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Sawyer tackled him," and with a scornful laugh Mrs. Maxwell flounced out of the store. "Your wife's as bad as the rest on 'em, Hiram." "Yes, Obadiah; it seems to be whoopedemic, as the doctors say." Quincy's second and third years at Andover passed quickly and again vacation time had come. "Let's go to Fernborough as usual," said Quincy, and Tom, without argument, seconded the motion.

The Democrats pledged their support to Greeley and Brown; but this act displeased so many of the Democratic party, that another convention was held, and Charles O'Conor and John Quincy Adams were placed in the field.

"I ain't agin the new stores," said Hiram, "but I'm teetotally agin chopping prices down on everything and tryin' to beat the other feller." "How much money will it require?" asked Quincy. "Have you estimated on rent, fixtures, stock, horses and wagons, stabling, wages and salaries, and sundry expenses?" "Yes, I've got it all down in black and white, it's in the safe.

The result of this electioneering conflict was, that, by the returns of the electoral colleges of the several states, it appeared that none of the candidates had the requisite constitutional majority; the whole number of votes being two hundred and sixty-one of which Andrew Jackson had ninety-nine, John Quincy Adams eighty-four, William H. Crawford forty-one, and Henry Clay thirty-seven.

What mines can you find, more interesting than the great copper-mines of Calumet and Hecla and Quincy? the only place in the United States, indeed, where you can see the curious man-engine, with its arrangement of changing-platforms for carrying the miners up and down. Well, you meant to go "canoeing." Some very choice canoeing and shooting of rapids you can have during the hours at the Sault Ste.

Documents connected with the negotiation of the treaty and the instructions under which it was effected are also communicated to the Senate. John Quincy Adams. Washington, January 22, 1828.

No faith, therefore, is to be placed in his sworn statement, which was actually made, to the effect that on a certain occasion he passed through the old Hall of Representatives now Statuary Hall and saw in session the Congress of 1848, with John Quincy Adams and many other men whose names have long ago passed into history.

Something very important or she wouldn't write." As he opened the note sheet, he turned to his wife. "Shall I read it aloud?" "I should love to hear it." Quincy read: * "MY ABSENT RELATIVE: You will be delighted to hear that I have found Captain Hornaby's missing coat and wallet. I was out in the new boat when I saw something on the bottom of the pond. You know the water is as clear as glass.

Richard Ricker, asked sneeringly: "What asylum did you come from?" "I beg your pardon," said the stranger. "I used to know Mr. Maxwell, and they told me in the city that he was a member of the firm of Strout and Maxwell." "Who told ye?" "The trustees of the estate of Mr. Sawyer. Mr. Quincy Adams Sawyer. Did you know him?" "I never knew any good of him. So they told yer, did they?

Bannister was unknown to his patient when he paid his first visit, and was professionally non-communicative, but he told him afterwards, when their acquaintance had ripened to such an extent that the names Quincy and Jack took the place of more formal designations, that it had always seemed a wonder to him that he had survived.