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bondholder, and all he asks is that Congress
shall make good the promises made to him
at the same time that the Governments
certificates of indebtedness were issued to
the bondholder. The Times seems to re-
gard the money paid out to the pensioners
as gratuitieS They are not gratuities at al,
but simply part of the debt which the
Government confessed to the soldier when
1t promised TO care for him who shall have
borne the battle, and for his widow
and orphans" and that debt is certainly
as valid and sacred rs the debt to the
bondholder. based, as the latter is, SIM
ply ON loan of money and involving
no expenditure of life or sacrifice of bodily
health and strength whatever The size
of the pension roll, therefore, can have
nothing to do with the question as to
whether Congress ought or ought not to
pension Mexican veterans and survivors Of
Confederate prisons, re-enact the arrears OF
pension law, or pass the equalization OF
bounties bill These measures ought to
stand on their own merits. They are not
based on gratitude, but on iustice-on an
obligation which the Government, no more
than the private individual, can eyade, ex-
cePt at the sacrifice of its honor. A great
deal of nonsense hiss been printed in metro
politan journals like the Times in regard TO
pension legislation, but nothing more alb
suTd or void of foundation than the state
ment that the question of fulfilling the
promises made by the Government to the
soldier is a question of gratitude.
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The Baltimore Day now comes to Us in q
new and tastefuI dress and printed from .
bTand-new Hoe perfeeting press It is In every
respect most interesting newspaper and
bears the impress of strong Individuality
It's editor, Mr.. VIM. 7. CT0asdaIe, has indeed
made brilliant mark iE Baltimore journalism,
and, IN few brief months, has brought his
journal to the front rank Of American news
papers. He has displayed, too, the qualities OF
a leader of public opinion, and the manly
fight that he has undertaken against the poIiti-
sal rings which have for so long held down ths
people by the throat, must command the sd
miration OF evsry honest man The Day Is the
fore-runner Of a revolution in the manazsmeat
of municipal affairs in Baltimore
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comrades who lived to reach again Gods
country knew well that host of brave
spirits were liberated there. But why go
on? The pages of history flame with trib-
utes to the valor of these devoted men.
The orators sound their praises on every
rostrum, but the Government hesitates and
falters in the fulfillment of its duty to the
living, and permits the equally deserving
comrades Of our heroic dead to hunger and
thirst because of its cold neglect
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TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
D. G, ocToBER a5. 1888.
CONTENTS THIS WEEK.

LIST Pase.-GES. q. o. How ARDS Personal gEsET-
EIscENcl2s on IKE WAR or rRE REBELLION:
Soldier FaTcN-el-The VIE and Mother
HFHEl-i-IcE Eet3coIps---Szsco9D BUE.L kCE.-
ftIE SDcoED NlscosstE AZ Bull RUS.-E'ETE
FEssT Eo- THE SECOND. AIAssACHUsETTs Al
Bull RUs.-TEE G. A r SH0UE-D REVIEW
GRFsEA6s ACTgoE.-FORT D0EEIsoSs Pre-
liIlinasy Reconnaissance into kentucky--tzx-
petition ~ the Tennessee 8iver-Capgure Of
Fort Henry
I'd Page.-LoYAL WouAsss woRK: The Ethics
OF kissins-fxIseEienc IeetiRg--iselief Corps
Noflz--Al sIEsTE8s's u IUsECsI- Miss Keiiey's
EAgilzh tsetier--OUE RUE4L IoEgCs: Qaes-
tions and answers.
Sd Page.-TE-ESErEE ANNUAL MEETING or
THE SOCIETY or THE ARMY OF TlIE TENNESSEE.
-R5TEfCES- 4 Big Turnout Of Neferslsts st
Goshen lHd--scxenteenti indiana Reunion IL
ClileS. ih.--Ninth ONO Independent Battery.-
ADVERTISEMENTS.
9th Paec.-E1n-r0REkzS: Still Looking For = just
Eeward-A Question Of ComrsdeslliF,--Essli-
fosial tarsErFg Fghs.-AGug or THE CUGBzR-
LAND: Ia Campaigns Marches, Battles. and
Leaders, irota start 10 t1lsIsb--IHE AzGg-
zIEEs.-OH TO RICHMOND. And the jolly Time
Lneoln Post 81 Newark, y. J., Had There.
9Th Page.-AEvs Or TEE WEEK RETSEoS or
THE Sd Msss. CAT--SoSs on YEEEEANs.--CSEs.
STEEDsaE DEAD The i5rillszDt Military Ca
reer d Beloved Ohio Soldier.-fsEJ NsoNs:
Illinois x-l'risoners-2f3 Aliea--zfh = "
l5tn ~ 5---47Lh Pa a-stii Ind Clsziry-25tla
AssS.---asf- 5sth- and lssth D1ia GRAND
AEAY AEsNs continued from sixth Fage.)
oth Page.-THE GRAsD ABznx: General Beailals
Western TrEE-r Philadelphia O. 4. Z Day
New IEIE.tEE Posls.-Dep epart1aeIt News
Sth Page.-FIEIrE-1G THEN OVER: The Assault.
on Fort Na@ner-Tlle Lively Experience Of
Col. Hurst. Gtn Tenn.-Ta4t Flsher-Tle VII
son Rs5d-flle sth Wisconsin 81 Port hudson
ConlEstie Stlli,g Stands Corfectec--IHE lglcs-
TfoE SQUAD.-hEME-D AUzzL1AE EIEs. The Or
RalllzatioHs rf Military Companies Aids 10
O. A. T. boatS.A szsNs-E.s 10 IsoEEE EzsFoSDT-STs.
--LHRoSoEsoGF OF TIE NAB.
Stb Page--OrE GROWING C0JsTRx.-FoET D0x-
Tt-r
FEoA SUEscEIEEIs' LETTTEs. ADy EKTIsE-
LENIs
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so after it shall have made the official in
quiry into the facts which it is unquestion-
ably its duty to institute

