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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22
I Daily except SundnY.

I Daily except Sunday.
Accommodation train Except Sunday
leaves Richmond 3.45 p. IN. and arrives
Scottsville 7.45 p. m. Leave Scottsville
55 n. m, arrives Richmond $50 am.
Trains on Buckingham Railroad Bran ch
leave Bremo Bluff for Avron daily except
Sunday at 6.25 n. m. and 6.36 p. IN. Re
turning, leave Avron daily except Sunday
Mt 6.IS n. IN. and 6.53 p. IN.
Sleeping Cars attached to trains Nos 8
and 10 between Lynchburg and Richmond,
Express trains connect at East Lexing-
ton with B. & o. trains.
Through Sleeper Clifton Forge TO Hunt
ington, Louisville and Cincinnati Only
one change to st. Louis.
CONNECTIONS.
At Clifton Forge with g. & o. Railroad
for the South, West, Northwest
AT Lynchburg with N. & w. r. r. for
NIL points South, Southeast and Southwest,
and V. NJ. Railtoad for all points North
and South.
At Richmond with Associated railways,
for all points in the South and r. L. & P.
r. r.. for all points North
AT Lexington with b. & o. II. r., max
ing close connections ut Harper's Ferry to
and from Pittsburg and tho West; also to
points North and East.
For further information apply to
r. II. PANNILL, Agent,
j. n. MACMURDO, G. P. A.,
Richmond, Va
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22
TIT G. ANDERSON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
TAzEwELL G. II. VA.

TAzEwELL G. II. VA.
Will practice in the Courts of Taze-
well county and the Court of Appeals at
Wytheville, Collecting specially.
Lands for sale and land titles examined.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-22

Canada wants reciprocity. Wc should
think she would, We got from her co.
600 able-bodied laborcrs every year, and
only return fcw bank cashiers and
County Treasurcrs. Her idea Of reciproc.
ity Is, doubtless, to let us have tho gen
tlemanly dofaulters for fow years, and
lake tho nble> >budied .luborers instead
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Eaten Almost Everything.

In recent interview Colonel Pat Do
nan, the Dakotan, says: ~ have eaten
with the Chinese in China, have eaten
with the President of the United States
in the White House. Ihave eaten with
nearly every nation on earth. In many
cases I don't know what I have eaten,
for 1 have always regarded it as bad
taste to ask questions about the dishes
that are provided in your honor by hos
pilable people.
Tin China may have eaten rats, but
I didn't know it; and what you don't
know does you no harm. When the
Sioux want TO do you honor they will
serve you up roast dog. In Spanish
Honduras the dish of honor is baked
monkey, and sweeter meat you could not
imagine. The monkeys live up in the
branc hes of trees and on the vines; their
feet never touch the earth beneath them,
and they live On the choicest nuts and
fruit. No chicken was ever so sweet ana
tender as baked monkey. .
~ do confess, though, that On one OF
the last occasions Of my dining in span
ish Honduras I did not feel that all was
well when at the end Of the meal l found
I had stuffed myself with bsked lizard.
OF course there is nothing wrong with
the lizard except our petty pre- judices:
It tasted splendid, but when at last l
saw the big scaly leg and the claw OF the
lizard, I didn't think I liked it,"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Whisky arithmetic.

Under the above heading the Cincinnati
Enquirer prints the following:
'THow many drinks of whisky do you
average dayF said one gentleman to an
other as they were enjoying social glass at
a well-known resort on Vine street yesterday
afternoon.
"'Ohl taking the year round, presume
my average would be about ten day.
"'And how long has this being going onP
was asked
"'Straight along for twenty years, guess;
but it never hurt me any, and can tend 10
my patients The is q professional mani just as
well as ever could
"'But how much whisky, taking your own
statement for it, do you suppose you have
drank during that time"
"I'm sure don't know; never thought
about that
"'Well, let us take another nip and then
figure on it, And they did, and here is the
result of their work:
"'Ten drinks q day would be seventy
drinks week, or S,64O drinks in year. In
twenty years that would give the enormous
number of 72, 500 drinks Now, the average
drink taken in this country is said to be sixty
to gallon. Then divide this u, 500 by sixty,
and you will find that you have consumed
1,213 and fraction gallons. Now, there are
supposed to be, on an average, thirty-slA
gallons to the barrel. Divide LIB by thirty
SIX and you find that you have drank just
about thirty-s six barrels Of the stuff
THE old topper looked at the figures and
then at his friend, and then remarked:
We'll, let's take one. more and then think
I'll give my stomach rest for day or
two"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Drunken Snakes.

