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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-03

WANTED. a good cook and washer at
HirElnla leach. Apply ut 2lS Boush
street ir2a-tE
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-03

Claude A1c1Tarlan wants to play here.
it is said, and Smith wants O pitcher.
Can't you make q deal gentlemen?-
Richmond State.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Extinct Animals.

In late number of Science DIR. C.
Hart Merriam closes an article which
criticises in rather destructive way
some OF the geological theories of Theo.
dore Roosevelt. with an appeal to mu-
seums. sportsmen and nnturalists to
take advantage of every opportunity
before 1t Is too late to secure and pre-
serve specimens of our larger mammals
from remote parts of their ranges.
Many species have been exterminated
In Europe by man, and In this country
the process hns already begun. The
familiar story of the vanishing buffalo
Is only one of many. The giant grizzly
OF southern California, the largest
carnivorous animal of the United States,
is about exterminated. and it is doubt
full II museum specimen will ever be
obtained. The large wolves have been
exterminated over more than half the
area they formerly possessed, and no
one knows what forms have disap-
peared. An unknown form of elk or
wapiti, which within the memory of
men still living inhabited the Allegha-
MES from North Carolina to the Adiron-
dacks. has been wiped off the face OF
the earth.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02

blissfully unconscious that In the latter
;ase he could get better prices for what
he produced. thus making it less neces-
sary for him to borrow, and ut the same
time easier TO repay what he does bor-
row.
The common people of Japan have
had nothing to do with the monetary
change that has been made. 1t is the
work of the money lenders, native and
foreign and 1t has been done for the
double purpose of further enhancing
the value of the money which they con-
troll, and ut the same time laying an
additional obstacle In the way of re-
storing silver.
They can now point to the orient and
sny: "See what Japan has done. The
most enlightened of eastern nations has
abandoned silver and placed herself In
line with the financial policy of civilized
states"
But the scheme will not work. The
movement for silver restoration will go
right on In this country Just the same
as II nothing had happened.
Though nil the rest of the world
should abandon silver as money our In
terests require that 1t be restored, and
II Will be.-Natlonal Bimetallist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
MOVING A BRICK CHIMNEY.
Carried Nearly n Thousnnd Fec. over
Uneven Ground.

Carried Nearly n Thousand Feet over
Uneven Ground.
The moving of an ordinary brick
building has always been consid-
cred feat of more than passing inter
est. but the transportation of IL brick
chimney without accident or damage.
over considerable stretch of uneven
ground. was recently accomplished at
Manhnnset, Shelter Island, Suffolk coun-
ty, N. Y.
The chimney, says the Scientific
American. is SIS feet high and seven feet
square at the base, with outer and in
ner walls eight inches thick and weighs
nearly 100 tons. 1t was moved about
$50 feet over very rough ground and
quite grade. both up and down. The
cradle rested on two skids creased on
the under side and sliding on creased
blocks. The purchase used was n grain
capstan, and one horse at $50 fold, and
the time occupied in loading and NOV
ing was only nine days, with the labor
of only four men. The chimney WINS
placed on its new foundation without n
particle of harm. This is the second
chimney of the above description moved
by the same contractors. The first one
was 90 feet high, Mt Bridgehampton.
and in both onscs the work WINS COM
pleted without accident.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
1AzEwElL DIRECTORY.

CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor-J. A. Greever.
Sergeant-G. l.. McClintock.
Assessor. II. Lewis.
COUNCILMAN.
w. Chapman, Smith Lockhart, l.. G.
Wingo, b. w. Stras and G. II. Surface.
POSTOFFICE.
'pen during week from 1870 a. m. to TOO
p. m. daily, except Sunday.
Money Order window open from a. m. to
p. III. daily except sunday.
West bound mail closes l:l5 p. IN.
East bound mail closes $40 p. m.
CHURCH SERVICES.
JuRIsrIAN.--Rev. A. A. Ferguson, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning. Sun
day School $3.50 n. M. Prayer meetin-
every Saturday evening.
BAPTIsT.-No pastor. Prayer meeting
every Thursday evening. Sunday School
every Sunday morning $50 o'clock.
WOman's Missionary Society on second
and fourth Sundays at $3.50 p. m.
FREsBYTER1AN.-Rev. w. w. Ruff, Pastor
Preaching on second Sundays ut IL
n. IN. and p. IN. Third Sundays ut IL
n. m. and 3 p. M. Fourth Sundays at
II a. IN. and at Kelley p. IN. Sunday
School at $50 n. IN. Prayer meeting
Thursdays at p. m.
MErHopIsT.-I. p. Martin, Pastor Preach
ing on first and third Sundays at IL
n. m; on second and fourth at 7:45
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:45
p. IN. Epworth League meeting each
Monday night Sunday School at $50
n. III. Woman's Missionary Society first
Sunday Mt 3 p. Ia. Ladies Aid third
Friday Mt 3 p. m.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
METAMoRpHosIs OF A PLANT.
POntedria Accommodates Itself to
Repeatedly Changed Quarters.

