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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
Will BE A NARR0W MARGiR.
Senator Hill Figures a Gi5s
Fight on SHver at Cbjcooo

Tuesday Washington Post says:.
Senator Hill has been doing some
figuring on the possibility of the
Silver Democrats controlling Mt
Chicago and has come 10 the con.
cluslon that the result will dcpenG
upon very narrow margin In
Tact, he figures that it is quite pos. 3
siblc That the sixteen votes OF Ne.
braSka, one way or.the other, max
decide the contest. Az is well
known, there will he two delegates
from Nebraska, one alleged to be
composed oi Federal office holders
and other sound money men, and
the other being thc representatives
of the silvor faction of the party
The National Committee, which
VIII make up the temporary roll
OF the convention, has Il majority
OF gold standard men, it is said,
and upon it's decision as to the
seating of one of the Nebraska
delegations the whole outcome of
the convention may hinge.
The Post recently, in estimates
OF the silver outlook, placed Illi-
nols first III the silver and later in.
the doubtful column. Senator
Hill puts it down for silver on the
advice of Senator Palmer, who rc.
luctlant'y admits that the siIy 1t
men have the machinery of tl.o
state. 1t is now said that tls
gold men. cannot even get 6Aa
Cook county delegation, whsil
they hoped TO control. In otHe!
statcs the free silver men ha
been given the organization viii
out a struggle, but Senator Iiis.
says that lie does not believe tll
ought to be the case at the Nati3s!
- ''' '"''Vi' III t-ADt'CtS 10 20
TO Chicago at the head of tile New
York delegation, but even should
tile silver men seem to be in the
majority he will not abandon the
fight until it is evident from u
vvtc that they are iulrencl.ed III
their position.
1t seems TO be generally admit;
ted that the free silver delpgatjolf
from Texas viii! lie accorded seats
i'll the convention. without CUES
tion. Senator Mills says that tIle
Democrats with few exceptions
are with the free silver tide. aud
that the. regular organization ot
the State is certainly for silver
Ex. x.Speakcr Crisp said Yesterday
that lie thought the, unit rule
would he enforced in ali the sil ~
States, Including Georgia, sinrs. q
the gold men had forced the rule Z
on the silver men in Michigan.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
OUR LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
They are an Honor to AMERICAN
Manhood and TO american
ctizenShio.

When this system of the constant
guarding of bridges is adopted on oil
railroads las it has been on mary of
the lending ones the daring heroes
OF romance who iisk their lives to
keep trains from rushing to dest ~
ton, where bridges or tresil $ have
fallen, VIII fnd their occupa ion
gone. AS it is. the fiction writer's
have probably been unduly prodigal
in the creation of such characters.
So, too, have they taken liberties
with the engineers who drive the 10
conotives. They are usually repr :
sented as bluff. superstitious persons
who consult this omen aud that, and
i moments of extreme danger pull
o en- h. throttle and put their trust
i'll Providence. As matter of fact,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
My Dear Wife:
TO MRS. Iiri.EN p.

On Sharpsburg fed tho manglcd form
OF dying soldier lay,
Where the thickest OF the battle storm
Had left it's wreck that day
One clinchcd hand u pencil grasped,
One, firm, upon his breast
a cr'IInpled note yet tightly clasped
AS his spirit sank to rest.
a generous foe, with cautious tread,
Along the trampled pain,
Sought those amid the crowded dead
He'd never sec. in life again,
When perchancc his eyes should meet
All stained with human gore.
The tightly clasped and soi,d sheet
The dying soldier bore.
Tenderly the note was lossed--
Tearfully was rcad,
The last words of the soldier
The message of tho dead.
To her, whose love had blessed his life
Whose image was tho last
That o'or the dying hero's gnze,
With life's bright vision passed.
" Helen, ] AMI dying"
~ soldiers death, 'tis true
No thought to my soul is trying,
Save that which turns to you.
I'm dying for my country,
Her honor and her laws;
'Tis sad to die and leave you--
IT'S sweet in such cause.
Helen, teach our little one
10 love his fathers name
To stand up for his country's rights
To die, If necl be, for tho same,
For life holds nothing nobler,
Within its feeble span.
Than to bleed an die for Liberty
For Liberty to man.
Never, till this hour
(My soul shall pass from earthly
Have / known the depth and power
or my love for your worth.
I'm dying. Helen-dying;
My heart quails not, but my eye
s es dimly. OH how dimly-
Ny wife and -"good-by."
The blood stained no;e. by kindly hand
Was on its mission borne;
Where in distant southern land,
She still lives to mourn.
Who, from its words Of sorrow,
Learned, in agony wild,
That war had made a widow
And an orphan child.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
DON'T sTop TOBACCO.
How TO CURE YouRsELF
WHILE USING IT.

