The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-03
ENTIRELY REWRITTEN By THE ABLEST WRITER'S
on EVERY SUBJECT, PRINTED FROM NEW.
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cnlaton which 1t has attained In all parts Of The
United States. and tho signal developments which
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and TO issue new edition entitled THE tAMERl-
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new work Of. reference On imperative want.
with The discoveries Of science, and their fruitful
application to the industrial and useful arts and
the convenience and refinement OF social life.
CURED, involving national changes OF peculiar mo-
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was at Its height when the last volume Of the old
work appeared, has happily been ended. and new
course OF commercial and Industrial activity has
been commenced.
Africa.
The great political revolutions of The last decade.
brought into public Wow multitude of new men,
whose names are IN every ones mouth, and OF
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portant sieges maintained, Of which the details are
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