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Mutual Building Association. Chartered Oc- tober 14, 1887; capital stoek, $300,000. Moroney Hardware Company. Incorporated June 1, 1875; capital stock, $50,000. Munger Improved Cotton Machine Mann-
facturing Company. Chartered 1887; authorized capital, $100,000.
North American Endowment and Savings Company. Chartered January 2, 1891; capital stock, $10,000.
North Dallas Improvement Company. Char- tered May 22, 1888; capital stock, $100,- 000.
North Texas Coal Mining Company. Capi- tal stock, $150,000.
North Dallas Circuit Railway Company. lu- corporated 1888; capital stock, $100,- 000.
North Texas Mortgage Company. Incorpo- rated June 17, 1889; capital stock, $100,000.
Oak Cliff Artesian Well Company. Incor- porated March, 1891; capital stock, $200,000.
Oak Cliff Ice and Refrigerating Company. Chartered 1891; capital stock, 850,000. Oak Cliff Planing Mill Company. Chart- ered March 1, 1891; capital stock, $10,- 000.
Oak Cliff Hotel Company. Incorporated May, 1890.
Oak Cliff Light and Power Company. In- corporated March, 1891.
Oak Cliff Water Supply Company. Chart- ered March, 1887; authorized capital, $50,000.
Office Specialty Company. Chartered May 11, 1891; capital stock, $10,000.
Oriental llotel Company. Incorporated July 2, 1889; capital stock, $500,000. Orr, B. F., Lumber Company. Incorporated
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June 1, 1891; capital stock, $50,000. Portland Harbor and Improvement Com- pany. Incorporated February, 1891; capital stock, $300,000.
Rattan Manufacturing Company, South. Incorporated November, 1890; capital stock, $300,000.
Sanger Bros.' Employés' Loan and Savings Association. Chartered March, 1886; authorized capital, $200,000.
Scarff & O'Connor Company. Incorporated May, 1891; capital stock, $100,000.
Security Mortgage and Trust Company. In- corporated July, 1887; capital stock, $500,000.
Southern Distilling Company. Incorporated 1890; capital stock, $150,000.
Southern Germicide Manufacturing Com- pany. Incorporated June, 1891.
Southern Improvement Company. Incor- porated 1889; capital stock, $300,000. Taber Bros. Jewelry Manufacturing Com- pany. Incorporated 1887; capital stock, $25,000.
Texas Ammonia and Chemical Company. Chartered 1891; capital stock. $20,000. Texas Excursion Company. Incorporated June, 1891; capital stock, $5,000.
Texas and Southwestern Railway Guide Pub- lishing Company. Incorporated Decem- ber 4, 1890; capital stock, $10,000.
Texas Farın and Ranch Publishing Com- pany. Incorporated 1887; capital stock, $50,000.
Texas Farmers' Alliance Commercial Agency. Chartered December, 1889; capital stock, $100,000.
Texas Guaranty Company. Incorporated May, 1888; capital stock, $3,000.
Texas Paper Company. Incorporated March, 1889; capital stock, $30,000.
Texas Paper Mill Company. Chartered April 1, 1890; capital stock, 850,000.
Texas Pressed Brick Company. Chartered April 1, 1890; capital stock, $100,000. Thurmond Medicine Company. Chartered 1891; capital stock, $50,000.
Times Publishing Company. Incorporated September, 1885; capital stock, $20,000.
Todd Milling Company. Incorporated Au- gust, 1889; capital stock, $200,000.
Tompkins Machinery and Implement Com- pany. Chartered May 4, 1884; capital stock, $125,000.
Trinity Drug Store Company. Incorporated May, 1890; capital stock, $7,000.
University Place Improvement Company. Incorporated Angust, 1890; capital stock, $100,000.
Watkins (Will A.) Music Company. Incor- porated 1883; capital stock, $750,000.
Watkins (F. B.) Land Mortgage Company. Incorporated 1883; capital stock, $750,- 000.
Webster-Wood Real Estate and Guarantee Company. Chartered August 29, 1889; capital stock, $250,000.
