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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
MISUNDERSTANDING the fornido,lc con.

Notwithstanding the formidable COM
bination of bad elements which sought
the occupancy of the new country, ex-
pcriencc entities one to believe that tho
boomers have, us Il class, preserved re-
markably good order. Upon reaching
the land Of their hopes and ambitions
they found arbitrary measures in force
along the border. All the streams were
high, horses were famed, food was hard
TO lind and absolute dcstitution aboundcd
in every camp. Difficulty aud danger
had attended their long march and CON
frontcd them on the threshold of their
new homes, but in spite of obstacles in
their way the Oklahoma country is al
ready undcr the rich cultivation that be.
ipcaks the honest energy Of its new pro-
prictors. kctr0spectivcly, one can but
see the significance of this great move
nlcnt, and admire the ilux and rcilux of
popular opinion steadily asserting itself
towards the solution Of the Indian uues-
ZION. The more one reads the history of
Americas cpochs, tic more one observes
the signs Of the times, the more thor
oughly one becomes convinced of the ir-
resistiblc tendencies of a westward course
Of empire. The history of this western
country is the history of progress. 1t is
the history OF Il constant movement of the
public mind, OF constant change in the
institutions Of Il great society. -Ncc York.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
Beans an American Plant.

a number OF years ago Mr.. Wittmarck
expressed the opinion that our bean Mas
not Il native of the Old World, us Was
usually assumed, but that it was an Amcri
can piant. This view, which was founded
on finds made in Peruvian burials, was
later on confirmed by researches OF
Ko-nicke, Asa Gray and Hammond Trum.
bull. Recently Mr.. Wittmarck has dis.
covered seeds Of the bean amonp. the ex.
cavations of the Hemcnway Expedition in
Arizona, which were exhibited bv Pro.
fcssor Edward S. Morse and Sylvcstc,
Baxter during the recent congress OF
Ancrcanists at Berlin. This discoverv
confirms the American origin of the bean.
Mr.. Wittmarck has found also seeds of tbo
pumpkin in ancient Peruvian burials. and
concludes that the pumpkin is originally
an American plant. The so-callcd pumn.
S:ns OF the Bible are, according TO Ascbcr.
son and Magnus, melons, and so are those
represented on ancient Egyptian paint.
ings. On the other hand Gray and Trum.
rtli have proved that before the arrival Of
Europeans, pumpkins were used as far
forth as Northern New York. Science.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

idea of the prospects that awaited them:
but it is equally true that the prcdomi.
mating element was made up of classes
hopclessly ignorant and painfully shift.
less. Many OF them knew nothing about
their prospective homes nor Of the
methods by which they were to establish
o tenure.
Day by day the army of boomers was
REINFORCED. The vehicles loaded with
household goods and implements of hus.
bandry, the few Struggling sheep and
cattle that were hcrdcd in the rear, and
the rugged appearance and careless micD
OF the sturdy men who loitered ut the
sides of the lingering teams, united to
announce new band of boomers, seek.
ing for the Ell Dorado of the West. In
this chaotic mass of people from every
State in the Union, there were plentifully
distributed all the good and the bad Gle.
menus Known to the American popu.
lace.
a curious and reflective mind will not
tall on many subjects more attractive en-
massc than the compact humanity stretch.
ing several deep for sixty miles along the
border OF this modern Canaan. 1t il
striking to consider how widely they
were cstranged from their homes and
their primitive landmarks. divcrscd. If
may be said, from all the asssocia-
tons with which they were familiar
and yet how readily little clans
from opposite sections allied their
Interests and harmonized their Of.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

The little country OF Holland has fallen
so far from the proud position it once
held among the nations OF the earth, that
we are accustomed to think Of the sturdy
Dutch nation as a people of little consc.
qucncc. Yet, notwithstanding the dc.
cline of her strength in Europe, Holland
is still one OF the great colonial powers OF
the world, ranking, it is said, only next
to Great Britain in Chat respect, lIci
colonial possessions comprise some eight
hundred thousand square miles of fine
and fertile tropical territory.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
Dresses for Girls.
StttjiflnrN