POntedria Accommodates ItseIf to
Repeatedly Changed Quarters.
A curious incident OF the. power of
plants to adapt themselves to circum-
stances came under my notice recently
in the shape of pontedria crassipes,
Last fall, says writer In Meehan's
Monthly, obtained slip of poutedria,
which / placed in bowl in my sitting
room window. By spring 1t was a
thrifty plant, with beautiful waxen
leaves. When 1t was time to set my
plant out of doors looked about for
something in which to place my lily.
For want of something better put it
In an old dinner boiler of generous pro-
portions. By midsummer 1t had out
grown the boiler. Again looked about,
and this time 1 found q crock, quite
deep, but not very wide. divided my
plant, putting half In the crock and the
other half in the boiler. This latter
kept thinned out by giving slips to
friends; the other plant was left to
grow at it's own sweet will, and, being
q thrifty plant. very much bent on
growing, and finding 1t could not spread
according to Its natural mode, 1t
changed its tactics and took to grow
ing upward. The air bulbs developed
into long stems, and at the end of each
grew very large leaf twice the size
of an ordinary leaf. And here would
like to say that, as house plant, there
Ia nothing more attractive than q
healthy pontedria, with Its CLASSY, WAX
en- leaves. and, moreover, It requires SO
little attention. merely keeping it re-
plenished with water.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Plense Tell IIn whx

Says the New York Sun: whoever
hns labor or the fruits of labor to sell,
or who enjoys good credit with lenders,
can obtain all the money he is entitled
to. and no others are entitled to any
at ALL"
Which is false. There are hundreds
OF thousands of men in this country
to-day who have labor to sell and are
trying TO sell 1t and find the market so
full that starvation stares them in the
face. There are thousands of men who
have goods to sell but who cannot dis
pose OF them at profit. 1t was not
30 during the first years following the
war. 1t was never so to such degree
ns II Is to-day. Why buffalo Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Chicago Real. Estate.

According to the Chicago Tribune,
real estate is not paying enormous
dividends these days, owners not get
ting an average return of more than
four per cent. on their investments, and
from this must be deducted nearly one
per cent. for taxes and more for insur-
ance and repairs. All of which shows
that the confidence" and "prosperl-
ty" promised by the goldites of the re-
publican and democratic persuasion
that was to follow Mr.. Bryan's defeat
was glittering and Haunting lie
Illinois State Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
RINGING DOOR BELLS.
A Pnstime That Seems to BE Disap-
pearinE from the Sports of Youth.

A Pnsttme That Seems to BE Disap.
pearinE from the Sports of Youth.
"In the days when knockers graced
the house door," said Mr.. Stoggleton,
reports the New York Sun, "the
small boy found sport in banging
the knocker and running. When bells
came In he yanked on the bell pull and
then fed. Nowadays he mysteriously
presses the button; but the sport of
calling people to the door for nothing
is not what 1t was; and 1t seems prob
able that with the general introduction
of the push button, it will finally fall
into decadence.
There was some fun in pounding
with the door knocker, whose thunder
reverberuted through the hall and filled
the house, all of which you could hear
yourself. And you could yank the bell
pull out to the limit. causing the bell to
fly almost off the spring; there was fun
in this. But there Is no such fun In
pushing in push button. You can
press that in perhaps quarter of an
inch, and that is all you can do with It.
Say you are In the vestibule of fiat
Very likely you don't hear the bell ring
ut oil; 1t may be that it is up three or
four flights of stairs; you hear no sound.
Nobody comes to the door; you don't
have to run. Possibly the people whose
bell you have rung may press button
up there in the dir somewhere and you
may hear the click of the door-opener
Mt your side. or they may not do even
that.
"It is dry fun; not like the old SIAM
bang knocker on the outside of the door
or the bell pull with the Jingle bell right
In the hall"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
SIMPLY A STANDARD.
Falling Prices Prove tho Appreciate
tion of the Gold Dollar.

