[RICHMOND] ‘THE STATE’ MANCHESTER NEWSPAPER

Richmond, VA, 1877. 24” x 16 ½” folded in fourths horizontally and in half vertically. Worn with minor tearing along folds. Vol. II, No. 176, October 11, 1877. 4pp. ~~Owned and edited by John Hampden Chamberlayne (1838-1882), a Confederate lawyer who served as an aid to General A.P. .Hill, and later as a Virginia Delegate in 1879-1880. His war letters were posthumously published in “Ham Chamberlayne – Virginian”, 1932.~ ~Chamberlayne’s paper circulated in Manchester for 1 cent/issue, 6 days/week. This issue shows a printing error at the bottom left 1st page from a divot in the paper. The “Situation in France” and a reprint of Adolphe Thiers’ farewell address take up the bulk of the content aside from classifieds. Of interest are a piece about the “racy” performance of 3 blonde women called the “Dizzies” in “overcoming” makeup who sang and danced at an unnamed venue, and a section of “Special Paragraphs” in which the following chastisement from Chamberlayne reads, “Still fighting the Battle of Gettysburg? If there had been more of us there it might have been fought out on the field, and there would have been fewer left to find fault with the generals”.~ ~ Fair-Good.~.