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cistern and had a man come up to solder the master pipe which had burst and allowed the dirty water to run back into the cistern. We found the floor boards very rotten and the whole thing will have to be overhauled before long. Also had the man fix the leader at the back of the house above the porch. Recd a letter from Mary Gifford yesterday telling me her father is better and they have hopes of his recovery also a note from Wilkinson just going to Kansas City. I went over to Chester St. and took a look at the grading which seems only tolerably well done. I wrote to Mrs. von Glumer. At 4'oclock Sara and I attended Whiting Knapps funeral from his house. Dr Magee officiated and the burial was private. Have begun reading the life and journals of Madam D'Arblay (Fanny Burney).    

Friday 26" Fanny (Stringham) Reed called. We were to go down to her Mothers this evening but it rained. I mended with Lepages glue the broken platters brought from Mexico. Received the Abbey note from Calvert to whom I sent it for his endorsement and sent the deed executed, to Mrs. Baker in Pokeepsie. 

Saturday 27" It rained hard during the night so that there are floods reported in various directions. Our cistern is again full of sweet, clear water. I received a note from a Mr. Arthur from Washington saying he had called at my studio to see about that painting and as he is coming to N Y to attend the Centennial he will call at my studio again so I will be there just in time as I am going down on Monday with the Powell excursion     

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Capt. Clinton Tremper, one of the best-known steamboat men on the Hudson River, and who in days gone by was the Captain of a ferryboat propelled by horse power between Kingston Point and Rhinebeck, died at Rondout, N. Y., yesterday of pneumonia. During the latter portion of his life Capt. Tremper was in the employ of the Cornell Steamboat Company, and at the time of his death was Captain of the tug Dr. D. Kennedy.
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