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The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
que characters have already appeared.--There is a ruffian, of the Bill Sykes species, and a wretched girl, who remind one of Nancy; a queer old city clerk, with a family of grown up head strong daughters; a fashionable family; Silas Wegg, a wooden legged proprietor of an apple stall, (Dickens says: "It gave you the face aches to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, and the teeth aches to look at his ,") Miss Patterson, an antique the Virginia, and Mr Venus, a time old keeper of a curiosity. shop Dickes has on entrusted his style with new made words, and his phraseology in general has become so grotesque that he is getting as difficult to read as Thomas Carlyte. One cannot help sighing for the freshness and simplicity of his Nicholas and Oliver. Thackery's fragment, "Dennis Duval," is also being punished in the Cornhill. Through its pages ran the same beauty and tenderness of thought and graphic description of olden time character, familiar to us in Romond.
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Young Mn's Christian Association. (search)
Young Mn's Christian Association. --The monthly meeting of the Association was held on Tuesday evening last, and though not very numerously attended, was yet quite an interesting and agreeable occasion.-- Amongst other items of general interest brought before the meeting, the President announced the following standing committees for the ensuing year: Library and Rooms — P. C. Nicholas, chairman; Dr. W. H. Gwathmey, Philip F Howard. Lectures — D B Lucas, chairman; J C Williams, Bev. Weliford, Jr. Publications — George L Bid good, chairman; W B Robina, S B Smith. Ways and Means — Wm Willis, Jr, chairman; Jas Menry, Robt Lancaster, Jr. Nominations — J B Watkins, chairman, B H Mrade, Ro E Richardson, Chas E McClare, Wm H Tyler, Bible Classes — J M Stevens, chairman; Wm B Johnson, Roger Martin. Religions Exercises — J D K Sleight, chairman; W B Bigelow, A P Fox. Sunday Schools--Dr. J Hall Moors, chairman; Dr. George B Steels, C C Calvert. Visiting the Sick — Blackburn Hug