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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Rose Insects.

The insects most harmful to roses arc
the green fy. red spider, rose hopper OF
thrips, and the rose bug aud the black
slug. Now, though these insects In.
voiyc some little trouble. yet success
will attend all persistent efforts. Tho
green fly, the thrips and the black slug
can all be kept under by Swinging tho
plants with n solution of whale oil SOAP.
One pound of soap is sufficient for eight
gallons of water. Throw the water in a
fine spray on the under as well as the
upper side of the leaves. A syringe with
u bent nozzle is the best instrument with
which to apply the liquid to the lower
side of the leaves. The red spider can
be held in check by Swinging the leaves
with clear water; in dry times this should
he done every day. If the rose bug
tmelolotha subspinosa) makes its appear.
ance, which is not very often, it can be
destroyed 10y the insect externinator.-
Vets .Ltya inc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
How to Prevent yern,in.

Prevention is better than cure. for the
reason, because it is easier. When a
farmer finds his spring calves pining
away and looking miserable from the
attacks of lice, he will find it no easy
matter to save the calves and rid his
stables of the pests. But few hours
spent in efforts to prevent the mischief
would have saved weeks OF worry and
work. To prevent the entrance of these
pests, all fowls should be kept from
roosting in stables. Fowls will do no
harm if their house is kept clean and
the roosts are we'll soaked with kero-
Gene once 4 month. But half-a. dozen
lousy hens will infect all the stock in the
stables and give trouble through the
whole winter. For the stock, the hest
way to keep them free from vermin is to
brush them we'll once day, using stiff
brush, TO which little kerosene is ap-
piled by means of sponge, or the hair
may be rubbed with the oiled sponge
and then we'll brushed. This will keep
the animals free from lice and make
their coats smooth and glossy, but il
used too plentiully it will take off the
hair and blister the skin.-Amsyica1,
A9rieultmi,t.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Veneer from Persian Walnut.

French walnut is said to be the cost
Hest of all cabinet woods. 1t does not
come from France at all, but grows in
Persia, Circassia, and Asia Minor. To
work the logs into veneers, they first
steam them until they are almost as
soft rs butter, then fasten them to nm
iron beam, which revolves around n
finely tempered knife with n razor-like
edge of the same length as the log.
Every time this beam turns around, it
moves fraction of an inch nearer to
the knife, and n thin sheet of wood is
shaved off smoothly and laid on n pile
on the floor. These sheets are 1-120 of
an inch in thickness, but frequently
veneers are made as thin as IT'S to the
inch. The veneers used on furniture
are somewhat thicker, the thinner ones
being used on picture frames. They
are backed up with paper before being
glued on. The latter are also used to
some extent for covering walls.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Best Food for Pigs.

Experiment appears to have proven
the benefit of supplying such a proper
ton of heterogeneous food with maize for
pigs as will render the feeding fully nu.
tritious and hcalthful. The effects of
such feeding have been that the growth
of bone was larger, the vital organs
the heart, lungs, liver and spleen were
heavier and more vigorous, while, as
might bc expected from this better de-
ve!opment of these organs, the carcass
was heavier and the proportion of lean
meat to fat was larger than on exclusive
maize feeding. 1t may be sufficient to
point out these facts to lead feeders of
pigs to make use of such heterogeneous
food rs bran, milk and linseed cake meal
along with maize, so as to avoid disease
and secure more and better meat, greater
profit in feeding and exemption from
losses by disease. Mo- York Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Life is the test Of faith.

Life is the test of faith.
Every one who practices virtue lessons
vice.
Happiness is not to be prescribed, but
Gu. oyed.
1t is good to begin well but better to
end we'll
Too much help has ruined more men
than too little.
Failure is only question OF time with
the man who talks.
One of the sublimest things in the
world is plain truth.
AS you learn, teach; as you get, give;
as you receive, distribute.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
nothing so gentle as real strength.
The effort to supplant nature by sub
shutting art and trained manners is the
greatest fiction in literature
Learning is real culture, but being
taught is the imitation of culture, which
is always second hand goods.
No person suffers for what they are
ignorant of. for if they sense the suffer
ing they are not ignorant of it.
A man must first be drawn through
the ''slum" of life before he can fully
realize the value Of his own senses.
The principal obstruction to the sue
cess of reform movement is, the insti-
gator makes an exception Of himself.
We arc all Of us bound to make blund-
ers in this life. Most of our troubles
come from trying to uphold them after
they are made.
Labor makes capital and capital con.
serves labor, as the clouds are made by
the rising exhalations aud come down
again in rain. TO interrupt either pro-
cess is to cudanger both.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Where Lent Is Kept in Earnest.

