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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

ground, crushed and lifeless mass.
For moment the victor held tho
vanquished in its coils and then re-
leased it. The victorious serpent
glided from its tree, moved rapidly
several times around the crushed body
of its lifeless foe with loud and angry
misses, shooting its red tongue in and
ont like viewers shuttle. Then it
moved few feet and stopped.
"Much to my surprise third boa
now appeared on the scene, magnifi-
cent female specimen. She Joined
the conqueror in the late terrific bat
tie. 1 then knew it was for her that
the deadly duel had been fought, and
she had been q witness of the combat
from the seclusion of her boudoir in
the tropical thicket. Her actions
showed that she was pleased with the
result, and she glided away with the
massive winner and disappeared with
him in the forest, their departure be-
ing followed by deafening din of
monkey gatherings and loud, discord-
ant shrieks and screams of that rs.
sembly of many-hued Brazilian birds.
81 Strengthened tho dead boa on tho
ground and measured him. From his
nose to the tip of his tnil he covered
34k feet. New York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
A Curious Superstftion.

That superstition is not quite ex.
tinct in Lancashire is proved by q case
heard at the Chorley Police Court yes.
terday, says the Manchester tEngland)
g, whore young man named
Thomas Barnes Was bound over in
$500 for twelve months for having as.
saulted, under extraordinary ciroum.
stances, Miss Frances Mitchell, to
whom he had been paying attention.
1T appeared that Barnes had recently
consulted some Gypsies touching his
Ill health and, acting on their advice,
he had pricked the young lady with a
needle several times to draw blood,
and had struck her ON the face. Ho
was acting under the belief that he was
plnins away,and that there was buried
ABOUT her house something which
attracted him and caused him to be
uneasy IN ms mind, and that the only
way to remedy the evil was to dray
blood from the lady of his heart.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

1t is not generally known that tho
-thc-slot machine, though to
us moderns IL new idea, wns in reality
in use before the Christian era. Yet
moro than two thousand years ago, in
the country of the Nile, temples were
provided with vessels from which
perfumed water would run when n
coin was dropped through nm opening
or slot. They were described by Hero.
of Alexandria, who lived about 117-S1
b. c., in his "Pneumntics, from
which we quote: "Whcn tho coin
was dropped through the slit it fell
on one end of n balanced, horizontal
lever, which, being depressed, opened
valve, suspended by chain at the
other end, and tho water began to
flow. When the lever was depressed
to certain angle the coin fell of,
and the lever being weighted, returned
to its seat and cut Off the supply"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

we are SO near to our own prent
Columbian Fair that we have nearly
lost sight in the United Sthtes of the
fair recently opened at Antwerp by
the King of the Belgians. All tho
European Governments have erected
buildings on the fair grounds at Ant
werp, but that of the United States is
The NEST conspicuous for its size,
tasteful lchitecture and position.
Since Eiffel erected his wonderful
tower. in Paris for u lookout, other
men of mechanical genius hayo
planned points of vantage for other
fairs. The Ferris Wheel in Chicago is
in point; though, unlike the Eiffel
Tower, it has not become permanent
fixture of the city in which it was
first erected, but is to be taken TO
New York. In emulation, rather than
in imitation of Eiffel and Ferris, n
Belgian engineer has devised series
of monstrous anchored balloons that
rise for a thousand feet above tho sur
rounding country. Below the bellows
there is platform or lookout largo
enough to accommodate 800 people ut
n time. This platform is reached by
an elevator, or lift, of peculiar form.
At first this appliance would impress
the observer as being unsafe, but en-
gineers who have carefully examined
this 'tcastle in the air, }" rs it is called,
believe the risk of ascending and de.
scahding is no greater than that on
the lifts of ordinary buildings.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Kate Fields Washington says TINT
isscvsEy<:erNeagnzino reader is in duty
bound to'rcnd all the advertisements
at the back ofSthe publication, as it is
the snpposition That, he will do this
which enables him 70 buy the maya
zine at'less than the cost of its pro-
duction. The samei'ulc, in the opin-
Ion Of the New Orleans Picayune, ap-
plies, and with n.0re force, to the
newspaper reader.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Says the San Francisco Chronicle:
Tho bicycle is growing in favor in the
interior and the usual collisions be-
tween tho owners of horses and the
stceds that eat no hay are OF constant
occurrence. The fact, however,
ought not TO create any uncasiness,
nor is any legislation needed to
restrain tho cyclists. Before the ox-
element of discussion subsidies horses
will have become accustomed to
them. That is the experience in tho
vicinity of this and NIL cities and
towns where tho wheel is much used.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
THE DRUM.
RataplanI RatapIan:


