Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-21

Among the things proposed to
have at Graham by the company
are furniture factory, long distance
telephone line, water works and ice
factory. This new town will re
ceive fuller notice in these columns
later and the information will be of
reliable character.
The world wide reputation Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla Is the natural
result of it's surprising value as a
blood medicine. Nothing, in the
whole pharmacop9ia, effects more
, astonishing results in scrofula,
rheumatism, general debility and
all forms of blood disease, than this
remedy.
The Norfolk and Western rail
road expects very largely to ill.,
crease tue shipments of Pocahontas
coal to the tidewater trade this
year, and is now having built two
large and powerful steam tugboats
and six large bargeS to he used in
transporting coal between Norfolk
and New York and the New Eng.
land ports.
Mr. Ingalls, says the Chesapeake
aud Ohio road is in better condi-
ton than ever before, and is not
only getting all the business 1T can
do, but has to refuse some that is
offered. He thinks the gross earn
ings for this fiscal year will round
up $1,000, 600 and could lie increas
ed to perhaps $10,000,020 if the
trains could be provided and run.
Elsewhere the Cosmopolitan Mag
aZine aud the News are offered to
subscribcrsi in ccc; hinatiOn. A week
Is journal giving local news added
to this style of magazine makes
combination Of rea,iing that no
family can afford to Go without
The idea is the Cos:"or3lit.n's to
Introduce itself during the coming
year, and the low price should ac
complish its object
The Big AK coal, coke aud iron
company, Buchanan county, has mp.
piled for charter, with j. D. I'm
boden, Of Abingdon; l. r.. Maury,
j. ID. Blair and others as incorpora
tors. 1t is organized to develop
$4,000 acres of coal land in Buchan
an and Russell counties, located six
miles from the Clincli river. The
capital stock is to he not less than
$4,000 nor more than 100000.
We understand that the Sheuan.
doah Valley railroad is doing an
unusually large business at present
in fact, a larger business now
than at auy periOd of it's history,
and that it is Oh a gradual increase.
One.third OF its freight traffic con.
sists in the transportation of steel
rails to Southern railroads, while
the shipments Of machinery in the
same direction comes in for large
share Of the balance.
Mrs Nj. K Kelly, wife of DIR. j.
w. Kelly, formerly of this place.
died, of meningitis, at her home in
Estillville on Saturday morning last,
and was buried, Monday, in Bristol
Deceased was q woman of excellent
qualities. respected and loved by
all who knew her. She left one
child, daughter, four years of age.
Judge Kelly, in answer to n tele
gram announcing her sudden dan
ger, arrived only in time to attend
her funeral.
The contract has been given out
by the N. & w. Railroad Company
for a merchandise pier $50 feet
long by 140 feet wide at Lambert's
Point, Va. A warehouse will cover
the entire pier, which will be iron.
clad, and will have double tracks
running its entire length. A new
coal pier is about to be constructed
Immediately, with iron piers at the
same place. AS soon as the two
piers are finished, second mer
ciiandise pier is to lie constructed,
the company thus preparing for a
vast rush of freight, which will oc-
cur when the seven new feeders are
finished.