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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-14
The Foreign Wheat Market.

Free trade attorneys, British and
American, persiStently seek the
support of farmers by holding out
the promise Of enlarged foreign
markets for the products of the farm
as the result of ENGRAVING the Cob
den policy into our National legisla-
ton.
The hollowness of such promise
becomes apparent when it is re-
membered that not only is the
quantity of farm products which
foreigners will consume limited, but
that the privilege of supplying this
is contested by other farmers who
are in position to crowd prices be-
low the cost of production in this
country Take the case of wheat,
which is the chief article of export
from grain raising farms. Last
year the wheat shipped abroad as
grain and flour amounted to about
80. 600, 600 bushels. OF this nearly
four fifths went to Western Europe
over 50, 289, 584 bushels of it to
Great Britain, which was less than
the average sold there for the past
eighteen years. Such falling off in
the quantity sold to our British
customers is not the result of our
inability to supply their needs, but
of the fact that wheat raisers from
other countries we're on hand as
competitors ready to sell for d less
price than American wheat raisers
could afford to take for their grain.
While the quantity Of American
wheat sold t Great Britain fell off
from over ninety million bushels in
1888, to fifty-five and a quarter
million bushels in 1889, the guam
tity supplied by Russia increased
nearly fourfold in the same time
that is to say, from 10, 354, 607
bushels il 1887, to $4,000, 372
bushels in 1889. Not because the
United States has not the wheat to
sell, but because wheat could be
bought cheaper from Russia than
America Consumers were too hard
pressed by poverty to give heed to
theories of reciprocity in commerce.
They bought their bread of those
who sold cheapest, and as the Rus
sian serf works for less money than
has to be paid the American farm
laborer, not only have prices been
hammered down, but Russian
wheat-supplemented by more than
sixteen million bushels from India
in 18S9-has been crowding the
American product from the markets
of Western Europe.
This is the unequal contest to
which trade attorneys urge the
American farmer. In pursuit of
the phantom of foreign market in
which he can sell only at a loss,
they ask him to cripple the re
sources of that home market which
now consumes nine tenths Of all
farm products, and which will, if
adequately protected against under.
paid foreign labor, in the near flu
ture supply American consumers for
all that the American farmer has to
sell.
Facts About Sugar
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-14

And $43, SO, 247 is the total of
dutiable sugars imported from
countries with which Mr.. Blaine
deems it possible to secure recip-
rocity.
Bfore going further let US repeat
our Thursdays statement of beet
sugars imported, subject to duty,
Of course, during the year 1889:
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-14
Facts About Sugar.

Our attention having been called
to an error in our Thursday S arti-
Gle on sugar, we renew our argu-
ment with correction of the error.
From the Hawaiian Islands we i'm
ported cane sugar of the value of
$12, 822, go during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1888. This was
admitted duty free under recip-
rocity treaty. In the same year
we imported cane sugars of the val
ue of 81, SIG. 1852 from all the South
ern and Central American repub-
lies; these paid duties, and were
imported in the following ratios:
Brazil 100. 81, 838, 121
Guatemala. -. .. 40, 204
Honduras. ...... ), Z49
San Salvador. -. 800. 26, 1873
Total 80. ... 81, 875, 762
These, as we said on Thursday
last, are all the sugars imported
from Southern or Central American
republics. Add to them the follow
ing imports of cane sugars
Cuba. .$36, 227, 253
Porta Rico. -. ....... 2,7O6, 232
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-14

1888, 1888, 485
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
llOW'iS THIS f!

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Rcwnrd for any case of Catarrh that
cannot DO cured by taking Halls
Catnrrh Cure.
I. j. CHENEY u Co, Props,
Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known
+. j. Cheney for tho lnnt Is years
md believe him perfectly honorable
iii all business transactions and finan,
chilly nhlc 10 carry out any obligation
made by heir firm.
West s. TruaS, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, 0.
Waldins, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole.
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
L. II. Van IIHsen, Cashier, Toledo
National Bank, Toledo, o,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces OF the syst, IN
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

