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The Daily Dispatch: June 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], Gen. Longstreet's address. (search)
Atrocious Robbery. --On Saturday last, Malcah Robinson, an old, decrepit negro, was brought before the Assistant Provost Marshal of the Eastern District, charged by Mr. Simon P. Hollinsworth, a sleek, solemn-phizzed, substantial grocer, residing on 17th street, with stealing five North Carolina herrings, of the Digby species, (which, as our readers will please remember, are herring of a dwarfish kind,) from the store door of the said Hollinsworth. The grocer remarked in his evidence, that he had often seen old Malcah passing his door, and was struck with the "diabolical, half-starved" expression of his countenance. "Half-starved," old Malcah certainly was, or he never would have thought of stealing an article of diet which, in its state of preparation for the table, has been aptly compared to a fried paper of pins. And, as to be half-starved, as the world goes, is to be everything disreputable and wicked, we suppose the term "diabolical" was well associated in Mr. Hollinswort