World Publishing Company. Incorporated June 20, 1891; capital stock, $25,000.
SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS.
Castle Dallas, No. 177, Knights of the Golden Rule. Organized October, 1881; membership 40.
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Catholic Knights, of America St. Patrick's Branch No. 70. Organized 1873; meni- bership 33.
Caledonian Club of Dallas. Organized No- vember, 1889; membership, 165.
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Dallas Lodge, No. 71. Organized February 5, 1888; membership 120.
Association of Civil Engineers of Dallas. Organized January 10, 1889; member- ship 15.
Dallas Pressmen's Union, No. 46. Organ- ized 1890; membership 20.
Dallas Social Gymnastic Club. Chartered May 8, 1884; membership 60.
Dallas Turn- Verein. Organized 1873; mem- bership 250.
Dallas Typographical Union, No. 173. Organized November 8, 1885; member- ship 150.
Day's Opera House Orchestra and. Band. Organized October, 1888; Jacob Day, leader.
Entre Nous Club. Organized November 6, 1889; membership 29.
Fidelity Lodge No. 410; A. L. of HI. Organized January 15, 1881; member- ship 73.
Idlewild Club. Organized September, 1884; membership 45.
Isaac Pittman Short-Hand Society. Organized October 12, 1890; member- ship 23.
Knights of the Maccabees of the World, Dallas Lodge No. 1. Organized June 27, 1891.
Olympic Tennis Club. Organized March, 1891; membership 14.
Oratorio Society. Organized December, 1890; membership 20.
Order of Railway Telegraphers. Organized 1886: membership 74.
Southwestern Gas Association. Organized 1887; membership 35.
Standard Club (The). Organized January, 1886; meetings at the residences of inembers 1st and 3d Tuesdays in each month.
Texas Camp No. 1, Woodmen of the World. Organized February 4, 1891; member- ship 04.
Texas Lodge No. 33, Order of the Golden Chain. Organized June 18, 1884; mem- bership 22.
Trinity Historical Society. Organized Feb- ruary 21, 1887; membership 15.
Uhland Lodge, No. 22, Order of the Sons of Hermann. Organized November 3, 1890; membership 45.
Young Men's Christian Association. Organ- ized November 5, 1885; incorporated November 27, 1885; membership 400. Gruetli Verein. Organized January 1, 1874; membership 35.
Dallas Literary Society and Debating Club. Organized Angust, 1890; member- ship 80. Dallas Pharmaceutic Association. Organ- ized May, 1889; membership 40.
Dallas Press Union. Organized December 9, 1890; membership 25.
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Comet Council, No. 5, 0 C. F. Organized August 5, 1881; membership 80. Dallas Amateur Athletic Club. Organized December, 1890; membership 280. Dallas Commandery, No. 159, U. O.G. C. Organized October 31, 1881; member- ship 40.
Dallas County Bar Asssociation. Organized 1880; membership 150.
Dallas County Medical Society. Organized 1884; membership 40.
Dallas Frohsinn (singing section of the Dallas Turn- Verein). Organized April 23, 1873; membership 45.
MASONIC.
Dallas Chapter No. 47, R. A. M. Chartered June 25, 1855; membership 120. Dallas Commandery, No. 6, Knights Tem- plar. Instituted June 18, 1857; mem- bership 130.
Hella Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Chartered Octo. ber 12, 1887; membership 300.
Oak Cliff Lodge, No. 705, A. F. & A. M. Instituted January, 1891; membership 200.
Tannehill Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M. Chartered June 24, 1850; membership 200.
ODD FELLOWS.
Dallas Lodge, No. 44, I. O.O. F. Organ- ized June 4, 1854; membership 120. Ridgely Encampement, No. 25, I. 0.0. F. Organized June 29, 1869; member- ship 60.
Trinity Lodge, No. 198, I O. O. F. Char- tered February 5, 1875; membership 91.
KNIGHTS OF PYTIIIAS.
Amity Lodge, No. 108, K. of P. Organ- ized September, 1889; membership 210. Cœur de Lion Division, No. 5, Uniform Rank, K. of P. Membership 70. Cœur de Lion Lodge, No. 8, K. of P. In- stituted in 1872; membership 240.
