The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1871-09-27
RICHMOND.
[From our own CORRESPONDENTS
THE TRADE.

millers, and manufacturers of Richmond
are live men and deserve by their energy
and enterprise the success they have o
chieved. The manufacturers are all ful
of orders and the wholesale dealers exhib
II stock that compare favorably in guam
tity, quality, and price, with those found
In the larger northern cities. Several large
new establishments in various branches
Of merchandise have commenced this sea
son and we haveno hesitation in declar
Ing that country merchants can now buy
their supplies in that city on as favorable
terms as can be obtained in any market
and can save both time and money. We
learn that many OF the best and larges,
dealers In the country have this season
on stopping In Richmond, intending to
go north. made all their purchases.
OLD MARKET. N.
Soon Saturday morning we went down
to Old Market TO see what Richmond
would eat for dinner that day. Long rows
Of huckster carts surround the mark Ell
house and here you can get every variety
OF the season: This season turnips five
cents bunch and six In bunch; Carrots
five cents and eight In q bunch, Parshipe
the same; Butter sixty cents a pound;
Half grown chickens fifty cents a piece
Eggs thirty cents a dozen; Butterbeans
twelve and half cents a quart Sweet
potatoes seventy five cents bushel; Cab
bage six cents q head. Chickens range
from 12i TO SO cts, and Butter from 40 to
so. It's q money making business to these
hucksters, they get ready cash, and the
best price for everything. We met an old
stout lady-a Mrs. Hicks from Chester
field, ~ miles, who was In market "with
her things.n To red faced gentleman
who had just got up and come to market
with his basket, and who preferred a
black pullet to rooster,n she sat out her
box Of poultry and told the little country
boy with her to "be peert, you mustn't be
slow ifyou come to market, y while the
little fellow wasrunning his hand through
the pigeon hole door 10 the box and had
the black pullet by the legs making the
feathers fiy-and the pullet squalling-
the old woman in the meanwhile shaking
hands with former slave-a negro man
who had come up ITO tell ole miss how
dy." The old lady sold apples alto cents
quar-, a new way to us. Inside Of the
market you find all the fresh meats Of the
season. Beef Is cents; Tender Ioin, tripe,
kidneys. brains, and liver, for delicacies.
Shoat Is cents; Sausage Is, Mutton 10,
Lamb 12i, dressed squirrels 20 cents, and
puddle ducks three for dollar. You'll
see the boarding house keepers, poor souls,
creeping from their dens and making for
market after beef and pig for theirglorious
human dodgers 10 deyour. We met him,
OF the Dennis house, and asked him the
price Of board. He had just got up and
looked sleepy; buthe woke up directly and
told Ms II we would bring two or three
with us and would sleep " two in bed,
he'd take US at dollar day. No doubt
took US 20 be or an emigrant shin. We
went hack TO Maj. Eagle Of the Ballard
THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS.
We travelled with this Company from
Petersburg 10 Richmond. The brothen
are middle aged men and had their wives
along with them. One Of the Mrs. Da-
venport hada tame parrot on the seat in
front OF her, black and tan terrier In her
lap, two black and tan pups in basket
THAI she fed on milk out of q bottle, and i
tame monkey In a box under the car seat.
Her husband told us that Pol, the parrot,
was thirty-five years old, and quite an IN.
rtitution. That whenever any danger
threatened them, the bird would sing out
"Iook outn with all her might One day
In California she hollered the whole day
long look out - and the next day the
whole party were hurled down an en-
bankmcnt ON the Union and Pacific II. X.
eight Pullman cars tossed over and Poll
amongst them. The fimt seen Of her she
was sitting on top ola rail crying ''murd-
erin
Friday night we went 10 see these broth
ors perform at A ssembly Hall In Rich
mond. And truly are they wonderful In
this feat They had a cupboard or q cab
met they called IL, on the stage, with
three doors 10 u, and n bench running a
round 20 that you can sltdown and be shut
up In there. They Invited two Of the best
known citizens In Richmond lMessrr. q.
Stokes and Henry Miller,) to seats on the
stnge with them. They went forward.
The brothers got In the cabinet, took seats,
and were securely bound, hands and feet,
By these Richmond gentlemen. A guitar,
violin, tambourine, and bells were In the
cabinet outside the reach ofthese men who
sal fastened to their seats. The door was
then shut and 81 alI the racket you ever
heard they had Il in there guitars play
Ing, The fiddle going, bells ringing, and
the deuce 10 play generally. The door
was opened, ther sat the brothers still
tied tight, and were examined BY the cho-
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