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A place to Live at.

--The following is an extract from a letter published in the Wilmington Journal, from Shelbyville, North Carolina, the writer being now an inmate of a hotel there. As our readers may have doubts as to whether there is any such eating in the world as that described, we can only state that the Journal is a respectable and reliable paper:

‘ At five bells in the morning all hands are piped to breakfast. Bill of Fare: Coffee and tea, and cream, broiled chickens, fried chickens, stewed chickens, ham and eggs, omelettes, boiled and fried eggs, lamb hash, cold mutton, hot rolls, butter cakes, tea biscuit, butter biscuit, milk, syrup, cold water, &c. At — bells, P. M., all hands to dinner — soup, vegetables, roast mutton, roast fowls, stewed and fried chickens, cold ham, potatoes in various styles, onions in various styles, squashes in various styles, encumbers, beets; biscuit, fresh butter, white fine bread, apple pies, peach pies, blackberry pies, sweet milk and butter milk, fruit, desert. At five bells P. M., tea and all kinds of nice fixings; clean rooms, clean beds, clean house and plenty of servants, and all for ten dollars per day.

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