Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
LOCAL AND GENERAL
NE W.S BRIEFS.


Hot Springs for his health.
The Bank of Marion has reduced
the cost of money to 6 per cent.
Glade Spring is to have cannery.
A farm has been purchased for the
purpose.
Bristol is to have built this sea
son ~ handsome and commodious
Opera House.
We ask little indulgence for this
and next week to get our big paper
in better form.
Wytheville is now looking for
some party to build a $4,000 hotel
on a $4,000 gift lot.
Capt. Frank Blair is mentioned as
the probable Republican candidate
for Attorney G General.
The cozy dining rooms of Messrs.
Saunders and SPOTS are proving very
attractive to the public.
A number of Tazewell people con-
template attending the presidential
inaugural ceremonies.
The people of Tazewcll are en-
.joying Il run of good health not
witlstanding the open winter.
President elect Harrison is said
to be III great trouble over the mat
ter of the selection of cabinet.
The answer of Jno A. Buchanan
to Henry Bowen has been prepared
and was served OH Wednesday
last
The Y. M. G. a. reading rooms are
open to the public daily from $50 to
10p. IN. and on Sundays from 2 to
10 p. IN.
The Tazewell delegation attending
the Pocahontas carnival was not as
large rs expected because Of other
engagements.
A fire i'll Marion ON Friday last de-
stroyed the barn of Capt. j. p. Shef
fey, containing six horses, four COWS
and calves and lot of provender.
On Friday night the Y. NJ. @. A.
will elect officers of the Association,
and nll members of the Association
are requested to be present.
j. w. Chapman, Sec'y.
The lower house of Congress has
passed the bill admitting five new
States into the Union, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana, Washington
and New Mexico. The bill now poes
to the Senate.
Another Local Option election will
be held IN the Maiden Spring Dis.
trict on the I'd of February. The
district, as the other districts in the
county, is now "dry," and will doubt
less remain SO.
The Elkhorn and Bluestone opera
tors had q meeting to-day and adopt
ed scale of 90 cubic ieet to the car,
and to be 70 cents car, except for
driving entries or narrow mining,
which is to be Sl.O5 per car.-Bram
we'll Protectionist.
1t is rumored on the street that
the Tazewel! Index has been per
$uaded to champion the cause of
Capt. Bowen IN his contest for the
seat in Congress of Hon. John A.
Buchanan. Upon what new evi-
dence it has not been learned.
The Lyuchbucg Land Company
has purchased 500 acres of suburban
lands which will be laid off in factory
sites. A belt railroad will be built
around the city with the assistance
x of-,thd Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company, lessees of the Rich
mond and Allegheny railroad.
A rare opportunity is presented to
our enterprising townsmen to repre-
sent nursery firm that warrants
stock to be delivered in prime condi
tion so that large, honorable and
permanent trade can be built up
Very liberal terms to the right man.
Address j. E. Whitney, Rochester,
N.
Aspecial opportunity is offered
merchants and others to save some
good money in the purchase of gro
cries &c Messrs. Fergerson & Hut
ter, Lynchburg, about to move into
their new building, make, in another
column, taking offer which will
doubtless be followed by number
of orders.
WHY SHE LOVED HIM.-Oi say, Katie,
for what are yes smelling so afther y
: Now will yes moind me, Monkey Ne
swateheart, Dinnis, had sich sphell of
cold and was iver afther karfing that l
despaired of iver wedding him, but
mon aloive, he's as sound as yes please
qfther taking Faulkner &c Craighill g
Compound Syrup of Horehound and
Tar. Dinnis is not purity, but sinsible.
That's why oi loves him.
A gentleman who reached the city
yesterday from Tazewell Courthouse
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