Rataplanl Rataplan:
gaG In the forefront OF tho van
'Tis little beardless drummer boy that leads
tho bearded man.
See tho limpIng veteran
Keeping step rs best he can
To tho little beardless drummer boys COM
handing ratuplan.
Bataplan!
How old recollections como
at the beating OF tho drum,
or tho battles mad fantasia, tho throbbina
and the hum
Ofthe rifles ratuplan
In the forefront OF tho van,
Where the drumstick was bullet and tho
parchment was mani
Rataplan!
From Boston Transcript.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Tho electricity used on trolley rail
roads goes into the ground. and weak
ems gas and water mains. The genius
who will discover method of return
ing tho fluid to the power houses will
become millionaire Mt once, declares
the New York Mail and Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Tho consumption of celery in tho
United States is enormous. Accord
ing to the census Of 1890 there are
about 1G, 600 acres devoted to celery
market gardening in this country.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

The annexation fever is increasing,
notes the New York Mail and Ex-
press. Pittsburg, Penn, is thinking
of anncxing Allegheny City. Tho
consolidation would give Pittsburg
3i3, 90i inhabitants, and mako it rank
eighth instead Of thirteenth among
American cities.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Lord Salisbury says that the popu-
lar agitation against the British House
of Lords is not likely to effect any
thing for long while to come. The
Upper House, he says, is not Il bull
wark against popular passion. but
against parliamentary intrigue.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Insanity has increased SO in Franco
that the asylums can no longer hold
tho lunatics. The Assistance Publ
que has therefore decided to place
some of the crazy paupers who arc
harmless with some of the peasant
families, just MS it puts out pauper in
fants and children.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Iho territory of Canada is computed
;' i exceeds tho territory of tho
, United States by 500, 900 aonare miles !:
HI .no population of tho Dominion is
Will, ,itrp . more than that of Scotland,
G2. 900. 900. "'e' numbers over
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Only ten per cent. of the soldiers
recruited in tho British armies last
ycnr were Irishmen. Once the per-
,entago was much larger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

The Connecticut Supreme Court has
decided that pension funds, though
deposited in abank, cannot be attached
for debt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
The Now zeaiantlSfa rIncrs are tho
most properoasfa the world.

'hynohing in most cases is simply
result of lack of confidence in law"
says tho Columbus (ohio) Dispatch.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

Venezuela ia said to havo fifty-six
authorized national holidays each
year. Mexico has thirteen and Brazil
twenty-five. ''
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
REcoMRENSE

REcoMPENsE
least pebble in tho sea,
Thipking that never moro
As long ms Ito is mystery
'Twould como back to tho shore,
Twas thus she threw my heart away.
1t sunk into the sea,
Dut timo Is good, and yesterday
Twas given back to mo.
Tom Mason, in New York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
PITH AND POINT.

1t is surprising how much we will
take from rich uncle-if We can get
it.-Syracuse Courier.
"You say the baby is year old? 1t
seems very small for its age." eyes,
1t has been raised on condensed milk. {"
Man wants but little hero below,
On this terrestrial ball
Sor With the universe compared
Tho earth is really small.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01
Polly Ward" Flagman."
ny ALBERT NJ. STRONG.

Oily WARD had
n grievance. Tears
OF angry disap-
pointment stood in
her eyes rs she sat
under tho low
spreading b ran :
ches of tho old
elm tree in the
front yard of her
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-03-01

