160 YEARS AGO
The Republican Mass Meeting, advertised so extensively to come off at this place on Tuesday, was a rather slim affair. The fair grounds were not resorted to—Bowne Hall being found large enough to accommodate the “masses” in attendance, including the women and children who composed so large a proportion of the two petite processions which moved through the streets of the village, one of them occupying at least three minutes in passing a given point! Neither Dickinson nor…