IT Is SAID

How we came possessed of what follows j
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sHow we came possessed OF what follows is
OF no'mqoltance 10 be known.
1t is said That the house of representa-
tives OF the United States is about to send a
challenge Is John Anderson, to demand sat
isfaction for ain insult offered to one OF il:
membes. A


issaid, That il is yet unknown who
pocs1ed the FIVE hundred dollar insult which
Was offered to Mr.. Williams sr~e


II as said, That every man may be bought
if you wil give him bis price. As the truth
of this maxim has never been denied


Ii 1, said, That John Anderson has not
been accustomed TO dealing in that commod-
ity, and does not know the market price.
or he would have put more money" in the
letter.


ID is said, That Mr. Wiliams's refusal OF
a paltry five hundred dollars will cost the
United States five hundred times as much
What pity !-GaIary.


The Mercury in Fahrenheits thermometer
10 Bangor stood at 23 degrees below 0 on
Monday morning the 10th iast,-ln Salem it
stood at a above @.


Black cloth in England had advanced So
per cent. in consequence of the death of the
Princess CHARLOTTE.


The deaths in Baltimore in 1917, were
1923.


Extract from a letter to the Editors, dated Wash.


ington, December II.


The administration, believe, is disposed
to take good ground. In relation TO Spain.
all appears to be going on we'll The subject
of the fisheries is in negotiation and receives
due attention from the President"