Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

Several parties have had portions
of their land laid off into lots conyu
nient aud suitable for residente and
business houses, but NO effort as yet
has been ,utlde to sell.
Contiac Mills is said to lie max
ing good headway on his SECTION Of
the Clinch Valley railroad With $40
hands. His work embraces the
heavy tunneliug in Russell aud Wise
counties.
Near Prosperity; presumably
happy villaae of South Cafuliua, sub
terranean shukes accompanied by a
strong smell of sulphur have late.
ly been observed. The Foraber boom
is slowly broadening Southwark.
One of the curious things in con.
iiection with the direct tax is that
South Caroline is credited OH the
books dt Washington with having
paid her full quota, while Wiscon
sin is charged with $4,000 still
due and unpaid.
An avenue two miles long Is being
graded through the site of The con
templated city of Minneapolis, lead
ing to the river, where bridge is to
be built. Provided the city won't
build this grading might be utilized
for the road bed of the 3 C's.
The bottom of the Roanoke Water
Works Company's reservoir dropped
out on Sunday. The reacrsoir had
just beenS completed at ii cost of
$4,000. Examination showed that
there was cavern under the reser.
voir into which oil the water had
emptied in thirty minutes.
Because Of the change of site of
the depot to a point several hundred
feet further east, much additional
work Is incurred in grading the
grounds for side tracks, The large
cliff of rock 10 the south is rapidly
disappearing, and Che entire grounds
assuming u finished aspect.
The friends of Mrs. DR.. II. B. Gil
lespie will regret to hear of her i'll
ness which has assumed more Sc
,ious aspect. For soine weeks she
has been too unwell to attend school
d.hies, and on Wednesday was pre-
lm:ed to take trip for the benefit OF
her health, when sue became much
worse.
Aunt Henrietta Splller, wife of
Hickman Spiller. and who was men
ti0ned last week as having been
stricken With paralysis, died Within
a few hours thereafter. The de.
ceased was well and iivOrably
known by the people Of both races,
and the burial OH Sunday was large
~ attended.
Mrs. Belle Hartman, daughter of
Col. Henry r. Hartman and wife of
Mr.. Shields Hartman, died very sud-
den', at the home of her father
oh Monday morning last. Some
weeks since Mrs. Hartman became
sn,ldenly blind and was moved to
toRn to he under medical treatment,
but her death vas totally unex-
pected
Advices from Salt Lake City re
rovt that the Mormon brethren are
getting rea y and anxious to give up
the practice of polygalny. When
such good news comes from Utah
even tue most pessimistic pessmist
has cause to- hope that Mormonism
may be some time rooted out, even
from old Puritan communities like
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Massachusetts.
a grade foreman while at work
on the railroad near Witten's Mills
one day last week, had his hip
bone badly broken by q large stone
falling OH him. 1t took q very
| 1plicatn srrriooI 0na,ation tn p1,
set it. DR.. Fouke, the physician
for the company, performed it
with satisfactory results.
The Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company has republished in
pamphlet form that portion OF the
Manufacturers Records New South,
entitled Virginia, which is synopsis
of the States climate, soil, produc
| tions. misunderstanding industripa md