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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

LAuvILLE COMBS, boy not yet IL
years old, will shortly be put on trial
ut jackson, Ky, for most fiendish
murder. Last spring he crushed his sis
ter's skull with n hammer, then threw the
body in the fire and piled on the wood.
The attempt to cremate the remains
proving unsuccessful, the young fend
took them to the creek near by and
threw tho body into the water 1t be.
ing too shallow for his purpose, the
murderer again moved the body and bur
led it in the sand. The boy is regu.
lar tough, chews and drinks, takes his
arrest coolly; and says the only thing
that worries him is that his sister comes
back at night ard won't let him sleep,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

1t has generally boon believed that tho
reduction in average height of French
soldiers which followed Napoloon's wa,s
due, of course. to tho immense slaughter
in those campaigns, mado all of those
soldiers tho shortest in Europe. But, ac-
cording to high medical aud military
authority in Russia, tho minimum hoight
of tho Russian and tho French conscript
is about equal-fvc feet; whilo in most
other European countries tho minimum
ranges from five fcet ono inch to fivo feet
three inches.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

IT is said that tho Oldest man living
anywhere is James James, n negro of
Santa Rosa, Mexico. who was born
near Dorchester, S. G., in 1852. Ho
was with his master in the revolution
airy war, was 40 years old when Wash
ington was elected President, went to
Texas when 1O1 years old, moved into
Mexico five years later, and now Mt the
ripe age of 136 lives in little hut, to
which no is confined by rheumatism,
and is supported by contributions from
the citizens of Santa Rosa.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
HOTEL,
MINERAL CITY, VA.

In addition to good fare and comfort.
sble lodging, the proprietor, Mr.. j. II.
DUFF, can give to prospective investors
and others detailed information regard.
Ing the section around Big Stone Gap.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

Tho New York Sun says: "Qucon
Victoria's attention is to bo drawn TO
tho fact that the woman who mado tho
lining for tho superb carriage in which
her Majesty rode on Jubilee Day last
year is on tho verge of starvation. The
poor creature is cripple, bent almost
double, and has worked and livod in
tho samo room for thirty years. Tho
lining was exquisite work, but the
woman was paid only five cents per
yard, and by working from dawn till
midnight shc was able to mako just six
yards.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

The popular idea that razor needs
rest occasionally has scientific founda-
ton in the case of fine rnzors. Tho
grain of tho best Swedish razors runs
in diagonal direction from the upper
end of the outer point toward the han
die. Constant stropping will twist the
steel until the grain sets up and down,
and steady use draws the grain still
farther over When it gets into this
condition it cannot be kept sharp, but
If laid away and left alone for awhile
the grain will resume its first position,
and the razor will be as good as new
again,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
Chronology Of IndIa.Rnhber.

The first pair of India-rubber shoes
ever seen in the United Statss were
brought here in 1880. They were gilt,
and were pointed like the slippers Of a
Chinese mandarin. Tho pair, which
wero handed about as curiosity, were
followed, in 1888, by an importation OF
five hundred pairs, which, rough and
il-shaped rs they were, were eagerly
bought at high prices; and from thal
time onward lhero was q regular impor.
tation of India-rubbcr shoes from South
America Of five Thousand pairs per an.
num.-ArgOndut.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
HOTELS.
'V,REMONT HOUSE.
New RIVER DEPOT.

Il New RIVER DEPOT.
This House has recently been thorough
ly Rafurnished, and put in first class con.
dition. Terms moderate. Fare equal tc
tho best. Passengers on the East River
Road will have twenty minutes for dinner
each way. Parties going west lay over {
hours, and this is tho place at which ts
atop.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

Thero is arising in South America
nation which, the A'golqut believes,
bids fair to compete with tho United
States IN enterprise and population.
During tho Inst year tho Argentine Re.
public added 5000 miles of railroad to
tho 1000 which had been built before.
There will this year be 200, 900 immi.
grants, chiefly from tho South of Europe.
Thore arc over 5000 public schools, and
800, 600 scholars. Tho chief cities are
Lighted with the electric light, and
abundantly supplied with telephones.
During 1887, 1000 vcsscls entered the
ports, and tho revenue of the govern
ment left a surplus of SO, 900, 900 over
tho expenses. The religion is Catholic,
and the language Spanish, although the
Italian and tho English nrc much used.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14

We have rather too many dismal hu
morists in literature just now, declares
tho Now York Ledger. Tho success of n
few genuine humorists has tempted
whole llocks OF dullards into tho field oi
fun, and lhoy aro fast converting it into
n literary cemetery, peoplod with the
ghosts of departed ploasantrios. II
funny lecturers and funny sketch writer's
would only give us the dead jokes OF
long ago in their habits as thoy lived
the resurrection would bo moro tolcrabo
but they dress them up to suit their own
conceits, and in so doing take all the
laugh out of them.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
MANSION HOUSE,
WISE G. H., VA.