I. Girls dress OF surah: S.--sicl.
gathered skirt, with pinllcd-out ruiile.
around the bottom; full waist, gathered
into q collar and into the belt; the sleeve.
have puifs ut the shoulders and are plair
to the wrists, where thcrc are cuffs with
pinked rullies; the collar and bands dowr
the shoulder seams are cut out in smap
points; Il band of shirrng finishes the
waist in front just below the belt:
roscttc bow is set on the front of Tic
waist ut the belt. Seven and onc-haD
yards of surah required. Hat OF fne
braid; trimming OF velvet ribbon loop.
and roll OF velvet around the crown.
=. Tiny girls dress of cashmere:
Skirt in side piaits; waist plated from
shoulders to waist line and crossed in
surplicc fashion,; II vclvc: collar has square
points extending down either side Of n
vest made OF embroidered material; .uE
sleeves, gathered into cuffs finished with
points Of velvet; sash belt loopcd in 9
knot at one side. Three yards of cash.
mere, onc-half yard of embroidered ina.
terial for collar, end one-quartcr of o
yard of velvet for collar and cuff trim.
mings.
3. Girls dress of fine plaid made ur
bias: Skirt i'll side pliats; the hem finished
with feather stitching in pointed rows;
sailor waist, with feather stitched collar
fastened at one side by button; narrow
strips of the goods having double rows
of buttons are set down each shoulder
seam; sleeves slightly full and gathered
into straight cuffs, finished with buttons.
Four yards Of plaid required. Ciacinnuti
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
FOOTING IT.
change.

Within that short time n DopuIn.ion
81 10, GOO souls has crossed the line and
rushed with thoughtless haste in scarcl,
u IN obscure plantasmagoria. Once III
nSht OF the new Ell Dorado, the tolls and
hazards of former undertakings were for
gotten; before them stood plantoms OF
>opc and dreams Of sudden aiiiucncc-
phantoins and dreams indeed. If history
contains parallel TO this adventurous
'Nodus. it is aptly illustrated in the IA
>1liar little nursery rhyme wherein the
King OF France, with his 40, 900 men,
marched MP the hill and then marched
Town again. Such movement before
'hc dclugc might lave been considered
great sport by the families Of Ililpa and
shaium, but, unhappily, the life Of :. man
now only three score years and ten
quite TOO short time to spend in tl.us
wandering about the terrestrial sphere in
carch Of Il modern Eden.
Many of those who entered the en-
,hanted gardens in an inebriaton of de.
light are quitting them already in the
'gonies OF bitter disappointment. The
mpenetrablc lines of boomers who entered
that abode with delight and hope, aftcra
short term of dcl,lsivc happiness find
themselves doomed to cxpiatc their folly
by a sense of wrctchcd disappointment
and destitution. Viewed from the uuict
Of their Northern and Southern homes,
surrounded by the domestic bulwarks OF
peace and prosperity erected by patient
industry, Oklahoma struck them ut first
| glance rs II delightful spot where every
physical enjoyment awaited the happy adj
Senturcr. Every newcomer in his Utopian
fantasy WAS to be received with eager hos
! pltality by the Government, and cncour-
iged to expect prosperity and greatness
| galore.
| The iicklcncSs Of the multitude was
never more clcvcrly illustrated than when
the reaction set in. At the commence.
ment of the movement there had been Il
| strong and indeed reasonable feeling in
favor of Oklahoma emigration. At the
close OF the movement there WAS Il feeling
equally strong and equally unreasonable
I against it. One evidence of the change
came as II natural result of the disappoint-
mcnt of those crowded out: but il is no.
ticeablc also that of those who succeeded
in establishing claims there are many dis
affected spirits grown tired of the whole
business.
After days and perhaps months OF
patient travel and laborious delay the
cosmopolitan army of pioneers found it,
'elf standing on the border, awaiting the
order to enter. 4 world of care rolled
from their shoulders us they seated them
Ielves around their camp-iircs on the out
Ikirts of the new land of plenty. Doubt
ess there were very many intelligent and
~ell-balanced minds in all that motley
lrray-minds that had procured, by dill
gent inquiry and careful climates, fair
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
OKLAHOMA.
Il STRIKING PICTURE OF IT'S
SETTLEMENT.
The Phantom Hopes of DisIcartcncd
Boomcrs-NOt tho Land of
Promise They Imagincd-
Scenes in the CHIEF CITY.

