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    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts
    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts
    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts
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    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3 - Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England

      Sunday, by Henry M. Brooks

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday

      Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts

      Author: Henry M. Brooks

      Release Date: January 9, 2006 [EBook #17483]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLDEN TIME SERIES ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES: NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY

      A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY

      THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.

      16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.

      There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of Ye Olden Time, and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—

          Curiosities of the Old Lottery.

          Days of the Spinning-Wheel.

          Some Strange and Curious Punishments.

          Quaint and Curious Advertisements.

          Literary Curiosities.

          New-England Sunday, etc.

      It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form.—Salem Gazette.

      For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free.

      TICKNOR & CO., Boston.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

      NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY

      "Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."—Longfellow.

      "What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay."—Emerson.

      "There are some moody fellows, not a few,

      Who, turn'd by Nature with a gloomy bias,

      Renounce black devils to adopt the blue,

      And think when they are dismal they are pious."

      Hood.

      "Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime

      'Tis angel's music."

      Herbert.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.

      GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON

      AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

      SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

      BY

      HENRY M. BROOKS

      New-England Sunday

      Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.—Emerson

      BOSTON

      TICKNOR AND COMPANY

      1886

      Copyright, 1886,

      By Ticknor and Company.

      All rights reserved.

      University Press:

      John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

      INDEX OF NAMES.

      NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.

      Seeing in an old paper that General Washington was stopped by a tythingman in Connecticut in 1789 for the crime of riding on Sunday, we were naturally led to think about the Sabbath question, as it is sometimes called. We find the account referred to in the Columbian Centinel for December, 1789.

      THE PRESIDENT AND THE TYTHINGMAN.

      The Preſident, on his return to New-York from his late tour, through Connecticut, having miſſed his way on Saturday, was obliged to ride a few miles on Sunday morning, in order to gain the town, at which he had previouſly propoſed to have attended divine ſervice.—Before he arrived, however, he was met by a Tythingman, who commanding him to ſtop, demanded the occaſion of his riding; and it was not until the Preſident had informed him of every circumſtance, and promiſed to go no further than the town intended, that the Tythingman would permit him to proceed on his journey.

      This Sunday question has been so often discussed of late years, and the opinions expressed on the same are so diverse, that it may be well to print a few selections on the subject from some of the old newspapers, that those who are interested may see, as a matter of curiosity, if for no other reason, what views have been entertained within the past century, more especially in New England, in reference to Sunday.

      In a Salem paper of 1775 the following notice appeared:—

      Whereas the sober and thoughtful People of this Town are much displeased by the great Noise and Disturbance made in the Streets, on Saturday and Sabbath Day Evenings. It is earnestly desired that all Heads of Families would keep their Children and Servants at Home, on those Evenings, and thereby greatly contribute to the Quiet of the Town and Peace of the Inhabitants.

      The appearance of Essex Street in Salem at the present time on Saturday evening would seem to indicate that heads of families do not now keep their children and servants at home.

      From a communication in the Massachusetts Centinel, April 30, 1788, riding on the Sunday is held to be a flagrant crime.

      For the CENTINEL.

      As the devoting one day in ſeven to religious purpoſes is a bounden duty we owe to God our creator, and a moſt reaſonable law of our Commonwealth—to ſee people riding on the Sunday in purſuit of their worldly affairs, is ſo diſguſting to the man of true principle, that the neglect of our executive authority of ſo flagrant a crime, is to be lamented. The common practice of a Mr. C——fl——n

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