WE print in another column, this week,
V. c., of Farragut Post, Denver, Colo, on
the organization of armed auxiliaries mill
and we take pleasure in thus bringing
the question to public attention, though We
must reserve the right to dissent from the
conclusions reached in this paper. There is
good deal of force in the maxim, q In time
of peace, prepare for war;" but the duty of
maintaining a well-organized militia is one
that belongs exclusively to the States, and
does not enter in any way into the obliga-
tions of the Grand Army. Indeed, it is
quite outside of the scope of the Order,
whose mission looks only to the perpetual
ton of the fraternal ties between our ex-
soldiers, which are the outgrowth of COM
radeship in the field, the care and protection
of needy veterans and their families, and the
cultivation among the people generally of
the sentiment of loyalty and devotion to the
Union. To the accomplishment of these OBJ
jects the establishment of armed auxiliaries
would contribute but little, while it is not at
allimprobable that they would beregarded by
a portion of the public, at least, as menace
to the peace Of the country, and thus work
a positive injury to the Order. In them
selves these auxiliaries would doubtless prove
very valuable adjunct to the militia of any
State, and it is certainly happy thought
to select their officers from among those
who have had an actual experience of war,
but it seems to US that they should be inde-
pendent of the Grand Army, and that their
allegiance should be given to the only au-
thorities in whom, in the event of war, is
vested the power to call them into service.
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WE have now received sufficient num-
Der Of copies Of our issue Of December 7,
1882, to complete orr files, and no further
back Numbers need be forwarded The
seDden viii please accept cur sincere thanks
for their kindness.
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A Lecture ON the sraaa Army.

Comrade P w. Wilcox, Chief Mastering On
Ger of the Department of Illinois has prepared
lecture entitled the Grand Army Of the Re-
public" which embraces the organization Of
the Grand Array It's marches battles, SC,
which he offers to deliver at Post meetings ss
very reasonable rates. The press speaks In
very high terms of the lecture
The National tribune., 1883-10-25

THE Harrisburg Pa Independent declares
that revelations are being made that The
Government is annually paying millions of
dollars In pensions to men who profess to
have been disabled in the military service of
the country during the civil war, but who
are known In their locality as having been
bounty Jumpers who never rendered an
hours service in the army, much less faced
the enemy in battle,n and reasons therefrom
that u the time has now come to make an
effort TO put an end to this imposition by
the publication of complete list of PEN
M4ners, which, in its opinion, Z is the only
way to protect the Treasury from repeti-
lion of pension frauds which are annually
draining it of millions" This is the same
old business Of putting forward mere rumor
as if it were fact to justify an indiscriminate
branding Of pensioners as frauds. Would
the Independent venture to malign the char
acter Of a private citizen on the strength of
mere rumor? Not a Bit of it. It knows
too well the rigor of the Pennsylvania libel
Law, and it would not thus dare to slander
our pensioners as class did it not feel per-
fectly sure that it could not be held to in
diyidual accountability. For shame on
such journalism as this, which strikes at the
men who saved the country without scin-
tilla of evidence at hand to show that they
were guilty of the fraud which it charges
against themi
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
DISTINGUISHED 1879

