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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04

In urging the need for better sys-
tenn of crop reports the Philadelphia
Press says: "For five years past
crop statistics have grown less and
less accurate. Exact or even approxi-
mate knowledge as to future crops or
as to yield after harvest seems as far
off as ever"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04

One of the few countries in the world
where patents cannot be protected at
present is Japan, and tho clever peo-
pie of that island may take unlimited
advantage of American genius. II
will be different, however, when the
treaties of 1899 go into effect.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04
The Stirring Of Harmon
BY MAY ID. HATCH.
Desc bones shall risc ar.-'~l
Desc bones shall rise ar. i,
You know l know
Desc bones SHALL

nonpys yo"i
not gwinc to skule
in dat rig FOR
sho 2"
The singer, who
had been Groom
ing to herself over
her work in the
back porch, and
turned her head
at an approaching
step, dropped her
In an ii G liInplv
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04
Castoria.

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior toany prescription
known to me-"
II. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N Y.
"our physicians in the childrcn's depart
mcnt have spoken highly of their expert
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet We are FREQ to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DrspEssARY,
Boston, Mass
ALLEN c. SMITH, Pres,
urray Street, Now York City.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04
Castoria.

"Castori1 is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told mo Of its
good effect upon their children"
Dr.. G. c. OsoooD,
Lowell, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which am acquainted. hope tho day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and usc Castoria in
stead of the variousquack nostrums which arc
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hur,ful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
Din. ]. T. KINcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
TIL, Coutour Comnnuv- TT n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04

There are many bicycles to-day in
Harmon, although the colonel's lady
has not ridden since that first time;
perhaps 1T is because Cary has ceased
to urge her to ride.
II really never believed she would
try 1t, ho said to Jessie the day he
took her bicycle home to her, "but
meant to do my best to make her, and
when you came clnttering into the
yard that day and saw her on it, /
could have thrown my hot in the air,
onl If | had let go she would have
fallen of. New York Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04
~ A. THOMPSON,
DENTIST.

Office, West Back Room, stras' Build.
ing, upstairs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-10-04

The Contnur Company II Murray Street,
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17

New York, Nov. 16.-The Suns cotton re- view says: Cotton rose Il to 12 points, then net advance of to Il points, with sales of 1S7,7oo bales. Liverpool advanced 1H to 2 with sales of 140O0 bales. New Orleans ad- vanced 13 to 15 points,
 Memphis received today 4217 bales, against 4S78 bales last Saturday and 3942 bales for the same day last year
 Houston received today 563s bales, against
 e for fSr e ss aS aSy asf as yese week and
 Houston's receipts on Monday are esti- mated at $500 bales, against 9914 bales on
 New Orleans receipts on Monday are esti- mated at G 900 to l500o bales against F, 4S9 bales for the same day last week, 22dSd 2 sd bales in 1893.
 Spot cotton here was quiet and unchanged with sales of 149 bales for spinning.
 The port receipts were N,9f2 bales, against N,9l3 bales last Saturday and F,30s bales last year for the same day .
 The port exports were Il, 150 bales to Great Britain, 6650 bales to France and s740 bales to the continent; total 26, ,54o bales unchanged. Mobile declined 1Ac and sayan- nah 1-16c. New Orleans sold $500 bales, Gal weston 1000 bales, Augusta $50 bales and northern spinners have taken thus far this season 5SS, i65 bales. against 7al, 4eS bales ing the week S31, 40 bales, against 5l5, S56 bales in the same week last year, making the total in a. sight November s, l5 295o5Ss bales
  Son. The exports from the ports thus far this season aggregate 1,O92. IFS bales. against 1764 998 bales thus far last season. The worlds visible supply is now. S5Os,444 bales, including 3,195,244 bales American, against total at this time last season of 3,704S $50 bales of which 3,376560 bales were American.
 Today's features:, There was some new buying of southern and local account, some buying orders were received from Liverpool and the continent and New York bears covered pretty freely. The short interest here and at the south is believed to be heavy. But the rise today was primarily due to the fact that Liverpool instead Of declining sharply, as many had expected, actually advanced, and the rise was accom- panied by unusually large spot sales for Saturday. Furthermore the crop movement continued light. Many unfavorable crop re- ports were received and the outlook gener- ally, not only in this country, but in Europe seemed to favor the bulls. Lancashire spin ners show more disposition to buy, and if the market continues firm 1t is believed that the continental spinners will greatly ih- crease their purchases. If the receipts con tinue on their present low basis specula- ton will doubtless revive, and those who sch short will get an experience more in teresting than pleasant.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
FOR SALE CHEAP

