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The Inequalities of Fortune SitQ strongly illustrated in the following paragraph from 1 the English correspondence of the New t York Eveniifg Post : jThe recent -‘drawing-room” at which ^ Wales ai)(I wife represented to Queen, ^ was the first held since the death of Pfince Albert, and one of tlie most luilliant known ; but there was a fearful skeleton at the feast, and the elegant ladies there have been startled to iind blood upon tludr ( garments. A sewing girl, employed by \ one of the fashionable dressmakers, was j killed by overwork on dresses ordered for { that very drawingroom. The papers took\up the matter, and the revelation in the . Mary Ann Walkley case—with whichyour readers are probably familiar—have 1 created a wide-spread excitement. The ' whole London season of 1SG3 has been 1 overdone. It ha3 been more awfully in- | { congrous than the splendor of Paris last j ( winter. Millions of pounds have been j ^ spent in brilliant gaiety and courtly ban- ^ qucts, and yet I heard a Lancashire opera- j tive say this very week to a relieving officer: “I would rating throw myself into the canal than to see my children starving slowly to dealh any longer; isn’t it hard to see a child starved to death V* raising as lie spoke, tlie sheet which covered the sharp peaked features of a dead,starved little boy.
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Milledgeville Confederate Union
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Tue, Aug 25, 1863
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