Republican BEEF.
The ſubſcriber reſpectfully informs the citizens of Hartford, that he has purchaſed the fatteſt OX and COW perhaps in Connecticut, which will be killed and ready for ſale for the enſuing Election, at a low price for the times. Thoſe who wiſh to purchaſe real good Beef, will pleaſe to apply to
WILLIAM BROWN.
April 28, 1794.
Connecticut Courant.
Nantucket wit and humor on the 4th of July, in the year 1829.
A Grand Touch. The last Nantucket Inquirer contains the following advertisement:—
At the sign of the Eastern Pine,
Where the red and the white combine.
John Peters, a descendant of the famous English Divine, Hugh Peters, informs all the tidy citizens of Nantucket, that Apollo and the Graces came over in the last packet, and have taken up their abode at the corner of Pearl and Water streets. He officiates as high Priest in their temple, where it is his delightful task to adorn the outward man, to shave off excrescences, and trim into proportion the shrubbery which nature has reared around the headpieces of mankind.—By a judicious application of the scissors of discrimination, the soap of good nature, the brush of reform, and the razor of decision, he expects to bring about results which, like powers of the Steam Engine are, as yet, only dreamed of. The grace of the Athenian beau and the dignity of the Roman senator shall be so intermingled in the grand contour of all who submit to his touch, that the toute ensemble cannot fail to kindle love and command respect.