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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
A Battle With Zulus.

A small-sizod, administered, quiet
looking little man registered ut the
Grand Pacific IIctel US E. P. Wells, Kim
berly, South Africa. Mr.. Wells is the
manager of one of the diamond mines
located near Kimberly aud is now on his
way to England, accompanied by his
wife. Mr.. Wells thinks Africa has fine
climate and his Dronzed cheeks aud clear
eyes testified that he had good reasons
for saying so.
When asked about his personal cxper-
fences i'll Africa Mr.. Wells quickly pulled
himself into she'll of modest reserve.
However, he has had some narrowing cs.
capades with lions, Hottcntots, Kuffirs
and renegade Beers. AS is customary
with nearly all African pioneers and resi-
dents, Mr.. Wells owned several spans of
long oxen and huge wagon. In
this wagon, accompanied by several Of
his friends, he has taken IL number of
trips into the interior to stalk the cle-
plant and antelope and shoot lions. In
1889 one of these trips was taken. 40
companied by two Kafiirs and an Eng
lishman they went into the ''big game"
country for some distance. They had
been stalking herd of elephants aud
had killed big bull. The Kaffirs were
removing the tusks and the edible parts,
such as the feet, tongue, heart, etc,
when one Of them came running to the
camp in great excitement. He showed to
MIR. Wells an "assegai" which he had
cut out of the hide.
"Zulu assegai," he said. "Hunting
party on trail of elephant. Zulu be heap
mad"
Mr.. Wells endeavorci to calm his
fears, but the Kaifir was badly fright
ened. Some trouble had occurred be-
tween the Zulus and hunting parties
from the settle ments. but Mr.. Wells did
not anticipate any difficulty with them.
However, the next day, MS he was stroll
ing through glade accompanied by his
gun-bearer, an asscgai whizzed past his
head and struck quivering in n tree.
Then another one quickly followed. He
sprung behind neighboring tree and
soon saw the heads of two or three Zulus
peeping over the bush on the opposite
side of the glade. Mr.. Wells waved his
handkerchief to signal a desire for par
ley, but no reply was received. The
Zulus crcpt around to where Mr.. Wells
and the Katfir were crouching aud sud-
denly the Kaffir receiAed spear in the
shoulder. Mr.. Wells opened fire with
his rifles and dropped two of the savages,
wounding third one, but in the skirm-
ish he received an assegai in the left
arm. He fired several more shots.
putting his assailants to flight, and then
made his way to Chicago NelOs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
THE LOVE or rAru RE-

F. q a.
How generous Nature Is to those who show
A sympathy with herl How every breeze
Seems caressl How oil the shrubs and
trees
Put on their tcndsrsst green, and GSers
blow,
Aud even birls aud insects seem to know
Your heart, and strive, each in his way to
please!
The birds build at your door, the honey
Are sure of finding sweets where'er you CO.
Since every rose will blossom at its best
For those who have the roses love within
The heart that bsesses others will be blest;
The lives that look for blossoms. blossoms
win;
nest
Upon bough where winter SHOWS have
been.
Nary a. Mason. in Frank Leslic's.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
CHEERFUL KITCHENS.

If we would look for ready hands aud
willing hearts in our kitchens we should
make them pleasant aud inviting for
those who literally bear the "burden aud
heat of the day" in this department of
our homes where, emphatically, "wo-
mans work is never DONE" We should
no longer be satisfied to locate our kitch-
ems in the most undesirable corner of
the house. We should demand ample
light-sunshine, if possible-and justly,
too; for the very light itself is inspiring
to the worker, bringing out bright
touch of color here and there, pretty
uItain, or row of attractive ware upon
the dresser. 1t will stir up cheer and
bring content in the minds of those
whose lot is cast in this work-a-day
ROOM Chautauquan.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

The scheme of Felix Adler and others
In New York to help the laboring people
by inducing men and women of cduca.
ton to meet them in the tenement dis
tricts cannot fail to do good, maintains
the San Francisco Chronicle. Incident
ally, these workers also may be able to
stimulate the work of building model
tenements in which the poor can secure
well-lighted and wholesome rooms for
the same rental that is now exacted for
dark and ill-ventilated apartments.
Jacob A. Refs, NcwYork reporter, last
year stirred charitable New York by his
graphic pictures OF misery and vice in
the tenement quarter, and it is to be
hoped that this new society may push on
the reform that aims to give toiling thou
sands comfort and decency in their
homes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
The Bore i'm the Amnzon.

