A good book binder can find immediate and constant employment at this office.
This fine weather is like Mrs. Southworth's tales, getting very tiresome and long.
Yesterday our streets presented a busy appearance. A good many farmers were in, and quite a number of country merchants, replenishing their stocks.
If some of our citizens who are largely interested in real estate would build a few tenements to rent to families who represent the industrial force in this community, they would spend money in the right direction. Thirty good residences could find tenants to-day in this city.
Our market presents a gratifying fullness to the eye, but when the pocket is brought to bear upon the scene, we find an "aching void" in our purses.
GIVE US RAIN. -- We beseech thee, most lachrymose clerk of the weather, to give us an outpouring of thy spirit. Open the flood-gates of the firmament and let the waters fall, for the "sun-cracked earth is dry even to brittleness. Be not lukewarm in thy bounty, but let the accumulated drops of months drench us in showers.
