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FIRST INSTALLMENT. Where the Money came from—First Effect of Riches—Yearning for
Ashcake and Buttermilk — Overwhelming Sense of Poverty—
Misery and Wrath—A Morning Walk—Accident—Calvin Jones
and Tom Kirkpatrick 13SECOND INSTALLMENT. The Cat out of the Bag—How People behaved—Park and Reservoir
for Lynchburg—Alarming Increase of Destitution—W. E. Binford
and the Widow Bexley—How to Help, whom to Help, and When
—Rush of Editors, Photographers, etc.—“Sky Surprises” 19THIRD INSTALLMENT. Fits of Pride—How cured—A Sneaking Heart-Devil—The Pleasure
of Giving—Some Schoolmarms—Ham. Chamberlayne—Deacon
Handy—“The Native Virginian”—Numerous Widows—Colonel
McDonald—Billy Christian—Trick on a Fat Doctor, etc. 25FOURTH INSTALLMENT. Laura Park—Sneers at Jones and Adams—The Great Reservoir—
New Market-House—Grand Celebration—Arrival of Old Lynchburgers—Ballard
Kidd and Harriet Rouse—Works at Curdsville,
etc.—Rage of a baffled Rich Man—College for Old Virginia
Fiddlers, etc. 33FIFTH INSTALLMENT. Blessings of the Fiddlers' College—Dancing vs. Pure Hugging—
Course on Fife and Tobacco-Horn—Blind Billy—Buckingham
Female Institute—“Chermany” and “Ant'ny Over”—Langhorne's
Tavern, Ça Ira, New Store, Raine's Tavern, etc.—Spout
Spring, Red House, Pamplin's, Tarwallet, etc.—College for Old
Virginia Cooks—Hampden Sydney College—Mosque and Shot-Tower
at Burkeville 4010SIXTH INSTALLMENT. Good Sidewalks in Richmond—Council of Cobblers and Ostlers—
New Capitol proposed—Intense Rage of the Legislature—Speeches
of Indignant Members—Appearance of Capitol in 1910—Strangers
from Japan and North Carolina—Deplorable Consequence of a
Bank, etc. 47SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Railroad Depots in Richmond—Improvements on Broad Street—
Shields House—Virginia Historical Society Building—Colonel T.
H. Wynne and Dr. W. P. Palmer—Automation of Com. Porter—
Brice Church—Free-Pew Question settled—Paganism of Adams—
Pulpit Propriety and Duck Guns—Rev. Dr. Broadus—Varlets,
Cudgels, and Assassins—Congregational Singing—Church of
Spectroscope 52EIGHTH INSTALLMENT. Mr. Pigskin on Immigration—Adams Hints at Empire—Ten Thousand
Dollars each to Fifteen Hundred Girls—Bad Consequences
of Good Intentions—Excitement in Virginia—Adams Hated—
Regarded as an Active Intransitive Fool—Gov. Kemper—Expensive
Joke on Wife—A Lesson to Husbands—Rev. Dr. Peterkin
—Venom without Spondulics 60NINTH INSTALLMENT. Sad Results of an Explosion—Drs. Cullen and McGuire—Happy
Resection of a Steeple—Burwell Music Hall—Great Fiddling
Festival—A Treat for Pretty Girls—Happiest Time of Old
Adams's Life—Gen. Richardson and Col. Sherwin McRae—
Adams's Patent Lecture-Halls—Judge Waller Stapler—“Johnny
Reb.” 69TENTH INSTALLMENT. Cremation of Piano Advertisers—Wisdom of Roman Catholics—
The Addie Deane House—University of Virginia—Judge William
Robertson, Dr. Maupin, etc.—Editorial Academy—Asylum for
Worthless Young Men—Parke Park—Richmond Boulevard—
Matthews & Matthews—Life's Appomattox—Semi-Phalansterian
Squares, etc. 7611ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Black Crook Club Monument—Dr. Leigh Burton—Nat. Sturdivant
Terrace—Hermann Garden—Louis Euker—Cornelia
Cathedral—Worship Purely Musical—Leo Wheat—Major Burr
Noland—Diseased Germans—Midnight New Year Services—Our
Saviour—Mary Davidson—General Mahone—Elder, Fisher, and
Sheppard—G. Watson James, etc. 87TWELFTH INSTALLMENT. Tour with Artist-Friends—Suggestive Summering—Badly Apple-Brandied—Judge
Crump—John R. Thompson's Tomb—Yankees
—“The Last of Pea Time”—Squirted out of Town—Peter Mayo
and Alexander Cameron—Valentine's Colossal Statue—Dr. W.
Hand Browne—Adams's “Folly,” Eleven Hundred Feet High—
Gala Day all around the Globe—Excitement in Lynchburg—Jack
Slaughter and Robin Terry—Trash Green—Death of Wife—Badly
Kicked—Home near Pamlin's Depot. 97THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT. A Lonely Old Age—Dark and Bitter Thoughts—Arrival of the
Commodore—Throwing Mexican Dollars—A Negro Killed—A
Stormy Night—Trouble of Life's Ending—Misery of this World
—Hallucinations—In the Fodder-stack—A Voice. 109FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. Aunt Polly Waddy—Cavalry Comin'—Ned Gregory, Barron Hope,
V. Dabney and others—Slugs and Gulgers—Col. T. F. Owens
—An Old Virginia Breakfast—The Commodore Breaks Loose—
A Terrible Time—Cremation—Loose Again—Earthquakes, Cholera,
etc,—Grand Dinner—Royal Ashcake—Toasts, Speeches, and
Perfect Bliss—Asleep at His Own Table. 116FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT. In Gordonsville—Grand Triangular Bob Sully Hotel—Fried Chicken
and Hard-boiled Eggs in Effigy—Vast Gongs—Stofers, Frys,
Scotts, Chapmans, Kincheloes, etc.—The Sphinx—Adams a
Nuisance—Sent to Poor-House—Death—Burial and Obituary—
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