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coach-maker; Doctor Lowe “at the Rev. Mr. LoweÕs, corner of Red Hook Road” (present corner of Fulton street and Red Hook Lane); and William Cornwall, merchant tailor, corner of Front and Main streets, near the New Ferry. Five apprentices are wanted at Amos Cheney’s Ship-yard; William Milward, Block and Pump Maker, is located “at the Yellow Store, on Joshua Sands’, Esq., wharf, between the Old and New Ferries;” while Benjamin Hilton sells China, glass, and earthenware, “at New York prices,” in Old Ferry street, in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Derick Amerman. Land and property is advertised by Henry Stanton, corner of Front and Main streets; by Robert M. Malcolm, corner of Washington and Sands streets, and by Thomas Lalliet. Joel Bunce, Postmaster, advertises the address of 53 letters uncalled for in his office.

In the next issue of the Intelligencer (October 16th), we learn that a fire occurred on the Saturday previous, in a stable owned by Mr. Campbell, and used by John Wilson, baker—one horse was burned to death, and another injured. John Doughty returns thanks to his friends and neighbors for their successful exertions in saving his premises. The inhabitants “felt themselves obligated to the members of the New York floating engine,” for their efforts in bringing over their machine, although the fire was subdued before their arrival.

“We have been requested,” says the editor, “to suggest the propriety of each family placing lights in the front of their houses, not having the advantage of lamps, as great inconvenience and loss of time arises from the neglect, particularly on dark nights.”

William Vander Veen, Apothecary, “takes the liberty of mentioning that he has been regularly educated to the Surgery and Apothecary business, in Amsterdam.” His drug store was in the house of Dr. George A. Clussman, who, together with Dr. Samuel Osborn, guaranteed that they would “so far attend to Mr. Vander Veen’s preparations of Medicines, that purchasers may rest satisfied that they will obtain genuine articles,” etc. Possibly, the Brooklynites of the present day would not object to a similar assurance from their medical advisers.

Also the advertisements of Dr. Charles Ball, in Mr. Cooper’s old house, near the junction of Old and New Ferry streets, and of