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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-20

The figures exhibited IN the pre-
liminary report on the cost Of making
iron, submitted to Congress by Gar
roll ID. Wright, the Commissioner Of
Labor, shows, as only figures can,
first, that iron making is wonderfully
cheaper at the South than ut the
North, and second, tho fundamental
reason for this difference. The dc
tails arc given SO fully that it is easy
to determine with exactness the char
acter and extent Of the advantages
possessed by the Southern iron man
ufacturers that do not exist in other
sections Of the country. Of the fur
naces, for which the figures of cost
refer to the average product, twenty
five represent the South and al equal
number are tnkon from tho North,
most Of then from Pennsylvania.
In The list, from which names are
omitted for obvious reasons, taking
the Northern furnaces, thorc arc only
three at which tho cost of making q
ton, 2,240 pounds, of iron is below
S13. There are ten i'll which it is
above Sl3 and under 8l4; nine in
which it is above &14 aud under SIS,
and three in which it is over SIS.
Taking the twenty five Southern
furnaces, at one tho cost is undor 50;
ut seven it ID over SO and under SlO;
at seven it is over $40 md under $11;
at six it is over S11 and under %l2;
Mt four it is over S12, but there arc
none where it reaches S13-Tho
South.
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.

The attitude of the medical pro
fession toward what is known rs
''patent medicines" is not at all un
reasonable. Thousands ofthese nos
trums are offered to the public every
year Some of them are dangerous
and most OF them are futile. Swift's
Specific Is. S. 81, VIC are all glad to
say, is not classcd among these nos
,trums. 1t hes overcome the whole
some prejudices of physiciana in all
parts Of the country, and some OF the
strongest testimonials i'll its behalf
come from medical men who have
used it in their practice, and who do
not hesitate to endorse it's wonderful
results. This is extremely crafty
ing, but. By no moaus astonishing, for
every claim that is pus forward in
behalf OF 8. S. S. is based on a &C.
ries Of actual experiments extended
over o long period OF timo.
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California will spend three hun
dred thousand dollars on her exhibit
at the Worlds Fair. It will enable
her to mako magnificent showing,
aud it will be worth millions to hol
rs an attraction and advertisement
Virginia must be adequately rerrc
scented there and our mining, manu-
featuring and agricultural interests
should BIO considering tho subject 81
that it can be fully and intelligcntly
handled by tho Logislnturo.-Roan
oke Herald.
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From Richlarda News. j

A gentleman of our town offers to
wager from $500 to $50. 90 that Mr..
Charles Harmon and an unknown of
this city cansdefeat any two men in
Tazcwell county in game of pool,
twenty ganes to be played and tho
one winning eleven games TO win,
This is business Let the pool play.
ers OF the county now step forward.
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COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, !
pRZewell @. H.. Vn,

To snllio a, Crockett, w. NJ. Bishop, r.
s: Porter, John w. Thompson, Peter Adj
kins, N. L Hager,F Coon and s. e. Cook
his wife, w. O. Walker, Trustee, NJ c.
Cook, p. Davis, l.. Il, Loirel, IL. H. Cook
and Sulic a. Cook.
You will take notice, that 1 have fixed
on the I'd day of April, 1901, at my ofGSo
ut ThzewelhC. r., Va. to take Ito aI.co CUNT
ordered by kssszssctIr-rS odTtof Taxewcll
SniJrss55ifoh The 1lth day of February, 1891
Especial term) in tho chancery cause of
Moss, Crockett and Kelly and others
against f. Cook and others, pending in
said court. AZ which time and place you
are required to attend.
L. Il. CHAPMAN.
Commissioner in Chancory.
Feb. 10. 1891.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-20

