| Show from ill star stra dead bead better Veir idue at A stra stranger ng er in the city would have been puzzled to account for the furious eagerness is e as displayed last las I 1 11 night by tile the crowd struggling to get into ageg maguires mcguires McGui aires res auction room the fair sex was just as aa crazy as the men and not a few tittles ladies braved the mud slid rain and jostled at tile the door for far admission in right good earnest the attraction vv was s the great DEAD LETTER OFFICE SALE a advertised for some weeks to take place on this night it was announced that the catalogue cone consisted isted of articles articled accumulated in fit the dead letter office since 1847 the department part ment having used every ell effort ort to find the proper owners and being unable to do so and they would now dow be sold for the rc postage out ge t the lie pr proceeds it any after paying charges a e 0 to O be deposited in the U S ta treasury a or subject i lb act to order should the proper owners hereafter be found th the articles came from the post office in sealed packages and no opportunity having thus been obtained ot of getting a peep of examination the bidding was somewhat in the dark but generally spirited the buyers naturally natH rally supposed that the articles thus sent by mail as pledges of affection afie affe cion clion must be about the correct tiling thing in I 1 n point of value the auctioneer said he would warrant nothing as they wanted to close the thing up finally but it if he knew anything to be worthless he would intimate the tact fact when it was put up I 1 A very large proportion perhaps three quarters of the ai a tides were pieces of jewelry of these again a large pro portion wore were finger rings there being n no 1 it f y m air 11 6 ala than n I 1 nany 3 n Y of ill then em Is hcan cary plain gold widdig rings then there A ere era earrings in at ai y quantity gold pencil brace bra ceet ef gold ami silver loc lockete dockets keti fruit bret bacat pins pille studs rob ob cboins 9 medals ac ac C oni one of the lock dockets lockets eta put up for ls sale iet on icing being opened ava was 8 f found to c contain a miniature and N was vas im immediately ed ia t witt ai I 1 drawn as the depa department r reserves all portraits pot licin being allowed by the law tor to 0 sell ebli them i there was as boulte a sprinkling of cf books the way to heaven life aud and speeches of henry clay 2 vols keeping tile the llor heart a t F fatalist et a 1 or one n e i 1 i i p jr e d C a t e c li is m i F forts A medical I 1 d 1 c practice a c t i c e S Stoc t oe k klona t 0 n I 1 s S sermons er missouri harmony african prea h er paradise lost allne ritual laws of georgia time dozer ired fred douglass sumner ramil famil L ife of fremont danger of the dark gren green book hymn Book Flowers of oc piety I 1 catholic missal Al issal Living travel Tra ieli five german books cotton is is K king ing bay ba state glee club ac ac among the odd things in in the miscellany were ee an all extraordinary pair of lan em I 1 ted gorman german styles illich sold for 1 1 regalia ath t rep 1 0 0 F brought 1 75 patent iclal ing tu tube bejo ta cure consumption 37 tents aut box dissecting instruments fic ator half a dozen chom chemises ses gaffs gafas for game fowl one cornfield corn field hoe directed to i kieen Vict victoria victovia otia ethe f postage tage upon winch amoin amounted ted to 16 MI german aman pipes gold ct d foil inkstands ink stands kid gloves spectacle e s daguerreotype plates violin strings ga lot 0 of f mourning goods gods two to tha shawls WIS and sacks sack comfort linen braids for colored p parsons blaek summer coat bed quit quilt ear trumpet I 1 three pairs of boots bro 9 gans a lot of hardware sign on cotton cloth ready beady made CIo lhing lot of awls five dozen watch crystals and so on oil to the number of six or beien hundred articles ga mr john A wash washington has bag sent to 10 mr george W V R ga the treasurer tre surer of tile the ladies mount vernon 1 anon association an order for 1228 as his contribution to the mt vestion Vei tion fund being the pra proceeds of the mt lilt vernon steamboat trips for the past year which though payable to mr washington aj he has generously caused to be made over to tale the tion ca 3 A new half dollar dillar has baa bee ngot up at the united states mates mint in philadelphia to be submitted to the govern government men t or its approval the new coin although of the same diameter as that now in circulation is is alich m ich thicker at the rim I 1 in n consequence of the deeper sinking of the di die and hence touch much more durable on oie side is a medallion portrait of oe washington with tile the head wreathed with laurel I 1 the v vord ord liberty upon a scroll over the bust at the tha bIt bottom tom the date 1839 1859 and around the united states I 1 of Ar america in plain raised letters on the side a wreath of pram envelope elope the lie words half dollar I 1 in the same beautiful letters i |
