{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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Mr.. EDITOR: The following problem may
be Gas old as the hills' for what know II is
however, new 10 me, and will thank you to
publish il.


stranger entered store and purchased
hat, the price of which was two dollars and
hiiy cents, and gave the merchant five dollar
note, out OF which the stranger requested the
price OF the hat to be taken. The merchant
not having any change in his money drawer,
went to neighboriag broker, and got ten half
dollars Tor the note-the right change was
handed the stranger, Chat is $25O) which
with the hat he took and went off.
The following day the broker, who had
changed the note, came to the merchant. and
demanded back his good money, aedging that
the note was counterfeit, and upon examin
ing the note il was found 10 be true; the mer-
chant then handed back to the broker genu-
i. note, and took back the counterfeit | de-
mand 10 know I" How much did the merchant
lose by the transaction" C.


AccIDENT.-On the 24th inst, son of Mr..
Marz, residing near Boonsboro', had about
one-haf OF his hand blown off by the acciden-
tai discharge of gun. Which he was handl-
! ling


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SHOCKING "A ACCIDENTAL strange and shock
ing accident occurred at shooting match on
Smiths Creek, in this county, last Saturday
| afternoon. Abraham Carrier, son of Mr. Jno.
Carrier, young man about 10 or 70 wears Of
age, was killed by the discharge of gun in
the hands OF Nathan Hannah, in the following
singular manner Mr.. Carrier was standing
some distance from the marksmen examining
a target, at which he had been firing, when
the gun in the hands of Mr.. Hannah, being
only half-cocked, was accidentally discharged.
The ball striking rock, glanced, struck sap
ling, then tree. and glancing again struck
Mr.. Carrier in the head, knocking out his
brains Although the ball passed almost en-
tlrely through his head-going in one temple
and lodging near the other, he survived the ac-
cident about twelve hours, with the brains ooz-
ing out of the ball hole Rockingham (Ta)
Register.