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(I)IMttU recruitlllg UUtUCIV n.*» iff lliru a5c# wn^uonly palliated in this instance by the condition in which the party had been, though he had the appear-r» ! ance of being sober when enlisted, said that the case must turn upon the fact whether he was a minor and wished to avoid Ins contract, and on these grounds or-] dered tli.it he he discharged. B. F. Hallett for thecomplainant, C. L. Woodbury for the respondent.Divorced—In the Supreme Judicial Court, yesterday, Thomas Dunn whs divorced from Sarah G. Dunn, E. A. Dana for libellant. No appearance fordefendant.Examination on a Charge of Cruelty to a Seaman.—Fordice D. Haskell and Willi tin I*. Bright-man, master and tirst mate of the whaling ship Mercury, of New Bedford, were brought before B. F.Hallett, U. S. commissioner, on Friday, upon a complaint of George Tomlinson, of Bangor, Maine, a seaman on board the Mercury, under the 31 section of the act of 1835, for beating and wounding him, when on the North West Coast, in June, 184b.The complainant and two of the seamen testified, substantially, that the hands were called on deck one afternoon, when at supper lorward. That the mate
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Wed, Feb 23, 1848
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