Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for James Ellett or search for James Ellett in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
cupied by Mr. Chick. The steam engine was then set to work, and in an incredibly short time the tops of all the buildings in the neighborhood were completely saturated, and then the burning pile was extinguished. Mantel had an insurance of $2,000 on his stock of goods, every vestige of which was consumed, as his family and himself were from home at the time, attending a ball. The building was owned by Thomas Jones, and was insured for $800. The tenement occupied by Mr. Chick belongs to Jas. Ellett, and was insured. Mr. Chick lost a portion of his furniture, and other portions were damaged by water. Mr. Gardner's residence, west of Chick's, was also on fire at one time, but the firemen extinguished the flames before the building was seriously damaged. It is but justice to the Fire Brigade to say, that they were not only promptly at the scene of conflagration, notwithstanding the long run they had to take, but that they labored hard, and were very successful in preventing the