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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
OLD pEOPLE.

Old people who require medicine
TO regulate the bowels and kidneys
will find the true remedy in Electric
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cents per bottle at A. T.. Hargravc's
Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
g., Z, ---r---
n Cure fer muscular Rheuma-
tism.

Mrs. r. l. Lamson, of Fairmo,uint,
Illinois says; My sister used
ohamberlein's Pain Balm for muscu.
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quickest euro for rheumatism. mus.
cnlnr pains and lamonesu have evor
seem For salo by A. f. Gmgrnye,
Druggist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15


The NEWS Office is tho place for
First Glass Job Work.
The grand lodge of NIasons of Vir
ginia has been called to meet in
Richmond July 2, to take part in the
laying of the corner stone of the JEFF
ferson Davis monument
Prevention is better than cure. Keep your
blood pure, your appetite good and your dges-
ton perfect with Hoods Sarsaparila, and you
Will not need to fear any form of sickness.
Hoods Pills act tharmoniously with Hood :
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Commencement exercises mt the
Polytechnic Institute Mt Blacksburg.
begin with the baccalaurente sermoii
on June "a by Rev. DIR. j. w. Jones.
DIR. Coke Smith, of Lynchburg, will
preach for the Young Mems Chris
tian Association that night.
Cleaning up season is hero and
our citizens ought to be particular to
thoroughly clean up, and keep their
premises cleaned up. Our autho,i
ties cannot be too active in looking
after lhis matter or too strict in en-
forcing the law.
The Grand Lodge, knights of
Pythias, met in Danvlle last week:
The reports showed the number of
members December 81, 1895, as 4,
$50. The financial sta ement shows
a balance on hand of $2,25O, with
liabilities of Sl,175.
For every quarter in a mans pock
ct there are dozen uses; and to use
each one in such way as to derive
the greatest benefit is a question
every one must solve for himself. We
believe, however, that no better use
could be made of one Of these quar-.
ters than TO exchange it for bottle
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera aud
Diarrhoea Remedy, medicine that
every family should be provided with.
For aale by A. L. Hargrave, Drug
gist.
A cat belonging to resident of
Cameroc, Mo-, is nursing litter of
wild rabbits and caring for them
with motherly solicitode. Several
kittens were born 10 the cat week
or SO ago, but they all died. A
neighbor found nest of very young
wild rabbits about the same time.
and they were put in charge of the
cat with the happy result told
Richmond Dispatch: President
E. w Boatwright returned last night
from Washington, where he went in
the Interest of-the bill for he beilefit
of Richmond College, which was fa
7orably reported by q committee of
the House. The bill has passed the
Senate, and Colonel elicit hopes to
get it through the House in a few
days. The bill sppropriates $4,000
to the college to pay for property
destroyed by the Federal troops.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15

Maj. r. Fl. Glass, probably the
oldest editor in the State of Virginia.
died at his home in Lynchburg last
Thursday afternoon, aged 73 years
de had been in delicate health for
many mouths. AT the tims of his
death he was on the editorial staff of
the News. Maj Glass has always
been prominent in the Dsmocratic
party and was for twelve years post
master of Lynchburg.
Hero is n rich item from Hams
Georgia Cracker
"She is sweet sixteen, and she saws
the first time her sweetheart kissed
her it made her feol like tub of
butter swimming in honey, cologne,
nutmeg and cranberries, as though
something ran down her nerves on
feet of diamonds, escorted by several
cupids, in chariots drawn by ahgels
shaded by honeysuckle, and ,he
whole spread with melted rainbow"
The trucking season on the East
ern Shore of Virginia is just opening
up. The earliest truck, such IA
Strawberries, peas, radl;shes, otc.,
have been kept back few days on
account of spell CT dry weather,
which lasted most of last week. Mon
day it rained all day and it was
worth thousands of dollars to the
farmers Of that aeciion Some STRAW.
berries were shipped from Cape
Charles Tuesday, the first of the
season. Tho bulk of them will how.
ever not pc ripe for week yot.
Mr.. ID. =. Davis, prominent liy
eryman and Merchant of Goshen,
Va, has this to say on tho subject of
rheumatism: III take pleasure in
recommending Chamberlain's Pain
Balm for rhcu'natism, us / know
from personal experience that 1t will
do all that is claimed for it. A year
ago this spring my brother was laid
up i'll bed with inhammatory rheum
aiism aud suffered intensely. The
first application of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm eased the pain and tho
use Of one bottle completely cured
him. For sale by 4. l.. Hrsrave,
Druggist,
Pokey Barios, the negress who so
narrowly escaped the gallows for the
murder Of Mrs. Pollurd, has taken
up her residence in Jackson, tho
great coiored ward of Richmond.
The two fnctionn representing the
negro Republicans are tumbliug
over ench other to secure the ser
vices of Pokey Barnes in ndvocnt
ing the claims of their ticket for the
city council. Pokey has championed
the faction of which Alderman John
Mitchell is the leader. He is the
man who figured SO prominently in
the Teamoh incident year ago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
A LADY OF snNnpanuno