arc rich and productive, yielding ali
small grain, corn, tobacco, clover and
grasses. There is great future OF
development for this part of the
SOUTH I have never seen richer
timber, finer camel, splint and COX
ing coal, nor purer iron ores. 1t may
truly he called 1.-The now wonder
land"
Tho above, taken from the columns
of the New York Timbernlan, gives
the impression our section has made,
upon Mr.. w. II. Howcott, one of the
best informed men in America. He
has been all over the country where
there is c"nl, iron, timber and fertile
lands; yet it is left for him at this
late day to see at last the "now won
derland.' Mr.. Howcott Is 80 well
known MI over the North and South
TINT these words of his, spoken in
such carnestness, will lead TO much
investigation and consequent invest
ment
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
FROM OLD VIRGINIA.

MIR. w. H: Ilowcott, of this city,
has just returned from tho country
near Tazewell G. H., Va, from what
lie, calls the "Wondcrland of the Old
Doninion," and says he never saw
such field of camel coal and iron
ores, and such fosests Of gigansic
poplar, oak, hickory, pine. etc. There
are several railways building and
surveyed passing through this Sec
hen. AS yet prices have not been
doomed. and the investor can obtain
decided bargains, provided he applies
to very reliable young man in Taze.
well, MIR. Kelly. This young gentle
man is thoroughly informed as to the
resources Of part of West Virginia
and Virginm, to titlcs, values, etc.
He is receiving inquiries for lands
and timber from alh sections. This
part OF Virginia antl West Virginin
affords a fine field for tie investor
as unlike east Kentucky ea1d part OF
Southwest Virginia, where the timber
has all been bought up by yich syn.
dieates and firms: here the lands and
timber are mainly held by Original
owners, which are mostly represent
tRtt i54 MID. v. Kelly, of TaZewell c.
y There are many fine mil
sit5s = iine OF she new railways
wb9l timber can he had
and She locations arc nu
merdg and low land.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
THE FRS L STEP.

Perhaps you are run down, can't
eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't do
anything to your satisfaction, and
you wonder what ails you. You
should heed the warning, you are
taking The first step iuto Nervous
l'rostration. You need Nerve
Tonic and in Electric Bitters you
will find tho exact remedy for re.
storing your nervous system to its
normal, healthy condition. Surpris
ing results follow the use of this
this great Nerve Tonic and Altera
tive. Your appetite returns, good
digestion is restored, and the Liver
and Kidneys resume healthy action
Try bottle. Piice Soc. at a. T.
Hargruve's Drugstore.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
There is now outstanding of tie

There is now outstanding of tie
old fractional pnpcr CURRENCY some.
thing like Sl5,o0O.0O0. And Of this
it is estimated that not more than
S3,O00,00O to 85,O0O.OOO will ever
come i'll. A great deal of it has
been worn out by the wear anu teat
OIL twenty odd years Of usage. ANY
quantity of it has been burned up
III the many fires that lave occur.
fed sinte the TIME II wills issued,
and in numerous other ways it has
been lost aud destroyed. Then
there ire some people who hold all
they can get to use in sending
small amounts by. lin ling it very
handy for that purpose. Then. too,
the old currency il now So scarce
that people keep the occasional
pieces that coihe to hand as curiUsi
{ pS or pocket DieCes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

Editor to Prihttr-You've ruined
mo. In describing The great ball
wrote that the famous lecturer on
dress wore nothing that was re.
markable. You've printed it; "NIrs.
3. wore nothing That was remark.
able" Get your money of the cash
icr and go. We've no use fora man
like you around here.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
GROVER CLEVELAND.

