This sent the Fishers home happy with sixteen years' interest on $8,873--the same amounting to $8,997.94.

Total, $17,870.94.
3.

For an entire year the suffering Fisher family remained quiet--even satisfied, after a fashion.

Then they swooped down upon the government with their wrongs once more.

That old patriot, Attorney-General Toucey, burrowed through the musty papers of the Fishers and discovered one more chance for the desolate orphans--interest on that original award of $8,873 from date of destruction of the property (1813) up to 1832! Result, $10,004.89 for the indigent Fishers.