The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-21
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

wrong doing.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Charles Bergman is finishing his cottage
on East Fifth street.
Mr.. W. Z. Lipscomb will commence on
Monday to run hack from Norton to Wise
Court House.
Some of the new cottages recently built for
rent are models of convenience in having
plenty of rooms and closets, cellars and water
ut the very door.
James f. Peters, of the Appalachian Fur
mace, is getting out some of the rcd ore on the
Preston tract, flour car loads,) to be tested in
the Graham Furnace.
The Exhibition Hall gives so much pleasure
and satisfaction to visitors that the custodian
has been asked to have it removed to Chicago
and made the exhibit of Big Stone Gap at the
Worlds Fair.
Charles Tracey & Sons have up the frame
work of the Stoncga Academy building, and
as the shingles and stairs have arrived, every
thing will probably be ready by the beginning
of the term, September 10.
Three wagons were loaded here last week
for points in the Kentucky mountains, coming
through Norton, as the Kentucky side of the
road over Black Mountain is not yet finished.
This is an indication of what VIC may expect
in large quantities little later
The Park Commissioners this week are
cleaning up some of the Boulevard running
from the East Fifth street bridge toward the
Park, cutting out some underbrush, removing
timber and dead material, ETC., which inn
proves the appearance of things so far as gone
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad has
been carrying about one hundred and fifty
cars daily through Big Stone Gap to the Nor
folk and Western, loaded mostly with grain
that originates in the West, and with walnut
aud poplar logs from along the line of the road
Much of this freight goes to London, Glasgow
and other foreign points on through bills OF
ladng. Business is increasing so rapidly that
now the number of trains is ten and fifteen
every day
Tina City Free School will commence on
August 3lst and will continue for six mouths
The tuition is absolutely free for all white
persons between the ages of five and twenty
one years who live in Big Stone Gap, or west
of here to the Lee county line. To those chill
dren whose parents arc unable to buy DOCKS
the State will furnish what books Pre- ncces-
sarv free of charge This school has very
efficient corps of teachers. Prof. W. I. Ken
nedy, well known educator, is the principal,
assisted by Miss Dickinson, who comes highly
recommended from Central College, Texas.
One firm in this place has adopted the COM
mcndablc plan of having their drummer visit
the small towns round about, and even the
houscholders at their homes, showing goods,
comparing prices, ETC., which has resulted IN
securing a large amount of trade which they
would not otherwise have received. 1t would
be good thing if all the firms i'll town would
unite and send out two, three or four drum
mers who should make Il house to house can
yass, especially in Ice, Scott, Wise and DICK
crson counties, Virginia, and Harlan, Leslie,
Letcher and Perry counties, Kentucky, and
show the people how much it is to their ad-
vantage to do their buying here. No snch
stock of goods as is found here is kept at any
points nearer than Middlesborough, Bristol or
Pocahontas, from sixty to one hundred miles
distant. Merchants, think it over and acs
upon it!
DR.. Curry, of Richmond, agent OF the Pea
body Fund and also of the Slater Fund, and
DR.. Gwip, pastor of the Baptist church Mt
Norfolk, were here on Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday. DR.. Curry delivered sermon on
Sunday night in behalf of education, and be-
ing man of force, strikes sledge hammer
blows in the cause. The income OF the Pea
BODY Fund, whose treasurer is j. Pierrepons
Morgan, of Drexel, Morgan & Co., New YORK,
is now about 100000, and is used to assist
struggling schools of high grade from the
Potomac 10 the Rio Grande. The income OF
the 81 900, 900 left by Mr.. Slater, of Norwich,
Connecticut, is about $4,000, and is appropri-
ated exclusively to aid the negro schools OK
the South. DR.. Curry is preparing to make
some changes, and will increase the usefulness
and effectiveness of each. DR.. Curry is .
Harvard graduate, minister to Spain under
Mr. Cleveland, and is a most entertaining
conyersationalist and genial, cultured man.
Horace E. Fox, assisted by Samuel W.
Thacker, is compiling map which, when
completed, will be of very general public
interest, including as it does the plats of the
West End Land Company, the Hardin Addi-
ton, the Sulphur Spring Addition, the South
west Virginia Mineral Land Co., the Fayette
Land Co., the lmboden Addition, Plats !, 2,3,
a. and of the Big Stone Gap Improvement