covenant relation being confirmed with such awful sanctions, as in scripture we find, Neh. x. 29.

Paul Rewman of Deadwood, assisted by a number of Pierre suffragists for the Universal Franchise League and Dr. Mary Noyes Farr of Pierre and Miss Rose Bower for the W. C. T. U., once more climbed the steps of the Capitol to ask for another referendum. Once more the request was granted in the Senate by 29 to 15, in the House by 57 to 40 during the first two weeks of the session.