Nowhere in Europe is Lent kept as
vigorously as it is in Russia. There the
faithful eat neither meat, eggs, milk nor
butter during. the entire forty days:
Even in cooking oil is used instead of
butter or lard, and not even the children
are allowed to drink milk. On the dny
before Easter nothing is eaten, and lust
before midnight the people all 20 to
church, bearing with them provisions of
every description. At the stroke of ~
the church, which has previously been
kept in utter darkness, is suddenly illu-
minated, and then, after the food has
been blessed, the eating begins and the
people satisfy their hunger before leay.
ing the sacred edifice. On Easter Sun.
day everybody has the privilege of salnt-
Ing whoever he may chance to meet with
three kisses on tine cheek. Even the
Emperor himself is not exempt from this
custom, and il was the custom in former
years for the Car to walk abroad on that
day to receive the embrace of his people
but this custom has been discontinued
by the present Emperor Alexander, who
is afraid of being killed by the Mill
lists, and does not care to court publicity
IN such q manner. Louis lie. ug.ic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

"Alany extravagant stories are in cir.
culation," said George w. Allen to the
st. Louis Globc-Democrat representative,
"as to the cost of private cars, such as
are used by railroad magnates, opera
singers, imported actors and million.
aires, and l have often heard it stated
that an average Pullman palace car is
worth 100000. Stories are printed
about cars costing all the way from
800, 900 to 5000, 900. The fact of the
matter is that u palace car costs about
$4,000 complete. The makeup of all
cars, regular or special, is about the
same. Additional cost is brought about
by the internal decoration, and that
must necessarily be limited. doubt il
there was ever car constructed that
cost more that $50, 900. To exceed that
figure we would require adccoration ex-
clusively in jewels and the precious
metalsn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
A woman's Invention for the Blind

Mile. Mulot, of Anglers, France, hes
invented method by which the blind
can easily correspond with those who see
The invention is, therefore, u marked
improvement on the Braillc system of
raised letters, by which persons afflicted
with loss of sight correspond with each
other only. Mile. Muloi's apparatus is
really little printing press in portfolio
about the size of sheet of note paper.
The blind person spreads it out and i'm
presses the letters required on white
paper, under which there is colored pad
which gives them blue appearance, and
they are thus not only brought out In
relief for the touch of those deprived of
sight, but are also visible to the eyes of
those who see. One of Mile. NIulops
blind pupils has been able, by means of
this system, TO take part in II competi-
tive examination for the diploma of elc.
mcntary teacher, and to distance" some
of the candidates who were in possession
Of their visual faculties.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Demand for Rio Horaes