After tho battle of Sharpsburg n
burial party from the northern army
found II Confederate captain in tho
throes of deatli, In his hand was
clasped the following note, which
was given to our pickcts, and was
conveyed to his wife. 1t contained
for her the first Intelligence of his
fate:
"Aiy Dear Wife:
II am dying. / die for my conn.
try. Teach our little boy to cherish
my memory. | never knew until
now how much L love you. Good
oy. lour civilian"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
Big GINS Were landed.

The Cuban leaders in Philadelphia
were thrown into state Of ecstacy
by the official announcement thu! the
steamer Bermuda which left this port
about three weeks ago ostensibly
bound for Porto Cortez, md which
touched ut Jacksonville on her way
down to take on men and ammuni.
ton, had successfully landed her fill
clustering cargo on the northern
coast of Cuba, and was safely in port
at the town of Truxillo, in the Span
ish Honduras. The latter place, al
though it bears the name OF Spanish,
is an independent country, and it wpis
from tho town of Trpxillo that Capt.
John d. Hart, the owner in this city,
received the telegram which convey.
ed the hint aud was tile cause of re
joicing in Cuban circle here and at
New York
The message to Capt Hart sim.
ply stated that the Bermuda had ar.
rived safely, and that ''all was we'll"
The simple fact, however. that the
steamer had put into port which is
watched on all sides By Spanish men
of-war, and made its port public, was
az indication in itself that the plucky
little steamer bad successfully per
formed its mission, and was not
averse now to being hauled across
the Goals.
CAN SEARCH NOW.
"They can search the Bermuda all
they want, now" said Cuban leader.
"but If they want to find those
Hotchkiss and Maxim guns they'll
have TO look for them somewhere
within the lines of Maceo, in The pro
vince of Pinar del Rio
The fact, is, it was authenically
stated, that every single round of
ammunition, every gun and every
man that went out with the Bermuda
from Jacksonville on tho Sunday
following her departure from this
port successfully landed on the
shores of Cuba about week ago.
This means that thousands of rounds
of cartridges and dd.t o al rapid
firing guns aro now within the lines
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15
A MCKINLEY POETS VIEW or
THE SITUATION.

Mckinley
"All is over but the shouting
Please get onto where am:
There is scarcely any doubling,
Gentlemen, what say your"
iced ,..,
Morton. =.
Cullom..
Allison. ..... ''DamnlN
Henderson.
Davis -. -.
Quay ....
Mckinley
Jump into my wagon. brothers,
Don't 1 beg you, be clam,
After me there are no others,
Gentlemen, what say youyn
Morton. -.
Cullom .....
Allison. .u... "Damn.!"
Manderson.
DAVIS .......
quay .......y
Mckinley
II have got the whole convention;
All of you aren't what am:
why continue your contention?
Gentlemen, what say your"
Reed ......l
Morton -.
Cullom. ....
Allison. ,r.. "Damn!!,'
Manderson..
Davis. .......
Quag ........
Mckinley
There is no longer any doubling,
And my light has been no sham,
All is over but the shouting
Gentlemen what say yo~t"
Reed ,...l
Morton. $50.
Cullom -. =.
Allison. "Damnl!un
Henderson -.
Davis :......
Quay. ........
New York Sun.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1896-05-15

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A Touching Incident.

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
| enclose tho following. to be pub.
hshed in your Confederate column:
s L.. p.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-21
ANOTHER BURsTED COMBINE.

