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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Tile Bntter-Mnking Record

The largest amount of butter made in
one week from one COW is 22.O OF pounds.
This was from the famous COW Eurotas.
Bomba comes next with 21.11!, and
Valma Hoffman with an even twenty-
one pounds. In 1888 the Breede4's Ga
zette published the names of forty cows
whose record was fourteen pounds and
over. But, under ordinary conditions a
COW that will yield eight to ten pounds
OF butter per week at the best season
may be considered very good one and
deserving the best of care.-Ne,o York
San.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
An Embarrassing Situation

In a shy, embarrassed way lie began:
Would you, Miss Clara or-cr-
could you-or, that is to say-h'm--
this is really distressing, it is all so new
to me-er-l was going to remark, Miss
Clara"
ooh, don't be embarrassed, Mr..
Gusty, said the girl, with modest en- :
enlargement; pray go on"
Would YOU" he blurtcd out, "bc
good enough to lend me n nickel to pet
back home with2'-IMtper's Ba.ar. 9
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Life Worth Living.

Friend Ito very sick youth "Charlcy,
you must brace up and get we'll. have
some 6lorious news for you"
Sick youth Qccbly)-"What is it?"
Fricnd-''Iour aunt Minerva told me
personally that If you'd only try and get
well, she would leave you C cry dollar
she's got in the world"
Sick youth with more strength IDS
that so, Fred. Did you ask her how
much she is worth."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
The Firm Retired From Bus,,ess
So WOrrfnd

1t was the night before the wedding.
and he was bidding her good night, and
tomorrow eve, my darling, we begin
our Journey as bride and bridegroom,
pilgrims OF life together; hand in hand
wili we Journey adown life's rugged
road: We shall want to set out with a
glorious equipment of faith and hone
and courage, that neither of us may faint
and fall by the wayside before the Jour
ney ls ended will we not, darlingr'
I-I-oh, yes, TO DO sure; only I
really am so worried about the train of
my dress; 1t didn't hang one bit nice
to-day when tried the dress on. and I'd
die with modification if it lNng so ut
the wedding tomorrow. Go on with
what you were saying, dear r'-Puck.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Not Anplicahrcin His Cnse.

"What seeming trilc may save n
mans life, Bromley read here that n
half dollar in mans waislcoat pocket
turned the bullet aside!"
"Such triilc would never save my
life, Darringcr."
why wouldn't 1t"
"Bccausc you might pcrforate me
with bullets and you'd never strike a
half dollar. ~ Time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Consistent with Either prorcssIo,

Fogg-''IIis handling of the SOULS
was sight to see"
Mrs. F.-"Of whom are you speak
ingl"
For Jones, the oarsmau, OF course.
Whom else should mean, pray9"
Mrs. F.-'Wcll, you might mean n
phrcnologist.
Ethel, you're the bane of my
existence"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
A Court Anecdote

Court anecdotes have become amt.
popular. The reminiscent editor Of the
boston transcript says: There used to be
IN practice, in one of the southern cities
OF Massachusetts, u well known lawyer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
misunderstood His Classical Son,

misunderstood His Classical Son.
Bobby proud of his progress in Latin,
Pop, what's the Latin for pcoplcf"
Fathcr-'I don't know"
Bobby "Populi."
Father dicrccly-"What do you mean,
you young scamp Lie. do II BY the
piper, lad, Eve half notion to baste
you."-Bin1hamt0 Ropubii.un.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15

frequcnting the dense woods anu'
solitary swsmps. The notes resemble
tho word "Cowcow," repeated several
times with increasing rspidity, hence
one of ITS names; it is also called the
rain crow and cowcow. Its food consists
of caterpillars, insects, wood snails and
berries. Its flight is rapid, but its gait
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Westward ITO

"Do you think" said Mrs KILN. of
san Francisco, that my daughter is
sufficiently intelligent to enter your
seminary"
II nm sorry to say. madam" replied
the Boston teacher. THAT your daughter
doesn't even know the difference between
acommon and q proper noun"
"Shc don't. Well, have her taught
straight off don't want anything com.
mon about her. She must use only
proper nouns in her speech. Time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15

There are more than twenty Russian
Princes who are entitled to be styled
Grand Duke.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
Must Pay for Her spooning.

