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FARMING IN COMMON.

him guarantee in some shape or other
that his share of the imperial taxes will
be paid, and drunken, good .ior.no
Jag is often voted out of the village en-
tirely and his share of the village lands
goes back to the village. Each village
elects two petty judges, who settle all
small suits relating to sums of less than
three dollars and petty quorrcls, and
larger suits arc settled up TO certain
amount by higher court elected by a
tixeo number of villages and formed into
an assembly called ''thc volost." Every
thousand people among the peasants
have one of these assemblies and the
different villages making up the thou
sand elect delegates to them, and all
disputes among the people of these VII
lagos are brought before this assembly
and tried.
The power of the volost, however, is
limited. 1t cannot try cases of more
than $50, nor can it imprison for more
than seven days. In addition to these
two lefty courts there are trials by
Jury, and these are courts made up part
iy by judges appointed by tie Car and
ar:ly by those elected by the people,
and an appeal eau be taken from them to
thc higher courts ut st. Petersburg and
Moscow. The village assembly is called
the Mir, the assembly made up of enough
villages to comprise 1000 population is
the Nolost, and above this there is in
each district third assembly OF dele
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
A New Variety of Wheat.

G. w. Copleno, of Lath, is this year
tenderly nursing couple of stalks of
wheat which have a curious history. In
the fall of 1890 wild goose killed in
one of the islands near the Straits of
Fuca was found to contain seeds resem-.
bling wheat. These were planted and
grew profusely, Mr.. Coplcno securing
two sample grains where it had grown,
at Nelson, British Columbia. The
grains are nearly twice the length of
ordinary wheat, shaped something like a
grain of rye, but not much thicker. The
two grains terminated quickly, sent up
thirty blades, and are doing we'll. 1t is
hoped that this will prove valuable
variety. 1t would seem that the bird
from which the original grains were
taken must have found the plant in the
remote North, and if no grain is found
now cultivated in the known world like
this, still further color will be given to
the supposition that there is polar sea
with vegetable life on its shore. -Pugpt
Sound (Washington) Mail.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
How 10 Rub.

People who rub their arms or legs for
rheumatism should remember that the
secret of the benefit derived from mas
sage is that the operator always rubs up,
that is, in the direction of the heart.
The reason is found in the fact that the
valves of the veins and capillaries all
open toward the heart, and by rubbing
in that direction the action of these YES.
sells is assisted, the vessels themselves en-
larged and circulation is more fully pro-
NOTED. Rubbing down, that is, away
from the heart, does harm, for it clogs
the veins and capillarics by impeding the
circulation, without in the least assisting
the action of the arteries, which lie too
deep to be affected by external friction,
even if it could do them any good. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat
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judges elected by it. Every village has
little assembly of its own made up OF
one member to every five houses,
aud these men manage the affairs
Of the village. The village, you know,
owns the land and this assembly
divides this from time to time
among the people, giving each
family certain number OF acres accord
ing to the number in it aud according to
its working power. After such divis-
ion the lands are left with the families
to which they are allotted until the next
division, when they revert to the village
to be given O:.t to the same persons or
to others as the assembly may see fit.
This assembly fixes the dates of harvest
ing, the time of sowing crops and it
makes all arrangements us to the collect.
ing Of taxes. The Government of the
Gar taxes the village lump sum, and
this assembly apportions this tax among
those who should pay it. No ons can
leave the village without leaving behind
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

