From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/10/1861

More Fires. – There was an alarm of fire yesterday, about 5 o'clock, and again at 7½ o'clock. The first is said to have consumed several wooden tenements in the western part of the town. The last named, so we hear, was caused by an attempt to fire the premises of Luther Libby & Son, corner of Cary and 20th streets

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