One Of the best country hotels in
Southwest Virginia. Prospectors and
travelling men can afford to go out OF
their way to reach it for rest and good
fare. IL. II. DoTsoN, Proprietor.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
A Wonderful Automaton.

Professor Charles Richel, of Bridge
port, Conn, is completing seemingly
wonderful mechanical figure. It's about
the size of the average sixtecn-year- old
youth. Au exhibition of its ability was
given to number of New York gentle.
men, which included the removal of 0
watch from ITS pocket. and then, after
listening for the tick, the announcement
lin an audible tone that "It's just $3.50,
gentlemen" After that the tinepiece j.
Tcturned to the pocket.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-09-14
TAzEWELL 9. H, VA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER a. 1855

1t twon't bc ten years hence, predicts
tho Detroit Free Press, when all build.
ings piped for heat in tho winter will be
cooled in summer through the same
pipes. If ice can bo artiflcially frozen
it would bo no great trick to send down
the temperature of hall, opera house
or room.
, 1888-09-02
Deep Water and Reservoirs.

Prof. F. ]. Stanton has returned from
the Denver deepwater convention and
was delighted with the meeting, At the
session were 600 of the brightest men of
West and Southwest, every one of whom
betrayed his WI expenses.
Prof. Stanton believes this deepwater
question to be of vast importance to
Cheyenne ana the territory. The solu-
ton of the problem would place at the
disposal of all longitudinal and latitude
nal communication with a sea port. A
market for Wyming coal and oil would
be opened up and copper ore could be
p~roftably exported to Swansea by this
route.
The question of storage reservoirs, to
be- constructed by the government, is also
of vast Importance to Wyoming. Areso-
luton on this subject was adopted by the
convention at the request of territorial
and Colorado delegates.
, 1888-09-02

In days of old when footpads bold ter
rorized travellers the ''perfesh''
would disclaim the two members
bers who relieved drunken John Davis of
his watch at the depot Yesterday morning.
A portion of the victims chain consisted
of a piece of leather. This D. E. Clarke
and one Hayes cut, secured the watch and
decamped. They were captured by Of
6cer Thomson and will be given a hear
ing tomorrow. Davis was held pending
the effects Of the intoxicants he had i'm
bibed.
, 1888-09-02
Praise for Jarbeau.
TphiladelDhia TimeS1


Miss Vernona Jarbeau in Starlight
is an actress of note. She is the person.
ication of motion, ever changing. sur
prlsing, alluring. The grace OF action is
in her modulating voice, in the tossing of
her head, in the arching of her neck, in
the movement of her limbs, in the pose
of her body, in the pucker Of her lips, the
glance of her eyes, the witchery of her
tones, in the archness, triskiness, pert
ness, the inimitable style of her being.
With vocal attainments of no high order,
without facial beauty, neither a great
singer nor q handsome woman. she yet
possesses the chic that would set all Prris
wild with delight and that popula :zed
her in staid Philadelphia. She mas
equally the insouciance and bewitching
artlessness of the Italian peasant girl
warbling spontaneously rustic melodies at
the Spur of Vesuvius." The exquisite
grace of the French grisette singing "Pi
Quit" the saucy Spanish senorite
dancing with c~astsnets and ~undulating
movements, and the topical variety
singer, archly and roguishly inquiring at
the end of Each verse, satirizing some
popular folly, That's enough, don't you
Think"
, 1888-09-02

Rev. Father f. ]. Nugent has lust re-
turned from a visit to the Horse Shoe
country IN northern Laramie county, and
is very enthusiastic in his praise of that
region. The waving fields OF corn, nod
ding wheat tops and heavily laden oat
stalks were indeed a revelation. The
Horse Shoe valley is a splendid agricul-
tural region. Everything grows without
a great deal of attention. Father Nugent
saw patches of melons, squashes and
pumpkins fully matured, and was as
sured that the potato crop would be a
splendid one.
, 1888-09-02

St. Marks Episcopal church of Philedel-
phia to the Cheyenne society. The fact
is noted on the bell, which also bears the
following very appropriate inscription:
The mountains and hills shall break
forth before you into singing"
Rev. Geo. G. Rafter, hat christian
gentleman who is beloved by all, has been
pastor of St. Marks Episcopal church
since 1882, and to his fostering care is
due in a great measure its prosperous
growth.
While the new church is being used it
will not be formally consecrated for sever
al months.
, 1888-09-02
Bad shot and Good Surgery.

