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In the good old days, long gone by, when the I roaring of the falls of the noble " Jeems " was | all that broke the silence of the night in Rich- I mond; when a murder was a matter of ex- I citement for weeks, and when we could i fill columns of our paper with the parti ] culars of a burglary, we listened with ! wonder at the marvellous tales of the