The stupcndous expectations OF the
oo, ooO pioneers who rushed pell-mell
across the Oklahoma border fills one with
astonishment similar TO that which Cap
tain Lemucl CULVER felt when he landed
IN Brobdingnag and saw corn rs high as
oaks, thimblcs rs large as buckets and
wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The
whole movement and every component
part of it was on Il gigantic scale. Not
merely i'll bulk, but i'll specific gravity
also, 1t was the most cXtravagant affair in
the history of Americas westward crni-
grafton. Swellcd to vast dimensions,
animated with American impetuosity,
one is reminded that the history of popu
lar adventure furnishes no parallel to the
scene which was revealed by the light of
that morning on the borders OF the
Oklahoma territory. Within few short
weeks the wild, uneven and uncIltivatcd
country has undergone complete
change.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

forts i'll endeavoring TO get grip and
bold 1t. 1ndividualitics were swallowed
up in the vortex which attended the tide
Of instant emigration. Instances abound
in which men and families from totally
different parts of the country joined hands
on the border and fought their way across
the line together
A saloonkccpcr from Arkansas went
INTO partnership with the Captain of a
Lade Superior schooner to practice law
together ut Guthrie! and the day after
the portcullis was raised to the boomers
Ibis cnterprising combination had dis
played shinglc with especial attention
given to claims" emblzoncd thereon in
.etters Of conspicuous black. 1t might
properly he said That before they sue
:ccdcd in establishing their own claim TO
III old log house found standing they en-
Dyed the bclligercnt thrill OF six separate
iStic encounters.
While it may not be said that fortunes
Tcrc made i'll day, as in the times Of
'ncicnt forty miners, still some very re-
narkablc instances of money making at
ended the boom, and many Of its more
rdcnt participants came out decidedly
head, from lucrative standpoint. An
'X-Alayor of II small town in Southern
dissouri, by name Snyder, who had been
cccntly defeated in IN effort to rc-clcct
himself, came TO Oklahoma with 800 in
ash. This he invested in carload OF
utter and eggs, which he shipped in
mail quantities To various points along
he Santa Fee Railroad, clearing prolir
If $500 on the single car.
Then lie happened to learn of a great
carcity of axes and axe handles. The
hardware spectators had entirely over
ookcd tins very necessary article, and the
boomers who were anxious to build cab
MS found themselves handicapped at the
utsct for want OF the most necessary
DOL. So this lately defeated candidate
or municipal honors tclcgnlphed to Kan
as City Tor 4 carload of axes and AK
ardlcs, and when they arrived few DAYS
alter he sold them in Il jilTy ut his own
price. Thus was his 800 capital in
rcascd to S1400.
About this time n swell young man
llanccd along who owned u proprietary
interest i'll Il town site in the fertile Cana
liam Valley. His father, he said, had
lived on the place years before, and by
'iriuc Of his long claim the Government
lad permitted him 80 hold it, Mr. cx-
Mayor was fascinated by the beautiful
pictures painted orally by the swell youn.
nan, and after satisfying himself that
everything was straight Inc agreed to 90
INTO partnership with his SlI00 and Il
ialf interest in the deusivc town site.
Whcn his money WAS turned over to the
"compnny,' Snyder found his town site
to have been swindlc Of the decpcs;
iye, and he has returned 10 the business
ii butter and eggs, prcfcrring fec oirnplo
:oa bird in the hand rather ;h.m .-D-oiG;e
title 20 Il bogus town sit.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

Observes the New York Tsleyrum.
"By the by, there's something very droll
about Gould making his private physician
ono Num-, or Bum or something OF
that sort--a director i'll Union Pacific
The medical gentleman receives a salary
of $50 900 year from Gould. OF
course the better part of this will 90 into
investments in the stock of which he is ,
director, and equally, of course, the bet
ter OF that $50, 900 will eventually gc
back into Gould's pocket. That's VIII,
the whole thing strikes me as droll."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

Says the New York Graphic: ~. l.
Bell, the new Superintendent of the Rail
way Mail Service, has not gone into the
service of the Government to make money,
lie was earning as railway expert about
$40, 600 year, and received $4,000 rs {.
fee for his advice and work in one rail
way case just before he was asked to tax,
-, the present Office. His salary as Superin
tendent Of the Mail Service is $4,000 ,
year. He is personal friend of Post
master-General Wanamaker, and hm
sacrificed his financial interests to do thu
Philadelphia statesman favor"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
Nystery of Vegetable phospI,o-csecncc