According to the specinl New
York correspondence of The Times,
the young Democracy have secured
control of Tnmmany Hall and that
lannon's political organization will
hereafter openly favor the nomina-
ton Of Grover Cleveland as next
President of the United States.
Il No man in the history of this coun-
,try eyer occupied a position at once
so:unique and so hattering as TINT Mt
present occupied by the subject of
this article. Heretofore it has been
the irrevocable rule for candidate.
for the Presidency who has come be
lore the people and been defeated to
retire into private hfe. al least to the
extent of giving up nll hopes of hav
ing his highest ambition realized.
But it is exactly the reverse with ex.
President Cleveland. Though the
defeated nominee of his party for re
election i'll 1888, he has ever since
bis retirement from the high Office
which he filled for tho four wears
previous with such signal ability,
steadily grown in public favor, and,
almost by common consent, is look
ed forward to rs the standard bearer
OF the Democracy in The nest Nation.
al campaign.
The reasons for this are obvious.
1t Was n conceded fuct that Cleveland
/ could ensily have been his own sue
cessor if, after the usual manner Of
politicians, he had permitted policy
to overrule his sense of honesty and
principle, and declined to advance
the standard Of tariff reform to the
front. 1t was his devotion to pin.
cipler and his acting on the maxim
that "hetter to be right than to be
President" which has excited uni.
versal admiration for Mr.. Cleveland
and caused him to command the re-
spect even OF his political enemies.
But this is not the only cause of
MIR. Clevcland's remarkable popular
ity. Ii is we'll known that he receiy.
Ell large majority of The popular
vote cast. and that his minority OPP
ponent only succeeded in capturing
the Presidential prize by the most
fragrant corruption and shameless
prostitution of the ballot. There is
strong undereurrent of honesty
among American voters which causes
them, eyon though they may have
desired the success of the party re.
sponsible for these disreputable acts,
to despise the acts themselves, and
10 reprObate al such methods Of OBJ
tanning political power.
This is the reason why Harrison is
SO unpopular, and the people are SC
strongly inclined to class him in the
same category with Rutherford B
Hayes. And these are the reasons
why Grover Cleveland is 80 phenoin
enally popular, and bids fur to b.
the triumphant leader of the Domo
cracy in the grent Presidential con
test of 1892. Richmond Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
THE NEW DISCOVERY.

You harc heard your friends and
neighbors talking about It, You
may yourself be one of the many who
know from personal experience just
how good thing it Is. If you ha, Q
ever tried it you ARE one of its
stuunch friends, because the wonder
full thing about it is, that when ont @
given Trial, DR.. Kings New Di, :
coyery ever after holds place in the.
house, Ii You have never used it
and should be afflicted with cough.
cold or any throat, lung Or chest
trouble, secure bottle ut once and
give it fair trinl. 1t is guaranteed
every time or money refunded. Trial
bottles free ut a. L. Hargrave's
Drugstore.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
MANY Person

Many PERSONS
Arc broken down from ovcrwork or household
s"Ies Browns Iron DitterS
tehrllsS the system. n;iS digestion, removes cx-
crEs M bile. and cure, malaria. Get the genuine
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

TIE TAZEWELL NEWSPAPER

The Pocahontas Headlight i'll look
ing over the field says; with the
biggest coal operation on earth at
Pocahontus; furnmcc and munnfac.
turing town ut Graham; iron mines
and brick yards ut Tip Top; the
county seat tlc lovcliest location in
the Southwest as n residence town;
the coal operations, rolling mill aud
n little of everything ut Richlands
and Cellar Bluff, Tnzewcll will be ere
long the richest and most important
county in the State. In point of in
telligenco and progreos her people
have always taken high rank, and it
Is not too much to expect that they
will know how TO utilize their i'm.
mense advantages. now that tn, il
most sanSuinc anticipa:ions have
been realized ms to development
Capital and labor lave done their
part; it now remains for the people
to take advantage vi their exception.
al opportuniti s."
The editor of the Headlight might
have added. without e1olism, tint
his OWE pen was one Of those to ipnrk
ont this development" long before
1t was begun, ana thai he is therefore
one Of those not to be startled by
anything that the immediate OF re
mote future may bring forth in n
county so recently isolated from the
STIRRING world without.
From our earliest recollection the
Press Of Tazewell has been telling to
the money centcrs OF the country The
story of her hidden wealthss 1t re
CURED years of repetition to! convince
i,ofh these riches and stillother y ears
70 reach them. And'e whilel many
grew weary and hopeless Waiting fog
sbiie beginning OF u work which they
could lot do themselves unaided, the
newspapers never dismounted from
their hobby, but have ridden it thus
far.
Now, since the way is open. is the
SINE for the newspaper to accom-
plish moro i'll less time for it's sec
ton and people than ever before.
And while its ability to 10 is ncces.
Haiily measured by the ability of
business men TO grasp the iden of it's
value to themselves, it may be said
to its credit that it always gives good
measure and running over.
This rich county of Tazewell with
It's bounteous present and promising
future should, through pride and for
rts highest interest, maintain the
6ost local press in the country. Its
patronage should be unstintod. It's
value would then be Unlimited. We're
Its ssM5 strengthened as they should
be and could be, it would be giant
OF power for the help OF every citizen
and evory business.
Let it not be understood that The
press complains of meagre business
livery paper in the county is doing
we'll for itself, which, as in every
healthy business, should be of first
importance. 1t has M honorable
aud manly ambition to do more and
more FORTS section, and it has n
lively sehsS of it's ability to do SO On
rapidly occurring OCCASIONS,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

