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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO LEWIS BURRITT
Lewis Burritt, of King street, was &C.
cidentally thrown from a load of lumber,
while driving through Maple street,
Bridgeport, and sustained compound
fracture of the leg, between the knee and
ankle. He was taken to the residence of
his son, A. W. Burriett, and physician
called who attended to the injury. Mr.
Burritt is about rs years of age and his
progress towards recovery will be slow,
though at last reports he was very COM
Portable.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05
w o orr a"'s

Is never done, and it is especially wearing
and wearisome to those whose blood Is
impure and unfit properly to tone, sus-
tain, and renew the wasting of nerve,
muscle and tissue. 1t is more because OF
this condition of the blood that women
are RIM down
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05
children free. There will also be sur
prise for all, and good oyster supper.
STRA,TFORD.

THE IMPROVEMENTS AT WASHINGTON
BRIDGE.
The county commissioners have made
formal transfer of the Western approach
to Washington bridge to the town. The
approach has just been completed and
seems to give the officials perfect salts
faction. When the roadway at this side,
is properly graded, the hill cut down and
the hollow filled, and a first class Ma
cadam road made to Main street, it will
be an Improvement much to be desired,
and opened up on first class driveway,
much valuable and desirable property
for building purposes.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05
Tired, Weak, Nervous,

Than because of the work itself. Every
physician says so, and that the only rem
edy is in building up by taking q good
nerve tonic, blood purifier and vitalizer
like Hoods Sarsaparilla. For the trou bles
Peculiar to Women at change of season,
climate or life, or resulting from hard
work, nervousness, and impure blood,
thousands have found relief and cure In
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1897-11-05
MALLEYNEE[YiADs.


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COSTUMES
Our "Indics t&iIor" is =,
lighted with tAcm-anH H.
%N0aoS ! They arc of
Imperial Chr2lo.'-roL,r,
Black and Naay
The coat part Of the gown !
entirely lined with rich TaGct
Silk-Sr0"lS are all ufbeo
The skirts are all "cxtra-lull
in back with the Now doubl
inverted plnit effect, Iabbcs
seams down front. SIS. sc
the costume, (somc others
$Ir.75, $I5.75.
Net u cent QfrL1jrl
10 alter any costume.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
NO RUM FOR THEM.

Thousands of British Soldiers In India
Refuse the Liquor Ration.
Drink is curse everywhere, but no.
where more SO than in the army, says
The Youths Companion. Those who
have read the thrilling history of the In
dian mutiny will remember how at the
capture Of Delhi the English attacking
party, after entering, became almost
hopelessly demoralized by finding liq-
nor, so that even their heroic officers
could not keep them together or pursue
the advantage gained. In contrast to
this past conduct it is pleasant to re-
cord the following item:
OF the British soldiers in India moro
than 10000 are now total abstainers,
and the proportion is constantly grow
ing. This is remarkable, when LIQUORS
ere dealt ont by the nation as O part Of
the soldiers daily ration. The liquor Is
before them, is offered without cost, and
yet these men say, 1--WE will not have
it," They are wise in saying SO, and
they get their reward for abstaining.
The sick teetotaler stands twice as good
chance for recovery rs does even the
moderate drinker. That would seem to
be compensation enough of itself But
the advantage extends further OF the
Temperance soldiers only one tenth as
many are arrested for otfenses against
discipline as Of those who drink. Liquor
makes men quarrelsome, even when
they are not fully drunken. Liquor
should be no part Of q soldiers daily
ratiohs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
NO PLACE FOR DRUNKARDS.

They Should Not BE Employed In Places
Where Human Life Is at Stake.
Leslie E. Keeley has an article in q re-
cent number of Tho Home Magazine on
the relation of liquor to tho so called
hunanafberty. Among other things he
says Of railroad men: "The sentiment
is gathering among employers and la
borers equally to dismiss inebriety from
the problem of employment, wages, and
labor. Each side plainly sees the injury
tho damage to all parties imposed by
the inebriate. The day is coming, and
must soon come, when sobriety will
stand first among tho titled qualifica-
tions of labor So many men work
among machines that drunkenness is
inconsistent with their own safety; SO
many work in places which involve tho
safety of others, where drunkenness can
not possibly be tolerated. A drunken
man may wreck a train simply because
he is drunk He may destroy property
because he is drunk and make a drunk
en- blunder with machinery.
Human liberty does not include the
privilege of drunkenness in places where
human life or property is at stake or
dependent upon the mistakes of an al
coholized brain. Drunken clergymen
OF those who drink are seldom seen
In these days. Drunken doctors above
all should not be tolerated by the pub
lie. Drinking locomotive engineers GER
tainly are dangerous men. No penalty
can be too great for q company which
knowingly employs drinking men in
places where their responsibility in
wolves human life. In fact, all such
mon should be cured of their inebriety
or discharged, and no such person should
be given employment unless he has a
clean bill Of health in relation to inebri-
ETY..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03

