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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

8 said. The soil is rich dark drift or
lluvial loan, the very kind that delights
the eye of the intelligent agriculturist,
who sees in it the sure promise of rich
yields of golden grain. The clay subsoil
also of the drift formation, and is de-
clared to be as rich as the loan of the
surface, and is pronounced absolutely in
exhaustible. 1t invites to the raising of
stock as well as to the growing of cereals,
and most of the fruits of the northern
temperate belt will thrive there.
1t Is declared, in short, to be a sort oi
paradise. There are no roots, no stumps.
no lets or hindrances of any kind. The
farmer has but to pillow and sow or plant,
his seed. If too lazy for that he can
turn out his cattle upon the grass and
grow rich upon their increase. Markets
are accessible. Two great railroads run
into Pierre, but short distance away,
opposite the centre line and but half
mile distant from the border. Each road
has right of way through the country
and will be sure to get there shortly.
Sitting Bull takes much interest in this
matter, really believing, in his infinite
self consciousncss, that he is the central
spirit in the gigantic real estate trans
action, which is big enough even to ex-
cite the surprise of n Chicago dealer in
earth surface. The fact that he is about
the only one of his party. to the trans
action who can sign his name adds to his
self-greatness. And, truth It's, while he
affects to dislike the language of the
whites he writes that name in the hated
English. Sitting Bull, with Little No
Heart, Carlin, white man from Illinois
married to Sioux half-breed; Chaska
and his wife, Gall and John Grass and
others, will meet the commissioners of the
Government At Standing Rock Agency and
there aiix his signature with that of the
other Indians to the deal which calls,
within million dollars, for as much rs
Napoleon received for the entire Louisiana
tract. No wonder that just now he is
suffering from severe attack of imitation.
1t is claimed that the soldier will have
the best show here, as he is credited with
his years of service in the army, While
the civilian homesteader must run his full
five years. The first land Office will be
located at Pierre. The Indians have been
SO thoroughly sounded that no fear is en-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

have many further opportunities of
moving upon new possessions to trade
and trade again. So, too, Sitting Bull,
Gall, and other chiefs rcmemembered
that when they were particularly "hungry"
for tobacco or "fre- water" they did not
scruplc about the price, and they reasoned
that the white men were as they. They,
consequently, held out for the same price
which Uncle Sam had demanded for his
land, and, after much higgling, they
got it.
This territory to be sold, and which
practically is sold, for it appears to be
definitely known that three fourths of the
Indians will sign the agreement is just
one-half of their territory, and there is
left to them enough to live comfortably
upon, giving to each Indian nice snug
farm, fully as much as the indolent fell;
lows will care to cultivate. The tract,
which is ill-shapcd, extends from the
Missouri to the Black Hills and then
north; it embraces, likewise, part of
the fertile Winnebago Crow Creek Res
ervation on the cast bank of the Mis-
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
POULTRY NOTES.

1t has been generally advised to keep
only pullets or ycar-old fowls for laying,
but l have learned that three and four
year old fowls will lay as many eggs in Il
year as younger ones. 1t has also been
thought for many years that broken oys-
ter and clam shells, if not necessary, were
beneficial to fowls whether laying or not,
and-somc professional poultry keepers
to the contrary-I think they are, for my
fowls when let out go for the pile of
shells and cat them as they would corn,
and think if the shells were not of some
service to them they would not do that,
and also think they are good substitutes
for sharp gravel, which cannot always be
got as easily as Country Gentle
2JluH. -.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
Lcngthening Life Of Humanity

1t is estimated that the life of humanity
has gained twenty-five per cent. all the
world over in the last fifty years. The
lowest average that has been calculated is
twcnty-thrce years, which represents the
life expectancy of the Soudanesc; but
even this is high when it is remembered
that i'll Geneva in the thirteenth century
fourteen years were all that were allotted
to man. The United States census of
1850 shows that 7.47 per cent. of the per.
sons who died in the previous decade
were more than seventy years of age; in
1850 the percentage was 7.54, and in
1850, it was 1926. The deaths of
adults have diminished in continuous
ratio, so that the proportion of infant
victims to the whole number of deaths is
constantly on the increase. In 1850,
1870 per cent. of the whole number Of
deaths were of children less than one
year old; in 1850 the percentage was
20.74; in 1880 it was 1924. These
figures in themselves show the increasing
triumph of medicine over death, since
they evidence that it is the newborn.
semi-lifeless infant and not the adult in
valid that fails to respond to the physi.
clans curative touch = Pailadelphio
Record.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
PROTECTION FOR SORE SHOULDERS.