Don't be afraid of breeding too large
horses, says the New York herald The
people of the present day want them.
The best farmers will have them, and
the heavy freiphters in the cities cannot
dc without them. The size of the horse
of the future will fix its value The
boom is up for big ones, so don't neglect
to breed them, and afterwn.d to feed
them. A big pair of half-breed Normans
that are well matched will bring $500 as
quickly as one silver dollar will bring
another. The best horse for the farmer
to rise is the draught horse. The hoo
to 100 pound draught horse requires no
special experience or training to sell, and
the farmer has no need of professional
trainer. A ready market is constantly
open for the draught horse. The de-
mand far exceeds the supply. The
farmer can turn them into cash at their
real value more quickly than any Other
class of horses. While cattle, sheep and
hogs have been so depressed the past year
or two, the draught horse breeders have
met an active demand at big prices; III
fact, they are masters of the situation,
and about the only class of breeders that
can set up their own price, and get il
too.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The death of Count Peter Schouva
loft deprives the Russian Government Of
one Of its most valuable pillars, is the
estimate of the New York Mail and En-
press. AT great crisis in European
history he did Russia and Europe and
the world generally most excellent ser.
vice. But for him Russia might have i'll.
sisted on the carrying out of the San
Stefano treaty, and war of indefinite
length and on n most gigantic scale
-wouId have been the result. A true
patroit, yet peacc-loving, skillful
diplomat, and an accomplished society
man, the Count will be missed IN many
circle and for many different reasons.
Born in 1928, he had reached his sixty
frat year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The Chicago Herald thinks some phil.
osopher should explain why the plug
hat prospers. elbow is it'' is asked "'that
n covering which cannot be put on can
vas, which will not defy the weather,
which harmonizcs with neither the
charms of nature nor the aspirations OF
the soul-how is that this hat, from de-
cade to decade, sustains its empire2'
The man in the silk hat takes cities, sub.
dues the haughtlest dame, vanquishcs
the most terrible waiter or porter. Let
the seer himself tell us why he will an
swer first the question put to him from
under the stove-pipe hat, and leave the
derby to wait in more or less patience. y
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
10 FARM AND GARDEN.
Onions for Poultry.

People who give their poultry finely
chopped onions once or twice week
along with their other food, will find it
an excellent preventive to various dis
eases, especially where fowls are not al
lowed TO run at large and gather food
for themselves. When kept in the close
confinement OF small ruus, much more
attention is Necessary in supplying them
with a variety than where they have n
larger liberty, and for keeping them in
good health onions are among the best
things that can be given them. -M,o
York IHOrid.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

about two years old, become very hand
some They turn quite black, thus making
very handsome setting for the great
white plumcs which adorn their wings
and tails. As they approach any one who
is looking at them their beautiful bright
breasts remind him forcibly of funeral
plumes. But when the black feathers
come to be pluckcd they are fourd to Inc
only black at the tips, and even here they
seldom reach perfect blackness, except
in the mass. The feathers singly are of
dark brownish color, shading off into
something approaching very near to
black at the tips. Occasionally, but very
rarely, truly black feather is found, but
nearly all the black plumes and tips sold
in the stores are dyed. Only the wing
and tail feathers are pulled, the curly
looking tips on the breast which arouse
the cupidity of some of the ladies, being
left untouched.
The three men who have hold of the
bird force him up tight against the corner
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The Adjutant General of the Army
has published, for the information of the
army, recent decision by a United
States Court in Michigan touching the
status of minors who enlist and after
ward desert from the army. In the
case at issue the soldier enlisted when a
minor, although pretending that he was
of age, and afterward deserted. He was
arrested and court-martialed. While
the proceedings of the court were await
ing review the father of the minor sued
out writ of habcas corpus. The
United States Court declined to issue
the writ, holding that minor soldier of
the army in confinement under charge of
desertion could not be discharged from
military service until he had been re-
leased from such confinement. 1t was
also held that minor contract of enlist.
menJ was not void, but voidable. If he
be over sixteen years of age he can be
discharged only upon the application of
his parents or guardian.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The United States has been discussing
the question of what should be done to
increase the trade between this country
and Mexico. There is evidently press
ing need, states the New York Nems,
that something should be done. This
country imports from Mexico goods to
the value of $50, 600, 600 year, while it
exports only about So, 900, or, in
other words, We pay Mexico $22, 600, 900
n year more than she pays us.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The Panama Canal works are at their
last gasp. The laborers are flocking to
Chilli in crowds, their passage being
paid by the Government of Chill. Over
1868, 600, 600, belonging to $40, 1000 sub
scribers, principally the industrious poor
of France, have been squandered. When,
ask the New York Voide, will investors
learn that a great name is not sufficient
security for q financial undertaking.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

: Bishop Theodore B. Lyman, of North
Carolina, has discovered q new aud
hitherto unsupported virtue in the pea
nut. For nearly two years he had suf-
Eared|from insomnia. About fort
night ago he ate freely of fresh roasted
peanuts before retiring, and enjoyed tho
best sleep he had had for months. He
tried the expcrlmentrcpcatedly since, and
has found it eilicacious every time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Tho Emperor of Austria has been grant.