The statistics presented by Poor {
Manual of American Railroads, show II
total mileage January l, 1892, of TO, 60l
miles, the increase in the quarter ccntur,
being l3l ,3hl miles, or 49, per cent.
In The past twenty five years the mileage
o! railroads. in New England, where the
development has been without spccula
tive feature, has increased from 393s
miles to GS60. In the six States com
prising TIC middle group the increase
has been from $3.50 miles TO ~
mics. and in the South from 99l0 mile.
to 50, ITO miles. Throughout the West
crn States, from the Ohio and Missis.
sippi Rivers on the cast to the Rocky
Mountains on the west, comprising
vas: empire 1,G26, 800 square miles in
extent, where the progress OF the Nation
has been most rapid and its increase in
wealth most marked, the railway ha.
been the great instrument in opening W
IN" 'iAiiiOlI W sclllCinCut, Iult iuTUlSu+
ing the means of transportation, with
out which these lands woul be still
nndcvclopcd and reproductive. In 1867
there were only II, III miles of railroad
in these States, against 2Oo,5 5a miles in
1891. OF this mileage only small por.
ton in 1867 was west of the Mississippi
where there are now $4,000 miles OF
line. In 1867 the mileage in the State:
on The Pacific coast was 49,; in 1891,
2,Gl3 miles. The rate OF increase in
the mileage of our railroads in the pc
Rod named, vast as it has been, has been
greatly eclipsed by their operations of
all kinds. In 1866, from carefully pre-.
pared data, the tonnage of our railroad.
did not exceed 17,S72, 800 tons, the
mileage for that year being 36, sol
miles. In 1891 their tonnage equallcd
7O1,39S, Coz tons for 49, COL miles OF
line. AZ $50 u ton, the value Of the
merchandise moved in 1856 couallro
1857, $50, o2O of that moved in 1891.
sl4,OS7,972, $50.
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pic. 1t wa: supposed and largely is sup
posed to-day 10 be filled with peasants
who arc plotting against their Govern
mcnt and who arc dissatitcd with their
condition. 1t is known rs the land of
nihlism, and it is thought by many that
the peasants are among the ,.ihilists. This
is Il mistake Such nihllistic elements
as exist 90 hot belong to the pcasantry
at all, and the nihilsts, the officials und
the nobility form but Il drop in the
bucket Of tins great ltussaa population.
The town aud the city people number
but a ,cS millions, aud the great bulk
OF the people live in little villages
These villages constitute the real Russia
aud the Russia out of which is to come
the Russia Of the future. OF thc 800.
900. 600 subjects OF the Car, less than
~, 0oO, 600 1--we III towns, and the towns
OF RUSSIA are numbered by hundreds.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

Amon!. the curiositics of crime, saws
Oncc-A-Wcck, is an analysis recently
made, by physician who has long been
attached TO a great prison, of the effect
OF years upon wrongdoers. According
to him, nearly onc-third of the convict:
sent in the last sixty years to the East
crn Pcnilcntiary of Pennsylvania were
between twenty and twenty-five years of
age at the time their crimes were com.
mitted. There is marked diminution
in the proportion of criminals among
persons between twenty-five and thirty
and a still greater one between thirty
and thiIty-fivc. The natural inference
IS that crime i'll general Is the result OF
lmpericction and lack of sclf-control
ratter than that OF deliberate intention
an inference which ought to be very
cheering to the moralist and religious
teacher rs well as to the families which
contain troublesome members. The
physicians deductions Go not agree with
those OF the police officials, who almost
everywhere insist that "once a criminal.
always a criminal, but perhaps in the
Pennsylvania institution, where the OBJ.
servations were made, the treatment of
the inmates is not of nature to confirm
all their bad habits and teach them new
ones, which is alleged to be the result Of
State Prison life IN general. The
authority alluded to say further that the
crimes committed by middlcagcd per.
sons arc mostly those which can be most
secretly and safely followed, and that
the oilcnses OF later life are those which
may in general DC attributed to de.
tcrioration of the mental and moral
machinery; large proportion of en-.
bczzlers and defaultcrs are men of
middle-agc and good standing in the
community, but they are are also persons
who have Thought crooked" so lone
that they are powcrlcss at last to resist
temptation when the mind as well as the
body begins to. feel the weakening in.
1ucncc of age. There is material for a
great many sermons in these facts and
bgurcs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
THREE woep,.

There are three lessons would write
Three words as with burning pen. !.
In tracinSs of eternal light
Upon the hearts OF men:
Have hope. Though clouds environ now.
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow
No night but hath its morn.
Have faith. Where'er thy bark is driven
The caims disport, tho temptest's mirth-.
Know thou God rules the hosts OF heaven.
I'hs inhabitants o; earth
Have love. And not alone for one,
But man rs man thy brother c,ll,
And scatter like the crcling sun
Thy charities OH ALL
Thus grave these lessons on thy soul
Hope. faith and love-and thou shalt find
Strength when lifes surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else vert blind
Chicago News. Record.
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to $1,000, and about fifteen cities of
from $4,000 to 100, 900 in size There
are, however, more than half million
peasant villages. and these villages con-
tain the vast population OF Russia, which
forms nesrlY one. tenth of the porula-
ton of the globe. Only small. pro-
portion of these many millions
live outside of Russia, and the
village system and customs are
very much the same the whole en-
pirc over. Every Russian village Is IL
little Russia in itself, and by the study
of these people and by look at one of
their villages you get fair idea of the
whole empire and Of this great Russian
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people. OF course there arc Asiatic
tribes, and some of the new territories,
rs Finland and Poland, arc to certain
extent different from the pure Russian,
but the great Russia is village; Russia
and the Russians as Nation are the
peasants.
Each of the 500, 900 villages is a little
republic. Its inhabitants elect their
own officers by vote and its courts, for
all ordinary offences. are managed by
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
The Hawk and the Turtle.