Cotton cloth well smearcd with pure
tallow, wrapped around the collar, is un-
doubtcdly an excellent preventive of sore
shoulders, but to oil the collar inside
often enough to keep it soft is equally so,
and is much more quickly and easily
done. BE careful at the same time to
keep the collar perfectly clear of any hard
substance sticking to it, and see that the
collar fits nicely to the shoulders, and that
it docs SO without being either too tight
or too loose. When the horse is brought
into the stable after being worked, if the
least swcaty the collar should not be re-
moved till his hair is well dried under it..
Some persons, when their horses are kept
regularly mt work, let them wear their
collars all the timc-by night rs we'll rs
by day. They say this keeps their skin
tough, and it is not nearly SO likely to
become CALLED.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

A single mile in thirty seconds,
and eight miles covered ut this pro-
disious speed, was the record made the
other day on the Bound Brook Railroad
Ly engine No. 206, of the Woottcn pat
tern, that drew the fast train which
leaves Philadelphia at z: 80 A. NJ. There
were five cars in the train, and John
Hogan, n veteran engineer, was in the
cab. The speed recorded is equivalent
to rate of over ninety miles an hour.
1t has been decided by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad to send one of its best
engines to England, to be tried on the
roads there. 1t will make its first ap-
pcaranec on the London and North
western Railroad. AS the English rail
roads arc much straighter than those in
this country railroad men are much in
terested to see what an American loco
motive can do on c-line track.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
PEACH WILLOWS.

According to my observation, says
Josiah Hopes, in the New York Tribune,
the peach is less liable to disease under
high culture than when neglected, or on
poor soil. On the principle that yelows
will appear under all conditions, many
growers give trees little or no attention,
depending upon one or two good crops
for profit before the disease attacks them.
This is opposed to systematic good cul-
ture, and to the careful orchardist is
specially repulsive. More than one
scrupulously clean orchard is to-day
showing far greater degree of health
and profit than their neglected competi-
tors. 1t has been asserted that by heavy
manuring and liberal applications of
potash in some convenient form, yellows
will in measure be warded oil, on account
OF the consequent strong healthy growth
If cultivators generally would study the
practical part of the subject, and note the
conditions under which the disease an
pears, and is increased they might render
valuable assistance. A prejudice formerly
existed against planting yellowf lcshcd
peaches, under the impression that they
were more easily contaminated, but more
extended experience disproved this view.
The ycllows is no respecter of varieties
or places. Where it finds proper con-
ditions for development there it operates,
and continues its work of destruction
However, we can unite upon the heroic
rooting-out and burning of any infected
trees rs soon as the disease is discovered
The malady may have been communicated
to other trees, but as IL diseased tree i,
worthless, the sooner it is removed tho
better.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
An exciting European event has be

An exciting European event has been
the startling conduct of the Car in
drinking the health of Prince Monte
negro and toasting him rs the only sin
cere and loyal friend of Russia. This
is mighty strong language for Car to
use and then print officially. Diplomats
and the press, which take such things
very seriously, are worried about it very
extensively. If the speech is to be
taken literally it means that the Russian
bear is suffering from remarkably sore
head, and means mischief; also that all
the recent demonstrations between the
Car and the young German Emperor
meant, us was predicted Mt the time,
nothing ut all. 1t is possible and prob
able that the Car, who drinks n great
deal, taking his champagne by the mag
mum, will, on calm reflection, soften his
words, giving it, for instance, to be
understood they applied only to the little
countries near him-Bulgaria, Servia,
Greece and the rest, which have been
selfishly at work builing up their own
prosperity and struggling for national
autonomy with heartless disregard of the
views and aspirations of the great Rus
sian bear in the north. Some such
apology for the valiant speech is urg-
emily needed to soothe the shattered
diplomatic nerves.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Y Among the very remarkable incidents
Of Lord Lonsdale's journey due North is
bis meeting in the Arctic Zone, remarks
tho New York Independent, with the
Eation called the Caribou 81 Moose Nc
Kenzie River Esquimaux, which sounds
like firm, and "the Long Firm" They
were all six feet high and upward, and
E,uch--though not handsomely-deco-
rated. For each man they kill they cut
cash in their own check as mark of
honor, SO that their face becomes n sort
of alpenstock of homicide. The phrase
sstan ugly customer" must be one ex-
ceedingly appropriate among these war
riorS.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
10 FARM AND GARDEN.
PREVENTIVE OF MrLpEw.

