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Some of our cotemporaries boast of a process by which hides may be tanned in five minutes.--"Jenks" says when he was a boy he got his tanned in less than two, but it was by the rat-tanning process, and his daddy was the inventor.

Col. Hobson Johns, of Rockbridge county, Va., fell dead at the Piedmont House, in Lynchburg, on Monday last.

The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 17, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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