The "bore" in great rivers is n curious
phenomenon concerning which we get
some interesting information from the
recent United States supplement to the
sailing directions of the cast coast of
South America. The bore on the ANA
ION seems to partakc of the character of
tidal wave. 1t sometimes occurs in the
western branch of the Amazon near
spring tides, but generally confines itself
to the shadows and atiluents, and is not
dangerous in depths greater than four
fathoms.
1t announces its presence by roar
which is heard at n distance of several
miles. This ominous noise increases rs
the wall of water approaches, and then
the front of the bore, from five to twelve
feet in height, surges in with breaking
force and spreads over the shallow waters
off Nlaraca Island and the cstuaries of the
Araguri River. The velocity is from
twelve to fifteen miles an hour. Strange
as it may seem, the phenomenon never
developes except at low tide, aud is most
frequent and restrictive at the equinoxcs.
The Chinese rivers have the most re-
markable bores. Then comes the ANA
zon.
Sometimes three or four of these great
waves push up tie river IN quick success
sion. The explanation of the phcnome-
non is easy. 1t is partly due to the trades
and partly to the prevalence of strong
winds, peculiarly favorable to the forma-
ton of II wall of water. The storm wave
OF cyclone seems to unite with an ex-
ceptionally high tidal wave.---NeD York
Voice.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
To Save a Drowning Pcrso,.

eff you are ever called on to assist a
drowning person, be sure you get be-
hind him, says an expert swimmer in
the New York Recorder. "Never, under
any circumstances, face drowning per-
son. He is sure to seize you, aud then
you are worse than helpless. Once you
are in the grasp of drowning person
little short of q miracle can save you.
Always get behind drowning person,
and if possible seize him by the hair.
Then tread water until other help ar
rivcs. Don't attempt to swim in and drag
your burden with you, for you will soon
find that you need both arms to m lake
any progress. Remember, too, that it
does not need great efforts to keep a
body afioat. You can keep person on
the surface by placing the tip of finger
under the body. Keep passive and you
will not sink; you are bound to go be-
meath the surface if you struggle.
"Above all things, remember the utter
folly of going beyond the breakers. II
you do SO you will p". andanger your
lifc."
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
LINEN CLOSET.

There are few houses built that have
any convcniences in the way of cup
boards. Even if they are built in the
house, they arc often so unfinished or
damp as to be quite useless for linen.
Our illustration is one that could be
made and kept in the family for all time.
-Four feet high is good height, with
the top finished fiat, so as to be used if
needed.
Each shelf has its own arrangement
for the various articles. Napkins can be
kept in piles, each particular dozen by
itself; tnblc-cloths, sheets aud pillow
cases laid as they will be needed. Sys-
tenn in housekeeping saves much care
and trouble. Upon one door should
hang Il slate and pencil, to note what is
removed; on the other door can be
placed list of the contents aud their
locality, so that any one could find
what was needed, even in case of emer-
gency.
Many ladies use trunk for this pur-
pose, but we think this would seem more
convenient. 1t would be made of cedar,
and always be of value.--Fdrm and
bireside.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

The Home journal has ransacked the
New York libraries for remedies for sea-
sickness. The result as tabulated seems
to indicate that the man or woman who
is not born sailor has the alternative of
staying at lone or getting his frame
shaken to pieces with NAL de mar. The
combined remedies are awful to contem-
plate, and the admission that their effect
is doubtful is not calculated to cncour-
age their general trial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

Bad as is Idaho's case, remarks the
New York Post, the condition of Nevada
is far worse. The population of that
sagc-brush tract, according to the new
census, is only 45,761. AS there were
G2,266 inhabitants in 1880, there has
been loss of more than one.fourth
during the decade. Between 1870 and
1880 there was slow growth from 49,
491 to 62,266, but the total is already
back nearly us low as in 1870, and there
is no telling but it may continue to fall
until it sinks to the 6S57 of 1860.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