Must Pay for Her Spooning.
John-''Do you think you will always
be ms spoony on Inc after we arc married,
dcarcst7"
Maud-"Don't know, John. Depends
upon how literally you fork over"
Then followed u silence so thick that
it could Lc cut with butter knife
JesceLcr's Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15

Many farmers in Vermont are said 10
be replacing their stone silos with wood.
ell ones.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15
The little Store Arouno Tho cou.o

The Little Store Around the Corner.
Young Wife passing big confcction-
cry store)-'Isn't this the place
randyi" '"'
Young husband" Y-e-s. nv dear
but the store is always overcrowded. and
we may have to wait. l know a place
around the corner where we can get
served at once" e
"How much did you have to INV for
the candy you used TO bring me, dear %
ut was two dollars n pound. but
around the corner we can get the same
Weekly. ""
The Firm Retired From Business
Senior partner Ito office boy)-"What
makes the cashier so late this mornino2n
"Ile's taken all the cash and gone to
Montreal, sir"
where's the clerkl'
"tIe's skipped to Spain with all the
silverwarc, SIR"
"Well, where's my partnerln
"Gone to Europe with oil the oold
watches, SIR" e'
Good lieavcnsl swell. see here ne
long as all the rest have gone. M take
the diamonds and visit South America
and, by the way. you can take that
basket there, fill it with nickel watches
ana cross over to Jersey. n-Jemele,'s
Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-03-15

found in ell parts Of tho United States,
though nowhere in great numbers; but
thcro IS another cuckoo, called the man
grove cuckoo, which is rarely seen out Of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Cronin Interest SIackening.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, December 14.-The
interest in the all absorbing Cronin
trial appeared to have greatly sub
sided this morning, judging by tt Q
meagre crowd that assembled in Judge
McConnell's court at the hour of op-
ening of the court, not one-third of
the seats were occupied and the great
or portion of the audience seemed to
be comprised ofmorbidGuriosity seek
ers. The report has reached one of
the lawyers for prosecution, that the
jury have agreed on verdict on all
except Beggs, but this, Judge Neon
nell emphatically denies.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Telegraphic Brevities.

Samuel J. Randall's health is better.
Bogus Mexican bonds are IN Kansas
City.
The monograph will be introduced
in Mexican government colleges:
The Forest Hill, (Cal.) stage was
held up by masked highwayman.
A call is issued for report of the
condition of National banks at the
close of business, December 1889.
A steam gin house, with so bales
cotton, burns at Lake Providence,
La.
Ponciano Diaz, the great bull fighter,
has been given reception on his re-
turn to Mexico.
An English syndicate has pur-
chased some of the largest mills and
elevators in Duluth for 100000.
McGinty, the infant hippopotamus
born at the Central park menagerie,
is dead.
Carter Williamson is hanged in
Plaquemine, La. for the murder of his
wife.
The mangled body of a woman is
found in the ballast OF a vessel at
marlborough, England.
Princess Christian, the second
daughter of Queen Victoria, has Sc
we're affection of the eyes which threat
ems loss of sight.
Nothing has been found of the miss
ing Philadelphia banker, Ditman,
supposed to be drowned in the
Schuylkfll river.
Thomas Adams manager of the
Milwaukee and Wyoming Invest
ment Co.'S cattle ranch has skipped
with his 6-weeks-bride and $1,000
A woman of high social position, in
Berlin, is charged with being pro-
c Iress. Great expectations are excited
Tor genuine cyclone of scandalous
disclosures.
A crazy negro who came from Gal
weston to Ell Paso, imagines himself
Jackson the pugilist and the king of
Honolulu.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
ITEMS AND INCIDENTS.

