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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
! rods will pay vastly better than an mere.

rods will pay vastly better than an mere.
Second, the lack of proper ground.
Onion seeds are slow to germinate, and
if the soil is full of weed seeds they will
cover the ground before the onions are
up, SO that when the latter do come il
will be ns difficult to find them US to find
the traditional needle in the haystack.
1t is absolutely necessary that the ground
to be used for onions should have been
cultivated for at least two years prev
iously with hood crops.
Third, scant or improper fertllizing.
The onion, during growth, absorbs au
immense quantity of the nutritive ele-
ments of the soil, aud it is not only re-
quired that these shall be present in the
soil, but they must be in such form rs to
be readily assimilatcd. Coarse barnyard
manure, newly made, would be of little
value: but the same, well worked into
the soil the previous season, would help
lit it for use the following year.
Fourth, inadequate preparation of the
soil. If the soil is not put in the finest
mechanical condition before planting,
future will be pretty certain. 1t will be
futile to attempt TO remedy this defect
by subsequent cultivation, as the only
implements that can be used are such
light ones us the hoe, steel rake, garden
hand plow, and hand wcedcr. The seeds
are very small, and have tough cpidcr-
mis-. 1t is folly 10 expect them to gcrmi-
nate if lodged among clods. The surface
soil, for n depth OF two inches, must bc
rs fine and mellow us the roller and steel
rake can make il.
Fifth, if all these drawbacks can be
successfully avoided, and poor seed is
used, failure will yet result. 1t is hardly
conceivable that any prccaution for as
surfing ones self regarding the quality of
the seed should be neglected, especially
when it is so easy to 'make assurance
doubly sure" A hundred seeds sown in
a box of rich soil, and kept warm aud
moist upon Il kitchen shelf, will tell the
story within fortnight. Ninety per
cent. of the seeds should terminate, and
unless ut least seventy-ivc per cent do,
1t will not pay to use it.
Ifone is able to comply with all these re-
quisites, can successfully weather droughts
and floods, has the capacity for infinite
paiustaking, and will be satisfied with
the day of small things, he may wisely
venture 10 plant small portion of an
acre, and if his first crop yields at the
rate of two hundred bushels, and does
not sell at less than forty cents, he should
consider it sufficient encouragement for
continuing and extending his venture
1mericaa 4dgricultuyia 80:
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
WENT TO CUT TrMEEI.

The exact time at which timber should
he feilcd for durability is one of the
things each man can best find out for
himself. The quality of timber depends
greatly on the treatment it receives after
telling and the uses to which it is put.
II is quite generally admitted that timber
trees should not be cut when filled with
sap, and the usual custom is to do il in the
dormant season, bu: whether early or late
IN the winter is not well determined, and
most people choose the time without much
regard to fall or winter. Where the tim
Der is to lie exposed and unseasoncd in
the long winter climate of the North, |
prefer March TO December. For Inc
South midwintcr would probably be pre-
ferablc, but to insure durability for farm
purposes / believe ms much or more de-
ponds on the care taken in seasoning it
as on the time when it is lled.-Ne,o
York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

comical incident at Constantinonlc
illustrated what thin ice those that use
the press have to walk upon under the
rule of the Sultan of Turkey, states the
New York Independent. There is n
Greek benevolent society in Constantine
pie which recently had occasion to pub
fish pamphlet on its work, and on the
title-pagc there was put quotation from
Paul's Epistlc to the Galatians. Very
soon after it appeared, police officer
came to the printing office and demanded
of the editor that he should give him in
formation as to who this Paul was who
had been writing letters to the people of
Galata Zone Of the suburbs of Constanti-
nople), as he had orders to get copy of
these letters and to bring the aforesaid
Paul to headquarters. The editor ex-
planned that Paul could not be brought to
headquarters; he was dead. But the
functionary retortcd that his orders were
TO bring Paul, and if he could not bring
Paul to bring the editor. 1t was of no
use to protest that Paul had been in
Heaven for eighteen hundred years; and
the editor was taken to headquarters and
put in prison for several days, until final
ly the Greek Patriarch interfered and
presented the bureau of censorship with
a copy Of the letter Of Paul, which he
showed was addressed not to the people
of Galata, but to province of the an
cient Roman Empire. This having been
at last made clear, the editor was re-
leased. :.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