lumbermen hurrying toward the pile of
logs, nearly half of which had been pre-
cipitated down tho rollwSay. One was
Mr. Gains. AS he came up, Lyddy
suddenly let go my arm, aud
dropped upon the snow at his feet in
swoon.
The men could hardly credit my rap
idly uttered account of our escape But
when they found that all the fingers
upon the hand with which Lyddy chung
to the timber, so Us not to smother me,
were crushed. and when they brought
her to and obtained the same story, in
broken accents, from her lips, they
could not longer doubt the truthfulness
of Our statements.
There were willing arms to carry her
to the nearest house, which was mine i;
and her father was not so gruf as usual
when he spoke to her; aud noticed
tears in the eyes Of two or three of the
men, who always stood to it that Lyddy
wasn't bad girl.
never coasted down n rolIway again {;
1 cannot think of the experience now
without shuddcr.
Lyddy's hand was SO badly crushed
that it had to be amputated. But she
said that didn't matter 80 much, since it
was only her lett one.
Now she is tho wife of sturdy lum-
herman, and they live up in the great
North Woods; and fifteen years have
elapsed since the simple but brave,
hearted girl saved the life of one now
grown to manhood, aud at such n cost
to herself. f. Yankee Blade.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
The curious fault is found with the

The curious fault is found with the
mastcss ships of the new Dsvy, observes
the Philadelphia Record, that they afford
the crews no opportunity for exercise
the scamen have nothing to climb; they
feel cooped up, and are showing spirit
of discomfort. 1t is questionable whether
such tn nc devices rs horizontal bars
and other mere gymnastic appliances
would avail to restore the spirits of the
men. The Darwinians may seize upon
this fact as additional proof of the simian
descent of the human species.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

What story could be more romantic
asks the New York San, than that of the
crew of the bark Compadre, bound to
Chill from Calcutta2 The Compadre
caught fire in mid-ocean and made for a
harbor in New Zealand. A hurricane
arose and the good ship became water
logged and began to sink. Finally she
drove ashore on n ridge of rocks off the
Auckland Islands. The sea,nen swan
ashore and for 103 days lived precariously
and half starved on this uninhabited
reef. Then, Mt length, o sailing vessel
was hailed, and bore them safely to New
Zealand, all save one man, who wandered
into the bush aud was supposed to have
starved to death. After this story. who
can cavil at any tale of the sea for being
too romantic2 Here the plots of a dozen
novels are combined in one. There is
the familiar fire at sea, perhaps the most
fearful thing known to man; there is the
tempest, and the ship drifting helplessly
in the trough of the seas at the mercy
of the winds and waves; and then there
Is the shipwreck on the remote, unknown
island, and after many months the wei.
come sails of the casual, long-looked for
ship. The earth man may have con.
quered, but is not the sea still as full of
wonders and infinite perils and chances
as in the days of Tyre and sidon or in
the dateless times of rlvssesa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
FRUIT DESSERTS.

At the season of the year when fruit is
so abundant, Mrs. E. r. Parker sug-
gests in the Courier Journal, that every
housekeeper should aim to place it on
her table three times day in various
forms. Fresh for breakfast, make in
some dainty variety for dinner. and
stewed for tea, will make a change which
will always be acceptable to the family
Raspberry Bavarian Cream-Cover n
box of gelatinc with teacup of cold
water and soak half m hour; set In boil
ing water to dissolve, add the gelatine
with quart of raspberry juice and cup
of sugar; strain in a tin pan, stir until
thick, add a quart of whipped cream, stir
carefully until mixed; pour in mould
, and stand i'll cool place to harden.
Apple Charlotte-Pare and steam six
large tart apples until tender, strain and
add sugar to sweeten. Cover half a box
of gelatine with cold water, soak half an
hour and add to the hot apples; stir
until dissolved, pour in tin pan, set on
ice and stir until thick, add a pint of
whipped cream; pour in mould and set
in cold place to harden.
Apple Stew-Sift half quart Of flour,
add teaspoonful of salt, rub in a table.
spoonful of butter; add two teaspoonsful
of baking powder and half pint of milk;
work into a soft dough; pare, quarter
and core six tart apples, put them in
baking dish with a pint of water; roll
out the dough; spread over the apples;
cover the dish, and set in the oven for
thirty minutes. When done dust thickly
with powdered sugar, and serve with
hard sauce.
Apple Dowdy-Butter baking dish
and line the bottom and sides of it with
buttered slices of bread Fill the dish
with sliced apples, CRATE over with nut
meg, mix half cup of water and half
cup of molasses together and pour owe.
the apples. Sprinkle with half cup of
brown sugar, cover with moro buttered
bread. Cover the top with tin plate
and bake in moderate oven for two
hours. When done loosen the edges
with knife and turn out on dish.
Serve with sugar and cream.
Gooseberry Tart-Top and steam n
quart of ripe gooseberries and stew them
III ohe put Vi wafer until tender, and
strain; add tablespoonful of butter,
cup of sugar and the yoIks of four eggs,
beat together until light, pour into
glass bowl. Beat the whites of the eggs
until foamy, add two spoonsful OF sugar,
and beat stiff, heap over the gooseberrics
and set on ice until very cold.
Cherry Pudding-Beat three eggs.
ada pint OF milk, three cups of flour
and beat until smooth, add a tablespoon.
full of butter, and two teaspoonsful of
baking powder. Drain pint of stewcd
cherries; dust over with flour, and stir in;
pour in mold and bake. Serve with
butter.
Blackberry Roll-Make rich crust,
roll out thin, spread with fresh black
berries, sprinkle with sugar, roll up and
lay in dripping pan. Spread over with
bits of butter aud sugar, set in hot
oven and bake brown. Serve with hard
sauce.
Frozen Peachcs-Pare ten pounds of
peaches and take out the stones. Work
the peaches with pound and half of
sugar. Turn il freezer and freeze.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
COFFEE SYRUP.

