DIDN’T FIND RICHMOND.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 963, 27 July 1877, Page 3

DIDN’T FIND RICHMOND.

(Detroit Free Press.) A dozen or more idlers around the Central Market were yesterday taking a deep interest in a war map published in a New York daily paper, when .Brother Gardner, the old coloured man, pushed his way into the map for a minute or two. ‘ Whar ’bouts on dis map is ole Virginny?' he suddenly called out. ‘ It isn’t on there at all,’ answered one of the crowd. ‘ Whar’ bouts on dis map is Richmond ?’ continued Gardner, running his linger over the paper in a wild way. ‘ How do you expect to lind Richmond on this map of Europe ?’ asked a bystander. ‘ How do I ’spect? Why, sah, what has de map of Europe to do wid Richmond ? Wasn’t dar more rightin’ aroun’ Richmond nan you could scare up in all Europe in ten years ? Have dey gone an’ ignored dat fact? 11 ave dey got out a map an’ left dat town out in de cold ? Somebody find de town for me, an’ I’ll show you de exact spot whar I was hit in de chin by a cannon ball an’ woun led all to pieces.’ ‘Go away this is a war map of Turkey and Russia.’ ‘ Widout any Richmond on it ?’ ‘ No, sir—Richmond isn’t there.’ ‘ Den I’m gwiue right away—gwine to git right out’n dis crowd in a hurry ! A fter all us folks fought an’ bled an’ died down dar an’ left mr boues to bleach in de sun, it’s a perjeck insult, sah, to come aroun’ heah wid a new wah map showin’ de Black Sea as big as a meetin’ house an’ leavin’ Richmond clar off de fair ground entirely I Come away from dat fraud, you cull’d folks !’