The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-21
PRICES ARE UP
IN PETERSBURG
.eanuts and obacco Have Both
Sold High.
OMAN DRAGGED BY A HORSE
ore Trouble il Store for Joyner, the Fake
Pullman Ca Potter-Recruiting Officer.
Auti-Saloou League Nee Ing
Postponed.
OMAN DRAGGED BY A HORSE

q PETERSBURG, Va, Dec. 2o,-The Pc
3ilrsburS peanut market is firrnvr than it
ats been at this season any time duIing
past 10 years. Hardly is there any sea
Sn remembered wncn ,-Ie farmers so
53.Ecraliy sold their crops as .arly as
6Iey Rave his year. soon after the
8op was picked spanish peanuts Went
~ from % anG So ems per bushel 20
II cents, and since hat ume the price
aas remained over 20 cents, some safes
2;i EmDotia being IS cents per DusheI.
3iso"e @Srcs We're planted in peanuts This
scar than any Year in the past live,
mit the yield o.. an average is not mere
55ian two-Ihirds CT crop. Planters.
s.ho last year Fought bags tor 2nN
Eishcls, planned considerable more lane
Gas year, and marketed their crop with
s{lc-halt the nulnucT OF bags it took
s#st year. 1t is the opinion OF conserva-
sre dealers that Spanish peanuts will
I'll for 81 before there is another fan
vi prices. More tan half OF the crop
;#lised IN tbs vicinity has been sold, and
4Iose that cid not so direct to the manu-
slcturers have fallen into the hands OF
3Deculators whose judgments rarely de-
s.flVes them in ] eanut speculation.
N TOBACCO SALES.
@Jhe coming TO this market of BUYERS
'5or the American Tobacco Company mas
IEeatIy increased the prices OF tobacco
Fer the prices obtained last year. Lugs,
ShaI sold Tor S. LAST season, have peen
Easily sold this year al s. anu 80 Fer hun
freu. Inc other graoeS have brought
sT1ces considerably in advance of those
Ia last season, and the rush of tobacco
. ,his market since the seasonape
II ,ather for handling it began mas not
stssened the prices. The rush as p-op-
.Dly over now. and further big sales
s-e not looked for until after the holt
Jays.
Il WOMAN DRAGGED
Sarah Brown, a colored woman from
rince George county. was seriously in
fired this morning in Blandford by being
.arown from a buggy. The woman was
irving INTO the city, and when She
cached the iron bridge of the Norfolk
no Western Railroad, just at the cor
orate limits, tie horse BECAME frishten-
Il at passing train and ran away.
ne woman was thrown from her buggy
sud dragged several squares until the
uggy had been smashed 10 pieces.
OTHER WARRANTS.
Several other warrants have been is
led for Matter Joyncr, the negro. who
snder the pretense of engaging Pui.man
ar porters ewindled reverai negroes
sut of money He vii! be turned over to
sther authorities as soon as he has
erved his term in this city.
z Mr.. Joseph PEBBLES, OF Norfolk, for
.lerly of Petersburg, is visiting friends
u the city.
s MS w C. Evans and son, of ), IL
n. c., are the guests of ,Snerln
sohn b. Evans.
Z Judge ~. II. Mann, of Nottoway, and
1essrs Charles T. Smith, of Dinwiddie.
nd Charles Gee. of Prince George. We're
4 the city to-day.
. There was good skating at Mest-End
ARK this morning.
The Continental Tobacco Company VIII
con build a large addition TO its fac
DRY in this city Tor the purpose OF man
lfacturing cheroots. The building viii
ne three stories high extending along
Harrison Street and occupying the pres
int site of the old frame warehouse.
I Six thousand pounds of Havana !eat
tohacco consigned TO the American Cigar
Company, branch of the Continenta! To-
Dacco Company, arrived IN petersburg
yesterday over the Atlantic Coast Line.
The mass-meeting wrich was to be held
aext Sunday in the interest of the ANTI
,aloon League has been postponed I'll
-anuarv, the committee being unable 70
get for the next sunday the speaker II
lesired.
There has been considerable increase
n business during the past few days;
iue to the large sales of tobacco and
peanuts recently made.
Tho public schools of Petersburg closed
4o-aay for the holidays.
Tho Petersburg Company. Uniform
5sniyh,s OF Pvfhias will take part in the
competitive drill of Uniform knights OF
4,ytii!as in Richmond in February. Ihis
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