{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
A cory was once told US of person VINO
pacled the different parts Of a large broken
rridstone in the centre ota bale Of cotton


bySay perhaps Of helping 70 ,!efray cypcn-
sq, or by way of replacing it With Whole
one without loss: The cotton WAS sold at q
,ood price, and went to Liverpool, where 1t


vas disposed of to a manufacturer. On DC"
ng opened, the grndstonc was fouh quiet
.y and snugly beddcd i'll the centre OF the
bale; but not being convenient article 70
manufacture into cloth, it was weighed ana
sent back to Liverpool, from whence IT was
forwarded to the shipper in this country,
and by him was sent on to the pcrsah a.
whose gin it had been so adroity put up
with bill of cost for two passages across
tie ocean, added to the price paid for 1t a.
corling to its gravity in its first transfer
And it is said on it's arrival at its proper ~
cation, small child recognizing an ola az
quaintance, Immediately cried out, La. Pss;
here is the old grindstonc come BACK abt"',


How far this circumstance may nave oes'.
accurately detailed, we know not; ou' ~
do know that we were twice ourselves c"i.eo
to view several bales OF cotton, from VI. ~, ~
terror of which, rocks were taken wiiieu
would have afforded no small aid in bullun5
a stone wall; though not then beng @ah.et
for that purpose, the seller was requcstea
to separate the rock from the cntton'
and dispose of each article by itself; that e,le
relative value and weight OF eaci' MIS-. tb,
accurately ascertaincd In tnese 80" an
fraud was charged to the packer az ~, ,,sL
who being promised small rew1a -. - do !.
ing the bales heavy, had cohe''Ns"