$10O EACH-Two lots 50x195 fronting East Lake dummy line at Johnston Station. ne-thfrd cash. $50O-3A acres rich land under cultivation, fenced with barb wire, near Lacrosse Sta ton; convenient to East Lake dummy. $75O-Two acres with house that cost s1e0o on macadamized road at Woodlawn. $1000-Nice home on 18th street, near Elec- tric cars; four rooms and hall; good neigh borhood; fronts right; renting for $l0.50 a month. s16OO-5Ox19O, 2-story, 8-room house. Avenue F; nice locality. Will sell on your own terms
 $1SO0-Forty acres near East Lake, a good pickup
 $2250-90x300, 7-room house, Huntsville ave- nue.
 s25OO--5Ox19O, rooms. sth avenue. Rents $2i per month. S3OO0-Avenue J, near 18th street, rooms: modern; southern frontage; rents $35 per month. Ohe-third cash s12, 500-Gilt-edge property, 1O0xl9O. 9th ave nue. between 18th and goth streets; renting for $IA40 per annun $25o0-50 feet on Morris avenue, close in.
 s. E. THOMPSON,
 No 2l5 Fist street.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
Bachelor Man whitoher.

In the earlier days of the fame of the poet Whittier, when already his name was widely known and honored, but did not yet command tho almost universal recog- hilton 1t had won in his old age, visitor to Amesbury occasionally had difficulty in finding where he lived. His house was in an out of tho way part of tbe town, and his name-pronounced by-the country folk in two syllables instead of three-was not uncommon in the neighborhood.
 1t is related that one admirer, after much search and many failures made in- euiries of rural gentleman of venerable appearance, who seemed to takeia kindly interest in satisfying the querist, but sug- gested successively the dwellings of several Whittiers, who proved on further desorip- tion not to be the one.
 At length the old fellow remembered with sudden enlightenment that there was one Whittier more, and shaping his thigh he drawled with deliberate triumph:
 "Now Tve got him, sure. You mean that old bachelor man that lives with an old maid sister daown by the mills-he's Whitcher too" ~A>
 And this "Whitcher, a despised bach elor and an afterthonght was indeed the ttgm one.--Youtl's Gempanfdn:
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
Designer of Old gEonsides.

The designer of tho frigate Constitu- tion and of all tho old frigates of the Unit ed States navy was Joshua Humphreys of Philadelphia tho designer and architect of the American navy. Tho molds and in- structions for the building. of the Consti- tution were sent by Mr. Humphreys to Mir. Henry Jackson, the navy agent at Boston, and sho vas there constructed. In a letter from Mrs. R. H. Humphreys, widow of Major qensraLand. Chief of En- gineers A. A. Humphreys, recently ad- dressed to The Star, she states that Joshua Humphreys was appointed chief naval constructor by General Washington, and copies of letters in reference to these frig- ates from General Knox, then secretary of war and acting as secretary of the navy, there boing at that time no secretary. of the navy, arc in the possession of the late General A. A. Humphreys family. A model of the frigate Copstitdti6h in wood, cut by Joshua Humphreys own hands, was sent to Charles Humphreys of Phila- delphia, son of Joshua Humphreys, from the navy yard at Philadelphias at the time of its dismqntling, and is now at the old homestead of Joshua Humphreys in Hav- erford township, psiaware cohpty, Pa Washington Star. $SSG <Nt- f.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
A HORRIBLE BURIAL CUSTOM.
The Most Repulsive Method Known of
 Disposins of the Dead.