Take three pounds each of flowers of
sulphur and quick-lime. Slack the lime
and boil with the sulphur in six gallons
of water until reduced to two gallons.
Allow this to settle, then pour off the
clear liquid and bottle it for use. An
old iron pot will answer to boil it in. A
gill of this liquid, mixed with five gallons
of water, is an excellent prevention and
cure for mildcw upon plants-showered
upon them as soon as the mildew appears.
Agricuhurist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
A scientific publication announces tbo

A scientific publication announces that
"cubic centimctrc of wholesome water
may contain from 53,0 to no, 900
colonies of bacteria" 1t is also claimed,
says the Chicago Herald, without shud-
der, that the air is pcrmcatcd with micro
cocci and infinitcsimal swarms of life.
The result is that we drink Il slightly di-
luted mass of bacilli and breath the same
class of insects thinned out so rs to pass
in and out of the lungs without too much
friction.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

at the rate the population of Norway
Is now leaving that country for the
united States not one will be left there in
htteen years, and the world can use the
vacant spaces, suggests the ingenius De.
troit Free Press, for cold storage pur.
noses.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

The San Francisco Bulletin says the
Makahs are the only Indian tribe Oh that
coast that have saved their land and ac-
cumulated money. Neah Bay, the second
harbor on the coast, is on their reserva-
ton. They own three scaling schooners
and run the only store in the whole coun-
try. During the sealing season most of
the bucks go as hunters, getting from So
to SIS for each skin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa
has been put up for sale by lottery. The
municipality of Pisa having been greatly
straitened for money on account of cx-
pensive Improvements, offers the tower
for sale, in order to prevent the town hall
from being seized, and has adopted the
method of lottery SO as to get the high
est price possible.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Merchant John Wanamaker says his CO.
operative plan of distributing portion
OF his profits among his employees has not
peen success, and he proposes to appoint
committee Of his clerks to devise some.
thing that will be more satisfactory all
around.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Lumber is reaching market from n
much larger number of places than a few
years ago, discovers GoodaWs Sun, and
hence the influence of lumber centers on
the market is declining.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

To the American Statistical Association
Mr. Amos G. Warner has lately furnished
a paper in which he argues that poverty
as disease, although he does not con.
tend that it has its distinguishing mic.
robe
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

The philosopher of the Chicago Time
(; muses. in this vein: 'The boys are begin.
lining to fire stones at the windows of the
old rattletrap Exposition building.
Whenever the boys begin to fire stones at
the windows of u building the structure
may be considered wreck The boys
and the rats arrived upon the scene al
most simultaneously"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

I, The fact has just leaked out that Presi-
dent Garfield died entirely alone. "At
the time of his DEATH" records the
Atlanta Constitution, "his doctors and
attendants had all left the room. When
they returned and found the President
dead, they hushed the matter up"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Queen Victoria, Julia Ward Howe and
fWalt Whitman have celebrated their
seventeen birthdays within the last few
weeks. Victoria is in the best health of
tne three; but, then, she has not had to
work so hard as Julia and Walter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
A GREAT DOMAIN.
ELEVEN MILLION ACRES OF
SIOUX LANDS FOR FARMS.
a Territory Greater Than New IIamp-
shire and massachusetts to DO
Thrown Open to Homesteadcrs
How Sitting Bull Lives.

A recent letter from Standing Rock
Agency in Dakota, to the Chicago Herald
says: Chairman Foster and his Sioux
Indian Commission are now on the ground,
and have begun the negotiations which,
it is expected, will open the great Sioux
Reservation, extending from the Missouri
Eiver c,e-r to the Black Hills.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

:. AS the moon, being nearer to us, seems
larger than Jupiter, so the proximity of
che Johnstown disaster makes it appear
greater than more dire calamities far
away. The overflow of the Kong uo
River in China in December, 1887,
drowned nearly million of people and
drove many of the survivors to cannibal.
ism.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

A man in Tennille, Co., dreamed the
other night that he was in fight. and
no raised up. grabbed pillow and sent
IT with oil his might at lamp sitting on
,n' center table, which he supposed was
LIS antagonist. The lamp was smashed.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

1t is predicted that substitute will be
found for iron within the next TWENTY-FIVE
years, but if this comes true it is ten to
one, boasts the Detroit Free Press, that
Yankee discovers it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Wyoming has smaller percentage of
1iliteracy, asserts the New York Mail and
1srpress, than any other State or Terri
tory, and Dakota and Oregon follow her
closely.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Very good, cheap land is rapidly dis
appearing in the United States, announces
the Chicago Sun, and speculative hold
:1ngs are increasing at an alarming rate.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

In Maine the mortgages on the farms
OF that State have been reduced, figures
the New York Telegram, from nineteen
In twenty to one in twenty.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

According to German military
Journal, no less than $50, 900 young men
In Alsace-Lorraine have since 1874 cvadcd
military service.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

