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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21


them as II fringe, or as the background
of gloomy picture. with its long PEN
nants and fcstoons. solcmnly swaying
in the wind. remindful OF the waving
black plumcs OF long procession OF
hcnrSeS
The moss along the margins of these
lakes and bayous is gathered by wood
choppers" The men fell the trees and
the picking is much easier II is piled
up in heaps and finally buried. then.
after it has been cured" according to
the usual calculation. it is dug up. scat
tered along on posts and trenches and
dried II is then hauled to market, or
to the nearest store, where it is bulcd,
or tied up. in rather loose manner, in
bales OF from 800 to 500 pounds, rs it
seems convenient, and shipped to the
commission merchant at New Orleans.
Each gang" of "pickcrs' and Chop
pcrs' has a camp. where they live or
sleep at nights, during the picking sea-
son.
The houses arc of the most primitive
style of architecture unhewn logs,
with one-sided roof of clapboards,
slanting from tho ridge pole to within
ten feet of the ground.
The baling process is also primitive.
Mule power is used, and sometimes
hand power The pres" is log lever
put into morticc in large tree. OF
course the baling is very crude, but the
darby only wishes it to last until he
can haul ii to de town" The bale is
fastened on each side by cypress boards
in the rough, bound with wire, vines, or
A irl+
ESQ to 400 or 500 pounds dav. and as
each days catch" is buried separately,
it is also balcd separately when dug up,
and this accounts for the bales Of all
sizes coming to market.
Moss loses about half Of its original
weight on being cured. The picker
gets from | \ to "a! cents pound, but
his days work of 900 pounds has shrunlS
to about 200 pounds on being killed."
yet this is good pay, and enables tho
darby and his family To live in clover
during the picking season.
The country storc-kecpcr ships the
moss to the commission merchant, or
factory, of which latter there are four
in New Orleans, and, it is believed, the
only moss factories in the south, as
moss is not paying understandable
commodity anywhere except in Louisi-
ana, although moss is found in small
quantities in the swamps of all the gulf
states, but not III paying quantities.
At the factory these rough bales arc
opened, and the leaves, dust and small
sticks taken out by process of
ginning, similar to that of ginning cot
ton. 1t is then put through boiling
process, i'll mixture of sulphate of
iron, or copperas. The process fixes
the tannin in the bark, turning the
moss into Il glossy black. The moss is
then dried, and sometimes reclcunsed
by another ginning. IT is then
classified into four grades: Gray,
brown and gray, brown and black. and
pure black. The pure black is the
more valuable, being softer :nd more
flexible, and is sometimes sold in the
north as the finest quality of horse
hair"
In this refined condition the moss
sells Mt from seven to twelve cents per
pound. When the picker ships direct
70 the factory, without curing by bury
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21
THE LOUISIANA MOSS CROP
The Increased Supply Keeps Step
With Increased Demand.
4 Growing Industry Peculiar to the
Creole State. The Picturesque
Moss Pickers. Burying Moss
TO "Cure" it. Primitive
Mode Of Living.
Especial New Orleans ia, Letter,

Spanish moss" is one of the growing
Industries of Louisiana. Strangely, it
does not thrive so luxurinntly beyond
the limits of the state. 1t flourishcS
most i'll southwestern Louisiana, the
''swanpy region" including the TECH
rcgion, or Acadian country, the Atcha-
;;falaya basin. and in the lakes and
'bayous of the Gross Tcte Lnfourchc.
lTerrebonne and Borstarin regions. in
the swamp" in the rear OF the city OF
New Orleans, and in the picturesque
bayou Custaign.
This industry gives employment to
shout 5000 people, mainly negroes.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21

Walks and Drives. Splen lid Livery. Ten
M courts. Fishing. sulphur Baths, Brick
hotel. Al modern cotl euieuces For cir
cular am information address,
JNO. T. EhkER. Manager.
Gaquicr White sulphur Springs, Va
myl6.tu, III
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21
scHoo,.s AND coLLEe Es.
SCHOOLS AND co,.,,Ecrs
MCGIIIREN Boarding and
Day School.
MONROE PARK. RIcHmoNp v,

nesto
eehyo
- 'Se hoo terms
No. gevuiee sra.
Eours
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21
SUM INFER soaRDERs.

