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                   Life of Stephen H. Branch.       1

                   A Melodious Fragment!            2

                   Human Devils.                    2

                   James Gordon Bennett’s           2
                     Editorial Career.

                   Peter Cooper’s Funny little      3
                     Grocery-Groggery, at the
                     Corner of the Bowery and
                     Stuyversant Street, in 1820.

                   Advertisements                   4

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[Illustration: STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S ALLIGATOR.]

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    Volume I.—No. 11.]    SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1858.    [Price 2 Cents.


       Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
                           STEPHEN H. BRANCH,

       In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United
             States for the Southern District of New York.




                       Life of Stephen H. Branch.


McDonald Clarke had the dyspepsia badly, and would board at the Graham
House while his money lasted, and then Goss would request him to leave.
At the table he always created infinite mirth. I often met him on