Dallas Division, No. 18, Uniform Rank, K. of. P. Organized November, 1890; membership 40.
Dallas Lodge, No. 70, K. of P. Organized April 6, 1887; membership 120.
Endowment Rank, Section 177, K. of P. Instituted 1877; membership 50.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Dallas Lodge, No. 1570, K. of H. Organ- ized April 14, 1879; membership 55. Queen City Lodge, No. 941, K. of H. Organized March 17, 1878; member- ship 232.
Teutonia Lodge, No. 1873, K. of H. Or- ganized November 6, 1879; member- ship 100.
MILITARY.
Dallas Artillery Company. Organized 1879; membership 65. Armory Hall located at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Hord, Oak Cliff.
Fourth Regiment of Texas. Organized April 15, 1884; membership 10 com- panies.
Gaston Zouaves. Organized August, 1886; membership 30.
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DALLAS CLUB.
This organization is composed of some of the most prominent, influential and wealthy gentlemen of the city. It has a most handsome and imposing building, four stories high, equal to any of its kind in the South, located cor- ner of Poydros and Commerce streets, free from the noise and bustle of the main busi- ness thoroughfares, and yet sufficiently near as not to canse any inconvenience to the members in reaching their offices and places of business. The building alone cost $50,000; the lot cost $17,000, and the furniture $10,- 000.
The idea of a club was originated in the old Dallas Chess Club, which then consisted of a membership of a few well-to-do bache- lors, with two rooms in the Randall building, on Main street. The leading spirits in get- ting up the Dallas Club, and the gentlemen to whom it largly owes its present success and membership are Messrs. A. II. Stewart and Geo. W. Toland. These gentlemen con- ceived the idea, and, assisted by others, put into execution their plans and have as a re- sult this handsome building, an ornament to any city. Its membership is 264, and all but 37 are resident members. The following are the officers and directors since its organ- ization :
Directors for 1887-'88: George W. Toland, B. A. Pope, R. V. Tompkins, J. C. O'Connor, Alex. Sanger. M. T. Holloway, F. M. Cockrell, John N. Simpson and Alfred Davis. Officers: Geo. W. Toland, presi- dent; B. A. Pope, vice-president; A. H.
Stewart, secretary; L. R. Bergeron, treasurer; Officers for 1888-'89: Geo. W. Toland, president; B. A. Pope, vice-president; A. II. Stewart, secretary and treasurer.
Officers for 1889-'90: J. L. O'Connor, president; B. W. McCullongh, vice-president; A. H. Stewart, secretary and treasurer.
Officers for 1890-'91: J. C. Connor, presi- dent; W. J. Porter, viec-president; A. Il. Stuart, secretary and treasurer.
Officers for 1891-'92: J. C. O'Connor, president; W. Enders, vice-president; A. II. Stuart, secretary and treasurer.
Officers for 1892-93: Win. Enders, president; L. S. Thorne, vice-president; A. H. Stuart, secretary and treasurer.
SOCIETY OF SUICIDES.
As a social curiosity, we may mention that according to the Chicago Herald of July 17, 1892, which had over a page, illustrated, de- voted to the subject, Dallas has an organiza- tion calling itself the Society of Suicides, or something like that, at the head of which stood one M. A. Collins as president. This man went to Chicago a year or so previously, met with a railroad accident which injured his brain, lost all his money in "board of trade" (gambling) speculation, committed suicide by taking poison and shooting himself, and was cre. mated, according to his written will (which, by the way, was a contradictory instrument), under the most weird and frightful surround- ings, at the dead of night, in the deep, wild woods at the head of Lake Michigan, and under great pomp and ceremony and speech-making, by
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an order ealled the Whitechapel. Collins had a sort of mysterious and cheekered life, distinguished himself somewhat by writing a pamphlet in defense of dancing, in answer to Sam Jones' challenge, and by publishing other artieles, etc.
HEBREW ORGANIZATIONS.
Ahavath Sholom Lodge, No. 346, I. O. B. B., was organized January 13, 1884. Present membership, 55.