DATA OF TOMATOES

So largely has consumption Of tomatoes
Increased that their yield in New Jersey
is now of equal value with that of wheat
and exceeded only by hay, Indian corn
and potatoes. a useful table from the
New jersey Experiment Station shows
that tomatoes remove from the soil much
more potash than any other ordinary
crop, excepting timothy hay; about the
same amount of phosphoric acid rs rye.
wheat and oats; twice us much rs pota-
toes, and half as much rs corn or timo-
thy. For supplying for tomato crop
nitrogen additional To what was available
in the soil of Il market garden in Middle
sex County-sandy loan, level and in
good condition. nitrate of soda was
used. When used in small quantity, or
III divided applications, it both increased
the yield and the carliness of maturity,
otherwise only the yicld-this favoring
growth for canneries, bat not the profits
OF grower for market; 100 pounds of
nitrate per acre, used alone, produced
$40. Is more net gain than double that
amount (320 pounds, or $14.4S more
when divided into TWO applications
and June II. But used with the adj
dition of potash (muriatel and phosphoric
acid (supcrphosphate) the larger quantity
produced most net gain, namely, $20.77
when applied all at once; or $4S when
used in two applications. York
Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
A Hunters Romance!

For many years the home of Abraham
Witherington was in small house short
distance east OF the Enclosure, and he
cultivated few adjoining acres; this
with hunting and fishing occupied his
time. 1t is said that when about twenty
eight years of age he became deeply at
tached to an Indian maiden, member of
tribe then quite numerous in the eastern
part of the Statc. He was great ia
voritc with most of the tribe, particu-
larly with this girls father and brother.
Abraham had hunted much with the In
dians, and was looked on with rs much
favor rs any of the tribe by ali with the
exception of one, n young Indian who
had made advances to the maiden. Being
of n sullcn, moIose and treacherous dis
position, he was regarded kindly by but
few, and was bitter enemy OF Abra-
ham, not only on account OF the favor
shown him by the girl, ba. because Ab.a-
ham had been the mere successful hun
ter, and at one of the trials of skill in
the use of the rifle had shown himself the
better marksman. On the evening of
this day Abraham and the girl were
standing near large tree in converse
ton, when the report of gun disturbed
the quiet of the evening, and the ball
struck the tree near which they stood.
Although nothing certain was known
about it, the shot was thought to have
been fired by this Indian.
The hunter and the girl married short
ly after this and went to his home few
miles distant, where he cultivated a small
farm. Six months after the marriage
Witherington left home early in the
morning in pursuit of game, leaving his
young wife in health and happiness, and
returned in the evening to find her a
corpse. great wound on the head told
the fearful tale. Friends found the hus.
band almost n maniac, but after the sim.
pie funeral rites an unnatural calmnesa
came over the man. Although he wa,
kind and affable to all, there seemed III
him fixed purpose that did not sleep.
The Indian sutton was suspected of tia
crime, but he had disappeared and was
not seen again, but rumor said that u
bullet from the hunters rifle found and
sent him to answer for his evil deed
Forest and Stream.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
When William E. Story. of svrocu

When William L. Story, of Syracuse,
N. Y, was fifteen years old his uncle,
Franklin Subway, promised him $4,000 if
he would neither drink, smoke, play
cards nor play billiards until he was
iwcnty-onc years old. Story observed
the conditions rigdly. He died soon
after reaching lns majority, and as his
uncle refused to pay the $4,000 Storys
heirs brought suit TO recover the money
with interest. The case has been taken
to the Supreme Court.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

! Perhaps the best result of the recen,
earthquake shock in San Francisco was
the demonstration that the new tall build
ings going up in the city are earthquake
proof. The new Chronicle building is
the Hottest in the city, being nine stories
high and 200 feet to the top of the
tower. 1t is nearly completed, so that it
furnished good test. Not even bit Of
plastering was knocked off the walls; in
fact, there was no indication that the
lofty structure had passed through a
'evere earthquake.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

