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The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A bold Enterprise. (search)
&25 reward.$25 reward. --Ranaway, on the 29th of March, a Woman, named Nancy, whom I purchased of H. Stern, of this city. She is of medium size, rather spare made, of a ginger- bread color; has a diffident look when spoken to; is 23 years old; has a blister scar on her neck. She was sold last Christmas at the sale of Wm. Andrews, deceased, nine miles above the city. She may now be in that neighborhood, or near Slash Cottage, as she has a mother living at Mr. Wm. Winn's, near that place, in Hanover county. She was hired to Mr. Samuel Allen, of this city, last year, and has a husband hired to Mr. Ballard, of the Exchange Hotel, by the name of Dolphins. I will pay the above reward if delivered to me in Richmond. my 2--lw* R. B. Woodward.
The Daily Dispatch: may 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], France and the Confederacy. (search)
May 2, 1861, I should be glad to have something interesting to communicate this morning, but we have no mails to-day, by reason of disconnections. In these times of war, every man is expected to show his patriotism in every way not positively injurious to his well being and that of his family. We have in this city set very good examples to the world of disinterested patriotism, but I begin to hear occasionally that same "hoarse voice" that was heard in revolutionary times in Hanover county, as described by Wirt in one of Patrick Henry's speeches against an unprincipled speculator-- "Beef, beef, beef." Provisions in our city all at once popped up 50 per cent. Hams now sell at 20 cents, sides 17 cents, coffee 18½ to 20 cents, flour $10.50 to $12.50, and butter 60 cents. In most instances these provisions were held by Yankee agents here, and in some instances by natives, but the mark will be as indelibly fixed upon them for all time as that put upon the first murderer, Cain,