Falling Prices Prove the Apprecfu-
tion of the Gold Dollar.
What are we to understand by the ex-
pression: money is the standard Of
valued"
The constitution-article 1, section 8.
paragraph snakes It the duty of con-
gress "to coin money, regulate the
value thereof. and of foreign coin, and
fix the standard of weights and meas
ures." We know that ito fix the stand
ard OF weights and measures" is to pro-
vide scale in which the various weights
and dimensions of articles shall be ex-
pressed. AS tho value of money is It's
relation to commodities, "to regulate
the value of money" Is to provide scale
of valuation. in which the values of
other forms of property shall be ex-
pressed, and in this sense alone money
Is the standard of value. Accordingly,
by the goth section of the net of 1902,
preserved In section 1868 of the revised
statutes, 1t is provided: 1.-THE money
OF account of the United States shall
be expressed in dollars or units, dimes
or tentlis, cents or hundredths, and
mills or thousandths; n dime being the
tenth part of nsdollar. n cent the hun
dredth part Of a dollar: mill the thou
sandth part OF n dollar; and nll accounts
in public Offices and all proceedings in
the courts of the United States shall he
kept and had in conformity to this reg
ulntion." The dollar Is simply the unit
OF this scalc, and In the keeping of nc-
counts nll.values are expressed I'm the
multiples and fractions of this unit. NJ.
Cernuschi, In "Nomisma," page Z, gives
this definition of money: Money Is n
value created by law to be II scale of
valuation and n valid tender for paw
ments."
Money standard being scale of valu-
ation, to talk of n 50-cent dollar or unit
Is as Illogical and senseless rs to talk of
n six-inch foot measure. To raise this
standard is to increase the purchasing
power of the unit or dollar, and to lower
the standard is to diminish the pur-
chasing power OF this unit. 1t follows
that to give to bankers or dealers i'm
money control of the currency would
be like giving to dealers in commodities
the control of the standard by which
they are measured, for the dealers In
money. by expanding or contracting
the volume of money. diminish or in
crease the purchasing power of this unit
OF valuation and hold ut their mercy the
property of the country.
Manifestly falling prices are the
cnuse of our commercial and industrial
depression and there cnn be no pros
perity while this cause continues. What
has brought about this fall OF prices
answer. 1t is the legitimate and neces-
sary result of our having made gold the
money standard of the valuation of
property. AS the pressure for gold in
creases the dollar or unit of valuation
enlnrges or increases and there is cor
responding fall in the prices of prop
erty. We must, therefore. diminish the
purchasing power of the dollar, or unit
OF this scale. and this can only be done
by putting silver in competition with
gold as money metal. No reform of
our banking system or change in our
tariff laws can accomplish it.-Judge
Henry G. Miller. in National Bimetallist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
VIRGINIA COLLEGE
For YOUNG LADIES, Roa

Opens Sept. 9, 1897. One of the lead
ing Schools for Young Ladies in the
South. Magnificent buildings. ali
modern improvements. Campus ten
acres. Grand mountain scenery in
Valley of Va, famed for health. Eu-
ropean and American teachers. Full
course. Superior advantages in art
and music. Students from twenty
States. For catalogue address the Pres :
Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Denrn ON Anticorti.

Mr.. Menier, the Partisan millionaire,
who bought up the entire island of
Anticosti. in the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
has found bears so plentiful on the
Island that he has granted n concession
for the establishment of curing plant
for bears meat, bears hams being now
fashionable dellcacy in Paris
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Constant Reminders.

Low prices and mortgages and lack
OF employment will not let the people
forget the silver issue. These numerous
reminders are constant and show the
prosperity" lies of last year.-Illinois
State Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
NOTICE.