VIRGINIA In the Clerks olilco of the
Circuit Court for Tazewoll County Feb
ruary Sd, 1891.
4. O. Sp1tts, b. w. Strs and Hattie L.
Stfns, his vito, Oomplainants,
Tho Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company, John Graham, Jr, Joseph I.
Dorsn and Edward Clark, Sidney f. w.
Ter and Henderson NJ. Bell. The last
three Trustees of the '.lElat Top Land
Trust" Defendants
In CHANCERY.
The object Of this suit is to set aside
and annul conveyance mnde by George
". Spots (now deceased) and wife aud
John Grabam, Jr., to Joseph I. Doran for
an undivided fourth par, Oh oil the coal
and Other minerals on tract of land w.
ing in Tazowoll County, containing Oil
acres, with certain. other privileges; which
said deed is dated tho 18th day of Novom-
Der, 1881, and recorded in said county and
to annul MI subsequent conveynnces of
said coal and other minerals made between
tho defendants III this cause And it ap-
pcnring from sufficient evidence on file in
this office that said Joseph I. Doran, Ed.
ward Clark and Sidney T. Tyler arc non
residents of this Commonwealth, it is or
dered That they appear here within fifteen
days after due publication of this order
and do what may ba necessary to protect
their interest ill this suit, and that copies
hereof be published ANA posted as pre-
sclibed by lew.
A 0opy-Teste
il. BANE HARTMAN, D. G.
HENRY & GRAHAM, p. q.
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NOTICE.

All porsons nro forbidden to hunt or fish
on the iiigginbothnm, Rublo. O'Keciro aud
Nyc Cove properties, ard Infringement of
this notice will BIO punished according to
law.
r.. NEwnERnY, Henry Bowen,
WEN. MALONE, j. G.. WATTS,
JOSEPH GILLEsprE, JAMES O'KEEFFE.
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In CnANcEaY.

The parties to the above mentioned suit
are hereby notified that I have fixed upon
the 3lst day of March, 1891, at my Office
at Trzewell o. H, w., to teke and settle
the account, ordered by tho Circuit Court
of Tazcwell County, on the 2Sth day of
January, 1891. in the said cause, ut which
time and place you are required to be
present. |. u. CHAP NAN,
Commissioner in Chancery.
Feb. 10, 1891.
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Clinch alley News.


IMPORTANT NOTICE.
U. S. MARsnAL's OFFICE,
Tazewell G. H., Va,
Feb. Ii, 1890.
have Tho money to pay tile fol-
lowing named witnesses, who were
in attendance at the May term, 1859,
ofthe U. S. Court at Abingdon, Yir-
gipia.
Parties holding these certificates
will confer great favor by forward
ing them to this Office at once, as
/ will send check at once for the
money.
Isnac Patton, David AIahon, of
Wythe county, Va.
Andrew Wolf, Campbell Waldron,
j. @. Waldron, William Wilson, Rus,
sell county, Va.
Peter Poston, N. X. Hamlott, Tazo
VOL county, Va.
w. NJ. Pendleton, Asa Cox, S. L.
Cox, w. L. Porter, VIM. Finley, Jr.,
Scott county, Va.
George Lotus, John LOTUS, Lee
county, Va.
j. G.. WNrrs, U. S. Marshal.
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COMMISSIONERS oFFICE,)
Tayewell G.. n. yn.

G. T. johnson. William johnson, Mary M.
White and Louisa Spence,
Coonloinonte
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-02-20

havo II cough ct any
.iDrc, and no other
remedy is so effective
Is this world
renowned propara-
ton. No household,
with young children,
should b. without it.
Scores OF lives aro
saved every year by
It's timely usc.
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I RREEAA3sBBaa, GIL ALA FsTHEHT hid DEVELgPiaT gG