The Congregation of Emanu-El was organ- ized September 30, 1875. Membership, 125.
Dallas Lodge, No. 197, 1. O. B. B., organ- ized in November, 1874. Membership, 110.
Emann-El, Ladies' Auxiliary Society, or- ganized 1888. Membership, 150.
Hebrew Benevolent Association, organized in 1871. Membership, 150.
Jacob Frees Lodge, No. 101, order of Berith Abraham, organized November 27, 1887. Membership 40.
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Association, or- ganized 1876. Membership, 100.
Ladies' Orthodox Benevolent Association, organized 1887. Membership, 35.
Lone Star Lodge, No. 97, I. O. F. S. of I., organized August 3, 1879. Membership, 53.
Lone Star Lodge, No. 162, O. K. S. B. Membership, 56.
Phoenix Club, organized in 1880; chartered 1882; membership, 83.
Progressive Literary Association, organized May 8, 1887. Membership, 15.
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
Cigarmaker's Local Union, No. 262, or- ganized 1882. Membership, 24.
Dallas Lodge, No. 46, Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, organized August 13, 1887. Membership, 100.
Dallas Saddle and Harness Makers' Union, No. 18, organized May 19, 1889. Member- ship, 110.
Loeal Union, No. 198, United Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, organized July, 1886. Membership, 300.
Loeal Union No. 622, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, organ- ized May 29, 1890. Membership, 120.
Stone Cutters' Association, meets second and fourth Tuesday nights.
Building Laborers' International Protective Union, No. 1, Texas (colored), meets every Saturday night.
Carpenters' District Council, meets first and third Tuesday nights. .
Dallas Branch of American Federation of Labor, meets first and third Sundays of each mouth.
Dallas Eight Hour League, meets every Sunday afternoon.
Loeal Assembly No. 1931, Knights of Labor, meets every Thursday night.
Lecal Assembly No. 4,125, Knights of Labor (colored), meets every Monday night.
The last seven mentioned meet at Labor Hall, over 396 Elm street.
THIE BUCKNER ORPHANS' 110ME.
This most noble institution was established in 1880 by the Rev. R. C. Buekner, D. D., and took its name after its founder and pro- meter. It was first opened in a rented house in the eity of Dallas, with but three children.
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It soon became known, however, and the number of applicants for admittance became numerous. The founder, foreseeing the great future for his noble work, effected a purehase of 308 acres of land six miles east of the city, ont on a high platean of prairie, con- venient however to a strip of the eross tim- bers. To this place he moved the home, where there is fresh air, play-grounds for the children, and land for cultivation. The in- mates at the home now number 225, and when the buildings will have all been com- pleted there will be accommodations for 600.
Dr. Buckner, its founder, a true Christian gentleman of high enlture and noble ehar- aeter, has been indefatigable in his efforts in building up this institution, and deserves much honor for so doing. Beloved by all who know him, he, in his unassuming, hum- ble life, has gone on quietly doing his work of good until he has caught the attention of the public generally, and liberal contributions are voluntarily made to aid him in promoting the interest of this philanthropic institution. While the president is a Baptist minister, and the institution has a board of directors consisting of Baptist ministers, still it is undenominational in its teachings. The in- mates of this institution have the advantage of being taught the common branches of education by a well qualified corps of teachers as well as being trained for practical business life in various fields of labor. The property now owned by this institution is valued at the handsome sum of $40,000, and all ac-
cumulated since 1880 by this admired phil- anthropist, Dr. R. C. Buckner, who is still manager and president.
ST. MARY'S INSTITUTE.
Situated about two miles northeast of the city of Dallas, on a beautiful rolling prairie hill, on a plat of twenty acres, is this young but rather famous educational institution, established in 1889, for the education of girls and young ladies. It was established by the Rt. Rev. Mr. Garrett, Bishop of the Northern District of Texas, of the Protestant Episco- pal Church. While this school is under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church, it is controlled by Bishop Garrett and the following Board of Trust, viz :
Hon. Richard Morgan, attorney at law, Dallas, Texas.