No. has Pullman Buffet Sleeper fro
Memphis and Chattanooga to New Yo|
via Roanoke, Hagerstown and HarrI
burg without change.
No. 8 has Pullman Buffet SIeer
from New York to Chuttanooga a
Memphis without change, via Harr
burg, Hagcrstown. hnd Roanoke; a..
has connection at Hagerstowh with e.
mail from Baltimore.
No. has through connection frd'
Philadelphia via Harrisburg and C.
railroad, and from Baltimore via (
NJ. II. r.. daily except Sunday. All
makes connection at Waynesboro JUL
train. Es
CoNNEcTIoNSEeS -4g1
~ Hageystown, Md, with WesteI
Maryland r. r.; ard with Cumbcrla
Valley Rnilroad TO and from Harr
burg. etc.
At Shenandoah Junction, W. wi
with main line BALTIC. s. Ohio to a
from the west. II
Nos. 8 and make close connecti
with 9. 6 o. Mt Wanesboro Junction
AT Loeb Laird with Lexington
II. s. a.
At Buchanan with Il. & q. main Ii!
at RoahoAe with Norfolk & Weste
o. HOWARD ROVER, 1
Gen Pass. and Ticket Agent I
DAVID w. FLICKWIR, Roanoke. ii
superintendent Roanoke, Va
6. NJ. FUTTERER, IL
Passenger hsent, nagerstown, Md
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14
BUCKEEN'S ARNICA SALVE.

The BEST SALvg in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Seresr Ulcers. Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
antced tn give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price Is cents
per box. For sale by A. +. Har-
grave.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

Lv Hagorstown 1913 p ~ and e.55a n
Ar Harrisburg, G. V. II. H., f.05 a
and ii 10 lii.
ar Phila., p. Il. r., 425 a m and g..
pm.
Ar New York 10 m and $50 n m.
St,1.rIruN 1,I,1r a. In
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

The largest md finest stock Of DIAMONDS,
WATCHES. JEWELltY. &c. in Vireinia.
Our pecialties-PLAIN GOLD RINGS.
The largest stock in the Sou. b--nll man.
ufacturcd by MS and fully gnamnteod.
Sole agent for the Rockford Watch, ac-
knowle'!ged hJ everybody to be far supe-
rior to any watch OH the market. Sole
agent for Reed and Barton, and the Cor
hahn manufacturing Co.'S celebrated
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

Editor writing to professional
llumoris)-Send some more grip
jokes.
Hnmorist (writihg back )-Canr;
I've got it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-14

Nru"nfyic Persons
And those troubled " i'll, nervousness resultin-
froia care or Uvcrwork viii he relieved by inkin
BrOiOu'S IRON Bitters. Genuine
has trndc mark and crossed red ines OH wrapper
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-07
THE HANGING OF VOOLFOLK.

