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Laudable Enterprise. --Rev. J. E. Williamson, chaplain at Camp Winder, has established a library at that place for the use of the hospital patients at that place. He solicits contributions of books from all who have works to spare, and we are quite sure that our citizens generally, as well as persons in the country, will respond to the call. To the invalid soldier, away from home and its comforts, much comfort may be drawn from the perusal of books, a few of which every family can spare. They should be forwarded at once to the care of the chaplain, at Bidgood's bookstore.
The Annual Meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association was held on Monday night last at the rooms of the Association, and we are sure that none who attended had any cause of regret. The report of the President, Wm Willis, Jr, was one of unusual interest and worth, detailing clearly the great schemes of benevolence in which the Association has been engaged during the past year, and recounting the names of those members who, during the year, have given their lives as a sacrifice upon the alter of their country. The election for the new year resulted as follows: President, Hon John Randolph Tucker; Vice Presidents, Wm Willis, Jr, W H Gwathmey, M D John D K Sleight, J M Stevens, W H Clemmitt; Directors, J Hall Moore, J R Lucas, B Hughes, Geo L Bidgood, J B Watkins; Corresponding Secretary, Philip F Howard; Recording Secretary, E B Tucker; Librarian, P C Nicholas; Treasurer, Ana Snyder; Registrar, Jno C Williams.
among which will be acceptable as a Christmas gift. Frederick T. Andrews, on Sixth street, near Clay, offers for sale house-furnishing goods for the old people, and a large stock of dolls for girls, and toys for the boys. John Dooley, one of the oldest and best-known dealers in the city, has opened a store at No. 239 Main street, under the Sponwood Hotel. He has a splendid stock of ladies' furs, and hats and caps of the most fashionable styles for ladies and gentlemen. Messrs. Bidgood & Riley, at the iron-front building, on Thirteenth, between Main and Franklin streets, offer to the boys and girls a most beautiful assortment of plain and colored toy books, illustrated juvenile productions, and elegantly-bound works of the standard poets and authors for grown-up people. Sizer &Briggs, on Broad street, near the Central depot, propose to furnish their customers with the essential elements of a Christmas dinner. With this object in view, they have laid in a stock o