Judge A. T. Watts, attorney at law, Dal- las, Texas.
Hon. George Jackson, capitalist, Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr. E. H. Lingo, merchant, Denison, Texas.
Mr. J. T. Berry, merchant, Brookston, Texas.
Mr. F. W. Girand, district clerk, Graham, Texas.
The following is taken from the catalogue for 1891-'92:
" St. Mary's Institute is founded for the education of Christian women. Its purpose is to surround the children committed to its care with the quiet and dignified influence of a Christian home; to furnish their minds with sound knowledge, to mold their manners
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with gentle grace; to strengthen their bodies by the aid of regular hours, suitable exercise and sufficient but simple food; and above all, in humble dependence npon the Divine blessing, to influence their hearts by the holy teaching of Christianity as revealed in Scripture and preserved in the church.
" Religion, equally removed from super- stition and bigotry, affords the healthy atmos- phere in which the best type of womanhood is grown; this, St. Mary's is designed to supply."
The building, five stories high, constructed of fine stone, on its elevated situation, pre- sents a very striking and imposing appear- ance. It was built with the design of accom- modating one hundred boarders, and is heated by steam and lighted by electricity through- out. The cost of erecting the building, and including furniture, amounted to $100,000, which was raised by Bishop Garrett in his travels through the State of Texas and other States, preaching, and presenting the neces- sity of a first-class educational institution of this character, to be conducted under the aus- pices of the church. The ground, twenty acres in extent, on which the building is erected, was donated for the purpose of founding this institution.
The patronage of this college has been equal to the expectations of all concerned, and the city with pride refers to it as one of the best schools for young ladies in the State.
The following is the present faculty: The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Northern Texas, Principal and Rector. Academic Department
-Miss Maria K. Torbert, head of the house, history and literature; Miss Eleanor Tebbetts, ancient languages, advanced mathematics, logic and ethics; Miss Ellen E. Creswell, English letters, rhetoric and composition; Miss Theresa Gertrude Williamson, natural science; Miss Minna Kupper, modern lan- guages; Miss Sarah Cameron, elocution, com- position and calisthenics. Preparatory De- partment-Miss Ersula Fitzpatrick, study hall, history and English classics; Miss Fran- ces Kallam, English branches and elementary science. Primary Department-Miss Edith Hughesdon. School of Music, Instrumental -Miss Margaret Ida Bayer, principal; Miss Anna Margaret Kreutter, assistant; Professor Hans Kreissig, pianist. School of Music, Vocal-Miss Minnie Royall, vocal culture and tone production. School of Art-Miss Rachel Taylor; librarian, Miss Hughesdon ; housekeeper, Mrs. Charlotte S. Cowles; in- firinary, Mrs. Mary Frink; physician, Law- rence Ashton, M. D.
TEXAS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
This institution was chartered in 1892, with L. Myers Connor, W. F. Shook, C. N. Clauber, J. L. Williams, J. A. Rippitoe and R. Cotter,-all druggists of Dallas, as direc- tors. It was instituted and chartered through the efforts of L. Myers Connor, an able and distinguished chemist who always takes great interest in pharmacy or any enterprise that tends toward the advancement of this science in Texas, where he has lived since childhood. He organized the first pharma-
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centical association, in Texas in 1879, and it is now a very large association, having al- most every pharmacist of the State as a mem- ber. Of this association he was elected the first president. He was the editor of the first drug journal in the State. This talented and brilliant young scientist is a graduate of the St. Lonis (Missouri) College of Pharmacy, re- ceiving, in 1874, the degree of Ph. G. Ilis eminence and superior qualifications as a chemist has been recognized by the greatest chemists of Europe and America in his being elected a Fellow of the Royal Chemical So- eiety of England, and a member of the Amer- ican Pharmaceutical Association. The phar- macists of Texas have honored him. He was sent as representative of the Texas State Pharmacentic Association to the American Pharmaceutic Association at Old Point Com- fort, Virginia, in 1890. Lately he was selected by the American Pharmacentic As- sociation as one of the representatives of the Southern States in the section of pharmacy at the American Medical Association which convenes in Detroit, Michigan, in the com- ing fall. He will be director of the Chem- ical Laboratory, and will fill the chair of chemistry in this college.