The Emperor of Austria has been grant
ing numerous pardons in all parts of his
Empire. To great number of convicts
the last years of their sentences hav
been RENTED. A high bank official,
who, after unlucky speculation on the
stock exchange, had lost the banks
money, and was sentenced to seven
years. Imprisonment, has been released,
after having served only two years of his
snntnncn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
Marriage Ages.

In Austria, IA years for both sexes.
In Spain, the man at II, the woman at
1a.
In Russia, the man at 1e, the woman
at 16.
In Greece, the man ut "a, the woman
at -.
In France, the man at ls. the woman
at Is.
In saSony, the man at 10, the woman
at 1G.
In Belgium, the man at IS, the woman
at 10.
Ia Germany, the man at Is, the wo-
man at II.
In. Switzerland, the man at ID, the
woman a. II.
In Hungary, Catholics, the man at IA,
the woman at 10; Protestanta, the man
at is tie 9omau AT Ia Chicago Mail
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

rormenrors Win KICK, which, II well
delivered, would easily break a bone; but
his inability to kick any way except
straight in front of him makes it no very
difficult matter
Then the chase is renewed, and the
royal consort is, in her turn, Inundated
by having her proud head enveloped in
the sack; and so the game goes on, till
all the birds which are ready for pluckina
have been dealt with
1t is very hard work on hot lav. as
not only have great agility and consider
able courage and perseverance to be dis
played i'll catching the birds, but even
holding them in the corner while the
plucking is going on involves AN almost
continuous struggle, more or less severe.
The operation takes perhaps about
twenty minutes for each bird after il has
been caught, and i'll this time some 200
to 250 feathers of various sizes are
pulled. Each bird is pluckcd twice n
year, the plumcs requiring growth OF
about seven months to reach perfection.
The feathers, if not retailcd on the
premises or in Los Angeles stores, are
sold by weight. A short time ago they
went as low MS $50 pound, but they are
now going up, the wearing of ostrich
feathers in hats having again hrcn,nr
fashionable. a full grown bird will give
rather more than pound OF feathers be-
tween his two plncks, but as they are
voracious feeders there is not much profit
10 he made ont of keeping them when
feathers are fetching low prices. They
are fed mainly on alfalfa, supplemented
by corn and almost any vegetable food
that comes handy.-.Sm Francisco Ch'on-
icio
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

y Sage the New Orleans 7sme,- Democrats
ssThefe isin truth seed of anarchy In
This ugly epidemic of White Capism, and.
It must not only be stamped out vigor-l
3ously and effectually, but its resur-l
tection st any future time must be made
llmpossible.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

The use of dogs as messengers and
sentincls in the German army has been a
most successful experiment,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

Samson, what did you ever make
out of that blooded pup of yours?''
Samson" Sausage. "-lfail and En-
nress.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

of the Enclosure, and the one Of them who
is doing the plucking-in this case the pro-
prietor-stands on the side away from the
wing on which he is going to commence
operations. He raises the wing, and
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
narrowing.

Both in the preparation of the soil for
the crops before planting and in giving
the earlier cultivation afterward, the
harrow can be used with profit to a
more or less extent. For fining the sur
face of the soil it is one of the very best
implements we have, and, with the large
number of different kinds sold under
this name, we can secure an Implement
adapted to almost any kind of work and
in almost any kind of soil. The i'm
provements made upon the old A harrow,
are giving us the square, Scotch, vibrat-
ing, flexible, and smoothing harrows, to
which may be added quite list of
spring, disc and cutting or slicing har-
rows. In this line Of implements there
would certainly seem to be full supply.
SO that no matter what kind of soil the
farm is composed of, u harrow can lie
used with profit OH nearly or quite every
fam. But with the spring, disc and
cutting hairows, they will do much bet
ter work with some soils than with
others. One will be best in one kind Of
soil, and the other in different soil.
Some are better for some kinds OF work,
and some for Others.
| 1t is best to have the soil prepared in q
thoroughly fine condition before plan ting
d tiS sCCO, anu " hCSD tuC sui Ill SOOQ
tllth until the plants have made suili-
cient growth to be able to commence
using the cultivators. Weeds are much
more easily destroyed when young than
after they get good start to grow, and
if the soil is p. spared in good filth be-
fore planting the seed, in majority of
cases the harrow will be found the
cheapest and best implement to use in
DESTROYING the weeds
The disc, spripg or cutting harrows
are good implements to prepare the soil
in good filth for seeding oats, grass or
other small grain; or When oats are sown
on corn tubble or land that has been
planted in the fall. They are good I'M
plements 10 cover the seed, sowing the
seed broadcast and then covering them
with the disc or cutting harrow. The
same applies to sowing wheat in the fall.
They will fine the surface and prepare in
II goad filth for sowing the seed with
the drill or seed-sowcr. And the work
can be done so much more economically
that in many cases these can be made
very profitable implements. Prairie
E,tyul(r
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31