It may b. VI curious interest to trace the
singular connection which seems to exist
between the serpent used fguratively in
Scripture to represent the evil one, and
intoxicating liquor 1t is fact, and one
perhaps not generally known, that a snake
will avail itself of any opportunity to
drink whisky and get on a debaueh as
a lecture by the Rev. Ben. Deering, ccle-
brated temperance advocate, he stated
that upon one occasion when in early life,
he was employed in distillery somewhere
in the backwoods in Kentucky, the em-
ployes knowing the habits of snakes in
the above connection, suspected that they
were stealing liquor from the establishment,
and ripped up the floor and discovered con-
catenation Of drunken moccasin snakes, q
foot or more thick After that their habits
were more closely watched by Mr.. Deering,
and they were often seen to cautiously ap-
proach the premises, lap up the liquor, and
either crawl lazily out in the sun to sleep off
the intoxication, or to seek the society Of
their companions; for it produces in snakes
the same desire for social intercourse that it
does in men. Some years since, in India, q
cobra was discovered in one of the military
camps, and the soldiers desiring to capture
it alive with its mate, pan was filled with
wine and placed near it. The snake soon
discovered it, went after it, and after be-
coming ''mellow" sought the society Of
its mate, which the soldiers knew would fol-
low, and were both captured and sent to the
British Museum i'll London. A snake at its
best is the most loathsome thing, but oh! a
drunken snake!
When man is drunk his walk is serpen-
tine as the course of snake, and when his
spree eliminates in delirum tremens, terror
takes the form of hideous reptiles coiling
about him. Alcohol is we'll known to be one
of the most effectual remedies for the bite OF
a snake. There are other facts which might
be mentioned in this connection. The Bibi-
cal metaphor, "it biteth like serpent and
stingeth like an adder" may have been
chosen with greater regard to the propriety
than is generally supposed. Witness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
The True R'ng.

find to my sorrow that if the everyday
practice Of my life fails to exemplify the
precepts which try to inculcate, my teach
ing is in vain. The words I speak may be
fraught with the most precious truths, they
may reach only the home circle, or they may
go to the uttermost parts Of the earth, but
unless they bear the impress of life wholly
fail of their purpose. Gods spirit will never
accompany set form Of words, however
good they may be- if they lack the impetus
OF his presence IN the heart.
lately heard young man talking with
friend upon the subject of religion. I lis
tened and wondered. The words were good,
very good; but it seemed to me that they
lacked the ring Of sincerity. "Are you.
Christiany" wanted to ask as looked in his
face I could not forget that I had heard
something to the contrary, but we so often
hear evil spoken Of another this, I thought
might have been untrue. So hoped and
wondered but the words he had spoken had
more than an empty sound; they seemed like
sacrilege, like the handling Of sacred things
with unwashed hands, and had afterward
unmistakable proof that this was the case.
The circumstance turned my thoughts IN
ward, and asked myself if the words !
sometimes try to speak to the unconverted
do not often lack that which shall give them
permanence in the heart. The motive may
be good; we may truly wish to see those for
whom we labor benefited by our counsel; but
however much in earnest we may think our
selves to be, our words will lack the true
ring unless the whole life correspond.
Perhaps we sometimes wonder that we see
so little good resulting from our'welFmeant
endeavors and forget to look down into the
depths of our hearts for the reason. The
glow of a true Christian life will shine from
the face the power Of truly devoted heart
will ring in the words, and each shall bear
eternal fruit for the Master. TO such and
only such shall come the unspeakable joy of
having led souls from darkness to light
When our hearts are all allow
With the Pentecostal fire,
And our lives are pure and white
Before the Lord,
Then the work we try to do
With purpose strong and true
Shall not fail to bring its own
Secure reward.
-[Susie E. Kennedy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
RELIGIOUS READING.
Ouestions.


