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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
biissfully unconscious that in the latter

blissfully unconscious that In the latter
;ase he could get better prices for what
he produced. thus making il less neces-
sary for him to borrow, and at 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. It is the
work of the money lenders, native and
foreign. and IL has been done for the
double purpose of further enhancing
the value OF the money which they con-
troll, and at the same time laying an
additional obstacle In the way of re-
storing silver.
They can now point TO the orient and
say: "See what Japan has done. The
most enlightened of eastern nations has
abandoned silver and placed herself I'm
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 IL nothing had happened.
Though all the rest of the world
should abandon silver as money our in
terests require that IL be restored, and
II will be.-NationRl Bimetallist
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
Extinct Animate

In a late number of Science DR. q
Hart Merriam closes an article which
critcises in a rather destructive wav
some or the geological theories Of Theo.
dore Roosevelt, with an appeal to mu-
seums, sportsmen and naturalists 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 has 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
iul 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
METAMoRPAosIs OF A PLANT.
POntedrta AccOmm dates Itself TO
Repeatedly Changed Quarters.

rOntedrta AccOmmO dates Itself 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 a pontedria crassipes,
Last fall, says writer In Meehan's
Monthly, 1 obtained n slip of poutedria,
which placed In bowl In my sitting
room window. By spring it 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 IL had out
grown the boiler. Again 1 looked about,
and this time found 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
a thrifty plant, very much bent on
growing, and finding 1t could not spread
according to Its natural mode, 1t
changed it's 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 a house plant. there
Is nothing more attractive than a
healthy pontedria. with It's CLASSY, WAX
en- leaves, and, moreover, IL requires SO
little attention. merely keeping 1t re-
plenished with water.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
MOVING A BRICK CHIMNEY.
Carried Nearly n thousand Feet 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 n brick
chimney without accident or damage.
over n considerable stretch of uneven
ground. was recently accomplished at
Manhanset, Shelter island, Suffolk coun-
ty. n. Y.
The chimney, says the Scientific
American, is IS 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 sllids 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 was
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 62 feet high, at Bridgehampton.
and in both cases the work was com
pleted without accident.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
RINGING DOOR BELLS.
A Pastime That Seems to he Disap-
peRrinE from the sports of Youth.

A Pastime That Seems TO he Disap-
peRrtuE from the sports OF Youth.
I'm the days when knockers graced
the house door," said Mr.. Stoggleton,
reports the New York Sun, 1.-THE
small boy found sport in banging
the knocker and running. When bells
came In he yanked on the bell pull and
then fled. 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, 1t will finally fall
into decadence
There was some fun in pounding
with the door knocker, whose thunder
reverbernted 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 n push button. You can
press that In perhaps a quarter of an
inch, and that is oil you can do with 1t.
Say you are In the vestibule of q fat.
Very likely you don't hear the bell ring
at all; 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 a button
up there In the air somewhere and you
may hear the click of the door-opener
ut your side. or they may not do even
that.
at is dry fun; not like the old slam
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
Please Tell Us Whx.

Says the New York Sun: Whoever
has labor or the fruits of labor to sell.
or who enjoys good credit with lenders.
can obtain ell the money he Is entitled
to. and no others are entitled to anv
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 it 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 q profit. 1t was not
so during the first years following the
war. 1t was never so to such q degree
as 1t is to-day. Why?-Buffalo Times
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
SIMPLY a STANDARD.
Falling Prices Prove the Apprecfa
tion of the Gold Dollar.

Falling Prices Prove the Apprecfa-
ton OF the Gold Dollar.
What are we to understand by the ex-
preston: Money Is the standard of
value?''
The constitution-article 1, section 8,
paragraph Snakes II the duty of con-
gress ito 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
urd OF weights and measures" is to pro-
vide scale in which the various weights
and dimensions of articles shall be ex-
pressed. As the value of money is it's
relation to commodities, ITO regulate
the value of money" is to provide a 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 act of 1892.
preserved In section $500 of the revised
statutes, IL is provided: THE money
of account of the United States shall
be expressed in dollars or units, dimes
or tenths, cents or hundredths, and
mills or thousandths: n dime being the
tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hun
dredth part of a dollar: n mill the thou
sandth part OF n dollar; and all accounts
In public Offices and all proceedings in
the courts of the United States shall he
kept and had in conformity to this reg
ulation." The dollar is simply the unit
OF this scale. and I'm the keeping of nc
counts nll values are expressed I'm the
multiples and fractions of this unit. Nj.
Cernuschi. I'm "Nomisma," page 7. gives
this definition of money: Money Is a
value crcnted by law to bc n scale of
valuation and n valid tender for paw
ments."
Money standard being n scale of valu-
alton, to talk of 50-cent dollar or unit
Is as illogical and senseless as to talk of
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 a 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 I'm
money, by expanding or contracting
the volume of money, diminish or in
crease the purchasing power of this unit
OF valuation and hold at their mercy the
property of the country.
Manifestly falling prices are the
cause of our commercial and industrial
depression and there can 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
enlarges or increases and there is n 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.-JudRe
Henry G. Miller, in National Rimetallist
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
TAzEwElL DIRECTORY.
CITY OFFICERS.

