Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-08
LOCAL AND GENERAL
We us BRIEFS.

Rev. Jos. Stras is back from n
snort visit to his orange groves in
Florida.
The ground hog saw his shadow
iast Saturday if the sun did not
blind him.
A we'll written communication from
Emory will he found elsewhere in
to days paper.
Yesterday was good dav for
those who had heen for so long con-
templating their empty ice houses.
Cohurn, the man who committed a
murder while drank, ut PocuEontas,
got u years in the penitentiary at
thiS term of court
MIS-, Lyons departure for Blue
held Will meet with universal regre:
here. Her place in social and music
circles will be hard to gill.
Gen. j. a. Walker has accepted
the Vice Presidency OF the Florence
tNA) Lnnd and Improvement Com
pany, ut u salary OF So 900.
The work of tearing down the old
Libby Prison, Richmond. prepare
tory to its removal To Chicago. will
TIC commenced about the 18th inst.
The new COMMONWEALTH Attor.
ney Is ut present. the central figure in
the line "l' county officials, and bears
'lic SCRUTINY with becoming modesty.
MIR. james l.. Brown, the Abing-
don marble man, passed through yes
tcruay to Giles and Craig counties.
he Will visit the custom OF farewell
perhaps IN April. Ills firm does it's
own work and own selling in order
to reduce cost to purchasers
The RoanoIe Times announces
that from mud with the next issue of
that paper it will have AS its n,al,nu.
ing editor Hon. a. w. 9. NowIin,
,Stormerly postmaster Of the House OF
SRepresent,,,ive and more recently
editor Of til" Richmond Wing.
The local option election in the
Aluideu Spring District resulted in Il
victory for the ''wet>.' Applications
for S'oS shoi, licenses along the In
OF laiirual wit! ,luup,les, be nunrr
oas and the Connly Court will b.,
called upon to USE its discretion in
granting such.
4 rare opportunity Is presented to
our enierp,i-iIg townsren to repre-
schi II nursery firm that warrants
stock to he delivered in prime cnnd.
twn SO TINT II large. honorable and
permanent trade can be built uD
Very liberal terms tn thu right n,nn
Address j. q Whitney, Rochester,
N. Y.
A company is boring for natural
gas at Cumberland Gap. The drill
ltas reached l.3O0 feet below the sur
Ia e, but gas i'll paying quantity has
lot been struck Some gas was
found ut 600 feet, bu, only in small
amount. Plenty of salt has been
I fo"nd, but not at such IL shallow
depth as would pay to work.
WHY SIZE LOVED HIM.-Oi say. Katie.
for what are yes smelling so afther
Now will yes moind me, Moikeyy NJ.
swateheart. Dinnis. had SIGH sDhell of
cold and was liver afther karfing that |
despaircd of liver wedding him, but
mon aloive, he S us sound as yes please
afther taking Faulkner & Craighill's
Compound Syrup of Horebound and
Tar. Dinnis is not purity, but sinsibie.
That s why OF loves him.
An entertainment by the young
ladies OF the Tazewell Female Semi
nary on Saturday evening last was
greatly. enjoyed by the house full
present, as was evinced by the fire.
qucnt applause and comparatively
good order, The young ladies show
Ell unusually marked Improvement in
music. especially vocal, while the
elocutionary training had been high
~ successful
The Richmond State is to be con
graduated on the fact that, in the
management of its business, it has
found it necessary to use much
faster press. 1t yesterday received
press capable of printing sixteen
thousand copies an hour. There
are but two other such presses used
by afternoon papers sonth of the
Potomac-one ill New Orleans, the
other in Atlanta. Norfolk Ledger.
Among the offices to be filed by
the incoming administration is that
of Marshal for the'Western District
of Virginia. We would like to see
Col. John @. Watts back in this Of.
flee again. He filed it very acceptn
bly, under Presiden! Arthur. A bet.
ter officer or truer man to his
party does not live i'll these parts
and every one knows that he has
done inralculable work for the party.
Give him the place say we all
Bland Southwest.
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