PATHS agent recently told the London
Truth a good story about President Diaz.
While in Mexico Patti was accused by a
newspaper of calling Madam Diaz a
washerwoman. The two ladies were on
the best of terms, aud the libel was
plainly intended to annoy the Presidents
family. Now, Diaz is full of grit. He
made no rumpus. He did not bother the
courts, nor send file of soldiers to ar
rest the libelcr. He invited the libeler
into his garden, told him to defend him
self and then gave him sound thrash
ing, and let him go. Perhaps it was
very undignifed conduct for President
but it is said that every man aud woman
in Mexico thought all the better of Diaz
when the story got out. "Not mucf
reo-tape about such a ruler" comment.
the atlantic Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

The Portuguese crosses himself and
prays God to shield him from all bias
phcmous desire to know more than his
father did before him. In Portugal, oxen
tread the wheat; the people habitually
carry things on their heads or on donkeys
which share their habita,ions. The
wages of laborer are worth twenty to
twenty-five cents n day, and those of Il
mechanic about twice rs much, and each
is fairly paid according to the produce of
his labor.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
sTuFFED AND BAKED TOMATOES.

From the blossom end of dozen to-
matoes-smooth, ripe and solid-cut a
thin slice. and with small spoon scoop
out the pulp without breaking the rind
surrounding.it; chop g small head of cab
bage and good-sized onion finely, and
mix with them fine bread crumbs and the
pulp; season with pepper, salt and sugar,
and add cup sweet milk; when all is
well mixed, fill the tomato shells, replace
the slices, and place the tomatoes in a
buttered bakingdish, cut ends up, and
put in the pan just enough water to keep
from burning; drop u small lump of but
ter on each tomato, and bake half an hour
or so, till well done; place another bit of
butter on each, and serve in same dish.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

The efforts Of English missionaries to
change the customs and habits of the
Grccnlandcrs have thus far been I'M
uvailing, AYERS the Detroit free Press.
The old are sent 10 pen TO die of star
walton and neglect, and the young get
drunk as often as opportunity offers.
Getting drunk and dying of consump-
ton arc the only two events Of any i'm
portancc in Grecnlander's life, and he
won't innovatc to accommodate anybody
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
PROFITABLE ONION CULTURE.

There are few uses to which land can
be put that will, under favoring circum-
stances, pay larger money return per
acre than i'll growing onions from seed
Yields of from five hundred 10 eight
hundred bushels are sometimes harvested
from a single acre, and in forme.
years one dollar per bushel has not been
infrcqucntly obtained. The knowledge
OF such possibilities has often tempted
farmers into the cultivation of this crop
without due preparation and without a
proper knowledge of the requirements
essential to success. The result has been
not only money loss, but such DIS
couragement rs has precluded further
ventures. Onions are an expensive crop
to grow, and during their early stages
demand great amount of steady and
hard work that is most unpleasant to re-
member when the effort has resulted only
in failure. Among the drawbacks to
success which beginners will encounter,
are:
First, the effort to do too much. 1t
seems, on paper, as if anyone shonld be
able to manage at least an acre of onions.
But if the onions have to take their
chance with field of corn, or a potato
patch, or good sized garden; liz short,
If labor is not TO be available for it Just
when needed, without regard to the de-
mands Of any othGv crop, few square
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
AS TO EATING COLD FOOD.

Eat all cold food slowly. Digestion
will not begin till the temperature of the
food has been raised by the heat of the
stomach to ninety eight degrees. Hence
the more heat that can be impaired to it
by slow mastication the better. The
precipitation of a large quantity of cold
in the stomach by fast eating may, and
often does, cause discomfort and indiges-
ton, and every occasion of this kind re-
suits in n measurable injury to the
digestive functions. Ice water drunk
with cold food of course increases the
mischief. Hot drinks-hot water, weak
tea, coffee, chocolate, etc.-will, on the
contrary, help to prevent it. But cat
slowly, anyway.-Leeds (England) Ner-
cary.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
CALLS by HARNESS.