Can you put the spiders web back in place
That once has been swept away'
Can you put the apple again on the bough
Which fell at our feet to-day?
Can you put the lily-cup back on the stem,
And cause it to live and growl
Can you mend the butterhy's broken wing
That you crushed with hasty blowa
Can you put the bloom again on the grape,
And the grape again on the vinel
Can you put the dewdrops back on the
flowers,
And make them sparkle and shine?
Can you put the petals back on the rosel
If you could, would it smell as sweet'
Can you put the flower again on the husk,
And show me the ripened wheat'
Can you put the kernel back in the nut,
Or the broken egg in the shell?
Can you put the honey back in the comb,
And cover with wax each cell!
Can you put the perfume back in the vase
When once it has sped away!
Can you put the corn-silk back on the corn,
Or down on the catkins? say.
You think my questions are trifing, deara
Let me ask another one:
Can hasty word ever be unsaid,
Or deed unkind undone9
-[Wide Awake.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Gloucester Fisher.FOlk,

Thriftlessness is uncommon among
Gloucester fishermen; drunkenness is
almost unknown; harmless banter and
believing and boasting are the nearest
approach ts brawls. There is a tender
heartedness among them that is remark
able and almost pathetic. Many 60 away
that never come back. "Stand here, if
you will, at these crowded wharves, :"
writes correspondent of the Pittsburg
Dispatch, "and watch the arrival and
departure. of fishing fleets, and if you
have q heart you will feel something
heavy in your throat"
The old, mothers and fathers, the
young brothers and sisters, the wives and
wee fishers children, are all there, score
on score. They are trying to look brave
as. the vessels sail out. There are pride
aud loyal valor in their faces all. They
shout and shout to the departing ones,
who send it all back in good measure,
every manner of good cheer and sea lore
for luck. As the schooners clear the
harbor, out past Ten Pound Island, some
will run away around the harbor edge,
as if to keep company to the last. But
those who stay, leaning far out over
tho dark bulkheads, look fixedly on and
on until the white sails disappear be-
hind cruel Norman's Woe, or sink
behind the horizon; and if you can see
in their eyes, as they at last turn to the
little home-spot for the weeks or months
of dreary waiting, there is unutterable
sadness behind the quivering lids. Then
when the fleet returns, who can picture
the gladness and the woe upon these CEN
tury hold wharves and slips2
They say that down at brave old Mar
blehead every third woman is a widow.
And so the going and coming ard
going and never coming have woven q
warp and woof of smiles and tears
here, which have mcllowed and softened
thousands of human hearts in way you
can see and feel. Your fisherman who
comes and the wife, sweetheart or child
that is here to greet him are DER tender
for it all.
The old city is used to it, and does not
mind it. 1t is the way its toilcrs of the
sea have. And so if you ever walk her
streets and see hulk of a fellow hold
ing happy woman as he would clutch
fife rail Or capstan head in a heavy
storm, you will know he is simply
"making fast" with the strong hawser of
an honest love to tho very anchorage of
his life, utterly unconscious of you or
anybody's sense of the proprieties. And
this tenderness, too, is all-compassing.
There are many trusts and funds for
the widow and fatherless, and these men
give generously to them. On every
week day night the whole year through,
when the seaport is stirred by the arrival
of fleets with their fares" or cargoes
of fish, there is fisherman's ball"
and often many. These are never for
individual profit, but invariably for the
benefit of women whose hearts are break.
inc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
The Torch rs q WeapOn.

In retaliation for the hard fight that is be-
ing made by the temperance people Of Leeds
County, Canada, eleven buildings have been
burned at Irish Creek, the Methodist Church
and tannery have been burned at Kempt-
vile, and five constables have been stoned
and assaulted. DR.. Ferguson, NJ p. and
three other men, one of them q minister,
vera assaiIed and threatened with murder,
and two deacons of Baptist Church have
been warned to dismiss their minister or
have their church burned. The temperance
people are undismayed, however, and have
bad forty or fifty tavern keepers fined, have
sent three offenders to the penitentinry, and
have had the assailants Of the coustables
find $SQ0,-NeW York Sum-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Secrecy In Inventions.

