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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

jected Mr.. Carter to q rigorous cross
examination, but failed to shake his evl
dence in the slightest degree. Mr.. Jack
son deposed that he had been through
his fathers books and papers and found
no trace of any such sum having been
| borrowed.
Mr.. Herbert again addressed the court
on behalf of the defendant, submitted
that the evidence which he had added
proved that the money had never beer
advanced, and that the bond had never
been given to Mr.. Flint Mr.. Elsdor
replied on behalf of the plaintiff, and en-
deavored to make light of the evidence
which had been given.
The learned Judge shortly summed up
the case and the jury then retired to
consider their verdict.
[ had been 50 interested in watching
the case that 1 had noticed nothing else,
but [ now looked toward the place where
Mr.. Sharper Flint had been sitting, and
found that he had disappeared. In a
few minutes the jury returned to the
court, and amid profound silence the
clerk of the court asked them the usual
question: Gentlemen of the jury, are
you agreed upon your verdicR"
eve are" answered the foreman.
"Do you find for the plaintiff or the
defendant?"
''For the defendant" I heaved sigh
of relief, and, happening to look behind
me, SAW Farmer Jackson, the anxious
expression which he had worn lately
gradually giving way to his old look of
good natured contentment
The judge having ordered the verdict
to be entered for the defendant express
ed an opinion that Mr.. Flint ought to be
prosecuted for fraud. Accordingly, as
soon as [ left the court, / obtained q
warrant for his apprehension; but we
were too late, for we found that he had
absconded, taking with him all the
money and portable securities he could
lay his hands on. We traced him as far
as Mudford, a junction about thirty
miles from Barton, but there we lost all
trace of him. However, he left ample
property to sltisfy all his creditors, SO
nobody was loser by his flight.
Since that time l have had no reason
to complain for want of practice, as the
case brought my name prominently be-
fore the notice of the public, who were
pleased to give me more credit for the
successful result than perhaps deserv-
ed. They were confirmed in this opin-
ion by my friend, Mr.. Jackson, who
Landed the way in which had conduct
ed the case, and attributed no small part
OF his success to my efforts He and [
C ontinue excellent friends to this day.
He generally contrives to run up mod
erately long bill every year, and few
days after send it in he calls on me
with a check for the amount, and we
have chat over old times Chambers
Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

UVsWS, IUNtT OF lily tUUTl
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the pillows near me roll,
While the temDest still is hirh.

The heart right toward God and man, we
are happy. The heart wrong toward God
and man, we are unhappy.
Another reason why we should come to
this spirit inculcated in the text IS the fact
that all ths differences of earthly condition
are transitory. The houses you build, the
land you culture, the places in which you
barter, are soon to go into other hands.
However hard you may have it now, if you
are a Christian the scene will soon end.
Pain, trial, persecution never knock at the
1oor of the grave. A coffin made out of pine
boards is Just as good resting place as
one made out of silver mounted mahogany
or rosewood. Go down among the resting
places of the dead, aud you will find that
though people there had a greater difference
of worldly circumstances, now they are all
alike unconscious The hand that greeted
the Senator, and the President, and the King
is still as the hand that hardened on the
mechanics hammer or the manufacturers
wheel 1t does not make any difference now
whether there is a plain stone above them
from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds
to read the name, or tall shaft springing
into the heavens as though to tell their vir
tues to the skies.
In that silent land there are no titles for
great men, and there are no rumblingS of
chariot wheels, and there is never heard the
foot of the dance. The Egyptian guano
which is thrown on the fields in the east Tor
the enrichment of the soil is the dust rake
out from the Sepulch2rs of kings and lords
and mighty men. Oh the chagrin of thos5
men if they had ever known that in the after
ages of the world they would have been
called Egyptian gunO
OF how much worth now is the crown of
Cesar! Who bids for it! Who cares now
anything about the AmphctyOnic council or
tho laws of Lycurgus! Who trembles now
hacause -NerXes- crossed the Hellesnont On a
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

A NEW YORK coroner's physician re-
marks that in his experience he has
found that more people die in the fourth
floor of a building than in any of the
others. In the cases of sudden deaths
he says that there are more which take
place on the fourth floor in one year in
New York than in all other parts of the
houses combined.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
THAT LONG LOST BOND.