When the harness rubs the skin, it
should he softened by - good soaking
with hot water and then well oiled with
castor oil. A piece of sheep skin with
the wool on il should be fastened on the
tugs where they press on the skin. The
gals may be busted with calomel, which
IS the best application that can be made.
1t may be applied by means of puff
made OF cotton batting. Collar gals may
be prevented b. soitcning the collar rs
above suggested, and by washing the
horses neck every evening with salt
water. Pads are Objectionable, as they
produce sweating, which causes the skin
to be chafcd.-Neso York Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
Exnenses at tho white Honse

The bulk of the expenses of the White
House are paid by the President out of
his salary. Congress, however, annually
appropriates n contingent fund which
meets part of them, This is understood
to cover all repairs and furnishings of the
mansion, the care of the grounds, green
houses, etc., and the salaries of employees
and nightwatchmen, doorkeepers, iani-
tors and policemen, also the Presidents
private secretary and assistant clerks, and
finally such expenses as stationery and
postage stamps. But it depends some
what on the Presidents wish what shall
he included under this contingent fund.
Star Sayings. - =
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
Pineapple Cloth.

Still another textile material bids Tai,
to rival jute. This time it is the pine
apple fiber, and Mr.. r. Blechynden, of
Calcutta,is attempting to awaken interest
to the great economic value of this
product. The pineapple has long been
cultivated for its fiber in India, while it
is manufactured into n cloth in the Phil
ippines, and woven into linen in China.
But more recent Investigations show that,
when subjected to the process of bleach
ing, the fiber becomes plant enough to
be spun like flax, and by the same ma
chinery. This fiber can be sub divided
into threads of such delicacy as to be
barely perceptible, and yet sufficiently
strong for any purpose. Brooklyn Cit.
zen
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

One result Of Prince Bismarck's retire
ment will, perhaps, be notable improve
ment in the eyesight of his countrymen.
German oculists almost unanimously at
tribute the extraordinary prevalence of
presbyopia and other defects of vision in
the Fatherland to the use of the national
black letter type in school books. Prince
Bismarck has always resolutely stood
upon the ancient ways in this matter, and
has opposed the substitution of the
Roman for the Gothic character in Ger
man books. The party of typographical
reform is now hopeful of succeeding in
its object.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

The London Speaker calls Mr.. Stanley
not only the greatest traveller of the age
but also its shortest tempered man. Ii
likens him to an American in his readi-
ness to pick Il quarrel, and accuses him
of behaving more like bumptious boy
than like Il wcll-baanced person; and,
worst of all, it charges the defect of
SANKEY'S temper upon his training as an
American reporter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

Senator ingalls,, of Kansas, speaking
Of the unimportance of human life in
human affairs, says that "Abraham
Lincoln died at late morning hour, and
before the evening of the same day af-
fairs were moving uninterrurtedly at
Washington, where he died. The world
has not many important lives, and there
hre but few men whose deaths would
rausc more than momentary sensation. "
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
oBL1rERArINe MARKING STAINS.

To take out marking ink stains try
soaking the marks in giycerine for TWEEN
four hours, then wash in soap and water.
Paint the marking ink with strong iodine,
letting this remain on for some hours
then rub it with piece of hyposulphte
of soda dipped in water. Both the mark.
ing ink and the iodine will disappear.
Should the marking ink be of long stand.
ing 1t may be necessary to apply the
iodine second time, and then the soda.
-Nesc York Telegram.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
Says PHILADELPHIA newspaper: "The

Says Philadelphia newspaper: "The
steamer bringing westward the corpse of
Junius S. Morgan and the steamer carry
ing to Europe the live Robert Garrett
crossed paths on the Atlantic. There is
a curious coincidence in this meeting on
the ocean of the quick and the dead.
Garrett had long laborcd under the hal
lucination that Morgan was his dircst
enemy, and that Morgan had been the
chief instrument in the negotiations
which turned the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph organization over to the West
ern Union Company. Garrett used to
rave so violently about Morgan that his
physicians would have to quiet him With
drugs"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

A Chinese cxecutioner at Pckin had
twcnty-ouc victims to practice on the
other week, and he set out with de-
termination to beat the record. He cut
off the twenty-one heads in exactly two
minutes, and thus gained seven seconds
over the best work ever done in the En-
pire. If Chinaman can't be champion
pugilist or ball-playcr he Is not entirely
barred out.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
NY PICTURE.


