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n it in gel the rroster are all Otrt, is line,NG.10* TUI STAR.Ladies Fair at Bristol, R. I., July 4,18334^ The ladies of the Fpiscopul and Congregational Societies, in Bristol, united to get up a 'air, for the purpose of furnishing the new Episcopal Church, now in building—and for promoting the Missionary cause. Tho Masonic hall, in which the Fair was held, wasdocorated with great taste and elegance ; —and the tables abundantly cohered with articles,dispose ofi In behallboth useful and ornamental. Every thing was conducted and went oil*through the whole day in theraplain-es, theopprts-eir poll t of the I but 6 ud 12 f hard ffey as I'welve fifty or e BOO, i taxes, en dol-tax ori ir taste y coru-h price jut let ves theBrils/, P. 8. 1 an interest iug to learn ble to state Association preparation live of the sixty-four c♦It luts tThe subi ceipt of 30 i Missionary tute him a li Society : a same Social constitute h Society, an her of the 1 Foreign Mil sums has blt;mountsI I Q VV, , • best spirit of good feeling and kindness. The en-le that L r * . . . , .lies are ‘ *ra,,c4 ,non®y» amounting to one hundred andr foualcen dollars, was eoually divided between the ries ol . * ,two Societies; the tables in the hall,—four beiugset oli' to each Society,—were appropriated to their respective occupants. The Episcopal tablet produced no aggregate of tliree hundred and fourteen dollars, making in the whole, tliree hundred and seveuty-one dollars. The Congregational tables, one hundred and fifty-three dollars; making iu the whole, two hundred and ten dollars. l oo much praise cannot be awarded to the ladies of both Societies, for their zeal, industry, skill, and perseverance, in this laudable undertaking. Where all rereofthem did so well, it isdiihcult to select instances of tndi- according tc viduul excellence ;—but we cannot refrain from May the ble mentioning the names of Mrs. Scott Green, and on them, nr .Mrs. Starkweather ; as particularly distinguished their aflecti by their untiring energy, and ceaseless activity, in ■ increase his preparing for, and conducting to its closo, this useful and interesting exhibition.A SPECTATOR.Bristol, July 5, a833.P. S. The most interesting incident, at the Fair was,—that Benjamin Mott, a boy of Bristol, blind from infancy, and duiing the Inst three months, an inmate of the “ .Veto Ert jland Institu.ion fo the blind,'' at Boston; as his contribution, had sent *i Mat, the first fruit of Ins own manual labor. This mat was exceedingly well made; it was set up, aud bid oil, thru scvc.al times ; until, at length, it was purchased for twenty dollars, and given to St. Michael’# Church, for the use ef the Vestry-room.npet.Mes-throws The ivilh a taken of 20 at thin,prayers, an Pastora ex-ICT T1 sertion in oiThe ur having h( Calvin most scat sense of i declare tl presentee the shadeporta,amter of the
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Northern Star and Farmers and Mechanics Advocate
Warren, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Jul 13, 1833
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