One bright afternoon in the sum.
mer. Polly was sitting on the porch
sewing, whilc Joe lounged on the steps
ut her feet. Ho had told her many
tales of thrilling interest of life on tho
road, and many showing the. humor.
Gus side of the men of his vocation.
She had been listening attentively,
and while watching his face MS he told
OF particularly exciting event in his
own life, her loving eyes had discoy.
cred little scar, only faint line
now, on his forehead.
"What did that, Joe?' she nskod.
rs she pushed back tho curly hair that
she might see it plainly.
"Oh, brakeman out on the Con.
trail Branch. Hit me with lantern. >
why, Joe? We're you fighting p
; Fighting? Not much. Why, my
dear, that man saved my life when III
did that"
"Tell mo about it, please, Joe,
pleaded his pretty listener.
est happened when was running
that little passenger engine on thu
branch, four years ago. Ihad beer
out all day on n special, two officers
cars full of big offioials ON tour Of
inspection. When We got to the emf
of the road, they decided that they
must go back to E. that night. Ii
had commenced to rain and it was Ms
dark as the"
'Joep'
"well, SO dark you couldn't sec
anything. I had broken my headlight
chimney and couldn't get an oxtra
one there, so I put white lantorn In
the headlight reflector. and it gave
The morning call., 1895-01-21
THEIR ANNUAL FEAST.
Preparations for New Year in China
town.
Some Pictures That Attracted Admiring
CrOKdS-HOW Musicians Put :
in Their Time.

Chinatown was so busy preparing to
celebrate New Year yesterday that it had
no time to spare for its usual Sunday re-
laxations.
The great event of the Sabbath in the
Monaghan quarter is usually the passage
of Mrs. Culbertson's girls from the mission
to the church on Stockton street. Stand
ing room along the sidewalk which they
traverse is always at a premium, and seats
on the steps and doorways that command
a good view OF the procession are as hard
to obtain as boxes at a Patti matinee.
Yesterday there was not Chinese man,
woman or child waiting for the girls as
they came out OF the church. The pagans
had deserted their cherished posts and
were feasting their eyes on the preparations
for the new year. Down in the heart of
Chinatown Mongolians, with an eye for the
picturesque, were trying how tightly
they could wedge and jam themselves
together in front of 1urid pictures
that enterprising vendors had hung
up above the sidewalk with the inscription
in Chinese: Chow to make home happy
for two bits" The works of art were con-
sidered dirt cheap at the price, for, as the
dealers pointed out, the disappointed
looking devils in the foreground were
4
future being good omen for the new year.
Other twO-bit gems, representing the
triumphs OF heroes and demi-gods, also
augured prosperous twelve months for
the purchasers.
Youthful Chinese, who were sent on
errands to the butchers and the bakers
| fingered longer than usual to admire the
groves of flower baskets that hung from
the ceilings of the various stores. They
were of the fearful and wonderful variety
OF floral decorations that faithful Chinese
cooks are wont to overwhelm their Ameri-
can employers with, as souvenirs of the
Joyous New Years tide.
White people never quite know what to
do with these floral presents. They feel
that they are lapsing into unesthetic bar
barism when they hang the things up In
their drawing-rooms, and yet they do not
like to hurt their Chinaman's feelings by
putting the gorgeous flowers in the cellar
or hiding them in a dark corner of the
attic. To Judge from the number of the
baskets hanging up in the Chinese stores
Yesterday there are decorations over and
above those that will make Monaghan
homes beautiful in their owners eyes.
One of the outward and visible signs of
approaching new year in Chinatown yes
terday was that lilies, of the celestial
variety, were everywhere in evidence. Pots
of them filled the windows, stood on the
doorsteps, and even lined the sidewalks
outside some of the stores. Another mark
of the season was the festive cracker,
which shone resplendant from the windows
of half the stores In the quarter.
The musicians were the hardest-worked
men in Chinatown yesterday. All day
long they made the welkin ring with the
walls of fiddles and the clashing of
cymbals, while they rehearsed the over
lures and suites and symphonic poems
with which they propose to salute the
festive season which begins next Friday.
The morning call., 1895-01-21
TO CONTROL OUR AFFAIRS.
What the City's New Charter Will
Guarantee.
Meeting Of the Legislative Committee
Of the Beard of FreehOlders
Yesterday.