The Most Repulsive Method Known of
 Disposins of tho Dead.
 In Ching -che-Li, one of the, most north ern districts of Tibet a burial custom ex- ists which writers on such subjects say is the most repulsive manner of disposing of tho dead that is known to be pfacticed by any civilized or savage tribe in existence. q The dying person is never permitted to bass away naturally, but is dispatched with "saored" club kept for that purpose as soon as he or She is ailnounoed as being beyond all hope of recovery The corpse Is immediately stripped and painted-red in the case of males, yellowif afeInale- and the head drawn down 4between che knees and firmly bound in that position. Next the corpse is oarfiedl toi.a corner of the room, where 1t isl allowed to remain hntH the first night of the new moon, DO odds if that date should be full four weeks from the day of death. As soon as ithe new moon. is seen in the west the corpse is removed from the corner with imneh ceremony and suspended in raw hide bag from one of the rafters, or from a Hcorpse hook'' in the ceiling. After hanging thus suspended for seven days and nights the remains are taken down Iand sent to the "oorpse cuttery3 sort of l governmental undertaken ' 'Thisimpor- tant individual ties the body ts a,post and removes tho decaying flesh, which is fed to tho countless swarms- of. wolves and wild dogs which infest that portion of the orient. H.3aE, ..-.5 #+- After the1esh has all been, carefully re moved the bones arc m5acerated in lime 1 water and then pounded into g., jelly, in q mortar specially kept for that purpose. This horrid mass Is then mixed with bits of refuse meat, grain, -four and vegetables and fed to the dogs, hogs end. gultpres, In case the subject has lived pasta certain limit-this standard varies among differ ent tribes-the skull is not consigned to the bone mortar, but is .carefully dried and worked up into sacred buttons and "oharm disks" Finger and wrist bones, as well as teeth and nails, may also be re- served in special cases, in which event they are invariably made into necklaces, armlets and anklets and. worn by sorrow ing friends or relatives. s.--St Louis Repub- lin
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
WlLD FLOWERS OF 4Hg MOUNTAINS.
Their Mysterious Growth hi scant Earth
 j. Among tho Cllffs.i .4]a . ..za 5

Their MysteriO1s- Growth hi Seant Earth
 j. Among tho ,Cllffs.i l1a -s-za 5 4 Those who toll up tho slopes Of the Blue R1dgo are often surprised at tho wealth of floral luxuriance to befound' in bare md sdesolato places. The upland pastures and high cliff sides are Istarred with golden eleeampano and wild rhododendrons, with great, showy blossoms of violet purple making gorgeous patches among tfie gray rdcks. Red and white asters crowd in narrow creyiees and border broad bands of gay ribbons close upon the snow, cnna, Everywhere are brillianoy and beauty
 In these lonely haunts nature paints her richest colors, and the only things needful to give touch of life and 'IhoVen1ent are the mountain buttorflies. Liinltless in hue and species, the gaudy fordgers sip their dainty meals from a, hundred up- turned cups. The blossoms feed the but terflies and give honey to the frugal wild bee, but what feeds the flowers is a mys- teryi or would be if we did not know that there is sustenance in the rareiledn ain as well as in tho earth. The tiniest Assure in tho craggy rocks will hold seed vessel and hide tho flower root while the sun and rain and air mature the plant to full perfection. Nor are the children of Flora lIoSueHtu Dy tlo -ueW, TOT ln Ouf nlBu hl- titude, owing to continuous night winds and peculiar climatic influences, dew never falls-if indeed it falls anywhere, a45
 There is another mystery of flowers. No one has yet been able to analyze or dem onstrate the essen ael action of perfume. Gas can be weighed, but not scent. The smallest kno.'n insect that lives in the heart of a rose can be caught by micro scope lens and mado to give up tho secret of it's organization, but what 1t is that the warm summer brings us from the wild flowers of the hillside or waits to us. from the choice oxotics of the hethouse no man has been able to determine. So fine, so subtle, so imponderable, it eludes weights : and measures. <''"
 Are flowers sensitive, and docs 1t chill them to lie near unto the heart that has no love for themP It is a peculiar fact that some women kill flowers within 20 minutes after they arc pinned to the cor sage. Others will wear them for hours, and they will look as fresh as when first gathered. Alton (Va.) Letter to Rich mond Dispatch. "t'2sf a,as''ss
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
THE CHINESE DOCTOR.
He Killed the Snake In the Patients Body
 With Pin.