GaEo su'sdirss. 9@a Washington So, Boston, kMass
Pint ct ci%th Prcl building application Reliable
agents wanted to represent the Company
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William Blankenship. Julia Grinitts Emil
~ Smith, Rebcccs Caudill, Belle Els
wick, James Bandy, Sheriff of Tazewell
County, and us such Administrator of
: Jane Blankenship, deceased, j II. Stu
art, guardian ad Item for Frazier Blank
enship, Lou Blankenship and Forty
Blankenshp, Defendants,
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY,. MARCH Is

ciously. ''and tney would be reeurhea
to you in the best OF order They
would merely be used for decorating
the rooms. Those sea-onions and that
oleander you might let us have also.
They are very effective. And then it
would only be necessary for us to pur-
chase some cut flowers. But it is the
lilies we particularly require. do not
mind saying in confidence to you that
Oriole being a de6utante this year, it is
all we can manage to keep her in new
gowns and entertain for her. OF
course it will be all different when this
lawsuit is decided in Hermann's So
She broke off. She had said too
much, and she knew it. Over the sem
sitive face of little Mrs. Bassett swift,
rosy tide went sweeping. The final re-
mark had hurt her, but it had not in
fuenced her. Her mind was quite
made up before its utterance
''It is impossible, she said, quietly,
''for me to grant yourrequest. You re-
quire the lilies for Easter Monday. This
is Saturday. By this time tomorrow
! shall not have lily in my posses
sion"
What" sharply, '.you have sold.
them in advance?''
The rose-bloom deepened to carna-
tion.
''No. l do not sell my flowers. I
give them to the sufferers in the hos
pitfalls, and have been saving my
lilies to give on Easter Sunday"
"Then," cried Mrs. Vandelour, in
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
The Greatest of Monopol,es.

But all other monopolies are trivial
in extent as compared with the monop-
oily of land. And the value of land OK
pressing monopoly, pure and simple.
is in every respect fitted for taxation.
That is to say, while the value of
railroad or telegraph line, the price Of
gas or of Il patent medicine, may ex-
press the price of monopoly, it also ex-
presses the eXertion of labor and capi-
tai, but the value of land, or economic
rent, as we have seen, is in no part
made up from these factors, and ex-
presses nothing but the advantage of
appropriation. Taxes levied upon the
value of land can not check production
in the slightest degree, until they ex-
ceed rent, or the value of land taken an
nually, for unlike taxes upon commodi-
ties, or exchange, or capital, or any Of
the tools or processes of produc-
ton, they do not bear upon pro-
duction. The value of land
does not express the reward of produc-
ton, as does the value Of crops, of cat
tie, of buildings, or any of the things
which are styled personal property and
improvements. 1t expresses the ex-
change value of monopoly. 1t is not in
any case the creation of the individual
who owns the land; it is created by the
growth of the community. Hence the
community can take it all without in
any way lessening the incentive to i'm
provement or in the slightest degree
lessening the production of wealth.
Taxes may be imposed upon the value
of land until all rent is taken by the
State, without reducing the wages of
labor or the reward Of capital one iota;
without increasing the price of single
commodity, or making production in
any way more difficult.
But more than this. Taxes on the
value of land not only do not check pro-
duction as do most other taxes, but they
tend to increase production, by destroy
ing speculative rent. How speculative
rent checks production may be seen not
only in the valuable land withheld
from use, but in the paroxysms Of in-
dustrial depressions, which, originating
in the speculative advance in land
values, propagate themselves over the
whole civilized world everywhere
paralyzing industry, and causing more
waste and probably more suffering than
would general war. Taxation which
would take rent for public uses would
prevent this. while if land were taxed
to anything near its rental value, no ono
could afford to hold land that he is not
using, and, consequently, land not in
use would be thrown open, to those who
would use it. Settlement would be
closer, and, consequently, labor and
capital would be able to produce much
more with the same exertion. The dog
in the manger, who, in this country es-
pecially, SO wastes productive power
would be checked off.-Progress and
Poverty
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
PiTH AND POINT.