With such men as Dr. Connor to till the other chairs, this college will be a great in- stitution for Texas. The charter provides for the location of this college to be in Dal - las, and Doctor Connor, assisted by the affa- ble, congenial and talented Dr. II. D. Rice, a druggist, who is at present engaged in Dr. Connor's drug store, at the corner of Elin
and Harwood streets, is making preparations to open this college at an early date. The course of study will embrace chemistry, phar- macy, materia medica and microscopic botany.
THE PRESS-THE DALLAS NEWS.
In 1842 A. II. Belo & Co., of Galveston, established the Galveston News, and so great was the demand for this superior daily in the northern portion of the State that a branch of the institution was established in Dallas in 1885 by the said company, upon terms that involved the discontinuance of the Dallas Morning Herald, then a daily with but lim- ited capital.
The circulation of the Dallas News has be- come so extensive that this branch has to all appearances become the fountain head. The company gives to the people, in addition to the Galveston News,-which is still hold- ing its remarkable patronage,-one of the most successful and newsy dailies in the Sonth. Each branch also issues a weekly, which has an extensive patronage among the farmers especially.
The daily edition of the Dallas News com- prises eight or ten pages on week days and sixteen to twenty pages on Sunday. This includes respectively thirty-five and seventy- five columns of reading matter. It is printed on a new Seymour-Brewer inset press, with a capacity of 24,000 copies an hour, of four six or eight page paper, or 12,000 an hour of a ten, twelve or sixteen page paper.
The Dallas News is circulated principally over the northern, eastern and western por-
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tions of the State, and in the Indian Terri- tory and adjoining States and Territories. While this is its chief territory it also has an extensive circulation in all the Southern States.
The enterprise exhibited by this live news- paper company is shown by their two special newspaper trains in north Texas and one in south Texas, sent out especially to deliver the News from Dallas and Galveston every morning, leaving abont four o'clock over the principal lines of railroads, reaching to the most populous sections of the State.
These early trains are run with sneh regu- larity and with such rapid speed that all the towns within sixty and 100 miles distance from Dallas receives the News on the morn- ing of publication before breakfast.
These two divisions-Galveston News and Dallas News, are so connected by special telegraph wires leased and operated exclu- sively by this company that a perfect and smooth interchange of news is effected. The Galveston News with its special train thus delivers its publication over southern Texas while the Dallas News covers northern Texas.
The officers of this enterprising company are: A. Il. Belo, president, who shows great ability in selecting men; R. G. Lowe, vice- president; and Thomas W. Dealey, secretary. F. Doreins is managing editor of the Dallas News; and a more able, gifted and talented gentleman for this position could not be found. It is largely owing to this brilliant young gentleman's superior ability as the managing
editor that the Dallas News now holds her reputation as one of the greatest newspapers in America.
G. B. Dealy, the business manager, is also a very superior and thorough man in his position and the two work together as a com- plete team.
THE DAILY TIMES-HERALD.
This is an evening daily established and published by the Times Publishing Company, a corporation with $20,000 capital. C. E. Gilbert, its president and secretary, is most certainly a gentleman of talent as a news- paper journalist. lle has built up in this paper one of the most substantial and newsy evening papers in the Southwest.
It is a consolidation of two newspapers, as its name indicates,-of the Times and the Herald. The Times was started in 1875, and edited and controlled for a long time by Cap- tain W. G. Sterrett. Mr. Gilbert bought out Captain Sterrett and his associates, and under his control and editorship this evening daily has become one of the most eagerly sought after of all papers of the kind in the South. Its cirenlation is remarkably large for an evening paper. It is but right to state its present popularity is also due to ability and talent displayed by Mr. Gilbert's splendid corps of assistants especially to the facetious writer Mr. Hugh Fitzgerald, and his talented wife, who is the society editor. They have labored untiringly and with pride, with the proprie- tor, to build up this paper, and have certainly succeeded.
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