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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 3 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reported fighting on the Rapidan — the enemy said to be Crossing. (search)
Destructive fire. --Between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday, dense volumes of smoke were seen to proceed from the sweat house of Messrs. Jones & Childrey's large store and tobacco factory, on the north side of Main street, a few doors west of 17th street, and it being evident to the employees of the building that some of the tobacco casings had taken fire from the furnace used for heating that room, messengers were dispatched to the engine house for assistance. In an incredibly short time, the firemen, with their apparatus, were at the scene, and forcing one of the doors, poured in their streams of water upon the burning mass, thus checking the spread of the flames to other portions of the establishment, and finally extinguishing them. We learn from Mr. Childrey that the stock on hand, in the sweat room alone, and which was then being prepared for European markets, was worth to the firm at least $150,000, the greater portion of which will probably be seriously dam
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], The position of affairs before the battle of Lookout Mountain. (search)
No. Alarm. --Notwithstanding the close proximity to the first station-house of Messrs. Jones & Childrey's store, which was partially burned yesterday, the alarm bell was not sounded to call together the firemen until after one or two companies had reached the scene of conflagration with their machines, and had put streams of water upon the fire. A fireman reports that he went to the station-house to have the bell rung, but finding the door locked and no one present to admit him, he procured a ladder, entered a window, and rang the bell. At a meeting of the City Council some few weeks since Mr. Scott made an effort to secure the appointment of officers to attend the station-houses at all hours of the day, but was defeated. Surely the Council will now see the importance of having these officers, and will appoint them. The city has no place where a policeman can be found at all hours, however urgent the necessity; nor has it any guard at the station houses to prevent priso
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
For sale privately --A No. 1 Woman. She is a splendid washer and ironer, and a good house servant generally, and is sold for no fault whatever. Apply on 2d street, between Cary and Canal, at R. F. Jones's. no 26--3t*