Patience should be taken of a
monument aud put at the end of a tele-
phone. Washington Post.
Beds that are music boxes are made
in Switzerland. They play sheet mu.
sic, suppose.-Texas Siftings.
the average man would rather be.
lieve he is right and suffer than be con.
vinced he is wrong.-Atchison Globe.
"A Partisan wit once defined expe.
rience as a comb that one became pos.
sessed of after having lost ones hair.
Speed Needed. The man who ex.
poets to out run lie had better start
with something faster than a bicycle
RAMS Horn.
1t takes a smart boy to tell a lie
successfully. If he tells it unsuccessful.
ly his father is apt to make him smart.
-Someville Journal.
-''Theirs was case. of love at first
sight" 'sWhy didn't they marry?"
"They changed their minds at second
sight. IN. Y. Herald.
-Sanso-Women are welded to fash.
ion.", Blood-"Yes; and they love,
honor and obey it cheerfully. Y.
Herald.
Love makes the world go round,
but it finds it impossible on occasions
to induce the girls father to come
round. st. Joseph Gazette.
Il rather like to break BILL
I'm generous, you see,
But oh! take it very i'll
When'er bill breaks me.
There is no solitude so miserable as
that of the man alone in noisy city
unless it be that of man alone with a
noisy baby.-Elmira Gazette.
His Heart is Safe-Mrs. A.-s'Your
husband employs typewriter girl, |
understand" Mrs. B.-Yes, but she's
homely as can be. Yankee Blade.
OF the making of books there is no
end, and there never will be so long as
publishers can persuade hopeful authors
to pay the cost of the first edition.
Somerville Journal.
-Playwright-''Then you think my
play is a good one?" Critic-"No,
think it is about as bad as it can pos
sibly be. What l said was that it
would draw big houses.-Boston Trans
cript.
-"Ive had good deal to do with the
jury-box in my day." exclaimed sher-
iff after a recent murder trial, ''but I
never before saw a jury-box like those
fellows did in their scrimmage about
the verdict. Boston Courier.
After the Last Act.-Sig. Ham
"Did you see how long I paralyzed the
audience in that death scene? By
George, they were crying all over the
house? Stage Manager-''Yes. They
knew you weren't really dead.
He Was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ito a
Chicago: Merchant )-'Let me have can
Of electricity, please" Merchant
'What? Are you crazy?" Customer.
"Not at all. Does not electricity come
in canned essence. e."-Inter-Ocean.
"A Dream to be Stopped d.-.He-
PHILOSOPHY teaches us marvellous
things" She-"Indeed?" He-"Yes.
For instance, it teaches that I am
merely dream existing in your mind
-er-, but why are you pinching your
self?" She-''I'm trying to awake
from the dream."-N. Y. Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
A Case of Unearned Increment.

New LONDON, Ct, Jan. 22.-At the
outbreak of the civil war there was To-
Gated in Augusta, Ga, business man
named Daniel Hand. He was the son
of a New England farmer and had been
settled in Augusta for many years. Not
sympathizing with the Southern cause,
he found it profitable and advisable to
sell his stock of goods, real estate and
other property and return to his old
home in Guilford, ct. But there was
one piece of property "a tract of Georgia
pine land-which he did not sell, for the
reason that he looked on it as prac-
tically unstable and valueless. This
pine land he left in the care of his part
ner, Mr.. Williams.
AS the war progressed Mr.. Hand was
in his quiet home in the little New Eng
land village, away from the sounds of
strife and scenes of bloodshed and took
no concern for the Georgia pine lands.
With the return of peace came renewed
prosperity and an influx of Northern
capital to the South. The value of
land in Georgia began to rise, and pine
land proved no exception to the rule.
Still Mr.. Hand was careless and ignor.
ant of what was going on. He. had
made plenty of money to live on and
did not have to trouble himself about
his pine lands in the South.
If my memory serves me, it was some
time in 1885, twenty five years or so
after he had left his Georgia store,
that Mr.. Hand receiveda letter from his
farmer partner, Mr.. Williams, stating
that he had succeeded in finding pur-
chaser for that tract of pine land that
they had considered valueless. Mr..
Williams also stated that as sale had
been effected, and that on account Of
such sale Mr.. Hand had standing to his
credit in bank and subject to his order
the nice little sum of seven hundred and
| fifty thousand dollars.
| This appears to me to be pretty
clear case Of the pocketing Of an un-
earned increment. As far as Mr.. Hand
personally was concerned that tract Of
land had practically ceased to exist.
His whole interest in it had gone out Of
his mind entirely.
And yet while he was at his home in
Guilford Ct, passing his old age peace
fully and happily, utterly oblivious Of
the whole matter, S750,0O0 were accu-
mulating for his special benefit.
| To Mr.. Hands credit it ought to be
said-which. however, in no way breaks
the force of the story-that he has in
vested the whole sum and placed It in
the hands of trustees to be used as a
perpetual fund for to defray the edu-
cational expenses Of worthy colorcd
students in the Southern States; but
this only shows how much the commun-
| ity could have for public use and bene.
fits if no individual were allowed 10
pocket what he did not creatc.-W. c.
Miner.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25