The clock has been stolen from
Stouchsburg pa church.
Pension attorney only got 81 800, 900
last year out of the soldiers.
Sophia Bennington, of Xenia, has
given birth to her twenty-fifth child.
The figures in "The Angelus" are
reproduced in silver bronze for pa
per weight.
The entire sewage of Paris will soon
be used for the purpose of MARKET
gardening.
Before you buy blue Skye terrier
take the precaution to have him
washed. The bluing has been known
to come out.
DR.. Beauer, an Erfurt chemist, is
said to have inst sold to a Paris per-
fumer for $4,000 patent for making
artificial musk.
A large tract of tea land in the
neighborhoop of Canton this year
yielded per acre 81 ,000in tea leaves of
of the finest quality.
When G.. A. Bennett, of Mason,
Mich, was burned out recently 10000
dozens of eggs in his house were
cooked to finish.
A Wellsburg CIV. Va young lady
is to be married in ;'sewersilk"
dress, so one of her friends say. 1t is
believed thai The dress really is
surah.
Somebody has discovered that the
berry of the Florida palmetto shrub
is an excellent remedy for soreness of
the throat, cough, catarrh and colds
in the heads.
The express charge on car load of
dressed turkeys shipped from Paris
Mo-, to Boston were 5000. The con-
signor thinks he will drive the next
lot across the country.
Gov. Joseph c. Yates, of New York,
was buried in 1887 at Schenectady.
The other day the body, when taken
up for reburial in NewYork city, was
found to be petrified.
The fact that aluminium is easily
worked, has a low specific gravity,
and is practically non-corrosive makes
it an ideal metal for compasses, tran
sits, field and opera glasses, hand lev
els, and so forth.
The discussion of the ACCESSIBILITY
ofcolonizing Vermont and New Hamp-
shire with Scandinavian immigrants
has directed attention to the fact that
Maine made a successful venture of
this kind twenty years ago.
A psychologist in France has been
observing the working of flies in fly
ing, and has arrived at the conclusion
that the wings of a fly make about
$50 beats second, and that such fly
can travel at the rate of $3.50 feet a
minute.
EXPERIMENTS in oiling the waves
have been so successful that all life
boats in England will be required to
carry gallon of vegetable or animal
oil and a distributor of approved pat
tern for throwing the oil on the sea in
rough weather.
Not verybody Is rich enough to
lose $500 without knowing it, but this
is what Fairfield Me- woman did.
Mrs. II. a. Small recently found a
railroad bond of $500 that had been
laid away in an old book for the past
ten years, and which she had forgot
ten all about.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
a New Band.

The band of Ere company No. 2 has
been organized and last night held
their third rehearsal, at which re-
porter of the LIGHT was present.
The music made was very good in
deed, for such short space of time
they. have devoted to rehearsals.
Their instruments are all triple
plated silver, and are as follows:
w. Spintig, leader and baritone.
Clarinet, Chas. Foster.
Comets, VIM. Klein, Ed. Urbanck,
Henry Hoetiing, c. Gutzeit and e..
Rafoth.
Altos, Rudolph Hoefing, B. Fas-
senidge and A. Chittenden.
Tenors, VIM. Hoetiing, Jr., and
l.. G. Wagner.
Bassos, H. Noise and Herman
Weiss.
Bass drum, Max Russ.
Snare drum, l.. d. HOyt.
Cymbals, G. d. Roemer.
The band will probably be charter
ed, and made a first-class band.
The private steam yachts of some
New Workers have lately been dis
posed of for debt,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Help Wanted.

Some residents of Augusta street,
who are compelled by sad fate to
tramp along the sidewalks which
have not been built on that street,
draw the line at the practice which
some people allow their cooks to in
dulge in of piling ashes ard garbage
at liberty upon the said sidewalk,
near the corner of Lexington avenue,
for them 10 wade through in the CHM
merriam obscurity of that neglected
thorOughsare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Accident at a Station.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. IA construction
train which was backing into Fergu-
son Station, Oh the Wabash railroad,
some fifteen miles from this city, last
night, ran down a hand-car A fiat
car and the tender of the engine were
derailed, the hand-car crushed and
two men, Chas. Delfen Dough, con-
ductor of the Sandusky & Ohio, and
James Easterbrook, brakeman. were
killed and four others badly injured
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14

State News Condensed.