He Killed the SnRke tn the Patients Body
 With Pin.
 "When I was acting American consul at Annoy, China, said MT. ", D. Fales, "one of my employees fell sick with severe att tack of rheuinatisip. He stood the pain bravely for, three days refusing all for eigp devil medicine, end on the fourth sent for a nstiv8 physie1an. Tho latter duly arrived aud began preparations for treatmept of the naIddY, Which he an- nounced to, be due to tho presence of 'darting snake in tho sufferers body. In- cense sticks wero lighted and placed just outside the door, and also in the room. A pack of flrecraokers was set off and talis- manic paper pasted to the wall This was done to drive away evil spirits and attract good ones
 "The doctor next wrote lot of characters on thick piece of paper with a vermilion pencil and set fire to it. It burned into a black ash, which was broken into cup of water and drunk by the patient. A great bowl of herb tea was rhsde;o of which a cup an hour was the allotted dose. The son of Hsculapi1is next barred. the body of my servant and, droge deap down into it at nine points a long needle noistened with peppermint He did it with such skill In avoiding largo bleod vessels that the hem- orrhage was insignificant. He then GOV cred each acupuhcturo with. brownish paste, and this in turn with piece of dark paper. He then collected his fee, 50 cents, and departed. -e
 "The sufferer soon fell into sleep and the next day announced that his pains had departed. He remained in his bunk two more days, laughing, ohatting, smoking cigarettes and onco or twice using the opium pipe, and then reported as being we'll He left the paste and paper in place until they fell oil. The skin was smooth and the scar hardly. perceptlble. He took his recovery as niatter of course, his only comment being that the darting snake was thoroughly. dead. New York Re- corder tt'-s -ss+
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Chicago Change.


 Chicago, Nov. 16.-Saturday's dullness, which is proverbial on the board of trade, was present in all the grain markets today: Not one transaction large enough to merit distinction took place. Small lots were traded in at odd times, but the aggregate or the business could have been crowded into ten minutes. Local scalpers favored tae bear side and sold a little wheat, but their interest in the market was rather limited. New York was credited with selling in a small way, but the volume of the entire business was transacted within a range or Ac. The weeks exports from both coasts, 3,S25, 900 bushels, were unexpectedly large, and firm opening was attributed to them. A fractional advance was then made, 1t be- ing afterward lost but the close was a shade higher than that of yesterday. De- cember wheat opened from 57AQ57ls to 579sc, sold between 5712q57ss and 5ll4q5lssc, closing at 579s15712c, a fraction higher than yester- day. Cash wheat was steady.
 Corn derived benefit at the opening from the temporary strength of wheat and later hibiting an inactive condition. In. the ab- sence of buying and selling orders the trade talked oyrr the claims of private crop ,f ex= ports that the government had underesti- mated the yield, particularly in the south. May corn opened at 299sD2S1sc soid between 29L2 and 29AM29asc. closing at 29Ssc, un- changed from yesterday. Cash corn was easy and Lc per bushel lower.
 Oats-Nothfng .of interest developed in oats. Corresponding with the strength or weakness of wheat and corn there was small advances and declines, but they were of such little importance that quotations were, properly speaking stationary. May oats closed a shade higher than yesterday. Cash oats were easy at yesterdays prices.
 Provisons-The provision market opened where it closed and specially closed today at the opening. The extent of the business can be easily understood from this. The as graveyard at midnight. The hog mar ket was steady. It afforded neither strength nor weakness to products. January pork closed a shade lower than yesterday, Jan uary lard and ribs were unchanged.
 The domestic and foreign markets were steady.
 The leading futures ranged as follows;
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17

The State of Alabama, Jefferson County
 Chancery Court-Susan Lunford. Execu-
 trix, etc., vs. William G. Lunford and
 Others.
 To the Creditors of the Estate of George
 Lunsford, Deceased:
 You, and every one of you. are hereby notified that said estate was on the l6th day of November, 1895. decreed and declared to be insolvent
 [, You are further notified that the first Monday in January, 1896, was set for the said executrfx to make settlement of her ac- counts, and you are cited to appear before me, at my office in the court house of said county, on said day to contest the same. if you think proper.
 You are further notified that in and by said decree 1t was ordered; That every person having any claim against the estate of said George Lunsford deceased, must file the same in this court, with the register thereof, within nine months after the date of this decree, after the same accrues, verified as required by law, and all claims not so verified and filed shall be forever barred
 Dated this 18th day of November, A. D., 1s95 CHAS. A. SENN, Register.
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Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
Tricrsed the Professor.

.~-Eabouchere willie undergeing,his little- go examination et -CambridgRs noticed a plumber of dons pgewling about. in the hope of catching some, ,bpe ,6heating So he hastily scribbled afew,wordsA upon a sheet of paper, hid it away under his blot ssr and ostentatiously referred to It from Nsne-to time, with great parade of look &hg{nrtively round to see Chat nobody was looking. The trap was not long in.taking sffe&. Argus thunderingly inquired what he had got there. "Oh, nothing-at least, only,a piece of paper" ]" stamnered the in- genuous youth provokingiy. But the ex- aihiner was inexorab1e. He insisted on looking under the blotter and was reward ed by reading, in a large, round hand, the words, You may be very clever, but you can't eat coke. "4San Francisco Argo- naut, l-.,...--s--- ~ d.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
FOR SALE.

