Named Entity Results, Richmond (Virginia, United States)

1861. Negro Hiring. 1861. E. A. J. Clopton.Real Estate and Hiring Agent,office corner Wail and Franklin streets, oppositeDickinson, Hill & Co.,Richmond, Virginia. The subscriber begs to return his acknowledgments to his friends and patrons for their favors daring the past six years, and would inform them that he still continues the business of Hiring Out Negroes, Renting Out Houses, Collecting Claims, and all business pertaining to a General Agency, to all of which be gives his personal attention. Parties in the country who may entrust the hiring of their Negroes to him. may rest assured of every attention being paid to getting them none other but good homes and the best prices, and in the event of sickness, the best Medical and Personal attention shall always be supplied. He has also a large, comfortable apartment, connected with his office, where those servants who are not provided with places to stay at night during the hiring, may remain, with a good fire, free of cha

The Manchester marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Openshaw came from Manchester to settle in London. He had been what is called in Lancashire a salesman for a large manufacturing firm, who were extending their business, and opening a warehouse in the city, where Mr. Openshaw was now to superintend their affairs. He rather enjoyed the change, having a kind of curiosity about London, which he had never yet been able to gratify in his brief visits to the metropolis.--At the same time he had an odd, shrManchester to settle in London. He had been what is called in Lancashire a salesman for a large manufacturing firm, who were extending their business, and opening a warehouse in the city, where Mr. Openshaw was now to superintend their affairs. He rather enjoyed the change, having a kind of curiosity about London, which he had never yet been able to gratify in his brief visits to the metropolis.--At the same time he had an odd, shrewd contempt for the inhabitants, whom he always pictured to himself as fine, lazy people, caring nothing but for fashion and aristocracy, and lounging away their days in Bond Street and such places, ruining good English, and ready in their turn to despise him as a provincial.--The hours that the men of business kept in the city scandalized him, too, accustomed as he was to the early dinner of Manchester folk, and the consequently far longer evenings.--Still, he was pleased to go to London, thou