1 have for sale three Poland China
boar pigs, farrowed October 90, 1896.
These pigs are thorough bred and pedi.
rec furnished with each sale. Write
or prices,
1AzEwELL' VA. o"'
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02

Free coinage by the United States,
single-handed and alone, II necessary.
with or without the aid or consent Of
any other nations. Is the slogan.--Min-
neapolis Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
ENEVOLENT ORDERS.

" .CLINCH VALLEY
~ COMMANDERY, NO. 90,
~ KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Meets first Monday In each Month.
JAMES O'KEEFFE, L. @.
w. I. WITTEN, Recorder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
uly to Aug 81 1857. Course includes 80 lectures By
dr. Justice Harlan, OF u ). supreme Court For
analogue, address C MINOR, Seeretary.
Charlottesville, Va
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02

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The NEWS.
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When you come to court drop in
and see us, and if you should feel
like leaving 53 cent dollar with us
for your subscription, we will not
kick -.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15
DalIas ConntY News.

(From he Fordyce Enterprise.)
 Mir. G. NJ. Hampton, who has been running stave boats down the Saline river. spent Sunday with his family here. He still has a few boats to take down.
 John Fielder and Miss Zelma Broach; Emmett Southall and Miss Mary Daniel; Henry Easte9ling and Miss Maggie Moseley, all of a few miles north of Fordyee, were united In marriage recently. Esq Frazier performed the operations.
 Dr. F. IT. Moses, oae of Cleveland county's pioneer citizens, died at his home in New Edingburg last Thurs day He leaves q devoted wife who has the condolenee of large circle of friends. Dr. Moses was 8 good physician and highly esteemed citizen.
 While the school children at the public school were crowding out at the door of the building yesterday, q little son of MT. s. c. Abernathy was pushed from the top step and fell upon q stone several feet below, cutting his head badly.
 An accident occurred at the new saw mill of tho Pearson Lumber Co.,, at Thornton, last Thursday morn ing, which resulted in the destruc- tion of one of the large band saws. 4 large log was being sawed when the rear dog N hich held the log in place on the carriage became un- fastened from the timber which pressed the saw outward until it collided with a piece of iron and fell in a twisted mass among the work men. Luckily no one was hurt The saw that was demolished was valued at $140.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15

S30,000 for the purchase and distri- button of seeds recommended by the committee, saying this plan had degenerated into mere wholesale distribution of tue commonest kinds of flower and garden seeds. It was a great waste of public money.
 Mir. Call said the seed distribution should be increased twofoId instead of being reduced. The seed item was agreed to at the advanced rate of $150,000
 An amendment by Mr. Thurston was agreed to appropriating $5,0O0 for continuing experiments as to beet sugar production.
 The bill was then passed. Itearriee approximately $3, ,250,000.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15

press at work, Arkansas City will be on solid boom. She has now, built and under construction, six substantial brick stores with iron front the most complete bank building in the State; five iron clad store houses; two well kept hotels. a new livery stable; four churches; two school houses; two newspaper offices; the finest lumber mill in the South and many other adiuncts to thrifty, hustllng little city. But what she most needs now be- fore the boom is on in earnest, is court house and jail. Let the appropriation be made at once, and the work begin.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15

