entral and Front streets, where
they can purchase at very low prices, and warranted of the
first quality. ALSO,

Spanish, half Spanish and common

CIGARS,

Cavendish, Ladies' Twist, Pigtail, and all kinds of
Manufactured

TOBACCO,

wholesale and retail.

WM. MICKLEFIELD.

Salem, Jan. 18, 1827. tf

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From the "Salem Mercury," Nov. 25, 1788.

S. Breck, Esq. member of the House of Representatives for
Boston, appears in his seat with a complete suit of American
manufactured broadcloth, of an elegant colour.

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About 1787 and 1788, spinning-wheel meetings seem to have been very
popular. We copy notices of meetings of young ladies in Attleboro',
Dighton, Gloucester, Rehoboth, Mass., and Providence and Johnston, R.I.,
all from the "Salem Mercury."

ATTLEBORO', _June 20_. Yesterday, 63 respectable young
ladies, belonging to this town, asslembled, at 2 o'clock,
P.M. at the house of Mr. Daniel Balkum, and, to the surprise
and great satisfaction of all the friends to industry, spun,
before sunset, 199 skeins of excellent linen yarn. Industry
is the genuine source of all laudable pleasure. On it depend
all the conveniences of life. Health, the greatest of
blessings, depends on industry--beauty, on health. If
ladies, then, wish to be beautiful, they must be
industrious; they must animate their countenances with that
blooming health which comes from the SPINNING-WHEEL. The
fair sex, when rightly and industriously employed, are
justly termed the beauty of this lower creation. Beauty
without virtue is contemptible. Merit only gains the heart.
Idleness is disgraceful. Industry is the ornament of wealth,
the support and consolation of poverty. We hope soon to see
the time, when the fair daughters of America will be clothed
in the manufactures of their own hands. Happy are we, that
some have already set the example. May it never be said,
that American ladies rise 15 minutes later than the sun. May
they ever have thread enough in their hands to make a halter
for a Shays.

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On Tuesday last, thirteen young ladies assembl