Comparatively few inventions are now
worked secretly, remarks the Sanitary
Plumber, as the patent laws provide all
the necessary protection. In olden times
it was different, and valuable inventions
had to be kept secret in order to derive
any benefit from them, and in most cases
the greatest precautions were of no avail.
The secret of the manufacture of citric
acid was stolen from an old chemist,
who had shop near Temple Bar, by g.
chimney sweep, who dropped down the
flue and took note of the process. The
secret of the manufacture of tinware,
which was discovered in Holland, and
kept secret for fifty years, was stolen
by James Sherman, Cornish miner.
Cast steel was discovered by watch
maker named Huntsmau, in 1850, in At.
tercliff, near Sheffield, for the purpose
of making improved watch springs. In
ITO large factory was established at
Atterclifre, the process still being kept
close secret, but benighted traveller
once gained access to the works through
an appeal to the feelings of the foreman
bv feiening exhaustion. He cruelty re-
paid this kindness by divulging the se-
cret.
Probably the only secrect process which
has been kept inviolate, and for ages
openly defed the world of science, is the
iron trade of Russia. The secret of
Russian sheet iron IS owned by the gov
ernment, and is such an immense mo-
nopoly that it is currently supposed to
defray the entire expenses Of the govern
ment. The works constitute an entire
city, isolated and fortified against the
rest of the world. When work
man enters the service be bids
a last farewell to his family and friends,
and is practically lost to the rest OF the
world. He is never heard from after.
ward, and whether he lives or dies, all
trace of him is forever lost. There have
been several desperate attempts made to
steal or betray the secret, but in every
instance it has resulted in the death Of
the would-be traitor. In one case let
ter attached to kite, which was allowed
to escape, was picked up by some peas
ants, and, despite the protestations that
they were unable to read, they were at
once put to death by the guards to whom
they delivered the letter, and it was
afterwsrd decreed that the guards them
selves should pass the remainder Of their
DAYS within the works.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
WORBS OF WISVON.

Sin may be clasped so close We cannot
see its face.
Absence destroys trihing intimoties,
but it invigorates strong ones.
Fame comes only when deserved, and
then it is as inevitable as destiny.
Holiness is love yelling up in the heart,
and pouring fourth crystal streams.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of the example.
There is nothing that so ,efnes the
face and mind as the presence of great
thoughts.
Idleness is the hot-bed of temptation,
the cradle of disease, the waster of time,
the canker-worm of felicity.
A man who has health and brains and
can't find a livelihood in the world,
doesn't deserve to stay here.
The best part of our knowledge is that
which teaches US where knowledge leaves
off and ignorance begins.
One of the greatest causes of trouble
in this world is the habit people have Of
talking faster than they think.
Energy will do anything that can be-
done in this world, and no talents, no.
circumstances, no opportunities will
make a man without it.-Goethe.
It is idleness that creates impossibiI-
ties; and when men care not to do O
thing, they shelter themselves under O.
persuasion that it cannot be done.
Conversation opens our views, and
gives our faculties more vigorous play;
it puts US upon turning our notions on
every side, and holds them up to light
that discovers latent flaws.-Melmoth.
Some critics are like chimney sweeps;
they put out the fire below, or frighten'
the swallows from their nests above;
they scrape long time in the chimney,
cover themselves with SCOT, and bring
nothing away but bag of cinders, and
then sing from the top of the house as if
they had built it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Papcr q Protection Against Cold.

1t is well-known that paper is great
protection against the cold. On the
frontier miners and woodsmen preserve
large sheets of wrapping paper and news
papers to put between the covering
blankets when their is an insutficiency OF
bed covering in the hotels or camps. AN
excellent protection out-of-doors for the
the low cut vest exposing portion that
is generally we'll covered by the fashion
able high-cut coat and vest, is few
folds Of paper underneath The overcoat.
Many roadsters in driving out put few
folds of paper across the chest under.
Meath the overcoat as we'll as at the
back, and find effcctual protection
against the cold winds that prevail this
season. The paper is like wall in com.
ple!ely protecting the wearer.--Ne1 York
Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
TEMPERANCE
Interrogation.