~ To Fos THs BATTLE, AND Fos
CFHtlaKs.'f-AB ABRAzAM LIEcolN.
T-E FuslIo or THE UNITED
STATEs AUTHORIZED Law INCLUDING DEBTS INCURRED FOR
Passions soukTlss FoR SERVICES ~ SUP
PRESSING fsuGRrcIsoE or REGeiog, SHALL MOI &c CUES
Tiuseo. ERT XIV, CONSTRUCTION or TsE UNITED
SrATEs
coEsiDEE IT PAPER DEVoTEo TO TIE NTER-
Esvs or TE sooR pUesseo tN TE cOUHTRs. leasNEsTts
eoExeED q COMRADES ORDER."
PAUI NsgDENooRT,
coss,sssnaa4s-czslf, 9. a. r.
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TIE number Of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending octo-
Der 2oth, was as follows: Original. 800; i'm
crease, 109; reissue, SO; restoration, I8;
duplicate, Il; arrears o; accrued pensions.
45; pensions under act Of March 3, 1883,
1s2; total, $50
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THE VETERANS IN wAsHrNewoy.

The visiting veterans reached Washington
on the afternoon of the 15th inst. They were
met at the depot by General s. s. Burdett,
Commander of the Department of the Potomac,
and 3 delegation Of the q. A. e. Of the city.
In the evening they were baneueted at Abneris
Hall, and left for Newark on the 1920 train.
All the visitors were delighted with their
trip and spoke In the warmess manner Of tha
hospitality of their late foes.
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church, to publicly express their contempt
for its action, and their appreciation of those
who, instead of yielding to the requirements
of its outrageous discipline, have announced
their determination to maintain their allie
glance to the Grand Army.
The National tribune., 1883-10-25

Now is the time for the friends of THE
TRIBUSE 70 begin their canvass for new
subscribers. Blake il 900 by January ].
The National tribune., 1883-10-25

Ineiosed please End s. for two more new sub
scribers 20 THE TKrsUNE from soldiers wife,
Mrs. r. IL. Ealou. See<onk Mass.
Inclosed please fad S11 for eleven ssabserih-
ers- There more to foliow.-C. I. BsT3ess. &sw
Bedford, Mass.
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THE Manitowoc (Wis) Tribune, which is
edited it is alleged, by an ex-soldier, de-
clares that
There are men In this country who have secured
pensions the ground of permanent disability
from sickness contracted whilst in the service, and
from which they claim TO be now suffering, but are
well enough TO be admitted to mutual insurance
companies where perfect health is the first require
ment Now, one thing is plain: either the Gov
ernment or the insurance companies are being de-
frauded. The Pension Bureau would do well TO
investigate that charge.
1t is just possible that the Manitowoc
Tribune enjoys better facilities for securing
authentic information as to the character
of our pensioners than ourselves, but there
is this difference between that journal and
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: the former in
dulges in general and wholesale abuse, with
out yenturing to specify the names or resi-
dences of these fraudulent pensioners
indeed, it really knows of any-while THE
TRIBUNE, whenever case Of fraud, whether
upon the Government or the pensioner, is
is brought to its attention, does not hesitate
to publish the full and exact facts concerning
it. If the Manitowoc Tribune really has the
information which it pretends to possess,
why does it not publish it? IF the receiver ia
as bad as the thief, certainly the newspaper
which, having knowledge of the existence
of frauds on the Government, neglects to ex-
pose them, is quite as eulpable as the perpe-
traitors themselves. IF there are any ex-
soldiers among the readers of this distant
Wisconsin journal they should rise up and
demand of the editor that he produce his
proofs or forever after hold his peace.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

G.. o mainline trains run by Washington time
Lexington Division by Columbus time
No l, daily except Sunday Richmond to White
SULPHUR; daily except Saturday, west of White Sui
No 2. daily between Clifton Forge and Ashland
KY; daily except Saturday between Old Point
Newport News and Clifton Forge.
Nos. and 4, Washington, Louisville and Cincin-
natl FAST LINE. run daily between Louisville Gin
cinnati Washington ard Richmond, Va. Do not
stop for local business.
No. 4, Washington Fast Line, and No. 8, Louis
vile and Cincinnati Fast Line equipped with Pull
man New Drawn 6. Room, Smoking Saloon, and
Lexington, and Washington, D. g. Pullman New
Sleeping Cars between Cincinnati, White Sulphur.
and Clifton Forge; Day-Coa between Cincinnati,
No. s. daily between Clifton Forge and Ashland,
KY ,daily except Sunday between Old Point. New
port News and Clifton Forge.
No. g. daily except Sunday.
NoTE:-That No is oyertaken at Clifton Forge
By No. 4, which takes through passengers from
Nos and 9, Sleeping Cars between Huntington
natl and Richmond.
Nos, Q and g. Pullman Sleepers between White
Sulphur, Richmond and Old Point Comfort. Solid
Train between Ashland and Newport News and
Old Point Comfort
NoTE:-About June 18th, additional lines of Pull.
man Sleepers will be run as follows On Nos. and
via Charlottesville; on Nos. and s. between Co;
lumbrs, Ohio, and White Sulphur via Ashland ana
Scloto Valley Railway: xo,,,ror+
News on Monday, Tuesday, " ednesday ana sat
urday, on arrival of No. Fast Line, arriving "a
New York next afternoon.
For Rates Tickets Baggage Chec nof "a apfy 70
once OF connecting lines.
Ticket Agent Staunton, Va.
G. W. SMITH. General MANAGER -.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01
THE RETURN OF THE FIFTH
VETERANS.

