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A Widow in the lighthouse service.

--Mrs. Ann Whitebeck is the lighthouse keeper at Stuvesant, on the Hudson river, some twenty miles below Albany. She was appointed to that position by the President in the year 1832, since which time she has retained it.-- The salary is $350 per annum. Her husband was the keeper of the lighthouse previous to that time. In that year the lighthouse was carried away in a freshst, and Mr. Whitebeck was killed. Mrs. Whitebeck has an only daughter, and between them they manage to perform the duties pertaining to the office.

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