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t*3ome months ago all the prisoners in the Dayton, Ohio, jail made tbeir escape. Among them was an iugenious, but dishonest, person named Joseph McKinney, who has not been retaken, though several of his companions were captured He went to Cincinnati, whence he wrote to the Dayton jailor an affectionate letter of remembrance and conhdcuec, and sent his love to the people of the city which he was obliged to quit. Since then nothing was heard of him until be turnsd up in New Madison, Indiana, where he had been delighting large and fashionable audiences by lectures on his “Travels in the Holy Laud.” He so thoroughly gammoned the innocent people of New Madison that he was invited by the professors of the college to repeat his lectures blt; fore their students. Unfor-tunately, a miniou of the law wus looking out for the Oriental traveller, and he was |iobliged to conclude his course of lectures C # » I rather precipitately, in order to escape.
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US

Mon, Apr 18, 1859

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