A gentleman who lives up the Oostun.
aula River told of peculiar Occurrences
up in his vicinity the other day. He
was fishing IN the river when he saw :,
great rcd.tailcd hawk fly down and light
by the edge of tile stream. 1t was a sand
bar and the hawk waded out few feet
IN the shallow water. He then observed
the hawk engaged in fearful struggle
as if held by something. and with great
effort the bird rose and flew out in the
field, carrying with it large water
turtle, which it had attacked, but which
instead of being caught, had clutched
one of the hawks feet in its powerful
mouth and held on. Dat in the field
the hawk tried in vain to get away from
the turtle, but could not. When it be.
came too tatigucd to fly the man wen.
out and killed both with a hickory
club. Atlanta Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

The Minneapolis Journal is convinced
that the most idiotic college yell is proba.
bly, that of the senior class of the Kansas
State University. 1t is: Johnny took
a bite, Susie took chew. EocS chalk,
Jaw hawk, class of '92."
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PEG WESSON.
A LEGEND OF GLOUCESTER.

+ was in March,
17i5, and the com
pany raised in
Gloucester to join
the cX pe d it ion
against Louisburg
WAS To leave town
with the rising of
the morrow's sun.
In the spring twi-
light, three young
men made their
way, with NOISY
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

The American Dair, man boasts that
the dairy industry of the United States,
notwithstanding its low average profit,
is more valuable than all our gold ap,
silver mines; and, it adds, if all the
cows were as valuable rs the majority Of
those which have been tested the weary
output would be more than trcblc,l.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
RURAL RUSSIA.
LIFE IN THE CzAH,5
DOMINIONS.
Russia is n Nation of Pcasants-Pccu
liar Institutions of the Russian
Villa@cs-Improvide and
Unambitious People.

U S STA, write s
Frank G. Carpenter,
in tue Chicago Her
aid, is Il Nation of
peasants. We hear
of this country only
as the land of the
Gar, or us the pos
sessions Of the auto
crat of the Russias,
and until this year
icw people have
looked upon it as
else than an
ordinary European
county filed with
an oppressed and
turbulent REQ
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

There are comparatively only II few large
cities. ST. Petersburg Is ~ big as Phil
adelphia, Moscow is about the size of
Boston, Warsaw is us big as st. Louis
and ODESSA is a little bigger than Cicvc-
land. In addition to these there are
few cities of 100, 600 each, aud then
about 300 cities ranging from IL, 900 up
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14
mackeref fishers, and the glory of Old
Nantucket and New Bedford faded be-

IN IOe1ror 11sHCI5i uuct CIIU 9IOry OF OII
Nantucket and New Bedford faded be-
You'd repair.
Vessels of the Progress build are no
longer used by whalers, for they could
hardly compete with the steam whalers,
OF which the Thetes, Bear and Alert are
the most approved types. Whaling to-
day, however, what there is of it, is COM
bined with sealing and other fisheries,
and the capture of one of these monsters
of the deep is the exception rather than
the rule. Mail and Express.
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Express trains in Russia rarely travel
tnster than twenty-five miles an hour.
These are very slow expresses Indeed, yet
railway guard AYERS that the fastest
trains are always the safest.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-10-14