Sit n ed on one OF the highest points in
the suburbs of the town, the location IL
high and healthy. The lawn, shaded by
oaks, commands fine lew of the Peaks of
Otter. iooms are large and airy. ath
room WITH hot and COLI water. Terms re-
duced for the rest OF season For particu-
lars Apply to MISS =. L. SMITH,
LoCk Box 3SS. Bedford City, Va.
aul4-We,fritu
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21

IL 1871 it was decided hat bankrupt
could not sit in the house OF lords.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21

There blessed
Ont
time
ileap
rmswi
particulars address SISTER aurEMoR
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21
SUNNI EIt RESORTS.
1.-THE EDGEMERE'

lnbounded succCs. of the new and fashionab G
summer resort OPENED hi, season at Edgemere, l..
l.. between Ar'cfne and Wave Crest ski en- mile.
from New York PatroniAed by the best peupe
EneslS charmed with it, Iehmci aud abundant
hospitality. surf and still bathing in perfection;
my private baths Roating fshinr-eycry,hinV
tina, makes seaside life deligntiul, socially and
o.herwic. Open ill October. For circular adj
drrS> y. T. DICK, Eigemere. Long Island, n. Y.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-21

TIE national musicians convention at
Cleveland voted todropthc word "scab"
as Il designation of nonunion men.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
R0GERSVILLE.

Circuit court began its session here
yesterday, H. G. Kyle presiding. A
nGAser of lawyers win be in attend.
seSpc SUI seiHs ksEtnAss 81 inpportMwA
will be transacted. Sam Koil, Er.,
has been quite i'll for several days.
He had a stroke of paralysis q few
yeals ago, from which he has never
recovered. The Southern Institute
of Expression was organized in the
college chapel yesterday morning,
with DIR. Byron W. King, president OF
Kings school of oratory, presiding.
lie will be assisted by his wife,
Glasses were organized in elocution,
Delsarte, voice building and physical
culture, aud the work OF the institute
began promptly. DR.. and Mrs. King
gave the opening entertainment last
night before a crowded house. The
universal opinion of DIR. King is, he Is
great master of his business and one
Of the most charming elocutionists
that our people have ever heard. lie
will appear frequently before our peo-
pie. Mr.. King gave Bible reading
in the college chapel Sunday after.
noon. He impreasss every one as 3
great teacher aud as q great master of
his profession. Other teachers and
pupils will enter his class this week
and the institute promises to be one
of success. DR.. King has been inyited
to great many other institutions OF
learning and has been offered highly
complimentary sums as inducements
to go, His work in the South is neo-
cssarily limited and will be confined
mainly to this institution.
March 10.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
WHEN SPRING COMES,
I'll Recommend Pe-ru-na TO All Suf.
ferers," Says Editor w. 4. Pow
ell, Of ClaringtOp, Ohio.

W. t. Powell, editor of the Inde-
pendent of Clarington, Ohio, writes
that he was taken sick with bronchitis
and catarrhal fever, head in a terrible
condition, lungs were badly affected,
being so tight and soar he could hardly
breathe, land coughed almost incessant-
ly. For two months tried local physi
clans, took cough medicines and other
medicines. Took three bottles of Pc.
runa and was entirely cured.
1t is needless to attempt to give only
the vaguest outline OF the wonderful
success which Pe-runa has met with
i'll the cure of catarrh. This success
is entirely due to the fact that Peru
ma eradicates the disease from the
system, instead of temporarily reliey-
ing some disagreeable symptom. Not
only is catarrh in all stages and varie
ties cured promptly, but also colds
coughs, bronchitis, la grippe, catarrhal
dyspepsia, all yield, surely and per
manently to the curative virtues o.
Pc eru.na.
AS spring medicine Pe-ru-na is Q
neverfailing remedy. 1t cleanses The
blood through digestion, and gives
tone to the whole system by increasing
the nutritive value OF the food. aspiring
fever" as it is sometimes called, which
produces tired out, sleepy feeling
and inability to do much mental o
physical work, is the result of a slug
gish digestion, and no blood medicin,
will be OF any use whatever unless it i
able to rectify the impaired digestion
The great popularity that Peru ma ha
Is due to the fact that in all such case
it at once corrects digestive derange
ments and enriches the blood by pu
rliying thia very important source Q
that vital fluid. Send for book OF
Spring medicines and spring diseases
Also a valuable treatise on catarrE
la grippe, consumption, coughs an
colds, by DR., Hartman, sent-free. AC
dress The Peru ma Drug Manufactul
ing Compa Columbus, Ohio.
For free book on cancer addres
DIR. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
An Omen Letter to Carlisle.