The population of school age in the
United States is about 10000, 900. Tho
number of children attending Sunday
school is estimated at 100000.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Foreign powers have lately taken up
the discussion rs to whether or not war
correspondents were to be allowed to
take part in future campaigns.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Russia is said to be farther behindhand
han any other country in what are con.
sidered the requisite tools of the trade OF
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

( Japanese ladies refuse to adopt foreign
dress, and the Frcnchman who was i'm.
ported to spread Paris fashions has gone
home.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Pennsylvania has new law which i'm.
poses fine and Imprisonment for the de-
struction of song-birds.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Party in the Water-nsov n,;s.,,,
~; my ole woman says as will vo',
lcna her yo gum obershocs fo' bout half
an homr; she wants ter go down ter del
store. Life. wi uel
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

The Canadian Government is growing
uneasy over the influx of h1ormons into
the Northwest provinces.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

M The efforts now being made in China
for the construction of their own heavy
guns promise to be very successful.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

Bradlaugh. the infidcl English agita-
tor, strongly urges seventy five per cent.
cut in "thc wages of Queen Victoria"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09
Rents in Scotland are growing lowe,
and lower. h

8 1t is estimated that the United State,
has doctor for every 600 inhabitants.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-09

There are twenty more do.
than sheep in Miami County Ohio.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14
ABOUT MEN IND WOMEN.

Watts, the divorced husband of Ellen
Terry, has just finished portrait of Mary
Anderson. He says that this is the last
picture he will paint.
John J. Moore, who built the Mutual
Union Telegraph lines, and has fortune
of from g 200 900 to So ,000 600, came to
New York not many years ago with only
$50 to his name.
Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New
York World, is in Paris, where he Is I'M
dergoing treatment for his eyes. Al
though not allowed to read the papers,
he manages to keep fully posted in regard
to affairs in America. He expects to
return home in the spring.
Georgia IS leading lawyer appears to be
Capt. Henry Jackson. Three fees that
he recently received are said to have ag-
gregated SIS 900, and his regular re-
tainers reach $40 200 a year. He has, it
is reported, just declined an offer of $780,
600 a year to come TO New York City and
become counsel for an insurance COM
pany.
Eugene Field says that Edward o.
Wolcott, the new Colorado senator, is a
blbliomaniac. He does not run to fine
bindings nor has he passion for first
SUItlOnS. Ills madness Is IOF DOCKS Oh
every kind and of every age, so long as
they be books that can be read. In his
reading he is omniyerous- everything
that comes to his net is fish.
Professor Arson D. Morse, in a letter
on education, gives definition to which
no exception can be taken. ''The differ
ence between the good and had citizen
begins with different conceptions of the
state; to the latter il is an association for
the flrtherance of private ends; to the
former, an organism in which the fune-
ton of the individual is to work for the
welfare of the whole. -
A site for the proposed mechanical
school for boys, for the establishment of
which I. V. Williamson has promised
IS 900 900, has not yet been chosen, but
it is understood that the donor himself
fayors the Quaker City. The labor of
carrying out his philanthropic design has
been depnted TO a board of trustees. It
is understood that he viii enlarge his
already royal gift if necessary. Mr..
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14

JAMES L. WRIGHT, R. N. Keen, R.
N McCauly and James n. Kennedy,
who describe themselves as the surviving
founders of the Knights of Labor, have
issued an address from Philadelphia to
the members of that order declar-
ing that its original principles
have been departed from by the
officials, and proposing to revive the
pristine purity of the order in new or
ganiZation. Assemblies and members of
the order that take kindly to the plan are
invited to correspond with the self-con-
stituted committee of reform at Phila-
delphia. The movement is nothing more
than secession, inspired it would seem to
all outsider, by the inability of Mr.. Pow
derby and his counselors to provide places
for all who want them, and their neglect
to act upon all the advice they receive.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-14
A STATE AFFAIR.

The Alamo monument must be built. The Ex-
press trusts that every paper in the state will
recognize the merit of the movement, and will do
its best to the courage of its consistency to
the contribution point. 1t is not San Antonio
affair any more than the battle of the Alamo or
the heroism shown there. 1t belongs to all
Texas as the proudest heritage left to Texans by
the war of independence. They should cherish
the memory of the Alamo as they cherish the
valor of their fathers and the viItue of their
mothers. Says John Boyle O'Reilly: ''Out of
the centuries heroes reach with the scroll of a
deed with the fame of a story that is one mans
truth and all mems glory" The defense of the
Alamo that kind of deed.-[San Antonio
Express.
The defense of the Alamo should be
commemorated as lesson to the youth of
the future. 1t would be noble contri-
button to posterity if the present genera
ton of Texans would erect monument to
the men who gave life to liberty at the
Alamo.