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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-03
LOCAL AWD GBWERAE
WEN BRIEFS.

Re $4,000 hotel ea6h:
x5The reputation of Bdst6il & Sons
Snow Flake fouris increasing every
day.
Mr.. 7. H. Wlckham, of the South
west Co., is up from Pocalontas to.
day. T
Kisses Alice Chapman and Leola
Anderson spent the holidays in Balti
more.
htf. Randolph Henry returned
from Hampton Sydney college some
days since.
Tho Clinch Valley Bank house d it's
large safe on christmas eve by way
of celebration.
Capt. and Mrs, J. G. Rawn came
Up from Bickley's Mills aud spont
some days With friends.
Mr.. a. A. Christian. of the Pulaski
News, WAS appointed to a secretary.
bhip in the Legislature.
The city fathers allowed tho juven-
lies to finish up tho supply of fire
works OH Christmas aaf.
Mrs. Kebecca Peery, relict of the
late Harvey Pcery, Esq, died yes
Say at an advanced age.
Messrs. 1. Frank & Co., the cloth.
iers, keep full line of Hats, of
gnod make and latest style.
Mr. Henry E, Hartman, of the
Cliuch Valley railroad, was in town
laat week from Bickley's Mills.
Dir. Henry Simmerman, of Wythe.
vile, who is interested in Tasewell
property, was in town lest week.
School duties were resumed at
the Seminary, Tuesday, after the
usual and proper holiday recess
A trunk or valise waited ? To
be had at
t. Frank & Cos.
Henry W. Grady died at his home
in Atlanta on the morning of the Odd
of Dec. and was buried on Christmas
day.
Messrs. Simmerman and Hartman
will at m early day do tho finishing
work on the interior Of their town
hall.
Afiss Jennie Bowen. eldest dough
ter of Mai cr t. P. Bowen, has been
quite ill of pneumonia for several
weeks.
A~ Dir. VIM. S. Brown, of this place,
was married to Miss Maggie Bate
man, of Wythe county, on the 25th
of December.
The thanks of the News are due
Senator Jno. w. Daniel and Con
gressman Jno. A. Buchanan for pub
lie documents.
The Temple of Fashion, cloth
ing house in Lynchhurg, lias failed
with $4,000 liabilities and about
$4,000 assets.
Mr.. jas. Allen, first class collect
or, has been appointed constable
for thi; township in place of s S. +.
liarman, resigned.
Laborers are pouring in from all
Rections daily to work on the va
rious lines of new railroads in
Southwest Virginia.
Miss Carrie Spots came up last
week from Mouth Of Indian where
she has charge of the music depart
ment in the High School.
Mr.. II. NJ, Smytlle, of the Poca
hontas Headlight, will erect u neat
house upon his lotat the Tazewell
depot, recently purchased.
The firm OF Young Il Kelly has
been dissolved by mutual consent,
Ak1Nelly retiring and hIr. Young
sg$eeding to the business.
3lr Thos. S. Bailey, of Palo Pinto,
Tex, an appreciatFe reader of the
News, reports PROSPERITY, health and
comfort in his Texas home.
Miss Stella Stras, who had gone
to Richmond in company with her
cousin, Miss Eva SPOTS, returned,
home in time for the holidays.
Mrs. Benhingef and Miss Ready,
of the faculty of the Tazewell Semi
nary, went to visit friends in Penn.
sylvania during the holidays.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03

Stonewsll districts, in the splendid
range of mountains lying behind the city
Of the bay, we simply pronounce it
laughably false. This journal has always
had words Of appreciation and encour-
agement for those districts, and the
writer knows and values the noble
fellows who have developed them. II is
true, on the other hand, that we have
denounced the Santa Clara placer
"fakes" of Lower California. and so
shall we ever, even though Los Ange-
les newspaper should curry favor with a
certain class of speculative San Diegans
by telling whoppers about them every
day in the week. as it did some months
ago, even going to the extent of issuing q
guide book to FOOLS Paradise, y
which had at least one merit, viz, il
showed its dupes how to return as well
as how to 60, by reading the text back
ward.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
CRIMINAL NOTES.

