The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-21

HOLIDAY GOODS.
WHAT TO BUY AND WHERE TO GET IT.

We continue this morning our friendl--
hints TO the purchasers Of holiday good.
Amid the multiplicity of establishments N
the city that are anxious to draw in each
its share Of the thousands Of buyers who
throng our streets it is sometimes n difficult
matter to determine rhut and trhere 10 buy.
The best way 10 solve these important
questions ia to refer to the advertising
columns Of the Dispatch. AS an index to
that department, and az suggestive to those
who may not be as we'll acquainted with
the business houses Of the city as ourselves,
the following paragraphs will be found
useful:
The jewelry stores have been for several
days besieged with purchasers, and we
know Of none better patronizcd or more
worthy Of patronage than NowLAS e. Co.'S.
Their stock, Just reinforced by heavy adj
ditions made by our friend NAcoMBER
while in New York, is varied. costly, and
brilliant. The millionaire may here choose
Il set Of jcwelrv worth hundreds or thou
sands off dollars, rs may suit his fancy,
while tlfe man of limited "stamps" will
find NOwLAN & Co. ready TO sell articles
agrccablcjt to his purse, at the most reason-
able rates What Is more, everything thus
bought Fay be relied upon as good and
worth the money asked.
No holiday purchaser should, and proba-
blyno one:wiil, fail to dropin upon KELLOGG
& GIBSOS,:a firm whose name is to the tc-
male MIND suggestive of everything hand
some in the way Of china, crockcry, glass
ware, and fancy ornaments. Their house is
literally packed with toilet and cabinet sets
of ali varieties and patterns, vases, statu;-
cites, croCkery, glassware, mantel orna-
mcDts, and nick-nacks in endless variety.
If you can't find something TO suit YOU in
looking over that stock, YOU might NS we'll
give ii up.
\ substantial and useful Christmas gift
may be found, as the ladies know, in dry
goods store, and the wide-awake men in
this business are alive TO the situation.
Your mind should not be made up about Il
present to Your wife, mother, sister, cousin,
or female "fricnd," us the case may be,
until you see what LEVY BRoTHERs haze
provided for the holidays at their princelv
establishment on Main street. This advice
IS almost supcr!luous. however, as every
body goes to LEVY 5 for bargains.
CARDoZo. ALsOP * FoURQUEREAN have
just opened a splendid stock Of elegant
dress goods. laccS. lace handkcrchicfs aud
collars, scarls. ties, bows, and sashcs, suitl-
bic for presents. \ box Of those beautiful
handkCrchieis, with embroidered initials.
would be Il most acceptable Christmas Gift.
HlRsH & GUGGESHEIMER, on Broad street
near the Theatre, are in the same line Of
business, and display a fine assortment of
fancy goods, bows, scarfs, jet jew"lrr, work.
boxes, and handsome dress goods,
Christmas notions and fancy articles turs,
hoods, nubias, aud everything nice in the
dry goods line, are for sale also by DUCK
WALL & RoUSS. on Main street below Ze-
telle's.
"a little more cider, sweet !" is n cry
often heard about Christmas times, and
WILLIAM Fl. TATUM, 800 Broad street, holds
himself in readiness to answer this as well
as the demand for any other liquors, fruits,
spices, Or line groceries, which the provi-
dent housewife may need.
Our downtown readers will hardly get as
far up a. TATUM's, but let them not be dis
consulate. for john NJ. HIGGISs, on Franklin
street near the Old Market, is on the same
clay" and advcrtiscs st. CroiX rum, gin,
brandy, Whiskey, wines, and groceries,
until you can't repose.
Fuel will be scarce and high after the
holidays. 1t will therefore be advisable for
people to lay in their supplies at once.
CHARLES III. PAGE proposes to have Il grand
distribution of fuel ut summer prices to the
poor. commencing to-day.
With coal thus bought you can have Il
fine fire for the children 10 sit by while they
examine their stockings on Christmas
morning, and then before breakfast, if you
like a toddy, try Il taste Of W. D. BLAIR 4
Co.'s Alpha whiskey. There is no better
appetizer. BLAIR 6 Co. have all kinds Of
good liquors.
Cheap fuel may also be had of J. u. Pill
cRER, on Eighth street between Main and
Cary, whose prices suit the million.
julius SYCLE,s popular store, No. 4l5
Broad street, is stocked Withncw and beau
tiful goods i'll the holiday line, and ladies not
content with shoddy wear will certainly
end something there to please them.
Popped corn may be good for dyspeptics.
but Tor steady diet about Christmas we
much prefer the supplies to be bought of
G. G. THOMPSON, the west-end grocer,
corner First and Main streets.
There are not many people going fishing
Christmas, but those who do will lind the
best of seine thread at /. LIcHTESsTEIN' s
1907 Franklin street.
st. Patrick's day is not the only time for
drinking Irish whiskey; but if you prefer
any other kind Of liquor, j. GOLDEN, corner
show you other varieties.
This closes our notices for TO- day, except
the remark that toys, dolls, and confcc-
fair III Stearns's building, opposite the post
office, perhaps as chcaply IS anywhere else.
Other holiday goods will be noticed from
day to day us the advertisements are re-
ceived.
STATE ISrEREsT.-The following letter
from Colonel Stanton will explain itself:
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.