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

The American Bridge and Iron
Company of Roanoke, has contract
ed to furnish fifteen hundred tons
of iron work and castings to the
Mathieson Alkali Works, of Salt.
vile, within tho next four months.
This is the company which bought
out the entire salt works property
some time ago. and its plant will be
the largest in this country. Salt
vile is not our near neighhor it
once WAS, when it WAS our railroad
station, but many who remember it
as such will take an interest i'm tho
great changes there going OIL.
The Headlight, in accounting for
the disappearance of tho late heavy
snow without a perceptiblo increase
of water i'll creeks aud rivers, is of
tho opinion that the dry and thirsty
earth absorbed it as fast as melted.
This solution won't hol,l1mater." at
least as TO some localities. Deep
SNOW disappeared from underlying
sheets OF solid ice from which there
was no drainage. There was more
or less crust everywhere under sew
eral inches of the snow. Herea
bcnts evaporation did the business.
The melting process seemed to ac
commodate itself to the capacity of
the atmosphere to take up the
moisture, so the snow went up and
not down.
On last Friday evening, by invi-
tatiOn, II number of tawnspeOple us.
semhled in the Seminary parlors
upon the occasion of a Mazart re.
cltal by Miss Hermina Bopp, who
was assisted by Miss Coe and Prof.
O'Neil and pupils of the music de
partment. In Miss Bopp the Semi
nary has a treasure and it is a for
tnnate class that rnn have her in
struction. The following program
wiis given on this occasion:
The Life of Mozart Essay, Miss Jennie
Cutler.
Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro y
Four Hands, Misses Coe and BoDp.
Minuet in E Major, Piano Solo, Miss
Eta Nc cWane.
"Voi che Sapete," Aria from Marriage
of Figaro, Vocal solo, Miss Coc.
Symphony in C Major, Piano and Vio-
lin. Prof. O'Neil, Miss Bopp.
"Allegretto la Turca," from Senate in
A, Piano Solo, Miss Allie Spindle.
"Ochsen Waltz" Four Hands, Misses
Vivian Gillespie and BERTHE Shelburnc.
Fantasia in G Minor, Piano Solo, Miss
Hermina Bopp.
"Giunse nj fin il Momento, /" Aria from
Marriage of Figaro, Miss Coe.
Divertimento No. in G Major, Piano
and Violin, Allegro Minuetto Rondo
Allegro, Prof. ONeill, Miss Bopp.
Citizens in the West end are can
vassing the matter of new county
to bc formed from parts OF Taze
well, Russell and Buchanan. While
they doubtless have reasons of their
own for desiring new county lines
and Il county seat ut Rchlan1S,
they will, we think, find their uh
dertaking mountain high. The Leg
islature would not pass such n bill
without submitting it 10 IL vote of
all the people of all the counties ai
fected. The voters outside these
proposed lines would not agree to
this loss of territory and revenue,
even ii all those within were will
ing to assume the increased taxa
ton incident to IL new county. 1t is
not throwing cold water on the
scheme to point out it's hopeless
ness; for at present it is bound to
meet with disaster. 1t has been but
a little while since an attempt to
make a new county of much more
populous territory failed utterly.
We refer to vote taken as to
whether new county should be
formed Of parts Of Washington, Rus
sell and Scott. Our recollection is
that. except around the proposed
location of the court house, the vote
was almost unanimous against
The experience would.be repeated
in this case undoubtedly.
The last county created in Vir
ginia was Dickinson, tho ono bun.
dredth county in the one huntlredtll
YEAR OF American independence. 1t
was spoken of at the time as the
centennial county. There were
warm times those days aud Almost
civil war over tile location of the
county seat There WAS, however,
good reason for the formation of the
county of Dickinson. for all that
broad expanse of territory over
against the Cumberland Mountains
was far from every whore. We take
1T the State would move very eau
tlouSly in so serious matter and
at least call for an expression by
vote of the opinion Of the people 10
he affected by it. A waste of reve
nue. or an increase Of taxation is not
to he thonghtof in the present state
OF public finances, where such can
~hV any ms ihilitv bo .,vn;ln,l rY,i. .