HAD not q large
capital when l
begun my legal
studies, and by
the time l had
finished my arti-
cles it had be
come so very
much diminish
ed that 1 deemed
it advisable to
lose no time in
setting to work
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

Shakespeare was not broker; but who else
has furnished so many stock quotations.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
MAHONE AND WISE.

Shrewd Republican politicians who
have lately been in Petersburg sa,
that Mahone is as strong with :. hi
party as lie ever was. He has bee,
overrun this week at his home will
his loyal followers, coming to reas
sure him of their undying devotion
Mahone's friends say that the few
kickers, like John S. Wise and other;I
only tend to make Chairman AIahoru
stronger in the estimation of levd
headed Republicans.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disorder
cd liver in misery Indigestion is
II foe to good nature
The human digestive apparatus
is one of the most complicated and
wonderful things in existence. 1t
is easily put out of order
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy
food, bad cookery, mental worry,
late hours, irregular habits. aud
many other things which ought not
to he, have made the American
people a nation of dyspeptics.
But -Green'S August Flower has
done ii wonderful work in reforming
this sad business and making the
American people so healthy that
they can enjoy their meals and be
happy.
Rememher:-No happiness with.
ont health But Green's August
Flower brings health and happi.
ness. to the dyspeptic. Ask yonr
druggist for Il bottle. Seventy five
cents.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
THE l1TH OF -Ag'RiIQ.,

This is the day ,iallkimg the be-
ginning Of the great ta.dtf war of
1883 in the house of asolTescnta.
tiveS. After many mtMtllS of la
borious preparation, the prcd0mi.
nant feature Of the work Of the
sIesent Congress is brought to the
front to be fought over by as many
conflicting Interests as there are
peculiarly ditleccMt sections of
country and conditions Of society.
We know not W hen the end will
he, not for many months vet per.
ll.tpS. Aside from tho many inter.
ruptions, amendments, &C., to be
sprung at every occasion during
debate, already one third of the
members have had themselves en-.
rolled to speak upon the question.
There is undoubtedly great room
for improvement in the adjustment
of the tariff schedule, but whether
a majority can ever meet on a
compromise measure is yet to be
ascertaned.' 1t is impossible in
the nature Of things to conclude
the matter before the time of the
ST. Louis convention.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

The long talked of new book in
trOduced by Rose E. Cleveland is
being published by the j. L. Her.
bert Pub. Co., ST. Louis, Mo. The
reputation of Miss Rose Cleveland
as writer is such as to guarantee
a large sale for anything coming
from her pen. The Publishers of.
fer rare opportunity TO Agents.
See advertisement in another col
umu.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

The presence in our midst for the
next few months of those exten-
sivcly Interested in the develop
inent of Southwest Virginia will
perhaps revive sufficient con iilcnce
and energy among our own people
to impcl them to make some i'm
portnnt movements on their own
score. 1t may Just aus well he set
down as a fact that outside capt.
tai will be put to work in this sec
tion to the extent of makih. valu-
able any undertakings Inaugural
ted and carried on according to
business principles. Diversity of
business will furnish the new blood
needed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
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A FEW OF VIHGlNIA'S GREA
MEN.

Virginia has furnished to tic
country its greatest presidentsl {
Washington and Jefferson; its greag
est Washington aud Sco}f
to say nothing of Lee aud Jacksde
its greatest orator-Pairick Hentf
its greatest Judge Marshall, and It's
greatest poet-Elgar A. Poe. Let
some other or all the States match
it if they can.-Chaylotteville CKvo,s
icle.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
Lynchburg Produce Market.