forty eight pounds. and that compared
with potash salts as now sold in the
market they should be worth about
twenty-five or thirty cents per bushel,
the phosphoric acid they contain add
ing to their value. 1t is also believed
that ashes have beneficial effect upon
some soils, independent of their contents
of potash and phosphoric acid. The
chemist can determine the amount of
valuable manurial substance in given
sample, but he cannot say what effect
the sample will have when applied to
certain soil. That is question which
the farmer must himself answer, by ex-
pertinent and intelligent observation"
The Republican journal., 1889-09-05

The following are the transfers in real estate In
A. Babcock, Lincoln, to Frederick a. Dickcy
Northport, and to the Temple Heights Spiritual
corporation. Fred W. Brown, Belfast, to George
Mcars Belmont. James Babcork, Lincoln, to
Frederick i. Dickey, Northport Frederick y.
Dickey, Northport, to Lewis A. knoWlton, Bel
fast. j. IL. Damon, Unity, to Salome G.. Harding,
same town. Charles o. Dickey, Northport, to f.
a. Dickey, same town. Olive X. Duncan Lincoln
Vile, to W. X. Duncan, same town. RoGt. Emery,
Belfast, to Andrew j. Mason, same town Same
to Rose sylvester, Belfast. George w. Flanders ct
ais, Northport, to Jesse Priest same town. Eliza
beth Hamilton Searsport, to Mary Mckeag, Brook
lyn. John W. Herrck ct ais Oldtown to Charles
pect, to Willie H. Page, same town. Ellen \. Las
sell ct ais, Searsmont, to Harriet Jordon, same
town. Elias Millikcn, Augusta, to Cyrus Atkin-
son, Burnham. Rachel McAlister, Burnham, to
Hiram McAlister, same town w. X. Morrison,
Belfast to Lewis ii. stevens, same town. George
Annie s. Patterson, Belfast, to Peter Olson, same
town. Robert f. Peirce, lease, Belfast to the Bel
fast Electric Company. Joseph Palmer, Monroe,
to Jane Palmer, same town. Samuel Racklil,
Lincolnville, to James Mahoncy, same town. Ma
linda Shute, Belfast, to Eleanor T. Erskinc, stock
ton. ID. G. Toothaker, Belfast, bond, to +. NJ
Richards Searsmont. II. w. Wootlman, Portland
to the Maine State Spiritual Temple Association
Norhport.
The Republican journal., 1889-09-05
An Gid Document.

AIr. NJ. $. Stiles ,Ir of Jackson one Of The Coun-
t. Commis ssioners, has handed US an oil document
which is Of interest. 1t contains the bids submit
ted to the County Commissioners when the present
Court House was erected. Mr.. Stiles found the
document among the papers Of his father, who was
one of the Commissioners when the Court House
was erected. MIR. Williamson says that the matter
OF building new Court House assumed definite
form in 1870, and that the building finished in
1888. The bids submitted ranged in amount from
SLIGO to Sl9,S00. The contract awarded to
Edward Hawkes., OF Belfast, for 5 900. Why this
bid accepted when there We're so many lower
does not appear. The following i the list of names
and the amount o the bids