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Organization Of Society

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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A short j time sincc, n poor, starving wretch, driven to desperation By the clatnors of his family for food. slole a small article fiom a store on Long wharf, nnd beitig discovered, ran up Slate street At the cry of "Slop thief," a plump, well-dressed mnn ran out of an insurnnce office, and seized and detained the íugítive till tke pinsuers came up and fook hin: offto the pólice court. The well-fed man then returned to the cotnfortaMe office, from wlience, after compleiing a "mcmej negotalion" with adisfrtssed nierchant at tvvo per cant,a monlli,by which he pocket' ed a cool thoustnd of usury,he entered hiscoich, ;ind returningmostcomplacently the salutation9 of hisbrollier moneyshavcrs, rode home to a princely mansión, where a süefeit of winosand expensive luxuries awaited him'. One of the papers the hpxt morning, in two consecutivo parn grapte, informed the people that our "worthy and respeoted tovvntmon, the Hon.- , fthe wellfed m:11, y had given one hundrcd dulla'ca to society," and that "a miserable vagabond, caiüng him-elf , was sent to the House of Correotion for six months !br stelling a bug of flour." The moral oflhe nhove ís, that the two men were class-matts at college - the one let buildiDga as grog-sli.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News