A meeting of the legislative committee
of the Board of Freeholders was held in
the office of Attorney Clement yesterday
afternoon, with Freebooter Trueman as
chairman.
The attention of the committee was
mainly devoted to the consideration OF the
charter of 1887, which was defeated.
The idea is to overcome what appeared
to be the Objectionable features in that in
strument and substitute clauses that
would be acceptable to the electors of the
city generally.
The main idea is, as Stewart Menzies ex-
pressed it, to make the office of Mayor one
of. power and Importance and yet under
proper restraint, and, furthermore, to make
the Board of Supervisors legislative body
pure and simple.
In the report that this committee will
make to the general body for incorporation
into the new charter the appointment Of
all commissions will be vested in the
The Police Commission, the Board Of
Health, the Park Commission and the
Board of Public Works, which latter body
the new charter creates, are all to be taken
out of the hands of the chief executive of
the State, to the end that the taxpayers of
this city may appoint 70 such ofhces the
people whom they pay for such service.
The Board of Supervisors will be the
local legislature, holding the purse strings,
but with no appointments whatever at its
disposal. Such appointments are to be
made by the various commissions and
boards, but the Supervisors will regulate
the number OF appointees and the salaries
to be paid. This viii relieve the board OF
all personal interest in such matters and
conduce to a more economical system OF
local government,
1t will be made an offense subject to i'm
parchment fer Supervisor to even solicit
an appointment.
1.-The fact is" said Mr.. Menzies after
the meeting, ''the Governor has the power
now to NEEDLE with our local affairs en-
tirely too much. The people simply de-
mand local sef-government, which is of
paramount importance to us and entirely
in keeping with the institutions of the
country and the letter and spirit of our
laws
This committee has been meeting at 3
O'Clock every afternoon, but their time is
so limited that it has been found necessary
for them to hold sessions every night for
the coming two weeks.
The morning call., 1895-01-21
BROKE UP THE PARTY.
Three Drunken Italians Attend Chris
tening UNLIMITED.

Three Drunken Italians Attend a Chris
tening UNLIMITED.
A merry party was gathered in the par
lor of NJ. Giovannoni, one of the proprie-
tors of the Cosmopolitan saloon and res
taurant, 419 Davis street, last night. The
occasion was the christening of baby.
The fun was at its height when Rocco
Torigiani and three companions forced
their way into the parlor. They had not
been invited to the christening, and out OF
revenge got drunk and determined to spoil
the celebration.
Giovannoni and some of his male guests
threw the intruders out and locked the
front door, Torigiani promptly attacked
the door with his feet, and his two COM
panions lent him valuable assistance. The
noise was deafening and A. Pardi OF 811
Mission street and Adolfo Diodoti, 322
Montgomery avenue, went outside to en-
deavor to induce Torigiani to go away.
Pardi was struck in the face and knocked
known. Torigiani backed into the middle
of the street, pulled out a revolver and
commenced firing at DiodOti. Four shots
were fired, and when the smoke cleared
away it was found that one OF the shots
had taken effect in Diodoti's right arm
above the elbow.
Policeman Dover heard the shooting and
was quickly on the scene. He arrested
Torigiani on the charge of assault to COM
NIT murder, and sent Diodoti to the Re
| ceiving Hospital in the patrol-wagon,
where DR.. Deane extracted the bullet and
dressed tie wound.
The morning call., 1895-01-21
sun AND TIDE TABLE.
wEATAAA BU8EAU KA. oKr.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AeRICUL-
TURE. WEATHER BUREAU. San FRANCISCO. Janu-
airy 20, p. II. storm of considerable intensity
is central tonight off the mouth OF the Columbia
River. The pressure IL Fort Candy tonight is
SO inches. fall Of .l6 during the day. At
Eureka the pressure was 29.7 at ?. NJ. a drop of
IS since morning. No report has since been re-
ceIyed from that station, owing to te!egraphic
communication being broken. Rain Is falling in
Northern California and southern Oregon and
snow Is reported from Portland. and the con-
ditions are favorable for the rain to extend south
ward as far as the Tehachzpi Range High south
east winds and gales are anticipated from San
Francisco north.
Storm southeast signal is displayed from San
Francisco noTthward on the California coast
The following Is the seasonal rainfall as COM
pared with the seasonal for last year TO the same
son 3421: Red Bluff 1919. last season 1892;
Sacramento 1885. last season s.S5; San Iran
cisco 1893 last season 1912; Fresno AZ. last
season 3.79: Los Angeles 10 81. last season
5.32: San Diego 3, last season 2.44; Yuma
z93 Iastsesson l.42 inches.
san Francisco data: Maximum temperature to.
day so deg. minimum 4. deg, mean 40 deg Rain
Forecast made at san francisco for the thirty
hours ending midnight. January 81:
For Aorthera California Occasional rain gen
ersf In northern portion: nearly stationary tenn
perature. except soKewhss warmer at Red Bluff;
brisk high southeriy winds; severe gales on the
northern coast
For southern California-GeneraIly fair; pearlg
stationary temperature; light TO fresh variable
winds
For Nevads-Local snow In the west portion.
generally fair in the east portion; warmer at
For Utah-ProDably fair, but becoming threat
enng Monday in the north portion; nearly sta
For Arizona-Fair; nearly stationary tempera-
ture.
For san Francisco and vicinIty-Rain tonight
and Monday: nearly stationary temperature; high
south east winds and gales
". Il. HAHNos. Forecast Official.
The morning call., 1895-01-21
NEW BOOKS EVERY DAY.
A Splendid Offer to "CaII" Sub
scrihars.