A splendid "coffee syrup" for camp.
ers-out is made rs follows:
Take one-half pound of the best
roasted ground coffee. Boil tho same in
saucepan containing three quarts of
water until the quantity is reduced to
one quart. Strain the liquor of, and
when freed from all impurities put it into
clean saucepan and boil over again,
adding enough good coffee sugar to it
to make it the consistency of thick syr-
up. Remove from the fire, let cool. aud
pour off into bottles, corking it tight.
Two teaspoonfuls of this syrup put into
a tea cup which is afterwards filed up
with boiling water will be fit for imme-
date use. If milk is at hand use I'D
libitum. Free Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
TO rnEpAnE ArrLrs ron PIES.

Pare and core your apples, cut them
in slices, and throw them in cold water.
Then take them out of the water, put
them into stew pans if the apples are
tender, the water which adheres to them
will be sufficient to cook them; if not, q
little more may be added. Cover the
stew-pan and place them near the fire.
Lot them stew till they are soft and
burst; then mash them, and add half an
ounce of butter to each pint of the
stewed apple. When they get nearly
cold add sugar. rosewater and nutmeg
to the taste.-B2ston Cultiuator.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

The Turkish army is reported to be in
excellent condition. Nearly 600, 600 re-
peating rifles arc in the hands of the in
fantry. The artillery is furnished main
ly by Krupp, and forty-nine regiments
of cavalry, mostly raised in Asia, have
recently been added.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

Missouri is outstripping Kentucky in
the stock raising business, asserts the
New York World. In former days all
the best horses and mules came from the
Blue Grass State, but the conditions
have changed, and now, the World says,
the best stock obtainable is to be found
in Missouri.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

A Kansas editor has decovered that
ten per cent. of the counties in the
United States are named for Presidents.
In Kansas there are seven counties which
bear the names of Presidcnts-Garficld,
Grant, Jackson, Jefferson, johnson, Lin
coin and Washington.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

Chicago, first and last, has expended
more than S6,oOO,ooo in purchasing
lands on the outskirts of that city for
her system of parks. There arc twenty
nine of them in all, containing two thou
sand acres.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

! The assessed valuation of real prop
erty in New York City, as announced by
its municipal authorities, is 81, 464, 247,-
800; an increase from last year of $685.
957,S13.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
SUNSHINE AND RAIN.

Tho budding clouds eame-scoursea and
thunder-shaken,
Through tho fresh sunshine by the winds are
taken.
Anon, bright tears they shed for anguish
past
Then Hope, to cheer them, bends an iris
vast.
Charles Henry Luders, in Lippincott.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

Mail matter dropped in box in Paris
is delivered in Berlin within an hour
and half, and sometimes within thirty
five inmates. 1t is sent by means of
pneumatic tubes.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16

Six of the largest marble columns
ever produced in this country have been
made by firm in Rutland, VT, for use
in Wing Hall at Princeton. They are
over nineteen feet long, and are q trihe
more than three feet in diameter.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-10-16
Hebrew is again becoming living
language in Palestine.

