other Times, other Manners. 



By the Editor, 



|N looking through a file of old local papers 

 we come; upon interesting and amusing items, 

 which throw side lights upou the manners and 

 customs of the early part of this century, and go to shew 

 what enormous strides have been made in less than a 

 hundred years. Besides the great social revolution 

 which resulted from the total abolition of slavery, there 

 have been other changes, not perhaps so radical, but still 

 noteworthy, some of which can be easily understood from 

 the following extrafts. 



Taking up first the Essequebo and Demerary Gazette 

 of the i6th of June 1804, we are struck by its general 

 meanness as compared with a newspaper of to-day. About 

 an inch larger each way than an ordinary foolscap sheet, 

 it is printed on green tinted paper and contains nothing 

 whatever in the shape of news. There are Government 

 Publications, Vendue Notices, and General Advertise- 

 ments, mostly duplicated in Dutch and English, and 

 finally a letter which may or may not have been paid for. 

 This last is curious enough for reprodu6lion. It follows 

 upon an advertisement of R. B. Daly, who gives notice 

 that he is " receiving daily considerable damages by Mules, 

 Horses and other Cattle on the Plantation Flushing, 

 whose Proprietors are quite unknown to him, informs 

 the Owners to send for them without delay, as he finds 

 himself under the disagreeable necessity for the future 

 to Order to Shoot the said Mules, Horses and Other Cattle , 



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