John G. Day, the man who eloped
with the Parkins girl on Friday night
last, was served with warrant charging
him with taking an overcoat from De
Turks stable belonging to w. R. Samp.
son, before starting on his trip to San
Bernardino. He will appear before Po.
lice Judge Owens for trial upon the
charge OF obtaining money under false
pretenses today.
Fred Nirk was arrested by Officer
Harvey last evening at II San Fernando
street for disturbing the peace of his
former wife by threatening to kill her
because she refused to live with him
again and renew their former relations.
The fellow has several times of late dis
turbed Mrs. Nirk, and she has had to
call upon the public for protection on
each occasion. Mrs. Alice Nirk OBJ.
tanned a divorce from her husband abou,
three months ago.
A complaint was fled in the Police
Court yesterday by Mrs. Ellen Newell, o
widow, residing at No. rs Mission road
charging Mrs. Agtapina Alvarez with
battery. She alleged that yesterday
morning the two boy of Mrs. Alvarez
aged respectively 1oand IL years, chased
her dog under thu house and threw rocks
at it. She went out and demonstrated
with them, at which they ran away and
told their mother, who lives at No. H.
close by. Mrs. Alvarez then came out ol
her house with broom in her hand and
after few words struck Mrs. Newell
across the back with the handle, hurting
her severely.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
LOIS LOGIC.
The Sioux Chiefs Make Some Sarcas.
tic Speeches.

The Sioux Chiefs Make Some Sarcas-
tic Speeches.
WASHINGTON, January 2.-The delegs-
ton of Sioux chiefs had another talk
with Commissioner Morgan today. John
Grass said. "Last summer you sent
thre 9 men out to my country and they
told us it we signed the treaty we would
get schools and oxen and wagons and
other things promised us in the treaty of
1865 and pay for the land we now sell
besides. / see some of the same things
are promised in both treaties. My peo-
pie want to know if we are to have them
twice."
Mad Bear said: "You sent us three
persons to show us how to farm. They
can't talk to US. They only make
motions with their hands and then go
away. We don't know what they
mean. If they would plow and SOW and
raise crops we could See how they did it,
and learn to farm better than the farmers
you send to teach u.s."
Commissioner Morgan interrupted him
to say: "You should learn to under
stand English, and then perhaps the
farmers could teach you."
Mad Bear replied: IF we had got
schools on the reservations as promised
us in 1868, we would now know English,
but we did not get them. We want to
learn to farm and do like the whites, and
we want schools on the reservations, so
we can learn.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03

We HAVE not been having all the rain
in Los Angeles by any means. The
New York World, of the 21st ult., part of
the delayed mail which has reached Los
Angeles, has cartoon which is devoted
to the dudes of the future. Two of theee
gentry are represented with tarpaulin
hats and knse-high rubber boots, raising
dismayed faces towards the pouring
heavens. The only thing that suggests
the traditional exquisite is the never to
be separated from big-headed cane.
Another issue of the same journal
represents Mayor Grant standing
with dismsyed aspect over an
uprooted street which has become
q brawling torrent. If misery loves
company the residents on Second, Hope
and other of our deluged thoroughfares
may gather some consolation from the
fact that the residents of the metropoli-
tan city Of the United States are suffer.
ing more than they. This, however, is
poor consolation, and the people of both
cities would do we'll to buckle down to
the work of making the streets passable.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
NATIONAL PROTOTYPES.
The New Standards Received
at Washington.
THEIR PURPOSE AND ORIGIN.
How an International Standard of
Weights and Measures Came
To Be Adopted.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, January 2.--The national
prototypes allotted to the United States
at the International Convention of
Weights and Measures in Paris, in Sep
tember last, were formally received and
accepted by the President this afternoon,
in the presence of distinguished COM
pany of Representatives and scientific
men. They were brought from Paris in
two boxes. carefully sealed and marked,
and had been vigilantly guarded from
the moment of their manufacture. These
new standards were constructed by the
cooperation of the principal governments
OF the world. Their history in brief is as
follows In 1869 the French Govern
ment invited the other nations to send
delegates to Paris for the purpose of
forming an international commission for
the construction of new meter for an
international standard of length. The
invitation was accepted, and our Gov
ernment appointed Professors Henry
and Hilgard as delegates. In 1876
treaty was signed at Paris for
the establishment of an International
bureau of weights and measures. The
bureau was established and put under
the administrative direction of delegates
from the various countries concerned.
A large staff of learned men were en-
ployed to study method for carrying
out practically the theoretical require
ments agreed upon as necessary by the
delegates. The difficulties encountered
we're all surmounted, and the work
was carried to successful compile.
ton. The standards ordered by the
various governments vera distrib-
uteds- by lot last September.
One set of standards, set apart as in
ternational prototypes, is kept in cave
at the International bureau. The object
of putting them in cave is to secure
them against accident and sudden or
great changes of temperature, as it is
deemed possible that permanent changes
IN the molecular structure of the mate
rails OF the standards may be brought
about by such fluctuations of tempera-
ture. No single person can have access
to the International prototypes. The
cave is locked up by three different KEYS
IN the hands of as many individuals, and
every conceivable precaution has been
taken to keep them inviolable. The
standards distributed to the various
governments are called prototypes, and
the same care will be taken to preserve
them .unsltered as is deemed necessary
for the international standards.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03