Corrected by s. w. NowIfN d Co.,
Successors TO Nowlin, Brus, & Co.
GRucEhs AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
70l Main street. April 10, 1883.
Our market remains about game at;
last week Changes made are bit
few, trade fair. But Butte; eggs ca and
lows Wis IN !&es% demand. Bacon, lard
and potatoes quiet.
sBSee figures below. Orders filled NJ
prices ruling, the day they afe received.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
A PIPE LINE TO CHICAGO.

1t is stated in Chicago that the
Standard Oil Company has COM
pleted all its arrangements for build
ing pipe l;ue from Lima, Ohio, 10
Chicago, for the cheap and rapid
transportation OF the crude OIL. which
Is destined to lake the place of coal
III The great manufacturing establish.
ments in Chicago. a short time ago
The negotiations for the right of way
along tho line of the Chicaro & AZ
lantic railway We're concluded in New
York, aud since the beginning of The
week every west bound freight train
on Che road has conisined from two
to six cars of wrought iron pipes.
These ears have already been side
tracked us iar west as Crown Point.
Gangs OF men pre- working westward
from Lima ADD from This CITY, dis
tributiag the pipe preparatory 10 dig
Slng along he north side of The track
the trench in which it will be laid.
Machinery will be used in Che esca.
vation of the trench. mud MS soon as
all the pipe is distributed the work
OF laying it in The ground will be
conducted as fast as the weather will
permit. The pipe is eight iuc!ies in
diameter and each section is twenty.
two feet long. TO lay one mile re
qu'res 240 sections. As car load
contains only forty-eight, it necessi-
tates five car loads for each mile, OF
about 1.050 car loads for The whole
line. Tie joints are similar to those
used in gas and steam fitting and
will be equally tight. The estimated
cost OF The line without the pumping
macbinery and reservoirs is about
$1,000 per mile.
/ The total length of the pipe will
be about 21O miles, aud the entire
Investment will aggregate $2,25O,
600.
The threat made by the Kentucky
people and Legislature to relegate
Rowan county, that State. to a con
dition of somnolepcy by incorporat
ing its present. territory into adioin-
ing counties and abolishing its coup.
ty organization entirely seems to
have had the effect intended of quiet
ing the uneasy and lawless spirits
who for several years have made the
locality a place of angry passion,
| hlnndshcl mud disn,1nr
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

A syndicate including several Ger
man capitalists, has secured the ex.
elusive right for the Southern States
for reducing vegetable fibers to PIN
per stock, with the intention of es
Publishing mills in all the cotton
States and applying the process to
the reduction to paper of cotton
stalks and seed hnlls, now practically
worthless.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
The REPUBLICAN "Ir. !

John Sherman is the statesman thai
Ohio events to toot
AS the Presidential winner on the IS
route,
And John'is mighty willing, for he like.
that sort of fun;
He would grab 1t in a hurry, too
If ..-s,r,S,'-.-.. -
Blaine
Don't
Run
There s Allison and Harrison, the darl-
ings of two States,
OF Iowa and Hoosierdom, but each ono
hesitates,
He is waiting and he's willing to shoot
ing the party gain,
But he'll only pull trigger, sir,
If
Blaine
Don't
Run |!
There's Evarts and there's Gresham,
there is Cullom and Depew,
Each one willing patriot to see. the
party through,
And to do such deeds of promise us no
other man has done,
But only fellow citizens.
If
Blaine
Don't
Run !
There is Stanford and there's Ingalls,,
the rich man and the poor,
They are waiting on the threshold, they
are knocking at the door;
Each one is recommended; each is a
''favorite SON.
They can only be persuaded to,
Blaine
Run |
Washington Critic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

