Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
LOCAL AW.D GENERAL
NE us BRIEFS.

Capt. Samuel Leece is very i'll ut
his home west of town.
Prayer meeting at the Y. M. @. A.
rooms each Sunday ut $50 p. IN.
MIR. r. A. Saunders continues to
suffer from his recent attack of
rheumatism.
Rev. D. v. Price will preach the
Baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class of the Tazewell
Female Seminary.
President Harrison has accepted
an invitation to attend the Spring
Palace exposition at Fort Worth,
Texas, next month.
The bridgeman, who fell from
Clinch Valley railroad bridge some
months since aud recovered, took
another 60 foot fall the other day
and hurt himself.
Senator Barbour says the Demo.
cratic committee Of this State will
meet about the first proximo to Sc
lect the place and time for holding
the next State Democratic conven
ton.
The occasion Of the unwilling Of
the monument Of Robert e. lee,
erected to the memory of the Con
federate dead, drew together Il
large crowd at Alexandria, on the
2itll.
DR.. John T.. Buchanan, State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction,
has located the State normal insti
tute for Southwest Virginia at
Floyd Court House, and has APP
pointed Prof WIN. Nj. Graybill, Of
Roanoke, principal Of the institute.
RELIGIOUS NOTICE. -Stras Me-
mortal Church, Tnzewell G H., Rev.
Cllas. Gauss, Rector. Divine SER
vices Sunday at IL a. m. and 7;45
p. m. In the Chapel 3 p. III. Sun.
day School and Bible class ut $50
a. III. Strangers cordially invited
All welcome.
The killing of Robert Jobe by
Jno. T Brown, i'll Argentine, Kans..
was decided by the corOner's jury
to be justifiable homicide, and
Brown will not be prosecuted. The
evidence, according TO the Kansas
papers, showed the killing to have
been done Ill self defense. Both
parties have connections in this
county.
General Bates, retired English
army officer of means, is on a tour
through Washington Territory
When he sat down to dinner at the
the Occidental Hotel, Seattle, day
or two age, he met with quite sur.
prise. The waiter who took his or
der was his own son, who had run
away from home to scalp Indians
some seven years ago.
The really proper way to serve
Strawberries nowadays is with the
stems on. Part of saucer should
have IL little mound of powdered
sugar poured into it, aud on the
other side the largest and choicest
berries obtainable should be heap
ed up. Each berry is taken up by
the stem, dipped into the sugar, and
eaten from the fingers.
The official figures of the United
q States census i'll 100 were $685..
326, of which number 695,655 were
slaves. A short times after these
figures appeared Captain G. Inlay,
Yirginian, published an article in
which he placed the population in
1890 at 64,0OO,OOO. and was there
fore supposed by his friends to be q
visionary. His prophecy was sur
pflsiDgly accurate as we'll as daring
The catalogue of Emory and
Henry College for this session shows
a matriculation of 11S, of whom six
are from Tazewell Commencement
exercises will be held June 10th t.
10Th. The Baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by Rev. A. G
Bledsoe, and the sermon before the
Y. M. C. A, by Rev. John e. Ed
wards. The alumni address will bt
delivered by Hon. Jno. A. Buchan
an, and the address before the so
ceties. by Rev. j. M. Buckley, o
New York.
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