TAKES this method publicly to return his grateful thanks to his friends of Marlborough street, Cornhill, &c. for their kindness to him during the past season; not only in patronizing him while able to perform his usual labors, but in assisting him while under the influence of a distressing and debilitating disease. He has grown old in the service of the inhabitants of Boston, and they do not forget him--they do not cast him off, or suffer him to become an inmate of the Alms-house; and although _he is an African_, he will not be guilty of the _blackest_ of sins--that of ingratitude. He humbly solicits a continuance of their favors, to enable him to buffet the inclemency of the approaching season, (when his regular employment fails) and flatters himself he shall still be able to sustain that character of fidelity which the partiality of his friends has bestowed upon him. BOSTON, _Nov. 28, 1815._ _Columbian Centinel._ * * * * * THE subscriber wishes to notify his old honourable customers, who practise stealing and destroying his fruit every year, that his Water Mellons are now almost ripe; and if they do not as usual destroy the fruit and vines immediately, they will get entirely ripe; and then some body or other will be the better for them, which will be a grievous mortification to those manly gentlemen. EZRA GRISWOLD. Simsbury, August 4, 1794. _Connecticut Courant._ * * * * * Removal. SAMUEL MYLOD informs his friends and the public that he has removed from Danvers to the building belonging to Mrs. _Martha Procter_, near Buffum's corner, Salem, where he colours all kinds of wearing apparel. Silks cleansed from spots or injury from sea. N.B. Pickles that will keep the longest voyage, for Sale. Oct. 11. _Salem Gazette, 1805._ * * * * * In "old times" even publishers were sometimes short of money, and ready to barter with their subscribers. So celebrated a character as Isaiah Thomas, of the "Worcester Spy," was occasionally obliged to give "hints" to his "Delinquent Customers and Postriders." The latter were distributers of papers to country customers. _To Delinquent Customers._ -->_Serious Times--or the_ PRINTER _without_ Money--_or a Final Hint to_ Delinquent Customers _and_ Postriders!<--