George w. Pepperel is very active in political
literature this year, and his series of Open Let
ters to prominent po itical leaders in the Arena
IS attracting as much attention and creating as
much curiosity as anything that has appeared
in periodical literature since the famous Arthur
Richmond letters which set the political world
by the ears and all heads a-wagging some years
ago. George w Pepperell has the same acute
ness ofperception the same directness and deft-
uess of attack, the same long memory for politi-
cal HISTORY inside and out, and the same mastery
of all the facts of the important legislation of
this country during the last twenty five years.
In the March Arena George w. Pepperell pre-
suinably one of the ancient New England Pep
perel family which led the storning OF Louis
burg. addresses an open letter to Secretary Car
isle and he makes fair y breezy reading for all
who love polemics The writer, whoever he is,
is politician to his finger tips and knows the
ms and outs of American men and parties ike
an oracle.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21

A woman's "guess" is more accurate
than mans certainty. Your wife
"guesses" that your sick.headaches
come from your stomach and are the
results of slight attack of biliousness.
She is probably right, and you can
completely cure them at q cost OF only
. cents by ssking Wofford & Co.,yeH
druggists, ,bor RGsaoA's TseisLivsrPillss
One little pill and few OF the Tonic
Pellets will make you feel like q new
creature. Two medicines, two benefiitst
two values, but one price. Sample
dose free.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
WIIITESBURG,

Rev. Mr.. Smith, of Morristown,
preached to the Whitesburg people
last Sunday ..B. G. Moore, with D..
Briscoc & Co, of Knoxville, spNaS
Saturday and Sunday with homeFolk.
IL N. Beckner, of johnson City,
was in Whitesburg last Saturday
morning. He took the morning train
for Morristown. Mr., Beckner reports
a lively time at Johnson's over politics
now :. We are as anxious to see the
mud disappear as we were the snow.
80. E. W. Skeen happened to ge5 too
much 'juice OF the forbidden fruit, "
and sat down on the end OF cross tie
near Morristown one day last week
Along came freight and clipped off
part OF his ear. The stroke did not
prove fatal -. Easter will soon be here,
so will ask the following questions
which hope some one will answer
O Derivation of the word Eastern
(2) How long has Easter been cele-
brated? (9) What were the earliest
methods of celebrating Easter? (3) Al
what time of the year was it celebrated
(5) How was Easter observed during
the middle ages? (6) Why does the
moderu dateUf Easter vary? (7) From
what came the fashion OF decorating
easter eggs?", ",...In conclusion, We
say, "hurrah for Jackson, Cameron
Hyder & Co.
A YOUNG MAN.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21

BY virtue of two Uenditioni eGponas
issued to me by the clerk OF the circuit
court OF Washington county, Tenues-
see, in the cases of J. M. Williams Us.
A j. Miller and Reeves & Baxter u.s.
A. j. Miller, | will on the
BOTH DAY OF MARCH, 1895,
at the court house door in Jonesboro,
Tenn, offer for sale to the highest bid
der, Tor cash in hand. the following de-
scribed parcel or tract of land, towit !:
Lying and being in the Eighteenth
civil district OF Washington county,
Tennessee, and bounded 0u the north
bv Propst, on the south by Williams,
Wrightsmau and Villa MS, and con.
tanning ninety five acres, more or / sss,
and beng the same tract OF land that
the said A. J. Miller occupies, or did
occupy, as a residence. Said laud will
be sold to satisfy two judgments, one
obtained by ]. M. Williams against
A. J. Miller before S. S. kirkpatrick,
a justice of the peace for Washington
county, on the 24th day of September,
1894, for the sum of one hundred and
seventy.eight dollars and forty-four
cents debt, and costs of suit; also one
other judgment that Reeves & Baxter
obtained against the said Miller before
the said Kirkpatrick, as justice OF the
peace, on the Goth day of September
1894 for the sum of twenty dollar;
and fifteen cents debt, and costs. Sale
lard will be sold at said time an(
place, subject to the homestead right
of the said Miller, unless said debt
and ALL costs are sooner paid.
This the 4th day of March, 1895.
]. S. PRITCHETT, Sheriff.
55S At Printers fee, 81
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21

