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Selling Women in England.

--A shoemaker in Preston, England, named Charleston, not being able to live satisfactorily with his wife, took her to a public-house and sold her at auction for twenty- five cents and two dollars' worth of whiskey punch. A bill of sale was given, and the woman seemed satisfied with her change of masters.

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