The London Telegraph advocates that
murderers condemned to electrical exc
cution be chloroformed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-12

adopted and made obligatory. The
vute was called - follows:
Yeas
First ward-Geo. KO~pp. Jr.
Geo. Dutsch.
Third ward-J. Il. Hosmer: J. 5
BOssier.
Fourth ward-W. q. DAVIS. join
L. Smith.
Fifth ward-D. G.. Williams. +
Tallcy.
Seventh ward|. j. Cusacl,s
NemOurs Cousin.
Ninth wartl-Max. Cousin.
Nays
Second ward-NOrman Fen,lla
son, Il. +. Rogers.
Sixth ward-JOhn Gill. Henry
Singleterry.
Eighth ward-G. II. Cause. J.
II. Murphy.
Ninth ward-L. C. Cemtlivre.
The following resolution wa.
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the President o.
this Convention be authorized and
empowered to appoint one person
to serve ~ member Ut the Parish
Committee from each Ward, up0r
the suggestion IT the delegates here
present, the whole to be done anG
published within fifteen days afte1
the adjournment Of this Convention,
In accordance with the above
resolution, the President appointed
the following named gentlemen t.
compose the Parish Committee:
First ward-Geo. kOepp. Jr.
Second ward-Aleck Rogers.
Third ward-Edward Bossier.
Fourth wardHJUhn l.. Smith.
Fifth ward-E. Talley.
Sixth ward-JObn Ernest.
Seventh ward-. J. Cusachs.
Eighth wards. ID. Crawford.
Ninth ward-Max Cousin.
On motion, the above appoint
ments were unanimously approved
The Convention then adjourned
sine die. J. ]. CrsACHs.
President.
Max. CorSuN, Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-12

Now that the contest is practical
~ over, and the nomination Of JUS
tice McEnery only remains . mat.
ter Of formal recOrdatiOn at the
hands of the Representatives u the
Democratic party, the course Of
Capt. Adams stands Out In striking
contrast with that pursued hy his
Anti associates. He has been out.
spoken. free and frank. treating Ms
opponents with fairness and cOnsi(l.
GRAFTON. and pledging himself To
abide BY the wishes Of . majority
Of his acknowledgements. That he
will do this. the Item has -
sort Of doubt. Capt. Adams has
Iu~t the GovernOrsl,ip, hat neither
his political NOR personal honor has
been furnished. Should the Ants
decide Ia leave the convention &
may bc safely predicted that Can't.
Adams will not be found With
them. City Item.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-12
rOrrIcrAL.1
PronulgatfOn
THE
Proposed Amendment to the Con-
stitutioa Of the State
of Louisiana.
Adopaeh by the General Assembly d
1880.
STATE OF LOUEHANA,
| Ovvscg o. TmE SECRETARY ~ STATE- ,


In purxuance Of the provisions Ct the
CoastilutiOu. publication Is hereby
upade ansi Given to the qualified electors
Of the state Of Louisiana OF the pro-
poped amendment 10 the CONSTITUTION.
o. this State, which has been cOncurres'
IN by two-thlrsls Of all the members
excited to each House Of the tienerai
Assembly III this State, ut the regular
sessioo thereof, held ut the city OF
batoa R0nse, In the year 1890, and
which n required to be published Ior
The Information Of the qualified electors
Of this State for three mouths preccd-
ing The general election for Representa-
tlves, and which proposed amendment
more fully. appears In Act No. l'S. oi
the regular session of 1880, which Is
hereafter officially published for the IN.
fOrmsfiou Of the qualified electors o!
this State. and which will be submitted
20 them for their approval or rejection
Ct the next general election. which WI!
be held on Tuesday, the 18th day oil
April, 1852, N being the Tuesday next
following the third Monday Of said
mcath. In such manner and form that
The qualiAed electors may vote for or
against sold amendment; and IL . ma
iority Of the qualified electors voting at
said election shall approve and raiify
eaid proposed amendment, then such
proposed amendment, 80 approved and
ratified, shall become . part Of the
Constitutions Of this State.