Interrogation.
Did you ever think, when you meet and
drink,
Men Of the country, men of the town,
That women's tears and children's fears
From your crystal glasses are draining
down!
That hopes so high are doomed to die,
Drowned in the LIQUOR you long to tastei
That grand ambitions. and lofty missions,
And admonitions are going to wastes
That demon dire, with fangs of fire,
Turks in the winecups sparkling foam,
While serpents of death, with fetid breath, j.
epoisoning Youth, and Hope and Homer
Pleasure you sought-what has it brought.
Has it not lost you friend on friend!
Do not delay; dash it away
Ere it shall compass its awful end!
-EdWard T.. Kidder, in National Aduocdte.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15

SENATOR FAIR recently attended q
Catholic fair in San Francisco, and
asked the price of some rosebuds at
the tlower-stand. Before the young
lady in attendance had time to reply,
an older one came forward and answer.
ed: give hundred dollars, MIR. Fair"
The Senator instantly drew his check
for the money and passed it over with
out look of surprise or annoyance.
The woman who took the check was
his divorced wife.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
Prohibition in Florida.

Within the last few months eighteen coun.
ties in Florida have voted on prohibition, and
of that number thirteen gave maJorltles !or
the dry ticket. The result was genuine
surprise to the whisky men, They thought
that with the negro vote almost solid for
whisky, and the Northerners who had recent
ly moved into that State supposed to be on
that side, there was no doubt that the ", vote
would be in favor Of the bar-rooms; They
felt so sure of victory that but little effort
was made, and when the votes were counted
they could hardly believe their own eyes and
aarS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15

The new railway under the Thames
is rapidly approaching completion. 1t
will tap q number of congested thor
oughfares, and though only three miles
in length, will be Of immense service
to the population of London. 1t e1'
tends from near the north end of Lon
don bridge to Clapham Common.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15

THE octopus, or devil fish, when
boiled and then roasted, Is eaten IN
Corsica, and esteemed deGcacy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15

Australian market gardeners are being
ruined by Chinese chaap labor,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15


A frozen dignity instead floats about the
room and iceberg grinls against iceberg.
You must not laugh outright, it is vulgar.
You must smile. You must not dash rapidly
across the room you must glide. There IS
round of bows, and grins, and batteries, and
chs and abs, and simperings, and namby-
pambyism, world Of which is not worth
one good, round, honest peol Of laughter
From such hollow round the tortured guest
retirss at the close of the evening and assures
his host that he has enjoyed himself.
Thus social life has been contorted and de-
formed until, in some mountain cabin, where
rustics gather to the quilting or the apple
pairing, there is more good cheer than in
all the frescoed ice houses Of the metropolis.
We want in all the higher circles OF society
more warmth Of heart and naturainess OF
behavior, and not 80 many refrigerators.
Again: Wrong fashion is incompatible
with happiness. Those who depend for their
comfort upon the admiration OF others are
subject to frequent disappointment. Some
body will criticise their appearance, or sur
pass them in brilliancy. or will receive more
attention. Oh, the Jealousy and distraction
and heart burnilgs Of those who move in
this bewildered maze! Poor butterflies
Bright wings do not always bring happiness.
"She that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth.' The revelations Of
high life that come to the chal-
lenge and the fight are only occasional crop
pings out of diSquietude that are under
heath, like the stars of Heaven for multitude,
but like the demons Of the pit for hate. The
NJ: :sery that will tonight in the cellar cuddle
up in the straw is not 80 utter as the prncely
disquietude that stalks through splendid
drawing rooms, brooding over the sllghtS
and offenses of luxurious life. The bitterness
of life seems not so uniting when drunk out
of a pewter mug as when it pours from the
chased lips of golden chalice: In the sharp
crack Of the voluptuary's pistol, putting an an
nation that in hollow fastidious life there
is no peace.
Again: Devotion to wrong fashion Is pro
ductive Of physical disease, mental im6ecl.
ity and spiritual whitening. Apparel lnsutn
| cient to keep out the cold and the rain, or 81
fitted upon the person that the functions o.
| life are restained; late hours filled with ex
! citement and feasting; free drafts OF win