The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19
LOOKING BACKWARD;
FORTY YEARS AGO
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FORTY YEARS AGO
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There lies before me a copy Of the Rich
mond Examiner just forty years old, the u
date or Its issue being Monday, March 't'l
20, 1865" Paper and printers. Ink in those
days were expensive, and, therefore, the 81
Examiner people used no more Of either
| thnn was necessary; accordingly, the Tx
anlner had only two pages, but these d
were OF closely printed matter. The sub
scription rates were these: "Onc year,
SEQ; Six months s35; three months, $50; ono
month, ST."
rho Daily Dispatch, which was a larger
paper, had n still higher rate Of subscrip-
/ tiona 1t was 800 the year, and $50 for
six months 1t must be remembered.
However that at that tllnt $50 In Con-
fcdcratc money world buy only 81 In !
gold IN N 558
1hp old newspaper before mo affords#l
lcurious reading. IL
| The Confederate States Congress Is In
session for the last time. Mr.. r. NJ. Z.
| Hunter. from Essex county, Va, Is 1preg- N
ident pro TEN. OF the Senate. Mr. Wat
son, OF Mississippi, from the Joint COM
iIlltleGE uppUl1lcu%lO Whlt
! Of the Confederate states, reported. The Vi
President stated that, he had no fur
ther communication to make Il o Congress- II
|. 4. q !. : - that to the full extent OF his
power and the resources placed Mt his
disposal ali might feel assured OF his pur-z
pose faithfully to protect and defend the
country ~ X He hoped that the Il
members Of the two houses might safely
reach their homes, and TINT they and
their families and their common country
might continue to experience the pro-
lection and favor OF heaven, Mr.. Hum
ter then arose and said d, h
Senators, the hour of 2 o'clock P.f IL. III
having arrived, ! becomes he duty OF I'll
| the chair TO pronounce tho Senate adj
ijourned sine die
4 Similar action was taken IN the lower
House. The senators and congressman n
left Richmond for their homes. but before
all had arrived thcrent Richmond had M
fallen and the 5Confederacy was PRACTICAL
Is d matter Of history. We Il n VA
The War News paragraphs OF tho
Examiner are quite Interesting. as wit
ness: s tss3f MS ss8S 554a.
there was some diminishing yesterday
on the Nine Mile Road. on the nortl, bank rs
| or the ia mes River. Some 5descrters who
came iii yesterday evening state that}n Z
baltic is soon to como off and that they
had prudently y came over In order to be
puL tifsS WA
enemy arc well watched and perfectly
understood by General Lee. and proper
dispositions have been made at all points,
| II ~ I : Z DescrterS from Grants horde g
to the number OF thirty or more came
In yesterday. = .5 "A
I One itcm relates that two or our own 5S
men had been charged with desertion, s
and, upon their guilt being proven. they
were condemned to be shot This sem "
tcnce was to be executed ..on4 tho first X
Friday in April next unless executive au-
thority in.erposc IS Those two men were
never executed, for the reason. that, the
first Friday In April. 1885. was he seventh d
day OF the month, and four days before
that Grants 5army had "interposcd.''
!8 a number Of local items are Of inter-3
est. 1 find n boarding house proprietor
advertising Ills house He promises good #
board at the following terms: !. p rice $40 8s
per day, lodging included Single meals,
SIS for breakfast and dinner each; SO
for supper and $40 for lodging =.
Now. IL anybody thinks TINT living Is
expensive, In Richmond, just let lin
think OF the time when 1t cost " $40 III q vi
day, lodging included. :" for one lone NOR
tai Y II " .'
II a person had a supply o LIES necea-
sares at that time lie guarded them with
greatest care. They were worth their Il
weight in gold. This being true, what
floss and gnin"&this item discloses:
AT a late hour}o on Friday nightsor Sat-
5urdny morning. the dwelling OF Mrs. Jo- Z
scph Allen, corner Broad and Thirteenth
Streets. was burglnriously invaded and
the store-room robbed ola barrel OF flour,
ilot4of sugar, coffee and other groceries 81
to the value OF several thousand dollars
Although the war-cloud was so densely
black at That time, one finds n firm adj
Yertising thus for li fss Sssi
"BoTTLEs. BOTTLES, BOTTLES."
champagne 10 tiles, quarts or pints,
wanted at No. 142 Main Street.
Tho champagne supply was exhausted,
we suppose, when the bottles were called
In. ~
E Slaughter and Company, NO. 1so Main
Street. announce to- the Richmond pub-88
lie that they have two barrels OF brown
sugar for sale y and '.R. ". Powers, cor
ner Main and Fifteenth Streets, wants
sthespeople to know that he has for sale
Indigo, black pepper and coppcras.'
The Richmond Theatre, corner Seventh M
and Broad Streets and "Budd and Nc. K
Dowcll's Opera House, Franklin Street
next to tho Exchange Hotel Z, We're IN !
operation. At8"thc Richmond" the play
was Tho Minister OF Police followed
by the local l3urletta, Lady of the #
Lions" full OF songs and dances. At 81
the Opera House the mnstrels promised q
IA great bill to-night-The Black Statlle.''
Tho prices OF seats In "the Opera House,
franklin Street, next to the Exchange
Hotel. were these: Parquette, ISL gall
lcry, Sc; private box, $50 a night. Tho
of this house offer highest
prices for old and new cork whichBi
means that "tle mnstrels', were of the h
old-fashoned order, BACKED up to the
shade Of SCOT, with the curtain risinE upon 4
the black crescent at whose respective ~
horns sat Bones and "Tambolirine.''3i5 WI
The MINISTRIES of those days with George Etlls
haze f,,,t1
much else Of boyhood,s days that ifs for
gotten. q CIV
u find one marriage announcement In
the old paper. It is that of two friends
OF mine. They wer5s1narrled in Lynch
burg, March 16, 1865; that day being
honored families III Virginia. Tho bride
and groom. Of forty hmlners ugo 1.-Two now