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Twenty-five dollars reward.

--Runaway from my place, in Chesterfield county, Va., my Negro Man Ben Johnson, of black color, about 5 feet 10 inches high, weighs about 175 lbs., apparently 45 or 50 years old, and is a good cook, and is probably hiring himself to cook in Richmond or Petersburg The above reward will be paid for his safe delivery to me at Pulliam & Co.'s office, or safe lodgment in some jail. He came from Petersburg. Left home 1st March last.

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