Alley corner on 21st street, 90x10O broom house, for $3250 cash. $40 acres of land in twelve miles of city for $3 per acre cash. 50xl40-5-room house, Avenue E, between 26th and -27th streets, for S1275; easy terms. 50x190-On Avenue r. between 26th and 27th streets for $425 cash. ;. 50x240-On Sth avenue, between 22d and 23d streets for $500 cash.
 25x140-On Sd avenue close in, for $3500, $500 cash balance easy terms. Three acres of land at Avondale for $275; easy terms.
 50x14O, on 9th avenue between 24th and 18th streets. for s1750; third cash, balance one and two years.
 Two 9M acre blocks of fine land right near Elyton for S65 per acre.
 WANTED 5000 at per cent for two years.
 HAGOOD a THOMAS, ew 222 21st Street.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
Hew.psg9 Hs Kpexs

A French lnedicalr$JtboTityha has decided that death bS fsllipg Epn great heights is absolutely gaiAless:.i He-says, that the mind acts with great ffaptdity for Q time, and then unconsciousness follows, and now scoffer has come to tho front with a pertinent inquiry us to how the French man knows anything about it. The argu- ment is made that no man has fallen from the height of, say, mile or-so and landed on the earth in condition to tell any thing as to his feelings. Most of the peo- plo who have fallen great distances have not been greatly inclined to talk of their adventures, and, in fact, most of them, on arrival from their trip, have,=if any ac- luaintances have been handy, made quick trips to an undertaker's shop. -7New York Tribune .c4 saa4. ana
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
FOR RENT


 No 240S 4th avenue, rooms; all modern conveniences. @+ Sssft No 5l2 18th street, North, rooms and ser wants house, $10 No. 1410 5th avenue, rooms: large lot and water furnished: $10 -"-
 FOR SALE. .sat " SS50-Corner lot, 100x14Q: 4-room house, new; rooms nicely papered; new fence; in side corporate limits: cheap.
 $300-5 acres on electric car line and macadamized road. This is 8 desirable loca- tion for a home. 4... $l5O-4-room house, lot 50x140; nice lot, fruit trees, good cistern; at the Fair Grounds on dummy line.
 $350-2-room house and lot on Ina street, between 18th and 20th streets and 18th and 14th avenues, north. Splendid view of city. Convenient to car line. esa fs4X S250O-15O feet front on 14th avenue: south ern front; splendid view of city and 200 feet from car line. Easy terms. North High lands. : t Lots at Ware's Grove very cheap. Also in Jonesville at very low figures. Have some acreage property that Is good for trucking
 l.. G. PETTYJOHN, 2
 1S26la Third avenue
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-17
FOR SALE
BY SMITH CHICHESTER (

BY SMITH CHICHESTER & YANCEY.
 Lot 1O0x2O0, elegant 10-room residence, Beeler's Station. short route dummy. Price $6300; good terms fine bargain.
 Lot S5x15212, splendid Broom residence, all modern Improvements, Avenue J and 18th street. Price s500O, half cash; very cheap. Lot 50x200. the best built and best finished S-room residence on South Highlands, close perfect. Price S6500; it Is worth in fact $S500
 Lot 45x100, southeast alley, corner 22d street. between Avenues r and G: rooms; modern improvements Price $lS50. A very great bargain.
 Lot 50x140, good 7-room residence; all mod ern Improvements; lot well improved; Ave- nue J and 17th street. Price $250O; worth $35OO.
 Lot 10Ox14O corner Avenue E and 23d street two 4-room houses; always rented. Price $500.
 Lot 5Ox24O new 7-room cottage. No. 2O2O Sth avenue; fronts Capitol Park. Price $35O0 good terms
 Lot 5oxl9O. Avenue G and 27th street. Price $i50.
 Lot 7Oxle2 Avenue K and 18th street. Price $1400.
 Lot SOx20O, on 2Oth street. between 18th and 14th avenue, south. Price S2100. Lot 70x235, on 21st street, between 18th and 18th avenues, south. Price s1100.
 Fruit and truck farm at Park Wood Sta ton, south; 12 miles; 120 acres. Price $2200 Fruit grapes and wine will pay for the place in two years. Greatest bargain on earth. Come and see us.
 10-27-lmO