-nFsteTy OF Vegetable Shosph0-esccncc
There is no subject which tho researches
Oh scientists have more completely failed
to cluciGatc than that of the cause Of ami.
NAL, mineral and vegetable Philosophers
esccnsc-thc light which, unlike all other
lights, illumincs without either consuming
or giving out any pcrceptiblc heat The
ocean is the greet storehousc OF phospkor.
cscent light-on its surface myriatls of
noctiluc;e Qittle creatures Just visible 10
the naked eye are often seen lighting the
waves for miles, and presenting wonder.
full effects when the water is broken BY
the bow of Il ship or the oars OF boat.
Persons who have passed through Il stretch
of water crowded with noctilucm say that
the light they give dims that of tine stars,
and makes the sea look as though it were
Il vast hcaving mass of metal ut white
heat. The intensity of the light is OK.
planned by the immense quantity OF the
little animals, which are computed tc
number 600 or so TO the cubic foot.
Bathcrs il waters where they abound have
often been amazed to find, on emerging,
that their bodies are rendered luminous by
the poctilucG that cling 10 them.
A kind OF scaslug that is met with in the
Mediterranean and the Pacific cmits light
from certain spots in the body.-IaMs!n1
iStdjiflIlrd
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

Not to be outdonc in any OF the metro
oolitan features, Guthrie has the ommi-
present baseball club, yclept the 'Guthric
dowlcrs." This cuphonious title be-
peaks the chief excellence OF the club.
md the technical nicely Of daisy cutters
md slides is lost sight of in the blood
;urdling yclls which rcsound over the
'rairics in the evening when the club is
1t practice, Each member of The nine
zones from separate State, which en-
titles one to suppose that in the matters
81 baseball mankind is everywhere the
anne. Again, the "Gu!hrie Howlcrs, ~
trcngthcns ones belief that no earthly
revolutions will danlpen tie a.,.or OF
base hits and flies.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

There is little mission chapel mt
Guthrie, an offshoot from the Old Sacred
Heart Mission in the Pottawatomic nation,
which, tradition says, was founded by n
band of priests about the time Daniel
Boone settled in Kentucky. AS soon as
his little Guthrie meeting house was
secured a party of drunken boomers ard
lproarous cowboys broke down the
windows and doors and betrayed several
other little symptoms OF irrcligion by set
ing the house attire; but their sacro-
igious sport aroused the ichor of the
preacher, man Of muscular divinity,
and he organized band of ecclesiastical
gigilants, who drove the offenders away
after shooting one OF them through tho
icg. ------- 1870
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
DEEPLY INTERESTED.

"Wint's all this see in the papers
about the Samcau question:" asked Mrs.
IIixby Of her husband the other evening.
HiXby. delighted 30 have his wife in
teresied i'll public affairs, began at the be-
ginning and carefully and deliberately de-
tailed the entire affair to his wife, and
when he was through he said "Now,
do you understand it, my doar?"
"Ic-r-s, | think do, George, only
I've been thinking
''rhinlling what:''
Thinking for the last Ten minutes
that, after ali, I'll have :. cardinal instead
OF lcttucc-lcat green OF my new bonnet.
Wouldn't You like the cardinal better,
dearest! - ';Aic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

Governor Porter the new Minister t,
Italy, is said by the Alta Californian tt
nave the same disease in his foot that one,
troubled the late Vicc-Presidcnt Hen.
bricks. All the city physicians CAV,
Hendricks up, when an old country doc
tor called to see and was shown the sor,
toe. The old man looked at it through
his specs, took out his jack knife ane
lanced it, and then tied it up in a chew o,
tobacco. When asked what allied Hen
bricks he replied: ga bite on his bi.
toe." The toe got well. The Californii
editor advises Governor Porter to sen(
for that old fellow at once.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

One OF the pcculiaritics Of the United
States which forcibly impresscs fcfeign-
crs, states the San Francisco Chronicle, is
the bad condition of the country roads.
While the facilities for moving goods
from one remote point to another have
increased ut Il prodigious rate in America,
very little has been to improve the road
ways traverscd by wagons.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
HINGES TO TILE HnnY.

"SclGom Il day passes but read some
story about the QUAINT sayings aud doings
Of children remarked an experienced
paterfamilias 10 Il friend on the rear plat
form of II Niagara street car.
"rhcy do say somc funny things"
eyes, indeed. My little six-year-old
daughter got oil something new this,
morning. Her older brother had been
going through some .ymnastic exercises
and she had been Watching him attcn-
lively. She suddenly turned to me, say
ing: Papa, amt it funny that we've
got so many hinges NIL over our bodies. :"
-Bgdalo Commercial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

The custom of the Digger Indians III
California has always been to crcnatc their
dead. The first funeral OF ian Indian by
burial from the neighborhood OF Snarts-
vile took place day or two since. The
remains were inferred i'll Nevada County.
They were of Il girl who was one of the
fifth of six generations i'll which they were
living specimens UP to two years ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
A Medium Made Milan Abdicatc.

