Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-03-30
MY DEAR NEWS:

S''N'"''N = va U Soui'it hiNu lS
far enough away from you, and the
road to which is indirect enough,
TO require one to travel east, north
and west by turns; and You may
possibly .alSo, feel an interest which
is involuntary, since your country
has a certain connection with il; u
sort of second cousin ,elationshin.
at least while the writer is resi-
dent here.
The two countries also resemble
one another in gifts and qualities;
tho the climate OF % certain sunny
land we know of, has more of the
sweet good nature, that pure air,
sparkling water aud winds, whose
touch is only 10 caress. will always
produce. Quickened vitality, men
tai strength aud physical beauty
are but the natural enlanationS OF a
country and climate SO sympathet-
ic, SO genial. Here, art is more of
ten called on to atone for natures
deficiencies and she does her part
well, too, i'll an effort, which, if it
is i'll the direction of show (let us
say advancemenD, still pays tri-
butte, first, to comfort.
Proximity TO the far famed White
Sulphur, with its array of beauty,
wealth and cultivation, has added
muck to the advantages, natural
and artificial, to which this section
can lay indisputable claim. a
people willingly obcying the
promptings OF II sound good sense
and unerring Judgment, would
only, from the wide array of meth
ods, good and bad, choose what
was excellent, tending to elevate,
to refine; conducting to the only
true liie-thc happiness and the
Improvement Of themselves and all
around them. Thus the single.
mindcdncss of vigorous rural life,
moving hand in hand with that Of
a higher caste, whose dainty per
lectcd appliances have become too
necessary to ignore. presents itself
pure, polished and perfect in its
absorbing beauty, as is the sculp.
tured marble.
These people are like ours, am.
bilious; and the influx of first
rate element among them has en-
couragcd their love Tor advance
ment. They boast three first rate
schools in L. Schools that should
be the pride of al enlightened
people in numbers, as in good
standard. Disaster has several
times thinned the ranks, to be fill.
ed mp again when the panic was
past, and perfect confidence in the
principals has never been inter
ruptcd. In the last distressing
scare, the principal Of the female
seminary, on the first appearance
of danger, quarantincd his house
hold, and many of the day pupils
being admitted to the boarding de-
partmcnt, the school went on with
greater regularity and success, per
hapS, than before. This was main.
tanned five weeks, and the guaran-
tine being raised, all the pupils
without exception returned, and
there were several additions from
abroad, with perfect confidence in
the management, mental and phys.
ical.
An interesting relic i'm this place
is the sold stone church" in it's
classic beauty, Il digniiied sentinel,
keeping watch and ward over the
graves of the past century, where
in lie the kith and kin of almost
all who have lived a long or short
time near its stately shadow. The
beauty of this "city Of the dead" is
most impressive. 1t lies fair, to
the sunniest southern exposure, so
peaceful and so lovely. The gray
grown mounds, the marbles, pure
and polished, the peaceful ever
green's that answer only the gen
tlest whispers of the balmy south
ern breeze, the soothing stilluess,
though in stones throw of the busy
haunts of man-all, make one feel,
"tliese are not dead, but sleeping."
There are characters, in u modest
way persons of note, residing here,
interest in whom adds largely
to the already interesting tradi-
t Ons of this section, handed down