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PORTLAND GAZETTE, AND MAINE ADVERTISER
Portland, Published by Arthur Shirley… Exchange Street.
Monday, September 3, 1810
MISCELLANEOUS
The celebrators of the battle of Bennington, forgot to toast the Hon. Mr. Adams. — This was ingratitude, as he has proved himself full as zealous, as they possibly can be, to keep alive the revolutionary prejudices against England. "In War enemies — in Peace friends" — was once thought a magnanimous sentiment of political morality; but times are changed, and with them, it should seem, justice and liberality.
The population of Salem, by the census, just completed, is 12,000 souls.
A MODEST "GENIUS"
A man who has thought out many inventions, advertising for a partner in a late paper, announces himself as "a man of genius," as well as of great mechanical powers. Is not this the first man who ever came boldly out, and told the world, in so many words, I AM A MAN OF GENIUS?
LOCAL NEWS
The person who called himself Walsingham, who lately run off with the wife and child of a post-master in the State of New York, was arrested in Virginia, and has since put an end to his existence, after destroying all his papers and clothes, and disfiguring his face to prevent a discovery of his real name and family. He has left one paper on the subject of his conduct, written in a distinguished hand.
Sudden Death — At a ball, in Bennington, Vermont, on the evening of the 16th inst. a young lady, before in perfect health, fell dead while performing a figure of the dance.
(Troy Gazette)
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