Mr;c. ClIristich, of Scrvia, has &c.
tlironcd II King and acted is the agent in
one of Russians most pronounced and
gratifying successes. The last story
which comes from Belgrade concerning
King Milan's absolute and unqucstionine
s;ibservicncy to the woman who claims to
be amcdium is credited i'll official circle,
here. There is direct and undoubtable
evidence that it is vouchcd for by her
Majcsty's Charge d'aiTaires at Belgrade
IL is certainly an astounding thing that
among the most notable dupcs of charla
tans are men of wide knowledge and
striking mental gifts. King Milan,
though dissipatcd and dcpraved, is q man
or notable attainments, one OF the most
accomplished Of modern Prices, and
man familiar with all the 'foibles and
falacies of Paris and the London crazes.
His subseryency to the big and majestic
Nine. Christich is absolute. He abt,icatcd
lis throne. according to the best imfcrna.
sion, while laborinw under the influence
Of sniTitaaliSm. King Milan thought
Ch:istch Was t medium through whom lie
was receiving divine Instructions, and
when lie announced his abdics: ion he did
so witii the lnanrrr Cf 4 man in Il trance
His eyes were glazed, and his whole dc.
mcanorthat ofaIaan swayed by irresistible
outside influence. Since he has given ur
all care for his country he has resigned
himself absolutely to the mediums
society. She is rich, massive and i'm.
pressiyc, aud she has accomplished, by Il
bit of hocus pocus, an end for which
Russia has schcnhcd in other WAYS IN vain.
Chtc03o XcTuld
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pay.

Although the climate at the British set
Element on the delta of the Niger is so
unhealthy that the average life of the
English residents is less than four wears,
there are over hundred applicants for
every position in that branch of the ser
vicn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

A French missionary gives IA serious ac-
count of the state of slavery in Ecuador
Though ii is not legal institution, yet
the law permits the Indian to sell himself
as slave when he is unable TO pay his
debts, and once - slave he is rarely able TO
free himself. lie may he bcqueathed by
will. The majority Of the interior In
dams have been reduced TO this condition.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28

The Chicago Ucraid has discovered
that in twelve eases out Of twenty-five of
Importance in the last three years, experts
in chirography have gone dead wrong in
their deductions. There are hundred
men in every State who write precisely the
saInc hand
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
APosslLLE DANGER.

Wife (anxiouslYN-- John, am afraid
that may be rrHaway with some day
Husband pt~thc slightest danger of
that, my dear"l
81 don't KIP John, those new
horses are very sh ted"
ooh, Izfhan Sal the horses may run
away Wits pipe, ? see. Perhaps I had
bcttau-s started back fittings.
HsTsld.
I'D ITuDE.
clcst object in all
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
ciiEEk 10 THE W Etyr

P. M"nchausen Cadsoa, Esq.-..Tal.
loont advenchaws! Why, good gwa-
;ions. when was out in Nebwaskaw
Vas stwuck slap on ihe-.er-cbeci; Inv ;,
Homanche's bullet, by .wacious,r
Miss Dorothy Dcbu;antc- oh, do Ia,
nc see it, please. neyer sax = flottcrcd
rulIct. n-Y9-DaI.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES roAsy,yc.

Crlmsonbeak-''i see that they toasted
our friend Bacon the othcr night
Ieast-''ls that Il fact!'
Yes; read it in last nights paper. =
AT the Alumni dinner, SUPPOSE"
No; 1t WAS out in Wyoningi"
''Yes; burned him in ci,iey, YOU know =,
-. Statesman.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-28
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Undone - Judgment Suspended =
Choose Well Your Doctor
All He Wantcd-IIcr
Foicc-i;tc., Etc.

The bid me laugh and with mirthsoure wiles
And the laughing jests of the free and raw.
They seek to call to my face the smiles
They mock the joy that is far away.
They bid Inc sing with the merry crowd.
But the knocking chorus goes on and on
How can laugh when the heart is bowed.
And the back suspcnder button gomez
-BuFicttc.