Runaways.
--Absconded from the service of the
James River and Kanawha Company, on Sunday last, two negro men, named
Arthur and Edward.
Arthur belongs to
Mrs. Ellis, in
Spotsylvania county.
He is about thirty years of age, is of low stature, brown color, flat face, with a scar on it, and has one defective eye.
Edward belongs to
Mrs. Randolph, in
Fauquier county.
He is about sixty years of age, of low stature and brown color.
The company will pay what the law allows and ten dollars besides on each of these men, if arrested and returned to
Mr. Smith A. Thorp, Master Carpenter, near the first lock on the canal, three miles above this city.
E. L. Chinn,
jy 10--ts Sup't J. R. and
K. Canal.