By the explosion of a gun in an emf
grant camp on the Platte river near Fort
Laramie three days ago a member of the
party, d young man, was seriously
wounded in the head, his skull being frac-
tured. DR.. Brechemin, the post surgeon,
attended the man, removing a portion of
the brain. The physician has hopes for
the recovery OF his patient. The young
man was a Kansan, en- route to Washing
ton Territory with his family.
, 1888-09-02

The public schools of the city open for
the fall term at 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning. The teachers who spent their
vacations out of town are home again and
ready for work. 1t is safe to say that the
scholars have enjoyed the summer vaca-
ton even better than their instructors,
and it is hoped that they also are ready
and willing to once more apply themselves
to the tasks Of the school room.
, 1888-09-02
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little saragr apis Picked Up
Throughout he City.

Throughout the City.
The public schools open tomorrow
morning.
The street corner lecturer was literally
frozen out last evening.
Three alleged horse thieves were ar.
rested at Rawlins by Sheriff High Friday.
Detective Boswell says that the train
robber pursuit has been entirely aban-
doned.
Bishop Burke will preach at the Cathe-
dral at high mass at 1890 o'clock this
morning.
The latest order given the machine
shops by the Union Pacific is for ten loco
motives.
There will be a game of ball between
two picked mines south of the track this
afternoon.
For creating a disturbance the previous
evening Frank Robinson was Yesterday
fined $l3 by Judge Lee.
R. A. Moore and wife of Nebraska,
have sold lot e., block Is, in Minnehaha
addition, to A. j. Gustin for $500.
The great Jarbeau appears. at the opera
house tomorrow night in the intensely
funny new farce-comedy Starlight
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Shay. of Colorado Junction, was inferred
at the Catholic cemetery yesterday.
Fair time is approaching and the own
will soon be crowded with sightseers.
The third annual will be a great event.
Chas. Wilson and Frank Claus, vag-
rants, were released from the county Jail
yesterday after serving thirty days each.
Hail stones are as thick now as Dem
ocratic votes will be in November" said
Constable Goddard during the storm yes
terday.
Arrangements are already being made
for the annually VI. G. A. entertain
ment to be given about the middle of this
month.
Election notices will be issued to the
various boards of county commissioners
from the Office OF Secretary Shannon to-
morrow.
In a half mile dash at Laramie yester-
day McGuire's Blue" defeated Stokes
Gray" The Boomerang says the
match was for $3.50 a side.
A marriage license issued yesterday au-
thorized the union of Miss Lizzie Farrell,
the handsome daughter of the well known
ranchman and Geo. w. Welsh.
In a case recently tried in a local police
! court one attorney appeared with thirty
one volumes of law works. The oppos-
ing counsel had but one book, the revised
statutes.
The case arising out of the disputed
ownership of ore from the old Green
Mountain Boy mine at Hartville will
come up for a hearing before Judge
Fisher tomorrow.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 760, minimum, 4So; rainfall and hail
80 in. The mean temperature for Au-
gust was 81. 80. Total precipitation LIS
in. 81 in. below the normal.
Ths remains of the deceased infant son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. I. Goodwin will be
inferred at the Catholic cemetery this
afternoon. There will be services at st.
Mary's Cathedral at . o'clock p. m.
Capt. Bennett yesterday received a tel
egram from Lieut.. Chas. II. Muir, who
is now at San Antonio, Tex, stating that
ne had captured the second gold medal in
the division rife contest, and Sergt. Dietz
was first alternate.
, 1888-09-02
In from the Mines.

The following named gentlemen ar
rived from Hartville on last evenings
Cheyenne & Northern train: Geo. Guer-
tin, Duke f. Baxter, John Sauney, VIM.
Miller, Jos. DAVIS, VIM. Vaughn, l. S.
Bartlett, Col. Dickson, Thompson Miller
and Dan'l Allen.
, 1888-09-02
1t Gets There.


