Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-08-27
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A IN Tuesday the 18th day of September next, will
" again offer Dungeness for sale, the highest bidder
upon The premises this plantation. lying James River
hry-three miles from Richmond, containing eight hun
dred acresone hundred OF which low grounds The
Land, as lar as cleared, is OF excellent SOIL lying remark
ably level Upon the farm there is variety of fine fruits
The improvements such will accommodate toierably
large ianiiy.-TERNs third 10 be paid on Civ
ing possession which will be the LIST day Of January
next The balance in two equal annual payments. The
purchaser may have the privilege OF seeding wheat.
VIII In The mean time, proceed to prepare the land for
that purpose. consider il healthy situation rs any
on James River there has not been single case Of
ague or bilious fever on the farm for five years.
July 20. t23-tdsl GEO. W0ODS0N PAYNE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE-Ou
Monday, the 2lst day OF October, will be sold at
Public Auction 220 Building Lots aud 80 Out Lots i'm the
, 1ourishng town OF PoRTsNIoUrIt, ONO.
Portsmouth, the chief town of Sciota county, is plea
sanity situated on high ground the bank OF the Ohio
River near the mouth of Scota River, which at Ports
mouth approaches within half mile of the Ohio aud
about midway between Marietta and Cincinnati The
water good and the town has always been considered
remarkably healthy Its sce is high and places the po-
pulaion beyond the reach of the highest floods.
The Ohio and Erie Canal, which flushed last Octo.
her, nlersecs the Ohio at that place and brings there
ransPmen the produce OF the very rich and extensive
country through which it passes. That canal SOC miles
long 40 feet wide and feet deep. II passes thro of
the most fertile and populous counties OF Ohio serves
as channel oil communication to the towns of Chicothe
Circeville, Lancaster, Zsnesvle, Columbus Hebron
Newark Dresden Roscoe Trenton, Lockpor,, Dover, Sa
lem, New Philadelphia, Bolivar, Masslon Fulton, Gin
ton, ARROW and Boston. Ii is the citing link be-
tween the navigation of the Mississippi, the Northern
lakes, and tho ~ York and Wesnd Canals ntersecting
the Ohio at Portsmouth, and Lake Erie cleveland
For the year 1881, the tolls this Canal, which
was completed only from the Lake Chicothe
amounted to S64S64-and from the tolls already re.
ceved, is estimated that the receipts for 1888 viii eX-
coed $lS0,OOO tnow forms uninterrupted channel OF
communication between the Lakes and Ohio, and tends
directly TO increase the business of Portsmouth, That
town has 1850 inhabitants and is rapidly Increasing
In he immediate vicinity are extensive qmaies of free
stone which furnish the chief ornamental building stone for
Cincinnau and Louisville There are also valuable beds
OF iron ore almost in proximity with the buminous coal
whlchs so abundan, in that part of the country The
ore Is OF The first quality and universally preferred in the
western States There already within short distance
OF the mouth OF the canal 30 Furnaces and FORCES in
ration, manufacturing upwards OF $4,000 iron per
annu, oil the value OF million Of dollars. STEAMBOATS,
oil le largest class daily arrive at Portsmouth, epositing
at that place their cargOes of Cotton Sugar Coffee &c
and receiving in return, the Flour, Pork Whskey sc of
The INTERIOR brought there by the way OF the canal The
commerce OF the town is rapidly increasing under the in
huence oil these favorable circums ances and in few
years must become of the important places Oh
the Ohio River. The lots offered for are situated i'm
the principal streets of Portsmouth, and present an op.
portunity for the protible investment of capital TITLES
unquestionable and in fee simple.
The sale OF the above property will take place on the
list OF October next at 10 o'clock, A. M in Portsmouth,
OF The Lots. my hitter 29th inst implication
to McAlister s. York, Philadelphia; TurnbulI s. Win
chester Baltimore; Barr, Knecand s. Co., New York; or
my Agent, Thomas Parker, Esq., Portsmouth, who will
give all Information on the subect
JOHN 4; BARR, $50 Pearl street, N. Y
New York, July %, 1888. 25-lst
HPOoTs, SHOES, &c-A Nj. HArcH & CO. manu-
lecturers and wholesale dealers in Boots and Shoes
no. Water Street. New York. have on hand an extensive
which, are
10000 pair mems thick pcgged brogans
1900 do do russell do. do
10000 do do. thick do. shoes
$500 TO- boys do. do bogans
1000 do do do. do shoes
10000 do mems kip do. brogans
1000 do. boys do. do do.
5000 do mems do sewed do
1000 do boys thick and l.. & b. shoes
1000 do mems fine calf sewed boots
1000 do. do. do. do pegged do
500 do do. seal scwed do
500 do. do. do pegged do
1000 do. do. do. nailed do
1000 do. do. thick pcgged do.
500 do. boys do do. do
10000 do wOmen's leather sewed & pcgged shoes
5'OOO do DO do do. do boots
1000 do misses do. do do do and shoes
1000 do. ladies' morocco walking shoes
1000 do. do. do boots
| 800 do misses do do.
500 do. do. do shoes
! 1000 do. ladies' lasting boots
500 do do do walking shoes
1000 do do do. spring heel slips
! 5000 do. do do. do do.
1000 600 do do. morocco spring DO do.
/ 500 90. do. do. do do.
900 do. misses do. and lasting do
5000 do. children's do do and leather boots:
| ALSO,
1000 reams wrapping paper
200 nest seal and hair trunk
100 wool hats
! N. Borders viii be promptly executed, and with
care.
New York. August Let, 1888. 27-st
! WTNITED STATES HOTEL, IFS and 1870 Pearl 81
/ u and 1873 Water St. 6eflceen JVaI ST. and Nfaiden
Lane, New YoRK-T. b. REDMoNDE respectfully in
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