Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — Sound Quser to Us Now. [ARTICLE]

Sound Quser to Us Now.

Among the time-worn relics of a well-known down-town chop house are copies of newspapers printed in this city more than one hundred years ago, says the New York Times. Here is a sample news paragraph that appeared in the Daily Record of Dec. 30, 1786: “Yesterday was executed, pursuant to sentence, for burglary, Thomas Lee, a black man. During the execution the rope slipped and caught him by the chin, in which situation he was suspended for rifearly two minutes. He then spoke, saying, ‘lt does not choke me,’ on which the platform was raised and the rope properly fixed, w*ien he was launched into eternity. He appeared to have little concern for his unhappy situation and but an imperfect idea of his future state. Notwithstanding the awful spectacle, a number of hardened villains the same night broke open the store of Mr. Khinelander, at Burling Slip, and carried off an iron chest containkg cash to the amount of £100.” In the same paper of Nov. 23, 1786, are these paragraphs: “A mulatto boy between eighteen and nineteen years of age, to be sold; is a tolerable cook, and understands all kinds of housework. “Bear's grease for making the hair grow to be had of Nathaniel Smith, 185 Queen street. “The Albany line of stages, by reason of the shortness of the days, will, until the Ist of May next, take three days instead of two to perform their tour.”