As stated in last weeks HERALD. Thos
| G. Voolfolk was hanged at Perry, Ca, on
the 29th for numbering nine persons, al
mem bers of his fathers family, on August
| 10th, 1887. The doomed man slept vel
Tuesday night from two o'clock until
four. He got up at eight, and had long
interview with a party of newspaper
men, with whom he conyersed for half an
hour, laughing and exchanging jokes, and
being seemingly absolutely uudisturbed
! by his approaching death. After the de-
parture of bis visitors, he bathed and
shaved and put on new suit of clothes
He was then visited by several of his rela
tives, whom he babe farewell without
betraying any emotion. Later he was
closeted for an hour with his spiritual
advisers, to whom be professed bis belief
in bis salvation, and bis perfect hopes for
future life, telling the ministers that be
hoped to meet them in heaven. For sew
sral hours thereafter Voolfolk was left
alone, and devoted the time to medita tion
and prayer. About one o'clock he was
onveyed, under the escort of the local
military, to the gallows, which had been
built in little valley in the outskirts OF
the town. Seven or eight thousand peo-
nIa swarmed the hillsides around to
watch the execution. On the gallows
Wool folk was cool and composed. After
the ministers had prayed, he himself
PRAYED tervently, declaring his innocence
in bis Invocation. A written statement
signed by Voolfolk, was read in which
he gave it as his dying declaration that
ba wos innocent of the crime for which
he was being executed. At 1:3l the drop
fell. The fall failed to break his neck,
and death resulted from strangulatioD,
his pulse continuing to beat for eleven
Minutes after the fall.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-07
Australian Plan OF Voting.

The first trial of the Australian rlan Of
voting in Baltimore seems to have demon
straIed that 1T is an entirely satisfactory
system. The novelty OF the method gave
additional interest to the election. The
voting was attended by no disorder or
contention the electors seem to have been
fully educated up to the requirements OF
the occasion and the State election officers
to know their duty. The counting was
remarkably rapid, and the returns from
the 1913 precincts were in the hands
of the printers in The San Office by
half-past nine O'clock. Everything, there
fore, worked smoothly; every registered
voter who wanted to vote found the OPP
pOrtunity to do so without delay or oh
structiOD, while illiterate voters and those
not informed received all the instruction
necessary from the ballot clerks. One
advantage throughout was the short
ticket, having only two names, thus en-
aiding the returns to be sent in expe-
ditIOusly. Altogether tine first trial of
the new system was so satisfactory that
the counties of the State whieh have ex-
cepted from its provisions will doubtless
seek the earliest opportunity Of coming
in uud:r its protective influence
San.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-07
Where Whites and Blacks Inter
marry.

Thomas Young, colOred, and LIZZIE
Volght, white, presented themselves be-
fore Magistrate o. n. Urner ole day last
week al NorristOwn, Pa, and requested
that he make them man and wife. They
had the necessary marriage license, and
the father of the girl accompanied the
couple and urged the magistrate to per-
form the ceremony. The magistrate, adj
dressing the father. asked: ado You con-
sent to yonr daughters marriage to a col
ored manp Voight said he was perfect
" willing. he was then asked If there
was any negro blood in his veins or in any
member of his family or the family an
cestors. "Not that l know of" said
Voight. "Then refuse to perform this
ceremony" said Magistrate Urner. ~
have too much respect for my own race
and for the colored race to Join members
of the two races in matrlmony."-
The party then started ont to hunt up a
clergyman to perform the ceremony. All
upon whom they called refused, aud at
last accounts the knot has not been tied.
The couple live several miles north Of
there, where the color line is evidently
not very closely drawn. A eolored man
and a white woman in the same locality
were married not long ago, and colored
preacher has been adding white members
to his flock.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-07
Negro Killed by Electricity.

PITTsBURG, October 31.-A special from
Braddock, Eennsylvania, says horrible
accident occurred there in the Edgar
Thompson Works last night, which was
due to the careless brayado of the victim,
colored man named Robert Washington.
He halls from Culpeper, Virginia, and has
been working as bricklayers' labOrer. 1t
was noticed by Supt. Pierce, of the
Carnegie Electric Light Company, that
Washington has often grabbed the cleo
trio light wire when the current was
turned off in order to show men that he
was not afra d. He was warned by Pierce
that he would be caught, Pierce telling
him several times that he was doing a
very foolish thing. Last night at III
o'clock Washington was seen to climb up
several steps and reach ont his hand
toward the electric light lamp. Some
one shouted a warning to him. but
too late His hand touched the wire, and
in an instant his frame stiffened and be
fell to the floor below dead. Not muscle
twitched. aud his death must have been
instantaneous. His right hand had touched
the wire and his left hand was cllnglng to
the iron rod which completed the circuit.
There was not a mark on the man except
on the right hand, where a slight scar was
found where he had grasped the wire.