Del Rio is to have a newspaper
printed in Spanish.
Eagle Pass wants the Arkansas, Pass
to build from there to Kendall.
The Woodwork Lumber company
of Cass county files charter.
Cuero hotels and boarding houses
are crowded.
Morgan will have waterworks in
operation by the end OF this week.
The North Texas Medical Associa-
ton is meeting in Gainesville.
Comanche real estate changes
hands at handsome figures.
The Dallas Beard of Trade has or
sanized by electing officers.
Farmers Alliance will open store
at Caldwell
A gin just outside of Buffalo is
burned with ten bales of cotton. No
Insurance.
The rear coach Of passenger train
caught fire in the yards at Waxa-
hachie and was nearly all consumed.
A large lot of cotton has just left
JCllCI SUI w
ing the cut in railroad freight
A public test has been made of the
Bell artesian water system at Waco,
and it was in all respects satisfactory.
A. jackson, a colored minister, is
shot through the brain at Dallas by a
colored man.
NJ. l.. Weisman, one of the leading.
merchants of Marshall, has made an,
assignment.
was struck by a falling tree at Deni-
son and dangerously injured.
Mckinney public school building,
one of the finest in the state, has one
story completed.
Real estate is changing hands rap
idly at Beaumont and prices are stiff
ening.
A German girl at Georgetown una
BILE to sustain the cross of disappoint-
ed love, took morphine.
At depth of lO15 feet, the augur
boring the capitol artesian we'll
broke.
The assets of the firm of O,Neal &
Evans at Greenville are double their
liabilities.
The farmers of Burleson county
have made better crops this season
than for many years past.
The newly elected directory of the
Texas State Fair and Dallas EXPOSE
ton has organized.
The farmers exchange which was
closed by attachment at Atlanta, has
reopened and is ready for business.
Henry Miller of Honey Grove got
his hand caught in the saws of the
gin and it was completely severed
from his arm.
Three lads while hunting at Rich
mond accidentally discharged fowl
ing piece, resulting in the death of
one of them.
December 26, q and IS there will be
racing on the grounds of the Pecan
Valley Fair Association by the Brown
wood Jockey club.
The Corpus Christi city council by
unanimous vote grants franchise for
a street railway, to Col. Ropes, presi-
dent of the Port Arkansas Co., and his
associates.
The rooms of the Uvalde social club
will open before the holidays. They
will be well equipped with reading
room and gymnasium.
The burglar has been on his rounds
at Bryan. There were four attempts
at thieving made, but small booty abb
tanned.
Charles Trokisch, young student
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, four miles from Bryan, recent
ly heard of his mothers death and
committed suicide.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14

"A card party at Col. Ed. H. Cum
at General Stanley's house lastnight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
A Ball.

A complimentary ball will be given
at Casino hall December 9th by the
Belknap Battalion, to which the
LIGHT has been courteously invited.
The committee consists of Messrs.
Carlos Bee, Z. w. Richardson, HI. l..
Howard, E. M. Winsted, H. w.
Adams.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Real Estate Sales.

John Sharer to l.. NJ. Jackson, lot
10, block 4, Duval and Snarer streets,
1925.
J. G. and Peter Reininger to Jacob
Friesenbahn, 700 acres, part Juan
Vasquez survey, $500.
John Hildebrandt to T.. J. and II. F.
Crockett, lots Al and AZ, block s, In
diana street, $110.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Found a BabV,

A baby in a perambulator was found
early Tuesday morning in the street,
in front of No. IL Mesquite street,
where it had been left by its mother,
who lived in another part Of the city,
and had forgotten to take her baby
home. 1t has been taken home.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
The Effective Wire.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Patrick Sulli-
van employed by the Manhattan cleo
trio light company at Eighth street
and Avenue R, was instantly killed
at quarter past ten o'clock this
by an electric shock, when
at work on the company's building.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Ready for Business,

The popular Confectionery store Of
Harnisch & Baer, will be open on the
18th of Decent Der, where a fine stock
of confectioneries and Christmas MIC
nacks can be found. The continued
patronage of the public and friends
solicited. 12.12.St
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.
PRESS DISPATCH
ES AND STATE SPECIALS
Weather Bulletin.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Forecasts
till a. m. Sunday, for Eastern Texas
and Arkansas. fair, stationery tenn
perature except in Arkansas, slightly
cooler. variable winds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14