pin hookers (or pretended to bc)
looked Mt the tobacco, and said,
"What will you take for that tobnc
c"?' We'll, the poor pitiful lookil z
fellow stood there with both hands
in his pockets and lower lip nopp cd,
and good sample of his tobacco in
his left jaw and said, al donno sar.
The buyer said; I'll givo you
$500 for it, The farmer happened
to know the weed when ho saw it
aud told tho pin.kookcr that he
would wait and sell his tobacco at
auction and run the risk. Tho fnr.
mer Was nervous until il was sold
He feared he had made Il mijtnke by
not taking the $500, bua it turned
out all right. He got $1,000 por hun.
dred. SO you 500 when farmer
has II good thing he docs not know
it, for ho has ne price When he
takes anything to the market he
says, "Whnt will yon give mc?" A
merchant will say, "Tll take this and
so for what have to SELL
want to zee the timo when n
farmer can have n price md com.
mand it. You say farming is the
most Independent life of ALL How
is it so when he gets nothing for
what he has to sell a man is in.
dependent when he has Il pocket fall
OF money and n good prospect to
make more. Show me farmer
down here On old short grass who
has to buy his guano and pay good
price for his labor who is making
money and I'll show you ten who
are sinking money.
The railroad companies bringing
in the stuff from that rich west are
getting the best of old East Virgin.
ia. And we cannot compete with
such land.
G. l.. HUDGINs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
Look out for the
'.CHRISTM : AD,'
Oh
PEERY 81 DoDD
In This Space Next Week.

ncr of marking the ballot should he
made AZ simple ms possible 1t is
alleged that frequently Judges are
appointed who ARE so ignorant ~
not to he able TO read or write. or
course. such appointments aIe abso-
lutely farcicial 1t is placing Il @
macl inery of our free Institutions,
by which public servants are selected
and the popular will ascertain cd, in
charge of men Thoroughly incapable,
aud entrnsting tho elective rights of
officials who are powerlcss as if they
were blind, to detect or prevent
fraud and secure fair count and
honest return
The governor meets with cmphat
ic denial tho charge made in certain
quarters that the people Of Virginia,
favor fraudulent election laws or cr
courage corruption at the ballot box.
They demand free and honest bal
lot, and fair and honest return.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
He Talks Sense.
@. l.. IIUDGINs.

There is no excuse for young men
loafing about the street. IF n
young man can't find employment
he can read. Good books are a
young mans best friend, and he
who spends his time reading such
will not have wasted it. A man
who is continually Ioaling is soon
looked upon as an idlcr and finds
himself thought of and spoken of in
the same manner as the lowest class
oil degraded men are thought Of and
spoken OF. Don't loaf. Iryou can't
find work don't stand out on the
side walks or hang around store
and makea perfect cyesore Of your.
self.-Ex.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
MIKES LUCKY WATCH.
1t Was tho Means of Opening His Eyes TO
the Folly of Drinking

tt Was tho Means OF Opening His Eyes 70
the Folly of Drinking.
Mike Bryan is now highly respect
ed and we'll to do farmer in a western
community, but he has not always been
SO highly respected or SO we'll to do. In
times past Mike, as he is familiarly
called, spent his spare money in tho sa-
loon. The story of his reformation Is
given in the words Of an old neighbor
and friend:
Yes, Mike drank good deal in
them days, and treated moro than he
drank. When old Judge Henry came
back from the legislator, we made up a
purse and bought him handsome gold
watch to show him our probation.
"That night in the saloon one Of tho
boys said that Mike ought to have q
new gold watch, too, for If he hadn't
gone to the legislator he had raised the
first sack of oats in the county, and rails
ing oats for folks to eat was much bet
ter than making laws for them to quar-
rel over
"Then somebody said that he would
subscribe $40 Mike was that pleased
that ho called all the boys up for a
drink, and threw down n $40 bill
Some one else subscribed another
$40, and Mike treated again. throwing
down another $50. He had just sold his
crop and had nothing but twenties in
his pocket Of course he never got n
cent of change back, nor wanted any,
he was feeling SO pleased.
We'll, they kept OH subscribing, and
Mike kept OH treating until no had
spent over 5000. The boys went and
woke the jeweler up that very night
and bought the watch. Mike went to
bed as proud as peacock.
"But the next morning, when he
came to take good look at his watch
he found that it was only an old brass
thing, worth about So. So Mike walked
straight out to the river bank and threw
it into the water. Since then he has
never been inside a saloon. 1t was tho
luckiest $500 he over spent. youths
Companion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
FARM FOR SALE.