be exactly enough, it would be diff
ficult to figure ont, BY any cOmbin
luton OF the figures above present
cd, ANY method of getting just thai
requisite figure aud saving time
and trouble about the other eigll
teen. The largest factor in this
problem, the Southern vote, may be
assumed to be already disposed of
There is to all intents and purposes
SO far as tue presentation of this
case goes, as much OF u solid South
us there was in 1884. There are,
then, presumably 1913 electoral
votes assured to the Demorp...::'n
ticket. Forty o., lott -"'-e''' Oh "''o
,aI, ri eight votes remain
,sSasecured out of the sixty six
In the four northern States which
went Democratic in 1854. To Oh
tain these forty eight the electoral
vote of New York is an absolute
essential. The other three States
may he obtained, but all three Of
them added together only make
thirty votes, and without the thirty
six votes of New York they arc use
less. They would fail by eighteen
votes Of the requisite number But
New York, though an absolute es-
sential, will not, of itself, be sulli
cient. Her thirty six votes will TALL
twelve short Of the required total.
TO New York there must be added
Indiana with her fifteen votes, or
both New Jersey and Connecticut
with their combined fifteen. New
York with New Jerseys nine will
not do, amy more than New York
with COnnccticut's six. There must
DC forty eight votes assured over
and above the full vote of the PIE.
sumably assured SOLID South, and
these forty eight can be obtained
only by the carrying of New York
and Indiana, or New York, Connec.
ticut and New Jersey.
The problem is Il plain one. 1t
need not bc muddlcd and mystitied
by injecting figures of II possible
electoral vote in Minnesota or Wis.
cousin any more than ny subtract
ing the electoral votes of any South
ern State. -Ec.
Holding these facts and figures
in view the result of the next
presidential election can be rea.
sonahly anticipated by close OBJ
servation of the workings in a
very few States. The matter al
most resolves itself into fight for
New York.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20


WI notice calls for meeting OF
tn" stockholders OF the West Vir.
giRia and IrOuton Railroad Com
l'any, This is auothcr enterprise
~f the Norfolk and Western peo.
3ic, aud reasoning on general prin-
cipieS, We infcr that this road is to
bc hurried TO completion immedi.
ate,y after organization and I0c;l.
ton Of route Eur meM than {,
year we have looked for the as
sure | iscsinnips vf thiS %heme
which will ,wsVs1t ige tee uJ.eui,, F..
mp aud development vf great min.
'eral and timber wealth. This dine,
which is COT tinuatiun ef the
i'lucstonc extension Wf slnc Nor.
folk and Wcstern, will give this
scction immediate connection with
9the Ohio valley and western ataads,
'na4iing Norfolk ll,e port of 'ane. Ii.
Ger great region. Tie local sdlce
of the company is at J;lamwcll,
w, Wa.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
PRESIDENTIAL PROBLEM.

ut is assumed that the Demo
cratic national convention will have
IL very plain politico arithmetical
problem to work out. The problem
is: HOW can 201 or more electoral
votes be most certainly assured
from the total of219 in the follow
ing States:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

Senator Edmonds is no longer a
possibility as q presidential noni.
nee, his name not having been
mentioned in convention in his
own State, willie every mention OF
Blainc's name was greeted with
rounds of APPLAUSE.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
Total /;

These are the States which the
Democratic ticket carried iouryear
ago. The result was 219 votes, or
eighteen more than was necessary
to elect. Electoral votes, however,
do not divide up into small figures.
While the whole electoral vote of
all the States is 4O1, and POI would
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

The papers appear to be at sea
IN settling OH fayorite as a sec
ond on the next Democratic presi-
dental ticket. Be sure the right
man will turn up at the right time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

y meeting of tho Stockholders
of the Clinch Valley Coal and Iron
Company is called for the end of
May in this city, when a boana'ic".
directors is to be clcct"' ~" Vi
business traps.Ippi"'' al" Quiet
vi ftuNilctcu.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
INNOCENCE IMPOSED UPON.