New Orleans Restaurant Burned.
NEW ORLEANS, December 14.-At
2 o'clock this morning, fire broke out
in the four story building at rs st.
Charles street, owned by John Nc
Closkey. The lower floor was occu-
pied by him as restaurant and the
upper floor by Mrs. Allen as boarding
house. There were among the guests
in the house seven members of the
Nellie McHenry's theatrical troupe,
and four of the Frederick Warde COM
pany. The inmates of the building
all escaped without serious injury, ex-
cept Thomas Peters, the colored cook
and Frederick Rast of the McHenry
company. They both jumped from the
second story window. The former was
burned about the head and face
and internally injured. The latter
was burned about the back and head
anu also internally injured. Police
man Sellhaist, who rushed into the
burning building to assist in rescuing
the imperilled people, was burned
about the hands. The theatrical
people lost all their baggage and per-
sonal effects. The total loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
War on the Electric Death Trays

New YORK, December 14.-At 9:45
o'clock this morning, Commissioner of
Public Works Gilroy, sent out four
gangs of men to cut down the poles
and wires of the electric light compa-
MES. The inspector of the board of
electric control accompanied them to
point out the poles on which danger
Gus wires were strung. Legal repre-
sentatives of the companies asked the
commissioner to grant them time,
either to remove or repair any viii s
alleged to be defective in insulation,
but their request was peremptorIly
refused. Then they warned him that
both he and the city would be held
responsible for damage caused by
his actions. The companies are
actively seeking another injunction.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-14
Patents Granted

To citizens of Texas during the past
week, and reported for this paper by
G. A. Snow & Co., Patent lawyers,
opposite U. S. Patent Office, Washing
ton, ID. G.
E. Balfour, Sherman-Holding pa
per over cakes in ovens.
j. p. Clark, Dallas-Water cooler.
l.. H. Porter, Rockdale-Milk cooler.
G. Redwood, Denison--Elastic chain.
r. H. Waters, Weatherford-Clasp.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-01-17

CONCLUDED On THIRD PAGE,J
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1889-01-17

man would have believed, and any
prudent man would have madle en-
quiry 20 satisfy himself before
acting.
In other words, before one without
actual aOtice will be charged with con-
s,ructive notice, he must have closed
his eyes to such palpable facts as will
be evidence of wlllful blindness, or at
the very least, such a wanton and
reckless careiessness in regard to lhe
matter as would amount to the same
thing.
1t seems 20 ME that no such knowl-
edge or carelessaess can be fairly
charged TO this bank or Its officer On
the contrary, it strikes me that the
President OF the Bank acted with more
thar ordinary. and certainly with more
than necessary Care, moved no doubt
by his consideration for an old cus.o-
mer, and because OF the peculiar rela-
tions that had existed between himself.
his depositor and the latter's AGENT
II he had seen tit to recognize the en-
dorsement, purchase or take up the
paper, or recognize the authority of
the agent. and dealt with him as such,
paid him the cash, it would have been
an ordinary transaction.
In this c.se | say he went beyond
that, induced these brothers to accept
non-negotiabIe 30 day paper for part
OF the old one that tended to protect
the estate to the extent that it was a
kind of paper less liable to be disposed
of then was the negotiable certificate.
And doubtless had the officer at the
other Bank, not by mere inadvertence,
(caused nc doubt by his attention. bo-
ing particularly called to the 80 day
characte, of the paper,) overlooked tha
negotiable character of it, they
would scarcely have been enabled to
CONCLUDED On THIRD PAGE,I
The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-13

On Monday morning John Hertz
took from the corner of the Old Baptist
chapel the box deposited there in June.
1859. The box had rusted away and
the papers and records were SO far de-
cayed that they could not be read.
Only u penny was found sufficiently pre-
served to be of any value.
The cornerstone of the new Baptist
Church, at Pedricktown, was laid at 2
O'Clock on Monday afternoon with ap-
propriate services, quite IA number of
people being present to witness the
ceremonies, which were il charge Of
Rev. A. II. Sembower, of the First
Baptist Church, of Salem. They were
opened with prayer by Rev. j. j.. Ber-
ger, pastor of the church, after which
Rev. A. ii. Sembower gave a Scriptural
reading from Genesis 2S:1S-22 and JOS
hua ALA, and followed with a brief
but appropriate address. Rev. ii.
Shulz, of the First German Baptist
Church, Of Philadelphia, gave a short
address in German, after which Rev.
E. r. Brunyate. of the Pedriektown
M. Z. Church made some appropriate
remarks, he being followed in a short
address by Rev. G. A. Guenther, OF the
First German Baptist Church of Will
mingtOn,