A farm of 93 acres on Clinch Riy-
er, II miles from railroad station. Q
houses, 2 springs, i in oak timber.
Gin good bluegrass sod. A good
little farm. Will sell at bargain if
sold Mt once. Apply at tho NEWS
office. 1O.4t
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
our STATE FARM.
From Southwest Baptist.
Lee, Va, Nov. IL, 1897.

+ iiOlii ''ouIilWtSb l)tDtlSl.
Lee, Va, Nov. IL, 1897.
Dear Editor:
wroto piece for your last
months paper aud will write again
for your next issue. | like to get
your little paper ~ | hear from 40
many OF my friends through its col
umns. L think if more of our friends
would write every month it would
make it more interesting. A guard
is so closely confined that he never
gets away to gather any news and
he never henrs any except thr ugh
the convicts and what they tell is
not reliable.
Tho convicts are coming in and
going ont all tho time We ship one
nearly every day.
The recent rains have made the
vegetation spring up and grow very
fast. Our once poor red hillsides of
Goochland are we'll set in clover,
timothy and in some places blue.
grass. All our lands need down
here lin old short grass> is the prop.
er industry and good common sense;
it will yield as well as any land with
good seasons. We have COW pas
ture, for example, of about 100 acres
as finely set in blue grass as any of
your southwest lands. The sod was
made by mulching with cut down
fodder and corn stalks. Some of
our river farmers burn their stalks
in the spring when they go to fallow
for corn. A stalk should never be
burnt unless the land is rich enough;
and none Of our land is rich
enough without the aid of vegetable
matter. We have to compete with
the west-with their lands as rich as
cream and it looks like fighting Prov
idence when we tackle the old red
bare hills and undertake to make
them rich. This is an uphill bust.
ness for | have tried it and know
what it is to make them rich; and
when once made rich two years in
corn will bring it back to its original
state. 1t is continual put on OF
guano and manure to keep our lands
up. but by being economical and
continually at work, we can make a
good living; but L tell you the East
Virginia farmer does not make much
more money than he needs. and
most OF them need moro than they
make.
All farmers are imposed upon as
rule. | heard one of my friends say
last spring that when he was in
Richmond in one of the warehouses
he saw o farmer come in with load
of tobacco and one of these little
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
BUCKLEN's ARNICA sALvE.

The BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chappcd
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Files, CT no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfact-
ion, or money refunded. Price %
cents per box. For sale by A, f.
Hargrave.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
rAzEwELL DIRECTORY.
CITY OFFICERS.

CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor. A. Greever.
Sergeant-G. l.. MoClintock.
Assessor-J. II. Lewis.
COUNCILMEN.
w. Chapman, Smith Lockhart, l.. G.
Wingo. b. w. Stras and G.. h. Surface.
POsTOFPICE.
OPsn during week from 1880 a. M. to ZOO
p. IN. daily, except Sunday.
Money Order window open from 8 a. m. to
4p. m. daily except sunday.
West bound mail closes 1:15 p. m.
East bound mail closes $40 p. IN.
CHURCH SERVICES.
CHBIsTIAN.-Rev. A. A. Ferguson, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning. Sun
day School $3.50 n. IN. PRAYER meeting
every Saturday evening.
STRAs MEMORIAL EPIsCoPAL.-Rev.W w.
ID. Buckner, Rector. Divine Service
on first and third Sundays of each
month, at II q. m. and eight p. IN.
Holy Communion on first Sunday, at
IL q. IN. Sunday School every Sun
day, at Ga. m.
fRESBYTERIAS.-Nev. w. w. Kun, Pastor
Preaching on second Sundays Mt IL
q. IN. and p. Ill. Third Sundays ut / |
a. m. and p. III. Fourth Sundays at
IL n. NJ. and ut Kelley 8 p. IN. Sunday
School at $50 IL. IL. Prayer meeting
Thursdays at 8 p. H.
METHoDIsT.-I. P. Maltin Pastor. Preach
ing ON first and third Sundays at II
a. m. on second and fourth Mt 7:45
p. IN. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7.45
p. III. Epworth League meeting each
Monday night. Sunday School Mt $50
a. IN. Woman's Missionary Society first
Sunday at 8 p. IN. Ladies Aid third
Friday at p. III.
BAPTIST. Rev. w. C. Foster, Pastor,
Preaching on 1st and 4th Sundays at
IL a. m. 1st and Bird Sundays ut z: 90
Pm. Prayer meeting every Thursday
at TOO p. nj. Sunday school every
Sunday at $50 a. m. B. Y. P.U. every
Monday at TOO pm Sunbeam Society
on end and 4th Sundays at 800 p. m.
Woman's Missionary Society On end
and 4th Sundays at 400 p. m.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
"Mother's Friend"
A HOUSE TO RENT.

a nice new 8-room house, on r. r.
Avenue. Convenient house and out
houses. Ocupation Oct. 1st., 1897.
Apply at the News office.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Meets Promptly on "Wednesday.
Governors S Message.

