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"It is proper to add, that before entering our lines, and within about seventy-five or one hundred yards of our camp, one of their number discharged two pistol shots at a Negro, who was running past them, with an evident intention of taking his life. This justly enraged our men. "All of which is respectfully submitted. "Your obedient servant, "JOHN TOLEN. "Major Commanding Second Regiment, E. B.

"Dere, den," replied Mungo, "is my Massa, he buy tolen goods, he knew me tolen, and yet he buy me." Elgin Courier. According to the Parliamentary Returns in May, 1819, the total number of lunatics comprised in the circle of London and different private asylums, amounted to 2,005, which Dr.

"It is proper to add, that before entering our lines, and within about seventy-five or one hundred yards of our camp, one of their number discharged two pistol shots at a Negro, who was running past them, with an evident intention of taking his life. This justly enraged our men. "All of which is respectfully submitted. "Your obedient servant, "JOHN TOLEN. "Major Commanding Second Regiment, E. B.

Sheridan's MSS. in Moore's Life of him. A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of seeds. A Negro in Jamaica was tried for theft, and ordered to be flogged. He begged to be heard, which being granted, he asked "If white man buy tolen goods why he be no flogged too?" "Well," said the judge, "so he would."