Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-06-22
LOCAL AN'D GENERAL
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iHS itatuTe Oi tue uay sport Oh the
Ith.
Miss Sallie Surface is back from
the wedding Of Miss Ball to her
uncle Mick"
The ministers Of the Methodist
church, Tazewell district. were in
meeting here during the week.
Count, Chairman Thompson calls
Il meeting Tor the selection of dele
gates TO the Bristol convention.
Quarterly meeting for Tazewell
station will be held at the depot,
embracing the first Sunday in July.
The full program for the 4th of
July is completed and is such nv to
deserve Il large crowd to enjoy the
day.
General A. L. Pridemorc. OF Lee.
expresses himself aS willing to have
the congress nomination fall to him
self
Attention is called to changes in
times of meeting of the different
Masonic bodies, to be found in an
other column.
Barnes Gillespie has returned
from the University of Virginia.
where he secured his degree of
Bachelor of Law.
Never joke the man who IS always
joking verybody else. There isn't
anybody in the world more sensi-
tive to ritlicule.
An effort will he made to bring
the Republican congressional con
vention to Tazewell and we know
OF no reason why il should not be
successful.
Rev MIR. Buck, wife and children,
who had been visiting at Prof. Shel
hurne's, left Wednesday Tor Rad
ford. Mrs. Buck is il sister tf Mrs.
Shelburne.
The Richmond aud Danvil'e rail
road property. ais whole was sold
TO Charles IL. Coster aud A j. Thorn
us, representing DrtXel, Morgan IL
Co, for S2,O3O,O00.
MIR. w. N. Surface aud bride pass
ed by, Wednesday, after the cere
mony ut llcnaker, to visit his old
home in Giles county. They will
make their future home here.
Tazewell College will he open for
another session Sept 10. As stated
heretofore, Prof Ramey. the pur-
chaser of an interest in the college,
Will have immediate charge and the
boarding department will be under
his supervision.
AS a blood purifier the most emf
nent physicians prescribe Ayers
Sarsaparllla 1t is the most power.
ful combination of vegetable altera
tives ever offered To the public as
il spring and family medicine, it
may he freely used by old and
young alike.
Mr.. Geo. G. Peery, of Cedar Blnf,
looked after Tazewell's reputation
at Emory and Henry College the
past session. Tn addition to being
the valedictorian Of the senior class.
he secured the much coveted Rob
erfson prize medal and also the
science medal.
At Il regular convocation of
O'Keetfe Royal Arch Chapter, No
26, held in their hall Monday last,
the following officers were elected
L. r. Peery, High Priest; j. S. Bot.
timore, King; e. l.. Wright, Scribe;
james O'Keetfe, Treasurer; W.. G..
Young, Secretary; @. r. Feery, G.
H.; j. r Henry, Principal Sojonrn
er; G. A. Thompson, Royal Arch
Captain; Fl. w. O'Keeffe, Master of
the 3rd Vail; j. L. Cody, Master of
the End Vail; o. G. EmShwiler, Mas
ter of the 1st Vail; w G. Bottimore,
Chaplain; G. L. McClintock, Stew
ard and Janitor.
One of the documents submitted
Erastus Wimans counsel in the Can
adams trial for forgery was a state.
ment showing the enormous profits
of the mercantile agency business.
According to this statement The Dun
concern earned S345,7 7S0 in 1885, and
The profits steadily increased until, in
1892, they reached S525,OOO, max
ing the total for eight years of SO,
313,500. This immense sum being
the net profit of only one concern in
the business, we are left only to con
lecture how much money the bust
ness men of America spend to learn
the financial standing of their broth
ers, and infereptially how enormous
must be the transactions upon which
the agency business is merely para
site.
A Young man named Clement E
Moreland. aged eighteen, resident
OF South Cumberland. was fatally
hurt while bathing in the canal a
short distance below the CITY, SAYS
q Cumberland. Md. felnpr.m lJa