The houses of the General Assem-
bly, met promptly on Wednesday.
There was n full attendance in both
houses.
The following cllicrrs were nomi
mated by the House caucus
Speaker, Jno. +. Ryan, of Louden.
Clerk, Jno. b Bigger, of Ashland.
Sergeant at arms, J. NJ. johnson,
of Rockbridge,
First door keeper, A. A. Sullivan,
Of Montgomery, SECOND door keeper,
=. Lipsco nb, Of King and Queen.
The SCR nj" cancus nominations
u Il h-ii .",:
Pre- ilen' pr" TEN, II. II. Wyckham.
of Hanover.
Clerk, Joseph Button, of Apo
nattox.
Sr.rg' ant Mt arms, Il. b. Watkins,
of Charlotte.
D'"r keeper, DR.. W. c. Num-, of
King ID Queen.
Pnges, Jefferson Durrett, of Albe
nn,l'; Russell Foster, of Richmond;
Curtis Suarles, of Bedford; Willie
M.Andrews, of Portsmouth.
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
After speaking of the general con
dition of state affairs, lynchings, ag
riculture, the Soldiers Home etc,
the Governor speaks of the election
law as follows: 81 respectfully rec.
ommend material changes in our
election laws. Tho present statute
is by no means satisfactory to vast
majority of the people of the State,
and opposition to it is not confined
to any political party. The integr
ty of our elections is questioned, and
our system is impeached. Our ex-
isting law, when enacted, was alleg
ell to be in tho interest of free,
honest, untrammelled and unpur
chased ballot, and 10 prevent tho
use of money and the badgering of
voters at the polls. That our elect
ions since have been more quiet and
orderly, and the opportunities to
purchase venal voters minimized,
must be admitted. To this extent
the present System is immeasurably
better than the system prior to the
act of 1893 a and familialry known
as the Anderson-McCormic law.
But there in the existing act provis
ions which make fraud easy, and
tend to cast suspicion upon the
elections, as we'll as upon the pur-
poses of the act. So that, while the
new law has it's advantages over the
law has its advantages over the old
law, it has it's evils, for it virtually
disfranchises many and opens wide
the door for corruption and dishon.
esty. 1t has proved a failure and
should be amended, retaining what
is good, and discarding what is bad
in it,
EMBLEM BALLOT RECOMMENDED.
After this criticism of the Parker
law, which he himself approved.
Governor O'Ferrall goes on to argue
that the law is too complex for the
illiterate to comprehend.
II recommend an emblem ballot
and the display of an exact represen.
cation of this ballot in the public
press, and on the day of election at
the polls, to enable the voters to be-
come familiar with it. AS to the
further details, / will make no sug
gestion. except to say that the man.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-12-03
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

TT c. ANDERSON,
ATrONREY-AT-LAW,
Tazewell G. H., Va.
The record-union., 1897-02-05
A Little Temperance Story.

Susanna Reade was reused from
slumber by an ominous scratching. The
sounds came from her waste papar bas
ket into which she had reckiessly
thrown a bag containing cracker
crumbs. For some moments Susanna
lay trembling and undecided, but finally
rose to the occasion, lighted her gas,
hastily threw a copy of the Tribune
on the basket, and weighted it with a
large edition Of Tennyson. But the
mouse might gnaw It's way ou.. Shs
opened her door and deposited basket,
mouse, paper and poetry in the hall.
With mind al ease she fell into re-
freshng sleep, from which She was
awakened by a clatter, a cry and some
fOrcible language. She recognized the
voice Of a boarder who had a room
on the floor above. Her room was near
the head of the stairs; she had thought
lessly placed the basket directly in the
way Of anyone ascending the stairway.
1t was long after midnight and the
lights We're out. Susanna had suspected
that Mr.. Blake did not walk in the way
he should go; his arrival at this UNI
seemly hour and the thickness Of his
Mr.. Blake called wildly for a light.
and presently the curate of st. T-'s
opened his door and lighted tlfe hall
gas. He perceived Mr.. Blake jumping
up and down in wild manner and as
sorting that the place was swarmng
with mice. The Rev. John Prelchi;.
convinced that retributi0n had over
taken the misguided youth, took him
kindly to his room and helped him 20
remove his clothing. when, to his sur
prise, a mouse that was no creation Of
a disordered brain made its escape
When Mr.. Preachit went down stairs
he perceived Miss Reade's overturned
basket. Tribune" and TennysOn. and
understood, but resolved to keep ST.
lence. After breakfast he had g long
talk with his erring brother. and up to
date the alarmed young man has kept
early hours, and forsworn the glass
that inebriates
The record-union., 1897-02-05


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