Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — The Pride of Virginians. [ARTICLE]

The Pride of Virginians.

porreapoudeuce ot'Hi *#. Heralkk * ■* i « ! isn S to Rlchmotirftbcgrq iga,(furious compound of tbe metropolitan and the prosssafe ism. - The et'ty*ie the-pride of all traW ssr majority in the Degisiatotej .with -Ihe ssfefeWit Wh'wit'Wheli B to posedtle todo kyfaaitoXe: HyTftie Js#uth;ttihearifhW extend’ from/ the Potomac nearto the Miaaiiiatpp4 a»Mi yet there to not:a b? th. fcy ■ to re-build. year or two they had a handsomer city than evgf bgfoie* -TBfese same energetic fohto h»TP been fleeopppths paving

squares of Main street with Belgian blocks, and the wha’e job is not yet done. Dust aud heat and no water, Aided by the blundering city officials, have m id# this Main street improvemeat an eyosore ftnd an affliction. The foundries and workshops funrtsb era•«il arts -are fosteir dhand- enoougfiged. There to activity, in real,^ate, and numerous stpres and resloeticeis'have' this year beeiV erected.--' The dUy is extecdlwg itself westward with great rapidity; money is plenty aud the laborer to well Yet >thdi huildiug called tho City Hall would, ipe ac cGpted by turtaen as good enhugh for -a -first-class ilvery.'stable. The be*t rsSffS&i? conrti lutes the #treeb«!esntng bureau, (who has no Dtner -working force than a shackeled hall-and-chara gantlr.’and nbother laboreito ate ter be seefa on- the, beautiful Capitol park than those w;egji»gthe zebra-like tihifortn bf (hi 'pimitentiary donVlCtd.--”1 L:»*s ;qo *i.l ;