AUDDENLY, as if arrested by fear or a
~ feeling OF wonder,
Sl she stood. with her colorless lips apart,
while shudder
Alarough her frame, and, forgotten, the flow
efeis dropped from ber fingers,
aairom her eyes and cheeks the light and
Olocm oithe morning"
LoNGFELLow.
. carriage stopping here" ex-
aaned little Mrs. Bassett, peeping be-
Reeu the branches of the giant geran-
an which stood in her front window.
laeye must be some mistake. Surely,
aeladies intend to call next door"
tnt evidently the ladies did not.
iAfy had alighted from the landau,
eElthout glance at the imposing
Ralenee OF green stone to their right
saed the small wooden gate, and
'tntlp between the beds of budding
Ti's erocuses, anemones, hyacinths
w talips. Mrs. Bassett's home was q
ny frame building, which was sadly
|a1eed ! Of coat of.paint; but so trim
4 Kept was the bit of a garden, so
aapalously clean the porch and steps,
n goden-bright the brass door-bell
,iaaie' so dazzlingly polished the win
.oSs above all, SO delicate and glow
~ y and beautiful the flowers that
~0ned against the background of
s,' v'sy swiss curtains, one instinctively
@,ios 1t a friendliness which the more
! s'es'c mansions around quite failed
aawaken.
a 'seclare, said Mro. Bassett, taking
n, 4 slaSses off those large, lovely, gray
yves OF hers, rubbing them quite
!; sa0Siy and putting them on again,
"a ns really Mrs. Vandelour, the wife
Ssar ~ Jack 'scousin, and her daughter.
.,.. ~ oell rang. Mrs. Bassett kept no
j, ln NJ ohe answered the door her.
IN me lady at the threshold was
s.,, pOihpous, clad with the snowy
"uFss that lacks true elegance. Her
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25

