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The San Francisco Daily Morning Call, August 27, 1864

 

MORE HAWAIIAN DONATIONS. - To-day, Messrs. McRuer & Merrill will sell at auction, for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission, eighteen half barrels Hawaiian sugar, and one barrel of Sandwich Island tamarinds, the same being a donation from Parker N. Makee, a son of Captain Makee, of Sanitary molasses fame. The contribution was imported free of freightage, duty, or other charges, and is to be sold free of commissions. Let bidders manifest the same liberal spirit which has actuated the donor of this sugar, and those through whose hands it has since passed.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2]

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WHO LOST "EVANGELINE?" - Some time before daylight yesterday morning, the Police found a large oil painting of Longfellow's "Evangeline," all cut and slashed to pieces with a knife, and lying in the gutter in Powell street. The picture -- which was not well executed, until it was done with that knife -- is about three feet by two and a half in size, and is set in a heavy gilt frame, elaborately carved and is marked on the back, "From Goupil & Co., artists, colormen and print sellers, 366 Broadway, New York." There has probably been a row among some women somewhere, and the destruction of this picture has been the result. Poor Evangeline looks more dilapidated and melancholy than even the poet was able to make her. She is at the Chief's office. Who does she belong to?

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 2]

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THE FORLORN HOPE. - Judge Shepheard's recruits, for yesterday consisted of thirty-three subjects, brought in for various moral defections; fifteen had tarried at the wine cup; five had committed misdemeanors; four were up for assault and battery; five for grand larceny; and four for scattering, as they say at elections.

[transcribed from microfilm, p. 3]

 

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