The April number of Frank LeSIies Popular
Monthly contains beautifully illustrated arti
Gle replete with personal interest and of real
practical value entitled How to Become Pri-
ma Donna The paper written by w de Wag-
static, embodies actual talks with four of the
reigning operatic stars of the present season.
namely, Mines. Emma Eames, Lillian Nordicca
Zelie de Lussan and Jessie Bartlett Davis. other
pictorial and literary features of this number
are; A charming and seasonable account of the
Legendary of Easter Eggs" by Mrs. Leicester
Adds; entertaining "reminiscences Of some
Eccentric Dinners" by Howard Paul; THE
world Awheei," being chapter on the evolution
of the bicycle and Ia Refine Bicyclette by Henry
Tyrrell; and '1'axdermy as an Art, with illus
trations by w. II Drake written by Frank A
Chapman. Of the American Museum of Natural
History. There are also number of good short
stories and poems by distinetively popular
writer's
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
Don't Put 1t or.

The necessity OF spring medicine
is universally admitted. This is the
best time of the year in which to purify
the blood, to restore the lost appetite.
and to build up the entire system, an
the body is now peculiarly susceptible
to benefit from the medicine, The
great popularity attained by Hoods
Sarsapa,illa, owing to its real merit
and its remarkable success, has estab.
lished it as the very best medicine to
take 10 the spring. 1t cures scrofulas
salt rheum, and all humors, biiousnesa
dyspepsia, headache, kidney and liver
complaints, catarrh, and all affections
caused or prompted by low state OF the
system or impure blood. Don't put
it of, but take Hoods Sarsaparilla now.
1t will do you good,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
Short Stories for ADriI

The name of Ruth McEnery Stuart appears OF
the cover OF Short Stories as the contributor o
the special story in the April issue. Francois
Coppee is also represented by a characteristic
story in this number and Elizabeth Morgan
Wi / I.isenbee, c. F.. ehute, + A. Anstey anC
many other writers of note appear i'll the list o
authors. The famous story is a translation o
Balzac's tragic tale sailed "E Verdugo."
III the May number of Short Stories will b'
published a story by i. S. Church the wei
known artist who will also illustrate the s.or,
with several striking and characteristic draw
ings Current Literature Publishing Co., S2-5
Lafayette Place. New York,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
SHERIFF'S SALE.
In the Circuit Court at Jonesboro,
Washington county, Teun.
Q ]. Stout, Admin, us. Abe Burgner.

@ J. Stout, Admin'r, Us. Abe Burgner.
BY virtue of gendition6 eaponas is.
sued To me by the clerk of the circuit
court for Washington county, Tennes-
see, in the case of @, j. Stout, admir-,
vS Abe Burgner, / will on the
BOTH DAY OF MARCH, 1895,
at the court house door in Jonesboro,
TENNESSEE, offer for sale to the highest
bidder, for cash in hand, all the right,
title, claim and interest that Abe
Burgner has in and to the following
described tract or parcel OF land, towit;
Lying and being in the First civil dis
trict Of Washington county Tennessee
and in metes aud bounds as follows
.towit: Beginning at small cedar
corner, to Sarah Copp; thence with
her line N 64la f. 80 poles and II
links, TO stake or planted rock or
cross road thence 5. 81, e. Is poles
and z links, to stake or planted rock
and pointer division line to Sarah e
Copp; thence S. 61a, E. "a poles snt
4hnks, to stake between two stumps
thence south 62I5, w. 2S poles, to
stake on Harvey Richardson's line
thence N. 50, west AZ poles to a stalk
and pointers; thence S 60, W. Il
poles, to stake and pointers; thenc
s. 77s1, w. So poles and 10 links, to
stake hy cross fence; thence N. q
west 10 poles and is links, to The be
ginning, and containing, by estima
ton, 1924 acres more or less.
Said land will be sold to satisfy
Judgment that @ ]. Stout, administra
tor of ]. N. Stout, deceased, obtaine,
against Abe Burgner before W. +
Smith, jrstice of the peace for Wash
ington county, Tennessee, on the Bis
day of October, 1894, Tor the sum c
one hundred and twenty eight dollar
and nine,y FIVE cents, and all costs {
suit. Said land will be sold at sal
time and place, subject to the hom'
stead rights of the said Abe Burgne
unless said debt and all costs are sool
er paid -
This the 4th day of March, 1895.
]. S. PRIrCHETr, Sheriff
55s Al Printers fee, s.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