Several months have elapsed since
the G / o b e had occasion to comment
on a combination of the millers of the
spring wheat region formed with the
customary stated purpose of ''regulat
ing output" but with the ultimate end
in view of preventing the deterioration
that would ensue in private morals
should the people be permitted to get
their bread at a price determined by
that monster of our modern civiliza-
ton, free competition. The millars
were all devout disciples of the Ohio
prophet who declared the first and
greatest of his commandments to be
that things should not be cheap be-
cause then they were nasty. AS we
then demonstrated the combine pro-
eeeded to put their philanthropic pur-
pose into effect, with result that the
good people of the Twin Cities paid
the same price for their flour that did
the consumers of flour from the same
mills in cities On the Atlantic coast.
We further discovered and noted that
the prophets gospel had no extra
territorial extension; that in his creed
-it~was rather desirable that the for
eigner should have his things cheap
and therefore nasty. the more en-
phatically to mark the contrast be-
tween him and the opulent American
citizen, and that, following this doc
trine, the flour of the milIers' combine
was sold to these foreigners cheaper
than it was sold to the bread eaters
within sound of the rumbling of their
mills. Apprehensiye that we might be
in error we profered the columns of
the G o to any member of the
combine to refute the conclusions
drawn, but no use was made of the
opportunity, a fact we accept as con-
firmatory of our statements.
But this association" as they pre-
ferred to call 1.-THE word combine
having sinister meaning attached to
it by an ignorant and indiscriminating
publie-has dissolved. It has Joined
its several ancestors, but it does not
StcoP Will AtS idsfieTS, because It's
father was rapacity, and he, unhappily.
survives. 1t would be more accurate
to say that it has Joined its defunct
elder brothers, the previous associa-
tions that have been born, fiourished
for while and died. When we come
to inquire into The cause of the decease
Of this latest offspring, we find con-
'dition In this combine that has been
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-21

noted In others,a cannibalistic habit on
the part of the fond father who raises
children and then devours them. This
is reversal of the practice Of the an
Client Scythians who put an end to
their parents when they became old
and economically ate them. Here the
parent. rapacity, eats the children
while they are yet young and plump
and tender. AS mere matter of cpl
curean taste. emitting all ethical con-
siderations. the modern method Is the
better.
We would like to think that their ex-
periments had convinced these people
that the doctrine of the mortgaged
prophet of Canton was a false one;
that -four was not necessarily nasty
because it was cheap, and that this
universal impulse of humanity to OBJ
tain what it needs or wants at the
least expenditure of effort Is an es-
sential factor in that progressive rise
of the race from past to present condi-
tons and must remain one in it's fur
Their uplifting from what is evil in it's
present state. But the facts refuse
us this consolation and remit us to the
cannibalistic solution. There are mill
ers and millers, big millers and little
ones, conf1ding millers and rascally
ones, all greedy, but differing in de-
grees; some held in check by that
peculiar sense of honor said to exist
among thieves; others unrestrained
by any such paltry considerations. We
are told that it was the 'perfidy of
the large millers" that caused the dis
solution. Each member of the trust
paid into the treasury a tax of l cent
on each barrel of flour made. as a
guarantee that he would not sell flour
below the price fixed by the actuary
of the trust But when the big millers
found that they could make a profit
by cutting prices they ruthlessly broke
the contract and forfeited their guar
antee So a meeting Of the trust was
called at Minneapolis, the books were
closed, the guarantee fund was divided
among those members who had not
violated the agreement, who were lin
good standing" and we are assured
that the members there, probably the
little millers,' agreed that they would
never again enter into any combina-
ton to maintain prices. On the whole,
we are inclined to think the case is
one of sincere conversion from the Cos
pei of cheap and nasty on the part Of
a sufficient number of millers to pre-
vent any other combination for long
time at least. The "big miller" We
still mistrust.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-21
WITH INTENT TO AMUsE.

First Bohemian-There is one thing I'd like
to know about free silver. Second Bohe-
mian-What Is that? First BohenIian-Id
like TO know how it Is going to affect the
50-cent tabled hote?-Puck. s s5
Don't you know, WiIiie'' asked the Sun
day school teacher, that you are always
happiest when you are good?"
HTes'm," said Willie. I'm never so happy
az when I'm good. ceptin when I'm eatin,"
Chicago Record.
Pretty good joke on SIMPLIFY
What was tt? za.a.s z-.5-s
HE sent "a to an advertiser for patent
pocket fire escape ard received in return
a 20-cent copy Of the New Testament.
Judge.
Subtle Revenge: "You say you got even
with that stingy relative Of yours by giving
his boy bicycle2 How Is that?
Don't you see? TIN cost him more to
buy the extras than l paid for the wheel" -
Chicago Tribune.
How old is your baby, ma'sm?' =
Just ten months. -
'.Does she walk"
SIR
Hem, takes after her father. Can she
TALK
ssske jabbers all the time. SIR
Hem. takes after her MISUNDERSTANDING
Plaindeaier.l