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In the second encounter, Messrs. Gaston and Hawkins were drawn together. For a time the match was too much in the former's favor to be exciting, but towards the end Mr. Hawkins showed signs of improvement. Mr. Gaston, however, easily won the bout.
ONE hundred years ago, Westchester County, from Byram River to Williams Bridge, was the famous Neutral Ground, the scene of Cooper's Spy and the favorite haunts of the Cow-boys and Skinners. The Cow-boys were British; the Skinners, American skirmishers. Occasionally these gentlemen would have an encounter, but...
The officers may be, it is true, overwhelmed by complaints which are poured into their ears by individuals, but in this way the opinion of the majority cannot be ascertained, and no means are provided for the officers to report to us the difficulties that they have to encounter, or...
Leaving the bright-roofed city of Quebec, the steamboat takes us down the St. Lawrence to Tadousac, one of the oldest French settlements in Canada. Here we transfer our provisions and rods to the smaller boat which plies between the mouth of the Saguenay and Ha-Ha Bay, - a charming...
What difficulties the Company had to encounter at Springfield, and with what energy they pushed their scheme forward, must be apparent to all who have read the Old and New, of October, or the Globe for June 9. To the pioneers in this novel scheme the College owes hearty thanks...