Sent On For Murder-The Yankee Cavalry Soldier, Jim Madison, who shot and killed Mr. W. P. Boley in this city a few weeks since..-[ Lynchburg News - United States of America, Virginia, Richmond Weekly Dispatch - Feb 2, 1870; submitted by Frances Cooley]

German Emigrants---A party of emigrants, direct from Germany, arrived in the city a few days ago. There are four men and one woman in the party-all robust and fine-looking. They announce the purpose of settling near Campbell Court-house for the purpose of engaging in farming and the cultivation of the grape, and state that other parties will soon join them. They were still in the city on Wednesday night. - [Lynchburg Republican - United States of America, Virginia, Richmond Weekly Dispatch - Feb 2, 1870; submitted by Frances Cooley]

Cotton - Twenty car-loads of cotton aggregating five hundred bales, passed over the Virginia and Tennessee and Southside Railroad yesterday. -- [ Lynchburg Republican - United States of America, Virginia, Richmond Weekly Dispatch - Feb 2, 1870; submitted by Frances Cooley]

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