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Two hundred dollars reward.

--Offered for the apprehension and delivery to me at Richmond of a negro girl named Kitty, formerly owned by Mr. Chas Short, Sheriff of Culpeper county, where she was raised and is supposed to be gone. Description: Kitty is about 18 years old, dark complexion, pretty stout built, thick-lipped, downcast countenance, and is a good cook, washer, and ironer. She ran off on the 2d inst and has been heard to say she wanted to go back where she was raised, in Culpeper.

R P Blount,
Corner 5th and Marchall sts. je 18--6t *

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