For some days the woodmcn who
passed Peg NELSON'S hut morning and
night, on their way to and from their
work in the forest, noticed that there
WAS no smoke in the chimney.
Pegs oil on her broomstick," said
one.
"Thcrc's ill luck for somcbo dy some
where" said another.
1t was on mild and sunny May after
noon, when they were busily hewing in
the woods, that they heard faint moan
ing They heard it repeatedly, and at
length following the sound they came
upon Peg Wcsson lying on the ground
and unable to get up.
How came she there, They could
have sworn that she had not passed them
on the path, and who could have made
her way through the impcnctrablc Jungle
beyond?
Though loath 10 touch her, thcy
helped her to her feet. She was unable
to take step. Her leg was broken. A
rude litter was made, aud she was taken
home, uttering ma!edictions all the way.
A doctor was called. When he OK.
amincd the fracture, he extracted there.
from small piece of silver which Ii,
carefully preserved.
When the soldiers returned from Louis
burg victorious and jubilant at having
destroyed the "hornct's nest" that
had long been torment to Gloucester.
they heard with amazemcnt what had
bciallen Peg Wcssou, for on comparing
dates they found that she had fallen
with the broken leg at the very time
that the crow had been shot
Sanders produced his part OF the
sleevc-buttons. The doctor produced
his. They were precisely alike.
They were linked together again and
carefully preserved by Martin Sanders
and his descendants. Indeed they are
kept to this day in the fumily for nuyht
| know to the contrary They were
brought out and exhibited whenever this
remarkable story wa, told, aud it was
very often told.
Peg Wcsson never recovered from her
injury. She died soon after and re.
ccived decent burial, but there is no
stone bearing her name i'll the old grave
yard.
Poor maligncd, prosecuted Peggy!
For thee and such as thou, there should
indeed be, there must be, some happier
sphere where the shadows of earth NAV
DC forgotten in the glad sunshine Of
happiness unknown before.
Peggy's cot, untenantcd after her
death, long the sport of the elements,
has fallen to decay. Bat if one cares to
know where it stood, its site near the
"old garrison" can be pointed out by any
OF the older inhabitants, for this is no
tale OF the imagination, but one in
which our forcfathers and foremothers
implicitly believed. Sarah G.. Duley, in
Boston Transcript
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a French boy has broken two black
cats TO harness.
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was game in abundance IN the vicinity.
Sanders and Goodwin made two Of such
party one pleasant Bay afternoon. or
ten during their hunting they noticed
crow circling near them. They were
about returning to camp when Goodwin
| striding across some low shrubbcry in
search of a fallen bird, thrust his foot
into an open fox-trap which closed
on his ankle, the sharp points penetrating
deep into the flesh. His cry for help
was echoed by the tcaw, caw," Of the
| crow.
1t was with infinite difficulty that his
companions released him. Pale aud
half fainting with paiI and loss of blood
he locked up at the crow still nca.. "a
~ believe it's a WITCH" he cried. -
"Pcg Wesson, By heavens" exclaimed
Sanders, recalling the witcis curse.
He lifted his loaded fowlingp;ccc, took
| steady aim and fired. Cav. cawl
caw!" screamed the crow dcrisivcly,
win9ing its onward way uuhurt Mar
tin Sanders was a renowned shot, aud
never known to miss such mark before.
His companions noted his failure with
amazemeut, and though they Thought it
H"oi USN IVA t3co'' pVnutI tHi AuOS,
another and another fired, but with the
same result.
"lt is surely u WITCH eric Goodwin,
who, lying on the grass with hastily
bandagcd ankle, was looking .rmy on.
''lt is surely 4 witch, and no, to be
brought down by a leadcn bullet Moth.
ing but silver will bring down witch. "
"Thats true" cried Martin Sanders.
He hastily tore his silver sleeve. buttons
from his wrist. lie wrcnchcd them
asunder 1t was the work of minute
to load his gun with one OF the pieces.
The crow was still within gunshot He
took deliberate aim and fired. Wounded
in the leg, it fluttcred downward in less.
ening circles, and apparently fell in some
bushes close by. But careful and p-o.
louged search failed to discover it.
The record-union., 1892-10-18
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