mas Dc6n IGV6ls6u ny bHo cuPlCHlO
court, and he will have new trial.
An exoffical Of Boston informed q
Legislative committee that Boston has
not had an honest election in fifteen
years.
The reform movement has sturck
Cincinnati and the Law and Order
League has begun preferring charges
against city officials.
Somebody at Springfield, o., claims
to have invented a new gun, operated
by electricity and capable of discharg
ing 1000 shots a minute.
The government suit for $15, 5,297 900
against the estate of Leland Stanford
was filed last week in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco.
During the past seven days there
we're 266 business failures IN the United
States. There were 264 during the
corresponding period last year.
Thornton Parker, negro, was tried
at Winchester, Va, in a courthouse
guarded by militia, and sentenced to
be hanged for an assault on a white
woman.
Thomas Jones died Monday at La
Plata, Md. He was the man who
helped ]. Wilkes Booth to escape into
Virginia after the assassination of
Lincoln.
The employees of the Friek and
Southwest companies, in the Connells-
Vile mining district, have been noti-
fed of a voluntary increase of 1596 in
their wages.
Thomas Gilroy, Jr son of ex-Msyor
Gilroy, of New York, has challenged
his brother in law, Walter Scott Hale
to fight duel and the challenge has
been accepted.
The new national party in process
Of incubation at Pittsburgh has beer
: unable to find either new principles o.
' new name. 1t is to be called tn,
Home Protection party.
t The Arizona legislature has passed
q bill providing that no one charged
with contempt of court shall be triet
before the judge against whom the of
: ferse was committed.
In granting new trials to two police
i men, the New York supreme cour
!, says the Lexow evidence upon which
/ they were dismissed by the polio
y commission was unworthy of belief,
: The corrected official list OF mem
;. oers OF the new House Of Represents
!; tives just completed by the chief cler
), Of the House contains 245 Republican,
6 104 Democrats, six Populists and on
Silverite.
The total movement OF cotton iron
n the beginning OF the season, Septem
4 Der /. up to the close Of business ye
il terday was S,74S,S56 bales, again'
y 6,7S1 ,422 for the corresponding perio
5, of last season.
s Secretary Gresham has prompt
$ and emphatically called the SPANS
r government to account for the shC
IL fited at an American mail steamshi
y near Cuba by Spanish warship. H
e has notified Spain that this govern
n. ment expects a prompt disavowal
,e ,r the act, aud that orders shall be issue
al to prevent another such occurrence.
Id
er The Republican legislature whiC
6y has just adjourned at Indisnapol
:" was helped into office by charges tn
previous legislatures, controlled by Il
W Democrats, had been extravagar
Vi The champions OF economy have giv'
, ~ the people the most expensive legisl
= ture since 1887, and have exceeded t
y appropriation Tor legislative expens
a. about $1,000.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21
The Art of Making Ones own Dresses.

II isn't every woman who possesses that pecu-
liar quality which distinguishes those who seem
"to the manner born, in the matter of making,
or directing the making. their own dresses and
1t is the members of this lass who will find
pteasureable and profitable reading in the April
number gf the Standard Deline1tOr. The articles
on "Fashions and Fabrics tells what is latest
and prettiest in respect to sty es and materials
and that OIL Dress Trimmings and Accessories
illustrates how they may be utilized to the best
advantage. Careful attention to coming styles
in millinery is given, and the bride-thatis-to- be
will find much to interest her i'll THE frous-
aeau a la Mode" The woman whose circun-
stances or inclnations prompts her to consider
the advisability of remaking her garments will
fiud many valuable hints i'll "Remodeltng the
Easter Wardrobe and the worker in Fancy
WORK" will be able to obtain useful ideas from
The article under that head Some pretty de
signs for rainy weather costumes that may be
made at home by deft fingers are also shown
| The Wheelwonan' Physical Culture fol
Women and Fencing" for the believer i'll the
benefits of exercise to the gentlSr sex, the nsua
departments supplemented by proper amount
| of fiction aud the superb colored fashion anC
| millinery pates, combine TO make number
that is the wonder of all who see 1t when theN
| learn the price at which it is sold Pub b,
! standard Fashion conipany,S4l West Fourteenth
street, at one dollar per year.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-03-21

You are too young, no matter what
your age, to lose your HAIR. Save IL
by the use oI Ayers Hair Vigor. Il
removes dardluf, prevents badness,
restores ray and faded hair to its
original color, and makes it soft, glossy
aud abundant. No toilet is complete
without it..