Nth rejoicing at the glory OF the light.
isti' ",. '.,soa Ger INC moorland, gardens fair
md meadows bright,
", .ar,onts from the mountain, sweeping
rivers DER the plain, +,
,,as lteir voices all together up 10 heaven III
one refrain; .,,a &, 81.
robes Of light, ,,s.
,.s Ms Sis brightness conquering darkness, lift
nru up the veil of night"'
,,l,a, orb. Thy dawn symbolic of that bright
fS,sun that shone
1. III wor.a which Sin had darkened, and
gbleh Death had claimed his own.
:. 10 comes in conQuering splendor, tri-
rmpbipe Ger Death and He'll;
., the ofaye can hold no longer DER the soul
rs darksome spell.
1 ), us comes in power bursting all the shac.
Mes sO the tomb,
1 .,.,linr light where once was darkness, seat
4 ,e,ipr 10y where once was gloom
nrs o Grave. so proudly boasting, do thy
victory trophies lie,
/ r,,s o oDeath, thy sting so piercing: Tell us
4
What Il is to die.
ana ha,h made it but the pathway to the
realms of endless light,
e,ted into the grave His glory-filled the
tomb with radiance bright.
s,,dsrtban His death His rising, and the day
dar OF His birth
s.voeIaIned the glorious coming of the sun
which burst DER earth.
cn,a 10 soak q world from nothing, grander
asltto redeem;
m, His brightest rays OF glory from His res
erection stream,
/ M The fitness OF redemption centers in the
rsa Lord;
m, Hs c,aquered, and to mortals immortality
restored. ~
lasls left their homes in glory to proclaim the
SaviOur's birth.
HtAs glorious resurrection woke the anthems
Of the earth.
Nsar praise then rise to Heaven on this glori-
Gus Easter morn,
h,e The shout THE Lord is risen!' higher
than THE Lord is bornn'
II. o. Summers, in Chicago Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25

|sa: hss very large. her lips were very
|aseto =. ofows were so arehed they
|sssSon - eountenance a constant ex-
|s is,,a1 :, rigid inquiry; her gray hair
Me. iea sris' against the flaring green
|st 'ul OF her bird-bedecked bon
ID ~ do you do, Lavender2v she
y nis,s i effusion, and extended to
'Sa s bsas of the cottage "a short.
|sakid N ncased in glove of prim,
ID sean II was such an age since we
Nee ~. you' or even heard of you,
|as 'elt we must really pay YOU a
ssiheya tt experienced a sense of
u', Never since her hus-
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25

whatever other causes there may b
in existence, 1t is indisputable that the
general system Of taxation which pre-
walls in this country and which has pre-
vailed for hundred years, is such as to
take very much more largely from tho
pockets of the poor than it does from
the pockets of the rich.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
Tow els for wedding Presents.

Handsome towels are now so desira,
bic in the eyes of housekeepers that
sets comprising dozen, or even hall
dozen, with more or less hand decora
ton, are among the most approved
wedding gifts where consanguinity OF
other circumstance does not call fol
offerings of gold or silver. The prefer.
ence is given by most people to hucka
buck towels. The material comes by
the yard in excellent quality. and il
widths exceeding that of the ready.
made fringed towels. The ends are.
hemmed below an inch-wide hue OF
drawn work, or they may be simply
hemstitched and needle decoration
added with white or colored linen
When the latter is chosen an effective
design to work in dark blue is the onion
pattern seen in blue Dresden dinner
sets. A skillful hand can copy the
figuring from plate rim, arranging il
in straight band with double line OF
blue above and below, or the pattern
can be stamped upon the material by
professional hands. Detroit Free Press
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-03-25
Favorite Initiati ons at Harvard.

FaVOFlC6 lu1ClACIOnS aG harvarUs
The favorite mode of torment seems to
be to make man go out and sell some
thing or perform some manual labor in
the streets. Not long ago student
who was very much in love with pref
ty Cambridge girl was compelled to, 60
to the home Of the parents with Jew
peddler's pack and sell all the members
of the family the cheap handkerchiefs
and atrocious brass jewelry with which
he was loaded down. The match was
not broken off, but there was a frigid
GOODNESS in that house until the real OBJ
ject of the visit was afterward ex.
planned. Another rich and immac-
ulate young swell was ordered into a
ditch where some Italians were digging
in the main street of Cambridge, and
into it he went with pick and shovel.
clad in a dress suit, which was made
part of the command. Rubber boots,
an ulster and a fur cap are frequently
ordered on victim in the hottest days
of term time, and they must be seen on
him whenever he appears outside his
ROOM. Cambridge, like other college
towns, has become partly accustomed tc
these college vagaries, and wheneve,
anyone is seen upon the streets acting
particularly like a lunatic people class
him at once as a candidate in a college
society.--N. Y. Star.