Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-07

On Monday and Tuesday next
will he held the closing exercises Of
the third session OF Tazewell Fe-
male Seminary. The past session
has been Il prosperous one and re-
sultant of much thorough work
The matriculates numbered %
This humber will undoubtedly be
greatly increased next year.
A wedding, in which Tazewell
people took much interest, occurred
in Wytheville, Tuesday last. Rev.
NJ. w. Doggett, the popular pastor
Of the Presbyterian church in this
town, was married to Miss BERTHE
Carter, Of Tennessee. The happy
groom will meet with hearty con
gratulationS on every hand.
Tho tensile strength of wet rope
is found to DO only one-third that Of
tho same rope when dry, and n rope
saturated with grease or soap is
weaker still, as Tho lubricant permits
the iibers to slip with greater facility
A dry rope twenty five feet long will
shorten TO twenty four feet on being
wet.
The rain storm Mt PocahOntas on
the night Of the Both flooded many
houses in the lower part Of the city
and did considerable damage to tho
Southwest Improvement and Rail
road Companies property. Five
bridges in the city limits were
swept away. No lives were lost.
The damage to the Southwest Com
pany is probably $500, and that
to the railroad company greater.
Situated us Tazcwell is, great
rain storms. such as has Just passed
over the country, can do her little
damage. However,along the Clinch,
the incomplete condition Of the rail
road rendered it liable to considera
bile loss. Temporary treStlos and
bridges between this place and In
dian were washed from their loose
fastcnings and heavy land slides
cover much Of the track. The re
suit will be quite delay in the lay
ing Of track to the next place of i'm
p0rtancc on the line.
The carpenters will begin work
OH the depot ut Cleveland in few
days. The framing lumber is now
on the ground and the ceiling, doors,
blinds. sash and I'LL the dry lumber
necessary ARE already at the depot
at a bingdon, shipped there by STRAIT
ton and Stratton, of johnson City.
AS soon as the work is completed
on this depot, the depot at Swords
Creek will be erected and after that
the one ut Honaker All the inside
work will DO made of Georgia pine
finished i'll oil.-Lebanon News.
In q spirit of business enterprise,
Capt. w. E. Peery and j. G. Watts,
Esq, have placed 400 acres of their
fine land i'll the hands of AIessrs.
May and AldersJn's real estate
agency to be laid off and sold as town
lots. This land is beautifully situa-
ted on Clinch river and the Clnch
Valley railroad about two miles north
east of town and near the same dis
lance from the depot Should cir
cumstances conduce TO the building
up of town there, it could undoubt
edly be made beautiful one, for few
better situaiioations could be found
in the country anywhere. AT any
rate, n summer hotel and cottages
SoHiS pc pun UuCi Z W uuHu1lluHc, as
the finest of mineral waters are near
at hand. The development of this
enterprise into large proportions
would be watched with interest and
encouragement. The land, four hun
dred les, goes into the syndicate
rated ut $4,000.
The Roanoke Chamber of Com
merce, in their circular letter, say
that the capitalists and tourists who
travel to and from Florida get the
Impression That the entire State of
Virginia is Of the same character of
soil and country as that lying be.
tween Washington and tile south
ern State line Of Virginia. when in
fact the country for fifty miles east
of the Blue Ridge, and all the re.
gion west Of the Blue Ridge, and