HE taxes are now paid, in the main,
or will be shortly, and this community
has stood the ordeal fairly we'll, consid-
ering their enormous amount, but there
is widespread discomfort amongst the
taxpayers at their magnitude. The
knack OF scuandering immense sums of
money, both by the State of California
and the several counties, has been devel-
oped to the status of an art. That there
is great wastefulness in every direction,
cannot be doubted. Especially has this
been the case in the matter of street i'm
provements. One of our leading citizens
returned from Europe ehort
time ago, and was presented with
"a bill of $4,000 for grading
and graveling street in front of his
property which he avows could have
been done for $500. The rains have
swept the gravel all away, and the work
has to be done over again. 1t would
help our taxpayers out very sensibly if
they could get this necessary work done
at fair prices. There seems to be only
too much ground for the belief that there
are combinations amongst the contract
ors of Los Angeles which place the tax
payers at their mercy. The case men.
toned by US is only one of multitudes.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
Something for a San Diego Con.
temDOrarV.

The San Diego Sun of the 30th OF De.
cember contains a splenetic article in
which it accuses the HERALD of saying
and doing all manner of things in despite
of our Southern neighbor, as to all of
which there is not the shadow of simu-
lacrum of the truth. This journal has
always been courteous and appreciative
of San Diego, but it has been loyal to it's
own superb city, and that is just where
the shoe pinches. In ten successive edi-
tions of the ANNUAL ILLUSTRATED HER.
AID cordial recognition was extended
to the City of Bay and Climate, without
money and without price. OF course we
have no patience with or tolerance of the
rot that San Diego will ever, at any
time, or under any conceivable circum-
stances, approach within bowing ac-
quaintance of the Angelic City in wealth
or progress Of any kind which looks in
the direction of metropolitan status. The
fact is that San Diegans hate Los Ange-
les, and think that our people are i'm
bued with like feeling, which is pre.em-
inently not the case. In some instances
here the brags of our vivacious neigh
bors are looked upon with good d-humored
contempt, in others with kindly indul-
gence, and in no instance seriously. OF
course, our contemporary could not over
look the fact that gentleman connected
with the HERALD ran for Congress in
1886, and claims exultantly that San
Diegans beat him. Well, we think it
quite likely that this is the fact, and we
assure our contemporary that the indi-
vidual in question forgives them
from the bottom of his heart, and is
quite willing to return good for evil. Az
to the allegation made by the Sun that
this journal has ever moderated the
mines of San Diego county, meaning, we
suppose, those Of the Julian, Banner and
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
DECEMBER WEATHER.
Conditions that Prevailed Through
out the Country.

WASHINGTON, January 2.-The weather
crop bulletin for the month of December
says: The month of December was
unusually warm in all districts east of
the Rocky m ountsins, while the normal
temperature prevailed on the California
coast, and it has been slightly cooler
than usual on the North Pacific coast.
There has been an excess of precipitation
generally throughout the Lake region of
Minnesota, Eastern Dakota, Northern
New England, in California, Southern
Oregon and over the plateau regions.
The rainfall for the month has been most
unusual for California, over eighteen
inches having fallen at San Francisco,
fifteen inches at Los Angeles, and nearly
eight inches at San Diego, which was
from three to five times the usual amount
for the month. Throughout the entire
country south Of the Lake region, and
from Massachusetts southwark to Florida,
less than the normal precipitation oc-
Cured.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
A Land Decistou .

