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Show him no fewer than eighteen aldermen and tin army of policemen. Hig contracts con-tracts were being let for the grading of the principal streets; men wore lugging bags of twenty-dollar gold pieces About town, begging to be permitted to buy something. Everything was red-hot. ltnfs Arlck Dead. Virginia Enterprise. A dispatch from Bakersfield, California, Califor-nia, dated December 31, says; "Hu-fus "Hu-fus C. Arick, supreme judge of this comity, died this morning. He had been re-elected for another term." iJeceased was a pioneer of the Com-ttock Com-ttock and well-known to all old residents resi-dents of this citv. Rufe Ariek was the first mayor of Virginia C'itv. Ia those days the office of mayor had "nutriment" "nutri-ment" in it, both solid and liquid. Mayor Arick had rooms furnished him y the city. These were the most gorgeous gor-geous in the city "palatial," the surroundings sur-roundings considered. It being represented repre-sented that the mayor would be obliged to entertain all distinguished visitors, be had not only an office but also a tine parlor and sitting-room. He also had a bed-room fitted up by the city, that was as line as the nuptial chamber of a leading San Francisco hotel. In his parlors was a sideboard brilliant with cut-glass and containing in its basement cupboards demijohns holding a sufficient suffici-ent supply of brandy, whiskey, rum, gin and the like to have stocked a first class saloon. Mayor Arick was a Jolly good fellow. He was then young, in excellent health .nd "one of the boys." lie had under |