The Cheyenne LEADER daily does JUS
tice to the fact of its publication in the
capital city of Wyoming. 1t is indeed a
capital daily.
, 1888-09-02

An eminently successful specialist of the
eye ear and throat, will be professionally
In Cheyenne at Metropolitan hotel, Sept.
10, II and IL, Monday to Wednesday in
elusive. DIR. ~Segmunde has had an ex-
sensive European hospital experience in
ms specially and is now surgeon in charge
ol one Of the most celebrated eye hospi-
tails in New York City.
, 1888-09-02
Call and See

Some of the latest and greatest novelties
ever seen in the city may now be found at
Rhodes & Troxelrs.
, 1888-09-02

Clothing of all kinds we're never known
to be as cheap as now, Call at l. Green
trees and be convinced.
, 1888-09-02

Silks and Linens on special sale this
week at Kellner's.
, 1888-09-02

1 am selling a No. l shoe for 81. !
Greentree, clothier.
, 1888-09-02

I lie largest stock of fine brandies, old
Whistles, choice hqueurs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-09-02

Fresh oysters received daily at Saddl
, 1888-09-02

Instruct yONT' children TO
buy their states and sta
HOnery at "THE FIR"
, 1888-09-02
DIR. VIM. sEGMUNDE,

and Aurist, of New Yorl
City,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
THE LATEST.

THE temperature at st. Vincent Mimi,
ON the 18th fell to 30 degrees. the first kill
ing frost of the season.
Two children of Jacob Schwane, farm
er living near Greenfield, Mich, were
burned to death recently during the alb
| senee of their parents.
ALEXANDER WOOD was hanged at Black
| foot, Idaho, on the 18th for the murder of
his wife.
THE President has detailed Lieutenant
Colonel John NJ. Wilson, Engineer Corps,
Commissioner of Public Buildings and
Grounds, as a member of the Lighthouse
Board, vice Brigadier- General James G.
Duane, retired, late Chief of Engineers of
the army-
A TERRIBLE race war is reported from
Iberia Parish, La. On the 10th the
whites mustered in force and killed
thirteen negroes who refused to lay down
their arms and surrender. One white man,
e. z. Smith, was killed.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered
Admiral Luce, commander of the South
Atlantic squadron, to proceed in the
Galena to Port-au-Prince, as the presence
of an American man-of-war is needed
there.
In the cases of the naval cadets, who
were recently tried by court-martial at
Annapolis for hazing, found guilty and
sentenced to dismissal, the President has
modified and committed the sentences tc
confinement for thirty days and depriv-
alton of one-half of the annual leave.
THE business failures (Dun's report)
for the seven days ended August Is num-
bered for the United States, ISL; Canada,
80; total, 219s compared with 233 the pre-
Vious week and 161 the corresponding
week of last year.
THE next meeting of the National Fire.
mems Association will be held at Kansas
City, Mo-, September IL, next year.
THE American Bar Association, recently
in session at Saratoga, n. Y, elected David
Dudley Field, of New York, president.
Among the viee-Presidents elected was
General Harrison, the Republican Presi-
Dental nominee.
THE twenty fifth anniversary of the
founding of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers was celebrated in Detroit on the
18th with 1900 members prezent. Chief
Arthur presided
THE strike of the navvies of Paris has
collapsed for lack of funds.
T1E wheelhouse of the powder mill at
Windsor. Province OF Quebec, Can, was
blo~H up the other day and two men
killed.
THE petrified tusk of a mastodon, meas
uring Is feet, I inches, has been found OH
farm near Bismarck, OAK.
THE Senate on the 18th passed a bill
amending the postal laws so as to prevent
the mails being used for immoral purposes
and also to prevent the using of scurrilous
envelopes by alleged debt collectors and
others. The Fisheries treaty was further
considered. Legislation was again blocked
IN the House for want Of quorum.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
FEVER RAvAGES.
Official Reports of the Yellow Fever Epi-/
demic-Its RaVages fra Cuba.

