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The Queen's speech on the opening of Parliament in 1882 announced the approaching marriage of the Duke of Albany to Princess Helen of Waldeck. On the 2nd of March, as her Majesty was entering her carriage at Windsor station, she was fired at by a man named Roderick Maclean, the ball passing between her Majesty and Princess Beatrice.
The profits should be divided half-yearly, after paying expenses of ship and show. We ran under this agreement several years, and exhibited all the way from Boston to Rio, according to the season, and sometimes went inland up navigable rivers, such as to Albany and Philadelphia.
Rude jokes, from some of the new denizens of the monastery, were spent on the improbability of his finding sister or lands; if it were in the Barony of Glenuskie, the House of Albany had taken the administration of that into their own hands. 'Nay but, said Malcolm, 'could I but see my young Lady Lilias, she might make suit for me.
Only a man who in his youth has come at last in sight of some great city he had dreamed of all his life and longed to see, can enter into Rolf's feelings as they swept around the big bend, and Albany Albany, hove in view.
They set themselves to their task and made the trip from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, in thirty-two hours. Success had at last come to the quiet, modest, persevering Fulton. After this trial trip the Clermont was used as a regular passenger boat between New York and Albany. The steamboat was Fulton's great gift to the world and his last work of public interest.
At length I met Albany, the 17th, though I was not expected before the 25th. General Conway had been here only three days before me, and I must confess I found him very active and looking as if he had good intentions; but we know a great deal upon that subject. His first word has been that the expedition is quite impossible.
"He was up to Albany." Albany! There were thousands of lawyers and tens of thousands of men who would do as witnesses in Albany! "But," insisted Garrison, "perhaps he told you where it was deposited or who had drawn it up, or you may know his lawyer in Albany. "No. He just mentioned it, that's all," said Durgin. "The letter was most about ducks." "This is too bad," Garrison declared.
A former resident of the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie thus describes the scene at that place, which will serve as a specimen of the conduct of the people along the entire river below Albany: "It was in the early autumn of the year 1807 that a knot of villagers was gathered on a high bluff just opposite Poughkeepsie, on the west bank of the Hudson, attracted by the appearance of a strange, dark-looking craft, which was slowly making its way up the river.
The robbery kept the boys in Albany several days, and this being so, it was decided to abandon the trip on the river to New York. "I'll send the Spray down by somebody," said Dick, "and then we can take a train from here direct to Oak Run," and so it was arranged. The trip to Oak Run proved to be uneventful.
The daughter's last meal had been whatever she could get for midday dinner. And it was now nine o'clock in the evening. 'Just you wait there. Don't stir from where you arc. I'll be back in three minutes, I told her. There was a ham and beef shop at the junction of Howard and Albany Street. Thither I hastened.
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