A Splendid Offer to "CaII'' SUBJ
scribers.
Our readers who have not the opportun-
ity of daily visiting libraries and book
stores will find in THE Calls book offer a
rare chance of securing the very best works
OF fiction at a nominal cost. We offer to
our subscribers choice of any book out
OF list of 300 titles for the small sum OF
10 cents each. This places library at
your command and gives you greater adj
vantages than are enjoyed by newspaper
readers generally. The books are all
handy sizes, beautiful, clear type, well
printed and substantially put together, and
cannot be purchased in the ordinary way
for less than % or 80 cents. In order TO
obtain these books it is only necessary to
cut out the coupon which we print on an
other page and inclose it with ten cents
Tor each book desired, and you will re-
celve the books by return mail. 0ut-of-
town subscribers who send orders by mail
are requested to make at least four selec-
tons from the latest list obtainable, in
order that they may not be disappointed
In securing one OF them. We pay all post
age.
The morning call., 1895-01-21

any number of beds at convenient points
in the county, and stone, too, for the haul
ing. Another question which rightly
comes under the head of good roads is the
width of wagon-tires. The width OF tires
law, and, of course, should be proportional
to the weight of loads to be hauled. The
loads of beets hauled to the mills under
contract this season have sometimes been
as much as ten or twelve tons, and the
width of the tire of the wagon four inches,
sometimes six inches.
The sugar-mill is still running full force,
sending out an average of thirty tons
daily Work will close down by the end
OF this month, however.
Niles, January 20. J. Z. THANE.
The morning call., 1895-01-21

cinda Prince. native of Connecticut. aged IS
years.
DEERING-In Oakland January 15, 1873 8. Eliza
DeerIng, a native Of Ireland, aged IA years
months and days.
FAULKNER-In Oakland. January IL. 1873 5.
George Rand olph Faulkner native OF Oakland,
aged 80 years months and 20 days.
HUDSON-In Oakland, January IL. 1895, Charles
William Hudson, native of Oakland. aged 8
years II months and 26 days.
KNoX-II Oakland, January 19. 1895 Israel W
Knox native of Massachusetts, aged 81 years
months and days.
CHRISTEGSEN-In Alameda, January Is. 1895,
Jeanette ID. Christensen. native OF Alameda,
aged II years 10 months and days.
BLY-In Golden Gate, January Is, 1895. G. A.
bly,, AGED IL years and months.
COHN-fn Lobsens. Germany. December 30. 1894
Doris Cohn, beloved mother of Sam, Adolph and
Herman Cohn, Mrs. Joseph Back and Mrs. San
Back.
The morning call., 1895-01-21
E0R PORTLAND 8 ASTORIA. OREGON

THE OREGON R'Y & NAV CO., E Nc RA~
L NELL Receiver, Ocean Div.-will dis 9z4z<zEB
pstcb from Spear-5treet wharf, at 10 A. NJ Tor the
above ports one OF their al iron steamships, VIZ;
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, January ~. 20 Fec.
8. 10.
COLUMBIA. January "a Feb, 3. ls, %.
Connecting via Portland with the O. r. q n. 20
system and other dtverging lines for all points IN
oregon, Washington. British Columbia Alaska
Idaho, Montana, DAKOTA, Utah. Wyoming, Yellow
stone Park ana all points east and south aud TO
EUROPE.
Fare TO Portland-Uabin, sic; steerage. 50;
round trip, cabin. unlim ted, $50.
Freight and Ticket office, 10 Montgomery ST.;
Ticket office. Pa,aee Hotel. New MONTGOMERY ST,
GOODALL, PERKINS & CO.. Supts Ocean DIV,
LIT 10 Market ST, San Franciseo.