Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . r 5 Q Koo I—I PLANIi ILL Al WOOD WOEIIfi IGHINEHY. Flooring, Ceiling- and Lumber Dressed at Short Notice. BRACKETS. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES. f^CROLL STORE FRONTS, k. [rlrlfr^•• •< •--•—iiimih MILL, YARDS AND OFFICE : 1300 to 1310 JEFFERSON STREET, LYNCHBURG, VA. ITS AND ITS TRADE. 67 Your correspondent chanced to menti(in the above account to ai^entleman of much intelliijence, born in Ireland, who repHed that hewas famiHar with the story, havint^: heard it many years aoo. It now occurs to me, that as thj abo
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . r 5 Q Koo I—I PLANIi ILL Al WOOD WOEIIfi IGHINEHY. Flooring, Ceiling- and Lumber Dressed at Short Notice. BRACKETS. WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES. f^CROLL STORE FRONTS, k. [rlrlfr^•• •< •--•—iiimih MILL, YARDS AND OFFICE : 1300 to 1310 JEFFERSON STREET, LYNCHBURG, VA. ITS AND ITS TRADE. 67 Your correspondent chanced to menti(in the above account to ai^entleman of much intelliijence, born in Ireland, who repHed that hewas famiHar with the story, havint^: heard it many years aoo. It now occurs to me, that as thj above-named Charles Lynch, ofRevolutionary memory, the ori£][inator of this form of justice here, wasof Irish parentai^e, he had learned this story of his own namesake—and, maybe, progenitor—of Limerick, and so determined to introduceinto America this Irish form of THE BIFITH PLACE OP THE CELEBRATED LONE JAUlv. (in rear of NKW KACTOKY—TWELFTH .STREET.) And alas, again, for the stability of the claim thus set up for Lim-erick, as having given to the world a new code of judicial procedure andto the dictionary a new word! As regards the latter, however, itcannot be denied that the Emerald Isle is quite equal to the achieve-ment, as witness the frequent and general adaptation of the modern boycott. On the subject under discussion, the Encyclopedia Britaiiica, (, p. 105) pronounces as follows—and in so doing furnishes evidenceof careful research and impartial judgment: 68 SKETCH BCKDK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; LYNCHBURG ADVANC H -IS FUBLISHED- DAIL7, SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY, AND HAS THE Largest Circulation (Sworn to) of any Newspaper in Virginia, WEST OP RICHMOND, AND IS THE SI MFRTIIG Umm IN Tll[ STftTf, «» Is the only paper in the City which takes the New York Associated Press Dispatches, thereby giving ALL THE LATEST HO
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