Unexampled Generosity.—Mrs. Mary Ann Snowden, a widow living in Essex. Ins applied to the Bankruptcy Court for lischarge from her debts. She made the bllowing statement of her liabilities: — : About fifteen months before the date of ivy petition I was possessed of about .£2OO, eft me by my father, which I resolved to i-cpend in charity anion"? the poor of .Valtkamstow and its neighborhood. Foi hat purpose Irfssueet tickets for provisions ;n be supplied to them, and miscalculatim. the number issued, and also beirgdecelvfd s to the high peice of theartieVs supplied, C found, after expending the said sum ; n tl'.c manner above stated, that when the a ins for supplying the goods came in, ] tad exceeded the money in hand by .£121." Jf the creditors, eight were butchers, ten .iccers, and seven bakers. Further inquiry was ordered.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 199, 17 February 1866, Page 3
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