Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-02-03

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have moved their undertaking es
tablishment into one of the store
rooms in rear of the NEWS building
to secure more room ahd greater
convenieDces. They are we'll eQuip-
ped for their work and are prepared
to attend to calls from any point.
A merchant doing business at q
station of tho Norfolk and Western
i'll North Carolina had ordered n
barrel of molasses and when he re
ceived a barrel it was found to con
tain the dead body Of IL negro man.
The freight had evidently been
mixed up aud no doubt some medi.
Cal class received the molasses.
The change in time of holding the
Tazcwell County Court disarranged
to some extent the circuits of the
drummers They do not fail to get
here in their usual force, but, with
some of them, it is between times,
when of necessity they must visit
the country stores, whereas before
they met their customers III town.
The work of shoveling and haul
ing dirt from the streets is always
in orler-and always will he so long
as the macadam in the east end
lies under he mud thrown on it
several years ago. A great Job,
that was Given time, however,
wagon wheels will gradually work
it up town to be removed at heavy
expense.
The> Jefferson Davis monument
committee has determined to remove
the remains of tho Confederate Pres
ident from New Orleans to Richmond
next May.and inter them on the 3Gth
in the spot III Hollywood already
prepared for that purpose. This is
Confederate Memorial day, and the
occasion will be one of solemn inter
est and magnitude.
The neatest calendar of all is that
of Messrs. Bowling, SPOTS & Co,
wholesale grocers. 1t is an excel
lent lithograph Of our new navy.the
Newark" hearing upon her sails
the names Of the individual mem
bers of the firm, including that Of
Mr. John Nj. SPOTS. TIE whole is
ais elegant and clean as Johns led.
ger. if he still keeps one.
Some commot:on was created at
Tazewpll College. Monday. when it
was discovered that the building
WAS afre. A defective flue had
given the fire an opportunity to ig
mite the wood work between walls.
The blaze was eXtinguished without
sending out an alarm. Once on the
outside on that windy day, fire
would have been heyo nd control in
Il very few minutes.
What are they going to do about
it, is the question agitating the 400
of Washington City society. Post
master General WannamalSer isSu.
ed invitations to a dinner in honor
of the new assistant.H Clay Evans
Society people accepted and found
out later that the department. eni-
ployes, including all grades and
colors, had also been invited to the
reception Immediately following.
The dinner was postponed on ac-
count of Blaine's death, bnt the in
vitatiOns were not withdrawn.
BY special request Rev. Mr.. Saw
age will deliver Il lecture next Sun
day morning in his church in this
town, subject: "The Origin, Doc
trine and Discipline of the Episco-
pal Church. 1t is hoped that a
large number will lie present on
THAT OCCASION, 30 tifat members of
the church may he better informed
as to the cause they have espoused.
and that others may understand
AMI appreciate The reasons the
Episcopal has. for its existence as
"a3brancil. of the universal church
OF God"