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Joseph White was nabbed yesterday for attacking a German, at 1 o'clock in the morning, and robbing him
Edwin Williams, of much fame in "Registers" and statistics, for the office of Register of the county.
I have written one to Mr Brown and William Devoe and (as Walter said in his last letter) I shall write
Flowers of every description were on some of the tombs, large white roses and red ones too were all along
While I write, the snow is falling; so softly, so softly, come its pure white flakes!
come before these potent, grave and reverend signors, is that of the admission, on equal terms with whites
Ex-Commissioner overleaps the mark in his fury, and charges too much on his extensively abused Excellency of the White
White, T.
White, who were members of the Irish Directory in New York.
Among the late improvements of New York, may be particularly mentioned the long-talked-of widening of William
valuable structures, Clinton Hall among the rest; so they thought to draw off some of the travel into William
the houses (in the verg middle of the Jew clothing quarter) in Chatham street, to make the exit of William
At the clothing stores along Maiden Lane, Park Row, and William and Fulton streets, (nor forgetting our
William street it building up from Chatham street where it now opens, inward; the rubbish is not yet
The widening and repaving of William street, has led, (how, I do not know,) to raising the grade of Frankfort
and earth (particular earth) for a revocation of the sentence on the amorous Bishop, and a general white-washing
Just beyond, glimpses of it appearing through the trees, shows the dirty white of the City Hall; Justice
was among those who helped save the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the burning White