President Eliot speaks Of Harvard as
"the only university on this continent
which has bad the privilege OF graduating
eight successive generations OF men in
one honorable and serviceable family.'
The largest artificial stone i'll the world
forms the base Of the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty on Bedloes Island, New York
harbor. This immense stone was made
from broken trap rock, sand and Anleri-
can cement. Five hundred carloads Of
sand and over 10000 barrels of cement
were used III manufacturing this mon
Ster
There has been in England an interest,"
ing discussion as to the moral superiority
OF spinsters over matrOns, from which it
is SHOWN that women who have achieved
real greatness in history and shown great
est valor have been, as 4 rule, unmarried,
the most illustrious examples given be-
ing Queen Elizabeth, Charlotte Corday,
Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale and
Sister Rose Gertrude.
If Mr.. Stanley had only remained au
American citizen he might now be run
ming for office in the United States in
stead of in England; and for all that our
English brethren delight in saying about
the personalities of American politics. he
would probably have found them less
Objectionable than the boots and tho
stones and the cabbagestalks of an Eng
lish political audience that were so per-
sonally applied to him the other day
New York Tribune.
The record-union., 1892-10-18
SIZE HOVE TO.
a Chilean Bark Overhauled by al
American Revenue Cutter.

a Chilean Bark Overhauled by an
American Revenue Cutter.
PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 1.-THE Chilean
bark Augusta was fired upon late last
night in the straits, four miles below
here, by the United States cutter Oliver
Wolcott. The Augusta attempted to leave
Puget Sound without the Custom house
clearance. The trouble was occasioned
by jealousy between the Chilean Consul
Macondray and Chilean Vice-Consul De
Lion at Tacoma as 10 which shall trans
act the business of the Chilean Govern
ment on Puget Sound. The Augusta ar
rived here several weeks ago from Chile.
She surrendered her register to Consul
Macondray, and proceeded to Tacoma to
load a cargo. Nice-Consul De Lion adj
vised the Captain to demand the register
from MaeOndray, and if he refused to
proceed to sea with the temporary regis
ter provided by De Lion. Macondray
instructed the vessel to clear from Port
Townsend. As the vessel was going out
to sea she was overtaken by the Wolcott,
but would not heave to until fired upon.
The vessel is subject to fine of $500.
The record-union., 1892-10-18
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
to the Fair Grounds.

%Specisll 10 the 1tECORD-O MON.
LEADvILLE Coli, Oct. I'D. Herman
Truman, the 18-year-oId son of A. S.
Truman, with several companions, Sc
cured 200 pounds of giant powder and
placed it in small mine near his fathers
residence, the intention being to kill the
boys father, mother, little brother and
sister, against whom he had fancied
grudge. The powder was exploded by
long fuse and Truman's residence, as
well as that of Peter Breen, next door,
was almost wrecked. Miraculously, none
OF the inmates were seriously injured. 1t
was found that the boy had stolen $500
belonging to his father and had taken
refuge with his partners in cave twelve
miles from town. Officers have gone to
make arrests. AS Truman is the victim
of the dime novel, and armed, it is prob
able he will resist. The explosion caused
hundreds of dollars worth of damage.
Several houses must be entirely rebuilt.
The record-union., 1892-10-18
Special to the REooRD-UN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 1.-THE first news of
a shocking murder of an aged couple was
given i'll to-day's Sun. J. S. Geiser and
wife had farm on the Otay mesa, about
seven miles east of Otay Station and
fifteen miles south of this city. Last
night the children of Mr.. Piper, a rela-
tive and neighbor, heard screams while
passing near the Geisers.
Piper and his son went over and as
soon as they approached the house they
saw the light go out. AS Piper entered
a figure tried to slip out in the darkness
and they grappled, and after a terrible
struggle they secured the fellow, an In
dian laborer, named Jose Grabielo.
On investigation they found the bodies
of the aged couple lying outside the front
door beaten nearly out of semblance.
Three bloody sticks had been used. The
Indians shoes were found at the fence.
The theory is that he killed Geiser in
the cowyard, crept upon the old lady in
the front room and dispatched her and
then dragged the mans body up to where
she had been thrown. In plundering the
house he did not hear the Pipers APP
proach. 1t is believed the Indian had
grudge against Geiser over pay about
well digging; also, that he may have been
the murderer, about three years ago, of
Miss Abbey, who lived near, on ranch
by herself which deed has always re-
mained mystery.
Officers were summoned and after Sc
curing the murderer search of the region
revealed two other Indian suspects. All
were brought TO Jail this morning. The
bodies are also here for inquest.
The two Indians say Grabielo was going
along in the road with demijohn and
was drunk. They profess no knowledge
of what occurred. The prisoner appears
to be stupid and wont talk. He is middle
aged