Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-11-17
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Kroll were
visiting III Tuzewell this week.

visiting III Tuzewell this week.
Corn husks foretell Il cold winter.
w. G. HARRISON & Co.'S excellent
line of flannel underwear promise
Immunity from discomfort.
All the inside work of the old Jail
is being taken out including the
beam floors. The steel work taking
it's place is claimed to be the best.
The first snow of the season be-
gan falling on the evening of the
l4th and the next morning the
ground was white and frozen hard
This has been year of disasters
yellow fever. train wrecks, finan-
cial panic and Republican majeri
ties. Let there he hope that the
next year may be exempt from all
such.
The News Office had IL pleasant
call yesterday from DR.. and Mrs L.
r. Peery. Mrs. Peery's accurate IN.
formation as to the business and
the technical names of things was
somewhat in the nature of n sur.
prise.
DR.. Thos. II. Pcery will have for
his Office the room now occupied as
the postofiice and will establish him
self there as soon as vacated, next
week perhaps. The DOCTORS thor.
ough learning and extended expe
rience has always commanded for
him IL large practice aud his perma
nent location imme,liately i'm town
will make him more accessible.
If other portions of the State are
as much concerned about the next
Court Of Appeals as is the South.
west, an excellent bench may he
expected. A number OF these coun.
ties have, with great unanimity.
fixed upon one man of the many
able lawyers as the choice of rhe
section, and the name Of Judge S.
@. Graham will he presented to the
Legislature with strong endorse.
mentS.
A report came to town the day
before yesterday that small pox, OF
which there had been cases at Salt.
vile, Pulaski and other points, had
reached Blueiield and two or three
cases developed there. Parties here
telegraphed ut once for supply of
virus for vaccination purposes. The
Bluefieled rumor is not confirmed.
The latest report is that there are
cases at Belfast Mills in Russell
comfy.
Judge Jackson, of the United
States District Court, said that tue
newspapers of Charleston and Hunt
ington had made charges that the
deputy marshals had been maxi
indiscrimnate arrests of persons
who were innocent of any violation
OF law for the purpose of getting
fees The Judge said these charges
must he investigated. If they were
true the deputy marshals would lie
dcposed. Ii untrue the publishers
of these papers must be brought in
to court to answer the charge of Ii
bel.
The suggestions Of the boards of
directors of the Bank Of Tazewell
and The Clinch Valley Bank, that
the two institutions be merged into
one. was favorably considered by
the Stockholders at meetings held
Monday. Application will be ,aadv
to the Legislature for charter for
the Bank of Clinch Valley and it is
the intention TO organize the new
bank about the 10Th of January.
The consolidation will make strong
concern with over $2G0,00O paid
capital by stockholders represent
ing very much more. Its capital
will he more tfan that of any bank
between Lynchburg and Knoxville.
1t will occupy the building of The
Clincii Valley Bank. Recommend
ed for officers Geo. w. Gillespie.
cashier of the Bank Of Tazewell,
president; b. w. Stras, vice presi
dent of The Clinch Valley Bank,
vice president; Henry Preston, cash
ier of The Cliuch Valley Bank, cash
ier; w. I. Gillespie, of the Bank OF
Tazewell, assistant cashier.
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