Caller Ito Bobby, in his first trou.
sers)-Thcse are nice trousers, Bob
by, for little boy.
Bobby {proudly)-They amt boys
trousers. Eta says they are regular
mems trousers.
Caller--Are they?
Hobby-Yes, indeed, they're made
over from an old pair of pa's.--New
York Sun.
Cease your coughing and enjoy
refreshing slumber, which DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup willinsure YOU.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

"A call is made for a meeting in
May, ut Bramwcll, of the stock
holders Of the Kanawha Hotel and
Improvement Company, the char
ter members of which are mostly
Norfolk and Wcster people.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

1t is said that tie white Rcpub-
Leans on the Eastern Shore arc al,
most unanimously on the side of
John $. Wise in his fight against
Malone.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

My homeless friend with the Giro.
matte nose, while you are stirring up
the sugar i'll that tn cent glass of
gin, let mo give yol. fact TO wash
down with it. You say you have
longe I for years for the free, indie.
pendent life of the farmer, but lave
have never been able to get enough
money together to buy farln. But
this is just where you ere mistaken.
For several years you have been
drinking good improved furm at
the rate OF 100 square feet at u gulp.
Ii you doubt this statement figure il
for yourself. An acre of land con.
tains 1850 square feet. Estimate
for convenience the land at S43.5G
per acre, and you will SEQ that it
brings the land to just one mill per
square foot, one cent for ten cquare
feet. Now, pour down that fiery
dose, and just imagine you are swal
lowing a strawberry patch. Call in
five of your friends and have them
help you gnlp down that 500 foot
garden. Get on prolonged spree
some day, aud sec how long q time
it requires to swallow q pasture large
enough TO feed COW. Put down
that glass Of gin; there's dirt in it
100 feet OF good; rich dirt worth
S43.5G per acre Western Pio,cman
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

One of the most interesting fea
lures of this session of Congress is
the political rnanoeuvreing in rela
ton to the territories seeking ad
mission to the Union. The Senate
is now considering the Republican
proposal for the admission OF the
southern half Of Dakota, Which is
supported by strong array of facts
and arguments. The Democrats,
who have made their policy syl1,,;ecJt
of caucus rule, meet -, ~. al, a.
''e', ,"ais. ior the admission of Dakota
rs whole, in connection with Wash.
ington, Montana aud New Mexito.
The partisan character which has
been given to the controversy tiireat.
ems to leave it as far from settlement
ut the end of the session as 1t was
ut the beginning 1t is certain, at
any rate, that no new States will be
voted into being before the presi
dental election. Besides this politi
cal inanoeuvreipg, other interesting
discussions are going on. The com.
plant is made in Idaho that the
Stewart bill, permitting the citizens
of Northern Idaho to vote whether
they shall send Delegates to the con
stitutional convention of the pro.
posed State of Washington ignores
the right of the whole territory to
vote on the question of dismember-
ment, and it is charged that all this
is only preliminary to the execution
of another design of Senator Stew
arts TO annex Southern Idaho to
Nevndn, Then, too, many profess to
see iuto the plan for admitting New
Mexico deep scheme OF the dor
mons to capture State, and thus
carry their peculiar institution OF
polygamy from under tho control of
Congress. They are said to have
obtained already strong grip on
the politics of New Mexico by the
quiet immigration of saints into the
territory from Utah. Guileless pa-
t,iofs who faucy that the business of
State moving involves merely ques,
ton of population and rcso: rces,
would have their eyes opened by n
visit to the Capitol while these sub
jects are under discussion, and be as
tonisbed to discover how many Iii
verse interests will be affected by
the decisions to he made
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20

Do not walk the floor sa night to
the ceaseiess music of a colic-sufier-
ing baby. DR.. Bulbs Baby Syrup
will relieve the little sufferer at
once.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-04-20
IN BRIEF AND TO THE POINT

Washington Critic.
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