Official Reports of the Yellow Fever Epi-
.. demic-Its Ravages in Cuba.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Surgeon- Cen
eral Hamilton has received a telegram
from the Secretary of the State Board of
Health at Wilmington, N. c., saying that
there are no cases of yellow fever in Will
mington, but there is a suspicious case,
isolated three miles from Goldsboro, thir-
ty-four miles from Wilmington, which is
supposed to have come from Jacksonville.
The official bulletin from Jackson=
vile, Fla, received at the Ma
rine Hospital Bureau to-day shows
three new cases. no deaths and
twenty-three patients under treatment.
There have been twenty-eight cases to
date and four deaths. DIR. Wall announces
one suspicious case and one death at
Tampa and no sickness at Plant City. DIR.
Urquhart telegraphs from Way Cross, Ga.
that there are five men engaged in fumi-
eating mails there,
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 15.-There
were twenty deaths from yellow fever in
this city up to July %. New food is fur
nished the disease by lot of freshly ar
rived Spaniards, who are working at the
Paraguay mines near this city. Many
children and native Cubans in the in
terror are dying of yellow fever. AS
many as twenty-four children at Sancti
Espiritu have been swept away in a single
day by the disease.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
THE SOUTH.

WILLIAM B. BAKER, rolling mill owner
and bank president sof Winchester, Va.
and noted business man, died the other
day.
FAT Galveston, Tex, recently John Love-
JOY. prominent attorney, shot and in
stantly killed Aaron Williamson. The diff
hculty originated over IA debt of $50 owed
Williamson by Lovejey since the fall of
1854, when the latter ran and was defeated
for district attorney Of that judicial dis
trict.
THE Alabama Commissioner Of Agri-
culture and party have started for a
tour Northwest in a special car fitted up
with specimens of Alabama products.
AN official bulletin of the 18th reported
rtw enty-three cases of yellow fever at
Jacksonville, Fla, up to date with three
deaths. Gases were reported at other
cities. A panic prevailed, trains going
north beingEheavily loaded with refugees
JOHN DAUGHTRY, aged ttwenty-seven,
clerk on the steamer Rob Roy was run
Overland killed on the le<ae at Memphis,
Tenn, recently by freigk train of the
kansas City railroad.
Ina quarrel caused by Jealousy at Hep
EinSville, KY. Charles Flemingswas stabbed
by Farmer w. s. Duncan, who had been
calling on Flemixg's divorced wife.
THE Texas Democratic cons<ention re-
n01ainated Governor l.. s. Ross and Lieu
tenant-GOT ernor " heller by reclamation.
CONGRESSMAN HEMPHILL has been re-
nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth
South Carolina district.
FAVORABLE reports were received from
Jacksonville, Fla, on dhe 10th, regarding
the yellow fever, there being no new cases
and no deaths.
ROSENBERG and Jones, two police off,
GERS of Louisville, KY, were fatally
stabbed by drunken ruffianr named Dill
ger in a house OF ill-fame recently. The
ruffian was beating a woman, the officers
to the call for help, when tie
decd was committed. digger was ar
rested.
RECENT stories of trouble between the
Hatfield and Mccoy gangs in Pike County,
KY, are positively denied
j. NJ. HUNT, Samuel Vision and :. P.
White have been nominated for the Court
Of Appeals by the Texas Democratic State
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
Coming out at the small End.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 15.-Pittsburgh.
Phil, the noted horse race plupger, his
brother, George Smith and Samuel Mig
mercy have returned home from New York
for a rest. Phil is not the same cheerful
confident winner of thousands that he was.
this time last year. Up to date he is said
to be nearly $4,000 loser on the. season.
Things have not been coming his way.
and, in common with many more people
who follow the horses, he has been making
much the worst of it. In addition to his
losses he was sick about four weeks. and
some good things got away from him in
consequence. He has rather low estimate
of the honesty of many racing events. eve.I
on such famous course as that at LONG,
Branch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23

AcsrM CoBBIN. gave a dinner TO Hon.
Levi p. Morton, at the Oriental Hotel.
Conev Island, on the 18th. The guests
were: George w. Childs, ex-senator Platt.
Charles A. Dana, John c. New, Allen
Thorndike Rice, j. Sloat Fassett, Mayor
Chaplin, of Brooklyn, and M. Gennadieus,
of London.
Two heavy earthquake shocks, lasting
thirty seconds and accompanied by dis
tinct sounds, occurred the other night at
Winthrop, Me.
ALEXANDER AGAssIz, of Cambridge,
Mass, has been reelected president OF the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of
Michigan.
CONNECTICUT Republicans have nomi-
mated Morgan j. Buckley for Governor.