The Veterans of the 5th Virginia have
gotten back, and if our friends Of the 2Sth
New York could hear them talk. from
Major Newton down to the high pri.
vste, they would better understand what
true fraternal feeling their reunion has
created. The veterans talk of nothing else
but the glorious treatment they received
everywhere, and 30 tell the truth, some OF
our Northern brethren who put up this
Job ought to come down and do soma OF
the listening, for the sold boys'' have
pretty nearly talked their best friends TO
death. If there is anything that can win
Virginian's heart it is just that sort OF
cordiality that the people North showed
the veterans at every p,lnt they touched.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

A paper steamboat has been built at
Lansingburgh, N. Y, for Pittsburg
company. Its length Is 20 feet. 1t has
seating capacity for Is persons, and a car
ry1ng capacity of 80 tons. The sheathing
is solid body of paper s-inch thick. A
bullet from revolver fired at the sheath
ing from distance of only four feet neith-
er penetrated nor abraded it.
We learn from the Clinch Valley Ne,cs,
that Col. Henry s. Bowen has sold his
farm of 1, 100 acres to Hon. Robert Burns,
for the sum of $4,000.
A Chicago glove merchant employs girls
fer clerks. They average well in good
looks, but have remarkably big hands. Il
won't employ Them" said he. IF they
can wear less than No. gloves. l mean
that their hands shall always be larger
than those of the customers, who are fiat
tered by the contrast, and thereby put
into good humor for making purchases. -
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

A fire in Lynchburg Wednesday morn
ing, originating in some explosive oil in
the cellar of Jones, Waters & Co., hard
ware store, destroyed it, che Virginian
newspaper Office building, the Commercial
Bank in that building, and Flood & Pc
ters' tobacco factory. Loss $250,00O. By
the falling of a wall, Policeman Goldman,
fireman Felix Bsldelvre, Capt. Moore. a
freight conductor, James Vaughn, tin
ner, and James Clements, were killed.
The flames spread SO fast that Maj. John
W. Daniel, whose Office is 10 the Vtrginidn
building, narrowly escaped with his life.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

The town hall at Salem, Roanoke coun'
ty, was burned last Tuesday and the rega-
Tia of several secret orders burned with It.
DR.. r. Lindsay Robertson, son of Judge
W, j. Robertson. of Charlottesville, has
been commissioned Assistant Surgeon in
the United States Army.
Bishop Andrews preached at the dedica-
ton of colored M. E. Church In Harri-
.eopburg sunday week.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01
The Richmond Whig's coincidence will

The Richmond Wings coincidence with
its party that ''under all the circumstan-
ces'' it got as much as it did last Thursday,
reminds us of the minister who after
passing around his hat for collection and
getting nothing, remarked to the audience,
after looking into the empty hat that he
thanked the Almighty that he had gotten
even his hat back. The Whig is evidently
grateful that Gen. Malone got even his
hat back from the Virginia audience that
he appealed to Thursday.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

The grand old party, with Coalition at
tacbment, underwent an unexpected but
much needed process Of chastisement
and publication" last Thursday and was
nut in fine trim for its final determination
next fall.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

Joseph E. Johnson, who went from the
Valley OF Virginia, committed suicide at
Trov Ohio. on the 10Th inst, by hanging.
Prof. Rittenhouse, for many years leader
of the Virginia Military Institute band.
died recently in Richmond after surgical
operation.
Randolph county, W. Va, has voted a
subscription of $4,000 to the Grafton Il
Greeenbrier r. r.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

Upon getting the Virginia news of last
Thursday Gen. Malone at once fell BAG k
to the Arlington House in Washington.
whore he is reported as throwing up en-
trenchments and cuss words.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