WASHINGTON, January 2.-Land Com
missioner Croft has rendered decision
upon the application of James w. Barry,
OF the Fargo, South Dakota, land district,
to transmute his pre- emption filing on q
quarter section of land. under the date OF
October. 1888. The filing was rejected
by the local land officers on the ground
that prior to the date of said act. Barry
perfected title to tract OF land on which
he made an entry under the homestead
law. The Commissioner reviews the
evidence and law bearing upon the case
and sustains the decision of the local
officers,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
Shall the millionaire Guild be In.
creased?

.
creased?
The Ohio Legislature which meets
Monday, will have to discharge the re.
sponsible duty of electing successor to
Hon. Henry B. Payne in the Senate of
the United States. Upon the action of
it's Democratic members will largely de.
pend the future of the Democratic party
in the Buckeye State. Three million
aires are understood to be aspirants for
the position, viz, the Messrs. Brice,
Thomas and Bookstaver. Only one gen.
tleman, Mr.. MacMahon, who is not a
plutocrat, has ventured to announce him
self as ambitious of the honor. There is
great excitement amongst the masses of
the Democracy, who would be greatly
disgruntled if some statesman who rep
resents the brains and sterling worth of
the organization is not chosen. The
record of the party in this line has been
in gratifying contrast with that of the
Republican party, and it is to be hoped
that it may be kept 80. The few in
stances in which it has departed from its
rule of electing comparatively poor men
to the United States Senate have been
supported on other grounds than the
wealth of the successful aspirants.
Hon. George Hearst, of California,
is conspicuous instance in
point. If there is typical repre-
sentative of the Pacific Coast living to.
day it is this energetic miner, sound
Democrat and excellent citizen, the least
OF whose distinctions is the large fortune
he has acquired by enterprise and not
by speculation. In the case of Henry B.
Payne himself, about whose success over
Pendleton such great clamor has been
raised, there was exceptional personal
and political merit to make the choice
not unusual one. 1t would be scarcely
wise, however, for the Ohio Democrats
to replace one Democratic millionaire by
another. 1t would look as if the fashion
had become settled. The Thurmans,
Outhwaites and Converses of Ohio are
all opposed to the election of either
Brice, Thomas or Bookstaver, and their
codnsels ought to be needed. The op-
position to Mr.. Calvin s. Brice is inten-
sified because he is supposed to have
obtained constructive residence in
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
The Mon tana Dluddle.

CHICAGO, January 2.-The Helena,
Mont, Herald telegraphs: At the ioipt
session of the Legislature today the first
ballot resulted: Power, 49, Mantel, II ;
Hirshfeld, 3; Richards, g. Thompson
l.. Second ballot: Powers, 35; Mantel'
3. The President announced the cleo.
ton of Hon. T. G. Powers as United
States Senator. Powers is a wealthy
merchant, and was the late candidate for
Governor on the Republican ticket, and
was defeated by Toole.
Abog5 two hours after T. G. Powers
was selected by the Republican Joint
Convention for second Senator, Judge
Hunt, of the District Court, gave his de-
cisi6n in the case of Representative
Roberts, of Silver Bow county, who had
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
A pretender to meretricious Fam

A Pretender to Meretricious Fame.
A dispatch from Williams, Colusa
county, yesterday gives an account ofthe
shooting of David Matheson by one Joe
Casey, and goes on to say that Casey is
native of Louisiana, and that his
father was hanged by the Vigilance Com
mittee out OF third story window on
Montgomery street, San Francisco, for
the killing of James King of VIM. in
1856. This is the way in which history
is writ. Joe Casey cannot be the son Of
James z. Casey, who killed James King
of VIM. because he had no children,
never lived in Louisiana, and was in San
Francisco at the time Joe Casey was
born, if he is only 81 years old. This
dispatch recalls perhaps the most exCit-
ing times that we're ever seen on this
Coast. Casey was New Yorker, and be.
came leading ward politician in San
Francisco, and was what would now be
termed political boss. James King of
VIM. had been banker, but had trans-
ferred his business to the banking de-
partment Of Adams Express Company,
and took leading position in that bank.
When the financial institutions of San
Francisco were struck by cyclone, in
1876, Adams & Co. went under. King
of VIM. then started the evening Bulletin
and published red-hot reform newspa-
per. He discovered that Casey had had
criminal episode in his career in New
York, and exposed it in sensational
leader. Casey was furious, and meeting
King of VIM. in the street. he shot
him down. This assassination was
speedily followed by the organization of
the Vigilance Committee, whose head
quarters were on the south side of Sacra-
mento street, between Front and
Drumm. Casey and man named Cora,
who had killed q. s. Marshal Richard.
son, were taken from the Jail to the
rooms of the Committee, where they
were tried and condemned to death.
They were both swung out of second
story windows of the rooms the Com
mittee occupied, and expired in the
presence of vast concourse of people.
Whilst the execution of Casey gas being
carried out, the funeral of James King of
VIM. was passing through Montgom-
cry street and the houses along the
line of march were hung with
black. The Vigilance Committee re-
mained in session for over six months,
and was the supreme power in the city
during it's existence. Its members to
the number of three thousand, were
completely armed and equipped. They
had batteries of guns and thorough
organization under the command of COM
pstent military leaders. All the availa.
BILE arms in the State we're in their pos
session, and the lsw-and-order people,
who were numerous, were powerless to
make any effective headway against the
ascendancy of the Vigilance. Committee.
The community were divided on the
subject of this extra legal tribunal, but
the majority were largely with the Com
mittee, who did not disband until after
they mad secured for their partisans the
control of the city government, which
they held for several years, under the
guise of political organization called
the Peoples Party.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
The wrong man Haurcd.