day. The publication contained an address of the Secretary delivered before he entered the public service.
 Mir. Chandler spoke of another bulletin from the Agriculture Depart, ment in which the financial question was discussed and the Secretary had attempted to show that law would make up the difference between gold and silver, and that the subordinate in the department who prepared the report failed to carry out the Secretary's ideas. Mir Chandler said such publications should not ema- nate from the Agricultural Depart ment.
 Mir. Cu:lum, in charge of the bill, urged that the peculiarities of the present Secretary of Agriculture should not be visited upon the next Secretary. If the next Secretary pur- sued the policy of the present Seere- tary, Mir. Cullum said, he would not favor any appropriation, but the one understood to be the choice of Mr. Mckinley, for the Agricultural Office was an actual farmer, who would not indulge in agricultural bulletins of finance.
 Mr. Stewart asserted that the See retary of Agriculture was "the most picturesque specimen he had ever known and the Senator urged that the Secretary should not be taken too seriously.
 Mr. Tillman spoke for the retention of thc item, saying that the farmers should not be prejudiced because the department had a Secretary who prostituted his position and aired his peculiar notions at the expense of the farmers.
 Mir. Allison in urging the need of these agricultural publications on legitimate lines, Spaid high tribute to his former associate in the Senate, Mr. Wilson, of IoYa, who is under stood to be the Hext Secretary of Agriculture.
 Mr. Vest withdrew his opposition on the understanding that there would be no furtherI"financial or pietoriap' bulletins and the ite m was agreed to with an amendment making it $70,000.
 MT. Lodge opposed the increase oi
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15
|EH|NGTON GOSSIP, l, E, COUNTING OF THE ELEG- TORIAL VOTE. Lively Debate in the Senate of the Appropriation Bill for
 the Agricultural
 Department.

V ,suINGToN, D. C., Feb. 13, 1897.
 qbe counting of the eleeterial vote
 the 10th inst, was a very interes-
 10 nerformance. The result, of
 ,nrse has been known for several
 ,ontbs, but the declaration of the
 seial count by Congress of the re-
 If of the late national election
 sas the occasion Of great interest
 at the National Gapi- .esI and there was a great rush for
 bats in the galleries to witness the
 roceedings.
 # was impossible to provide seats
 the galleries of the House for all s,ho desired to witness the ceremony,
 rwo tickets of admission were
 .saed to each Senator and Repre- Ssntatiye and the holders of these
 tickets together with 300 persons zdmitted to the public gallery com Arised all the spectators of the act sieounsiI electorial vote. The lpremonies did not begin until l zleloek but the doors of the galleries Aere thrown open at f0;30 and kithin half an hour all the galleries #seept those reserved for the Presi- sent and diplomatic corps were zaeked to the doors, with ladies in zay toilets and well known men, Hhany of them from a distance. Shortly after 1 o'clock the mem } 8rs of the Senate left their chamber stthe north side of the Capitol and ..galked across to the House passing IMongh the vast retunda and the 'a Hall of Representatives, now sfatuary Hall.
 Vice-President Stevenson, who |F law, presides over the joint 'Pssion, took his place by the side of |peaker Reed. The tellers were: Imator Lodge, of Massachusetts, |ad Senator Blackburn, of Ken lucky. on the part of the Senate, |ad Mir. Grosvenor, of Ohio, and |Nr. Richardson, of Tennessee, on be- Eali of the House.
 At the close of the State aunoun- |ements the totals were footed up |nd signed by four tellers. Senator Lodge on behalf of the tellers an
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-15
a majority is 224.

a majority is 224.
 William Mckinley, of the State of Ohio, has received for President of the United States 271 votes.
 William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, has received TIC votes.
 The state of the vote for Vice President of the United States as de- livered to the President of the Sen ate is as follows:
 The whole number of electors ap- pointed to vote for Yice-President of the United States is AT, of which a majority is 224 Garrett A. Hobart, of the State of New Jersey, has re- ceiyed 271 votes.
 Arthur Sewall of the State of Maine, has received 27 votes.
 Mir. Stevenson then formally dis missed the Joint session.
 THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
 The agricultural appropriation bill was taken up in the Senate yester- day. It soon brought out a severe arraignment of Secretary Morton by Senator Vest, of Missouri. He spoke against the item Of $65, ,000 for publi- cation of certain kinds of alleged ag- rieultural bulletins, Mir. Vest said, the Secretary of Agriculture had ar raigned the people Of States which had voted for Bryan as ignorant and illiterate, while the people of the Mckinley States were held up as par agons of intelligence and refinement And this publication was made in order that the farmers might know that the vote for Bryan was repre- sentative of the ignorance of the country. Would any Senator ap- prove such publication?
 Mir. Galliger remarked that such publications were clear perversion of the funds intended for legitimate agricultural literature, and. it was a perversion which should be re- buked.
 Mir. Vest held up another bulletin of the Agricultural Department. and in tones of intense sarcasm pointed out n picture of Secretary Morton 'scoun- try residence in Nebraska as an em- beliishment of a publication on arbor