Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-08-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Profit by others success and failur,
and you get reliable experience at les
than club rates.
Always appear to agreo with til,
world, and you will get on smoothly
without soaping tho track.
In itself lying ID base passion, bu
its tendency to injure others renders il
also dangerous orc.
1t isn't always tho man who know:
the most that wins, but the man who cnt
apply what he does know.
So long rs women is on friendly terms
with modcsty just SO long is women
vim Heated and no longer
Decorum itself 10 simply good sense
nndlgood will, but society often ruins il
by empty ceremonies.
Do away with Christianity and its in
aucnces, and mankind would run itself
into the ground in brief century.
Most any man is willing to tell of tho
good things he has done, but few tell of
the good things they might have done.
Of,l0 young men can be found who
arc vain OF their fine exterior, while the
tenth ono is proud CT well>stored
mind.
A bear, over 400 pounds in weig hit,
has boon caught at Roxburg, Vt, where
it had long tcrrorzcd farmers and their
llocks.
The aquarium at scarborough, m Eng
fish seaside resort, which cost over $500, :
900 only few years ago, has just been
sold for $40, 500.
The heirs IF din estate ($eoo, OoW in
Mount Holly, N j., will be paid this
week on settlement that has been
reached after a chanccry suit OF thirty
years.
No faith cure, or anything of that
sort, Is connected with the remarkable
case OF Utica man, O. b. NIatscson.
For four years he had been totally blind.
Now he has suddenly and unexpectedly
rcgaincd his sight, his vision being as
good us ever.
The Bonnie Doom, mado famous by
the immortal Burns, is the sub ;cct of lit
igation in the English courts. Lord
Allsa, Scotch nobleman, has p'ohibi
ted people from fishing in potion OF
The stream that has always before bcen
free 10 tho public. a suit has hccn
brought 10 restrain him from doing
this.
a Waterman was employed by resi-
dent Of Pain Edge, n. j., to guard his
premises. To sec what kind of duty
the man performed The owner tried him
the other night and found him painfully
vigilant. The Waterman, not rccog-
MIXING his employer and receiving no
reply to his challenge, fired and put
several buckshot in the lattcr's legs
The Virginia Enterprise says: A gen
tleman engaged in the pugilislic proIcs-
sion, and who is getting up smuggling
match in this city, paralyzcd one of our
local preachers, knocking him out at
the first round. lie wanted lot of
chairs from the church vestry to sent his
audience at the entertainment, and Of
Tered the preacher free ticket of ad.
mission for tho use of the chairs,
The schooner Grnmpus, built nj Noauk,
Conn, for the United States Fish Com
mission, is So tons burthen, commanded
by Captain Edward Collins, and is fitted
with we'll, that live fish may be brought
home. She will go on cruise, to the
Grand Bank. after halibut. An effort
Will bc made to propagate them by ar
tllicial Matching, the first of the kind
ever attempted. A stall Of scientists
will go on the voyage, and other sccn-
tiiic researches wi &c carried OH under
direction of Prof Baird.
Ephrnim Webster was the first white
settler of Onondaga county, n. Y, in
1885. lie was a brave soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and in the War OF
1872, and 1t is said his career is said to
have much resent led that of Daniel
Boone. lie spent much of his life
among the Indians, with whom he
traded and negotiated important treaties.
lie died in 1925, and was buried near
Tuscnrara, in Livingston county, Scp>
tembcr z, OF the same year. Onondaga
county will celebrate her centennial, an
with pomp and ceremony will bring
home the dust of Ephraim Webster to
rest within her borders.
A basc bali club of Manchester, N.
H., returned home Inst week after hay
ing won victory, and local paper re-
ports that the members "were received
with n demonstration that surpassed
anything Of the kind ever wtne .scd
here. More than ten thousand pcop,e
marched in procc, on and lined The
sidewalks. The Manchcslcrs were pro-
vided with barouchc., width were trim.
med with flags, and preceded by two
1rum corps, aud the procession, carry.
ngbrooms, marched through Elm street,
which was ablazc with fireworks, while
1ags and handkcrc!iefs were waved
from every building. The affair wound
ap with reception Mt tho Manchester
House."