TAHLEoUAH, l. T., January 2.-In the
Cherokee Nation, in 1886, DR.. Pyle and
Mrs. VIM. Kerr were found murdered in
their house one morning. John Stephen
son, toward whom suspicion pointed,
was tried, convicted and hanged. Now
comes startling revelation. On the
evening of December 9th colored
gambler named Rogers was fatally in
jured py railroad train at Illinois sta
rion. Before dying Rogers confessed
that he committed the murders for
which Stephenson was hanged.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
Native Sons, Election,

The Native Sons of the Golden West
held very large and enthusiastic meet
ing last evening, the occasion being the
election of officers. Those elected to
serve for the ensuing term we're: Presi
dent, Robert E. McGregor; First Vice.
President, w. N. Ent; Third Vice.
President, Charles E. Baer; Financial
and Recording Secretary, E. G.. Taylor !;
Marshal, George Swain; w. S. Mars
chsnt, Historian.
The installation of the newly elected
officers will take place next Thursday
evening at N S. G. W. hall.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
Desperate strikers.

PUNxsUTAwNEY, Pa, January 2.-The
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Com
psny were not successful in their effort
to eject the striking miners from their
houses today, Sheriff Sutter refusing to
act in the matter, as the company de-
sired. Superintendent Haskell declares
that he will open the mines on Monday,
at any cost, and that the company will
break the strike if it costs them q million
dollars. The attempt to put new men
in next Monday will be resisted. and
bloodshed may result, as the Hungarians
are desperate.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
The Mortality List.

PARIS, January 2.-Commander Will.
liam Starr Dana, U. s. N, is dead of
pneumonia.
TANGmR, January 2.-The United
States squadron is here. On the four
vessels are forty-eight cases Of influenza
LONDON, January 2.-Sadler, the ex-
champion sculler is desd.
The Marquis of Salisbury is up and
about the house again.
Gayarro, the Spanish tenor, died to-
day of influenza.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?
A merican Trading Vessels Seized
at Cartagena.

WASHINGTON, January 2.-Assistant
Secretary of State Wharton was today
questioned in regard to the reported un-
authorized seizure and detention by Off
cials of the Government of the United
States of Colombia. of three trading
schooners belonging to New York mer-
chants. Wharton says come days ago
letter was received at the State Depart
ment from Foster & Co.. of New York,
complaining Of the detention of one Of
their schooners. The Department i'm.
mediately telegraphed the American
Consul at Cartagena for an explanation,
and in reply received message stating
that it was necessary for all trading ves.
sells to clear from the port of Cartaoena.
The situation is not understood, owing
partly to the brevity of the Consul g !.
message. The case will not be fully
known, nor any official action taken. un-
til the Consul's dispatches in full, which
are in all probability on their way
now, are received at the Department.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-03

applied for writ to compel the State
Auditor pay to him his salary and mileage
as a member of the Legislature. 1t was
thought the Court would decide the
validity of the rival Houses, but instead
the decision was to the effect that if
Roberts was member of the Legislature
he was entitled to his per diem and the
mileage. The question of the legality of
the two Houses is still undecided. The
Democrats again met in joint convention
today, and took one ballot, but being
without quorum, the body adjourned.