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Show Ileall, of o.,l Xrori. ttom.n. Over tho tiattern branch of tha I'oto-mac, I'oto-mac, lu Auacoata, better know 11 aa Union-town Union-town ilurinf the war, there waa buried recently a woman wjieieo story did much to atlmulito the anllalarery sentiment In tha north, hhe waa n retdatlou uf tho pomlbllltlMnf patient negro amll-tion amll-tion Horn fifty-six year ago, In l'rlnco Oeorgo -ounlv, Ml,, aba waa it little slat a girl of lis when ber owner put her out to service In a Washington fimily. At that ago ahe began to hoard money to buy her freedom. Year aftir your tlio put by tha i-entiles, for nothing larger Ml to b r In tl. Win had eoltecteel (100 In cot r wlun tho attention of sumo uf tha publlo men of tint day tt aa ealli.l lo he t Hannibal Hamlin, then In cungie-ai but afterward Yioaprceldnt, lieeume f specially Interested, Inter-ested, llo tol 1 tho story uf Uroclitio Uelt with ail-ll pathos that (330 was cull-tribute! cull-tribute! by northern people Then a series uf entertainments wai given to ul 1 her, and a f6w ycira Ufore tho war tha girl, grown to wofnauhooil, was nbloto liand ot er to her mister (TOO and ri eel va hrrrneJoin, Washington Cor. bt. Louis Utubtt-DetUOtrit. |