The Olden Time Series Volume IV Part 9

The following notice of the Bradford Academy from the "Salem Gazette"

reminds us of the days of small prices,--"Tuition $3," or "$3.50 to those who paint and embroider"!

_Bradford Academy._

THE Female Apartment in Bradford Academy, half a mile from Haverhill Bridge, will be opened the first Wednesday in May, under the direction of approved instructors. The Male Apartment will be continued as usual. Young Masters and Misses will be instructed by such as are a.s.signed to their respective Apartments, in all the branches. .h.i.therto taught in that or in any other Academy. The preceptor will spend less time than usual in the female apartment, and the preceptress will have an a.s.sistant. The price of tuition, except those who paint and embroider, will be three dollars a quarter. To those who paint and embroider, three dollars and fifty cents. Very particular attention will be paid to inculcate virtuous sentiments and preserve the moral character of the scholars.

Bradford, April 9, 1805.

Husbands often advertise wives, but it is seldom that a wife publicly refuses to pay her husband's debts, as according to the following announcement from the "Salem Gazette," Mistress Sarah Brooks did. This was before the days of "women's rights," too.

THE Subscriber being apprehensive that her Husband, JOHN BROOKS, will contract debts on her account--this is to forbid any person trusting him on her account, as she will not satisfy any debt so contracted after this date--altho my compa.s.sion for him is such, that he shall not want for any thing I can help him to--knowing him to be a poor, forlorn young man. I cannot but pity his condition, and sincerely hope he will alter his way of life for the better--tear jealousy from his heart--bury in oblivion his unhappy temper--and take up a firm resolution, that he will turn from the error of his ways, to a better course of life, become a good citizen, a friend to his wife and children, and not hearken any more to his supposed friends (tho greatest enemies)--this is the sincere wish of the Subscriber.

SARAH BROOKS.

_Marblehead, March 27, 1793._

In the "Salem Gazette," Oct. 8, 1793, Frederick Jordis complains of "a certain greedy wors.h.i.+pper of Plutus."

WHEREAS a certain greedy wors.h.i.+pper of Plutus has attempted (canker worm like) to blast the tender bloom of my reputation, by misrepresenting an occurrence that took place between us on the third inst.--I take this method, as the most salutary remedy, to put a stop to its dangerous ravages. I will confess candidly every particular. Sometime since, this man came to me with an account I had in vain demanded of him 4 months ago for horse-hire; having compared it with my own memorandum, I found three charges over and above what I owed him, and the remainder a third higher than usual; finding him unwilling to diminish his unjust claim, I repaired to his house last Thursday to settle with him, and paid him in full the amount of his bill, subtraction made of his three charges: Perceiving his intention was to make me pay them again, I pocketed the bill; his pugilistick arguments to get it back again made me obstinately refuse it; and thanks to a gentleman then present, I escaped his dirty hands. Unwilling to enter the field of Themis with such an antagonist, I will place his receipted account into any impartial man's hands, and submit cheerfully to his decision.

FREDERICK JORDIS.

To show how factories were supplied with operatives in the early days of manufacturing in New England, we copy an advertis.e.m.e.nt from the "Columbian Centinel," March 4, 1795. This is addressed especially to those parents "who can ill afford to maintain their children." How much better off our manufacturing towns would be if such a system were practicable now!

_An exceeding good opportunity for parents_ (in these very expensive times for every necessary of life) _to provide their children with good and comfortable maintenance, cloathing, schooling, and a trade, but little known and understood in this country._

MR. ERVING proposes to receive as Apprentices to the Cotton & Woolen Manufactory (now going on at New-Haven) any number of Boys or Girls, from the age of ten to fourteen. They will be instructed in all the various branches of the factory, well cloathed and fed, and taught to read, write and cypher; and parents may be a.s.sured that the most particular attention will be paid to the morals, as well as to the education, of their children.

Those who can but ill afford to maintain their children, have now an opportunity of binding them to a trade which must, in a few years, be peculiarly beneficial to them and advantageous to their country.

MR. ERVING will thank those that have an inclination to put their children out, to call on him, at his house, No. 42 Marlborough-street, Boston, where they can be more particularly informed of the nature of the factory, and the advantages which must eventually accrue to their children from a general knowledge of this useful branch of business.

March 4, 1795.

_THE following lines were written in the Shop of the Subscriber, by a son of St. Crispin, viewing with contempt the tyrannical and oppressive disposition of a Man who has threat'ned vengeance on his neighbour's business, because the article he deals in is_ SHOES.

Salem, 9th Mo. 6th, 1801.

Oh Shame! that Man a Dog should imitate, And only live, his fellow Man to hate.

An envious Dog, once in a manger lay, And starv'd himself, to keep an Ox from hay, Altho' thereof he could not eat-- Yet if the Ox was starv'd, to him 'twas sweet.

His neighbor's comfort thus for to annoy, Altho' thereby he did his own destroy.

Oh! Man, such actions from the page erase, And from thy breast malicious envy CHACE.

-->_Twenty per Cent was struck off at one clip, from those kind of Shoes, which are mostly worn. It is fifteen months since the Shoe War commenced._

J. MANSFIELD, 3d.

A general a.s.sortment of Shoes for Sale as usual, at a living profit.

_Salem Register._

_Appropriate Mourning._

IN consequence of the late afflicting event of the death of the much lamented General _Hamilton_, TUCKER & THAYER will sell their black ITALIAN c.r.a.pE at the reduced price of one dollar per yard 4-4 wide:--

"_G.o.d takes the_ Good, _too good on earth to stay_, "_And leaves the_ Bad, _too bad to take away!_"

_Columbian Centinel_, July 25, 1804.

Bad effects of the abolition of slavery in Providence, R.I.

_From the Providence Gazette._

Messrs. Printers,

You will oblige a number of your customers, by publis.h.i.+ng the following advertis.e.m.e.nt in the next Gazette.

_Five Hundred Dollars Reward._

Was mislaid, or taken away by mistake (soon after the formation of the Abolition Society) from the Servant Girls of this town, all inclination to do any kind of work;--and left in lieu thereof, an impudent appearance, a strong and continued thirst for high wages, a gossiping disposition for all sorts of amus.e.m.e.nt, a leering and hankering after persons of the other s.e.x, a desire of finery and fas.h.i.+on, a never ceasing trot after new places more advantageous for stealing--with number of contingent accomplishments that do not suit the wearers. Now if any person or persons will restore to the owners that degree of Honesty and Industry, which has been for some time missing, he or they shall receive the reward of Five Hundred Dollars, beside the warmest blessings of many abused and insulted

HOUSEHOLDERS.

_Providence, Oct. 14, 1796._

Parents in Boston cautioned against thorn-apples in "Columbian Centinel,"

Oct. 26, 1793.

_CAUTION!_

THE Inspector of Police, respectfully makes known to Parents and others, that of late, several children have very much injured themselves, by eating the seeds of Stramonium, or Thorn-Apple, commonly called Devil's Apple; who must inevitably have died, had they not been speedily relieved by Emetics, &c. As those bushes are in several parts of the town, it would be well, if they were destroyed.