Do you want to see my picture,
The one love the best?
1t comes when dying sunbeams
Lead nature to her rest
The background to my picture
Is mountain towering high.
Whose rugged peaks are softenE
In outline 'gainst. the sly.
The stars look brightly downward IA
see them in the lake, "
And of its silvery whiteness
A magic mirror make.
With giant limbs extending,
Behold my noble trees.
Their branches gently bending
To softes. perfumei breeze.
The flowers have closet their dainty Gu
And try to hide from sight,
The moonbeams touch the tree-topl
And paint them giistening white.
Oh, artist! can'st thou paint me
A scene like this of mine,
Can'st make the dewdrops glistea,,
The silvery moon to shine,
Oh, paint ME little flower-cups
Whose perfume fills the air,
Bedew their lovely petals
Display their beauty rare.
The stars-my living diamonds
Those brilliant eyes of night
Can'st draw their shape, oh. artist
Their co.ors. too-their light.
The brush divine that painted this
Is not to mortals given
The co.ors and the Master Hand
Are only found in Heaven.
San Francisco Neics-L Letter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
launching ON Greenbacks.

The singular spectacle of q man walk
ing along the street eating greenbacks
was presented in Duluth, Mimi, the
other afternoon. He swallowed S48 in
fives, twos and ones, when he was caught
by the police and taken to the station
house. A search revealed S607 between
his inside shirt and skin. He suffers from
the hallucination that people are trying
to steal his money. YANKEE Blade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
no covsrnrcr 4 cnEAr Law uorsn.

It is not ut all necessary that family
icc-housc should bc an expensive strife
turc, but, quite to the contrary: one
which will serve the purpose excellently
and add TO the attractions of home
stead even may be cheap built. "a
building IL feet square and or 9 feet
high is sufficient for the want of the most
cNacting family. 1t may he n frame
building entirely above the surface of
the ground, and better if elevated on
posts few inches high, to be certain of
good drainage. Built OF ioists 2x3
inches, with IN onter boarding, having
inside another series of uprights, also
boarded, from six To ten inches removed
from the outer shell, with solid floor
OF plank, the space between the two
walls filled with tan-bark, saw-dust, or
chafi, and roof of good pitch, the ice
house is complete. A drain for water
should be made from the floor, and the
pitch of the roof filled with straw, hay.
or some similar dry, porous material. On
the roof should be a ventilator, the top
defended from rain or snow. The ice
should be packed in one solid mass.
""o" ny sl'acc aii arouhu Oh from SIX
to twelve inches from the inner walls
The top of the Ice should be covered
with straw, and double doors made, one
on the outer and the other in the inner
wall. Plant some climbing vine around
the building, training them 10 creep
over the walls and roof as an additional
defense against the fcrvid, summer sun.
Such an ice-house would prove con
venient as refrigerator, preserving
foods and the products OF the dairy. -
Courier Journal
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

Opticians and oculists say that belfry
and steeplc clocks are absolutely useless
to at least Il third of those for whose bene-
fit they are set up. In many instances
such defect Of the eyes is unsupported in
children, and probably hundreds of chill.
drcn earn at school regulations for stupid
ity when not the intellect but the eye is
nj fault
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08
The Chinese Remedy for Croup.

The following is the Chinese remedy,
for Group "Collect from old walls seven
nests of large-sized spiders, two of
which, ut least, should contain live spi-,
ders. Make them into paste, with thir-l
ty grains of alum previously dissolved
Then, after it is well mixed, reduce the
paste to ashes, and apply it hot to the
throat. This, it is said, will effect an. in
Simultaneous cure of the disease, however.
severe the attack"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-08-08

The Chicago Herald says that in every
community will be found Il class Of men
of fair intelligence and moderate means
who like to serve on juries. From this
class the Herald thinks that jurors should
be drawn, rs men who serve unwillingl..
do not render good service.