Itisa sad illustration of the uncertain
tv of politics to see the Great-National-
Liberal Coalition-party of Virginia trip
ned up and laid on it's back by few sher'
iffalities, constableships and treasurer
ahiDS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

sustained her title to being the banner
city Of the Commonwealth. With all the
political machinery in the hands of the
yard, she rolled up splendid majority
against the Boss and his little bosses. ALI
hail, noble Portsmouth.-Nor Vir-
qinian.
CYCLONE OR TORNADO?
Was it cyclone or tornado or what
that struck the Malone concern on Thurs
day? Whatever it was it was ID of a
lick.-Lynchburg Nesos.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01
Political Notes

A. G. Withers, Common wealth's Attor-
uey of Nansemond county who was re-
elected last Thursday, died Oh the follow
ing Monday. He WAS brother Of ex-
Senator r. E. Withers, and was Grand
Chancellor of the Knights Of Pythias in
Virginia.
Mr. j. A. McGilvary who was elected
clerk of the Richmond Mixed School Board
under misapprehension as to his politics,
has declined the Office. He has many rel
atives in Augusta county.
Speaking of the candidacy and defeat of
Col. James Cochran (formerly6of Augusta)
for the Commonweal tn s Attorneyship of
Culpep.r, the Culpeper Exponent says
Cochran, the former post master at this
place who was turned out by Malone, WAS
sacraficed constantly, large majority of
The colored vote being cast for Rixey.''
Every Democrat will recollect that in the
Second Cong ressional district last fall his
party only carried two counties. Here is
tbs list of IN 4jorities obtained by Demo
cratic candidates In that district last
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01
REAL ESTATE SALES.

REAL ESTATE SALES.
DUBLIC SALE OF A DESIRABLE HOUS Sc AND
i LOT IN GOSHEN, VA.-By virtue of a de-s
of the Circuit Court OF Roekbridge County, in
the cause of Virginia K. Armstrong ais VS.. Arm
strong g. ais entered at the March TERM 1888, will
sell at public auction to the highest bidder on
Saturday, june 3Oth, 1883.
in the village of Goshen, Va, that very valuable
and desirable HOUSE AND LOT now owned by
Mrs. Virginia E. Armstrong 1t
a. large lot. with frame house A ,HNN-N
of eleven rooms, and kitchen at &TTESAerAR
tached, store-room, linen ROOM e IailN1i6H
large granary and stable with six4E411aaz9A
stalls, large garden. house, fine water, one tene
ment clubhouse and has attached to it a VALU-
ABLE WATER POWER! 1t is the most desirable
property in Goshen. 1t will be sold on the following
TERMs:-s5go in cash. and the balance on credit
of one two and three years from day of sale. pay
able in equal annual installmentS with approved
personal security with interest payable semi annu-
ally, and the title retained as ultimate security.
Mrs. " E. Armstrong will show the property to-
any one desiring to see it.
may25-5t Commissioner.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01

Rev. John Cline Baptist minister.
aged seventy-nine, formerly of Allegheny
| county, Va, died suddenly near Talcott
station on the q. u D. road on Friday
last.
Prof. J. W. Mallett. of Va, was elected
Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Science, at its meeting in Boston
last week.
Rev. DR.. R. l.. Dabney, of Hampden
Sidney College, Va. has been offered the
chair of moral philosophy in the Universe
ty of Texas, at a salary of 81 1000.
Roanoke city, Va, has subscribed over
$1,000 to entertain the American Institute
of Mining Engineers which is to meet
there.
Ex-State Senator VIM. A. Glasgow, of
Botetourt is about making Lexington, Va.
his residence.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-06-01
DuR1Ic SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

! DUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.
On Monday June, 25th, 1888, (Court-day,l
IN front of the court house in Staunton we will offer
for saIe at public auction that valuable tract of Land
situafed on the Shenandoah Valley -"@"
Raroad Hne d %e ao oa w hai 1 Mra
Barbara c. Glenn has, until recent r.H
ly resided Said tract contains one sas5a44s
hundred and forty acres and has on it go0d well.
ing and barn. good orchard and Ans yonng or.
chard of improved fruit not yet bearing and is well
watered and timbered, in every way a yery desira.
BILE pyOperty. oo''i"
TERMS.-One fourth cash, and the remainder in
three equal annual n payments. secured by bonds
or trust deed on said land. ~ '>A"oA non
A deco 1or said land will be made before any pur-
chase money will be required. "A' p"'
JOHN A. GLENN
F. C. v. BROWN,
for themselves and as agents of the other
parties interested in said land
For particulars apply to F: c. V. Brown. Green,
vile, va. 0@Z H4 mar3e-tds