Volume IV Part 23 (1/2)

FENCING EXHIBITION,

at which several amateurs will be present, and during which they will play the Small-Sword, Cut-and-Thrust, Broad-Sword, and Cudgel or Cane Fighting; to close with a Duel between Messrs. T. & G., who will at first fight with Sabres, and afterwards with Small-Swords, until one of the parties falls weltering in blood.

The Exhibition will be on FRIDAY, the 30th inst., at 7 o'clock P.M., at the Military School, Was.h.i.+ngton Hall, Court street.

_Terms of admission, One Dollar._

Tickets to be had at Mr. Crombie's Salem Hotel, and at Mr.

Tucker's Sun-Tavern. June 23.

_Ess.e.x Register._

Something like the stylographic pen was advertised in 1825 in Salem.

_The self-supplying_

Pocket Writing Instrument,

OR

Scheffer's Patent Penograph.

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THE merit of this Instrument is that it contains Ink, and supplies itself as required, by which means the writer is enabled to use it for 10 or 12 hours with the same ease as with a pencil, without the aid of an Inkstand; and is manufactured in Gold or Silver, either with or without a pencil case, and so constructed that either a Metallic or Quill Nib may be applied. For sale by

June 24 [1825]. J.R. BUFFUM.

A ”caravan” of 1824.

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A CARAVAN OF

LIVING ANIMALS

Is now exhibiting at the Ess.e.x Coffee House, in this town.

AMONG the Animals are the following:--

The African Lion.

The beautiful spotted Lama, from the Coast of Peru.

The Mammoth Ox, 6 years old, 18 hands high, 16 feet in length, and raised in Chenango county, State of New York. He is well worthy the attention of the public.