Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Clinch Valley News.
AUG. II. 1881.
VIA CLlNCH VALLEY.


The affairs of the new company
nrc managed by board of directors,
who have been selected as follows
A. Popo, general freight agent of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company, chairman; w. l.. Gnilla-
doau, traffic manager of the Old Do
minion Steamship Company; d. d. G.
Mink, general freight agent of the
Clydcs Philadelphia Line; j. NJ.
Culp, general freight agent of the
Louisville aud Nashville Company;
r. l.. Poore, of tho Baltimore Bay
Line, and j. G Whitney, traffic man
ager of the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company. Tho new
line will cover about 5000 miles Of
rail and steamship shines, and will
cover tho coast from Norfolk to Bos-
ton and traverse all sections in the
West and Southwest The routes
embraced in the line arc the Mcr
chants and Miners Transportation
Company, tho Old Dominion Steam
ship Company, Baltimore Steam
Packet Company. Norfoll, and iycat-
ern, Louisville and Nashville Louis
vile, Evansville and St. Louis, Poo.
rim, Decatur and Evansville, Evans
villo and Terra Iisut;., Louisville, St.
Louis and ToXas, and n number o.
other Western lines. The Eastern
freighss by this route will DO coutcr.
Cd ut Norfolk by the sovornl steam.
ship lines in the arrangement, where
it will be given to tho Norfolk and
Western, through which connections
with other Western points will ho
mndc i. is assorted iy tla Ba!ti.
more concerns Interested in the no,
line that lilo Norfolk aud West IN is
now ina position to bid for heavy
fruighis, being able 10 transport it
with facilities equal to ctlar trunk
lincs. This combination is made up
OF roads between which the traffic ar
rangoments were heretofore mcanr:,
and unsatisfactory. Tic nuw liiia
has been called the Cumberland Can
Dlspatch, and is i'll full operation.
LEE CAMP SOLDIERS HOME
10 the Charitable P06lic:
The Confederate Soldiers Home
appeals to Olc public FOR means 10
put Up & hospital Building fer She
Soiiiera iio,ne. The largo nnmher
OF old Confederate soldiers WHO arr
broken down in health and suiIoriu.s
from honorable wounds receives Al.
the discharge Of iheir duty has .sax ed
tho Board OF Visitors to their utnos t
to maintain :ho institution properly
In the last few months tho humble,
OF men IN Tie hospital las averaged
thirty out OF n total number Of 1875
Our present facilities are Inadequate
aud Ii becomes absolutely necessar,
to make better provisions for the f..
ture. We therefore appeal for hell
to those who admire the courage nit
devotion displayed by the Confedcr
ate soldier to the cause he believed
to be just, who now i'll his old ag
and feeble health is thrown upon TIL
cold charity of the world, and who's
only resting place Id in the countr,
POOR house or the grave. A few mel
who determined to do their part 70
their unfortunate comrades, bull
and maintain the Confederate So
diers Home, near Richmond, VI
The small appropriation made by th
State Of Virginia is not sufficient |
support the institution, and we fin
it impossible to take large humble
OF worthy applicants who nre no,
waiting admission.
Let those fortunate in the posses
sion OF competency remember tn
needs of their unfortunate comrade.
and SD far as possible come to thei
assistance and sustain tho Board i
their efforts to ro!ievo The suifcrin
OF those poor old men.
Any donation, no matter no,
small, will be appreciated. The Boar
needs at this time about $1,000.
Very respectfully,
N. V. RANDOLPH, President.