III VI EAOLUc-
Mayor. A. Greever.
Sergeant-G. L. McChntock.
Assessor. III. Lewis
COUNCILMEN.
w. Chapman, Smith Lockhart, l.. q.
Wingo, b. w. Stras and G. II. Surface.
POSTOFRICE.
'pen during week from 7:3O a. m. to ZOO
p. m. daily, except Sunday.
Money Order window open from 8 a. m. to
4 p. m. daily except sunday.
West bound mail closes l:15 p. m.
East bound mail closes $40 p. m.
CHURCH SERVICES.
cuRIsr1AN.--Rev. A. A. Ferguson, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning. Sun
day School $3.50 n. m. Prayer meetin-
every Saturday evening.
BAPTIsr.-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. IN.
FREsBYTERIAN-Rev w. w. Ruff, Pastor
Preaching on second Sundays at IL
a. IN. and p. m. Third Sundays at IL
a. m. and p. m. Fourth Sundays at
IL a. IN. and at Kelley p. m. Sunday
School at $3.50 n. IN. Prayer meeting
Thursdays at p. m.
MErHoDIsT.-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. m. Woman's Missionary Society first
Sunday Mt p. IA. Ladies Aid third
Friday at p. m.
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 "prosperi-
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

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 a concession
for the establishment of curing plant
for bears meat, bears hams being now
a fashionable delicacy in Paris
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 ia the
South. Magnificent buildings. ali
modern improvements. Campus ten
acres. Grand mountain scenery in
valley Of Va, famed for health. En-
ropean and American teachers. FnII
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
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
LAWYERS.
NOTICE.

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,
TAzEwELL' VA. M
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
BENEVOLENT ORDERS.

N1CLINCH VALLEY
Nv COMMANDERY, NO. 90.
y KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.
Meets first Monday IN each Month.
JAMES O'KEEFFE, +. G.
w. t. WITTEN, Recorder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
The Silver slogan.

Free coinage by the United States,
single-handed and alone, If 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

When you come to court drop in
and see us, and if you should feel
like leaving SO centdollar with us
for your subscription, we viii not
kick" ~
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02

Now is the time to subscribe for
the NEWS.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
G. G.. LONG,
PRACTICAL PLUMBER

Pipe work Of all kinds.
Telephone line construction
And Electric Bell Work.
Shop under the Tazewell
Hardware Co.'S Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-07-02
SUMMER Law IEerunEs
TAzEwELL' VI

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
uly 10 Aug 81 1857. Course includes 30 lectures by
dr. Justice Harlan, of u \. Supreme Court. POI
catalogue, address c MINOR. Secretary
Charlottesville. Va
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08

When ven want a good cigar go to
the Nevada Drug Sore and You will
ind an assortment of all the leading
brands in the market.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
Popular Daily Excursions to - Gag
and the East.

The Union Pacific il the only li-c ruiz
ming upholstered Pullman tourist sleeping
cars from California and Nevada 0 Gu
cago without changing every day in the
year, Through Pullman double drawing
room sleepers and dining room cars to
Chicago daily without change on "The
Overland Flyer" Only one change to
New York and Boston. ine from Ne
'a"' 70 hicago only nree DAYS.
steamship tickets on sale to and from
all points in Europe.
For full particulars. tickets ana sleep
g car Accommodations, call or address D
" Hitchcock, General Agent, No. I
Montgomery street, San Francisco, Cal
or W. ID. Phillips, Agent S. p. Co., Reno
Nevada,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
DR.. j. G. LEONARD,
- DENTIST

OFFICIAL the While House. one
block South of the Capitol and one block
east of the Briggs House.
OFFICE HOURS-Fron S to le A.. N.
and l to ) P. n. jlN
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
Tf1C UNION PACIFIC.

THG UNION PACIFIC.
Passes through the best cities and towns
III Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, and
Nebraska, and is the best route to Den
yer. Kansas City, Council BLU. Sioux
City. st. Louis, Chicago and all eastern
points.
The advantages gained by tLaveling
via the Union Pacific are
Quick Time,
Unequailed Service,
Magnificent Equipment,
Double Drawing Room,
Pullman Palace SIeepers.
Pullman Dining Cars,
Free Reclining Chair Cars,
Pullman Tourist Sieepars.
For time tables. pamphlets descriptive
of the country traversed, rates of fair. or
II other information. address
f. l.. LONAX.
GEN'L PASS. AND TICKET AaE~r
OMAHA. NEB.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
Bentons Liniment

It .as been used in Carson for owe
twenty-five years, has saved many an ache
an pain to those who know 1t. 1t is really
attended for horses. but works with the
sase magical results on the human. It is
3 powerful remedy, and for rheumatism is
ne KING of the world. Aches knocked
out in short order. No horseman should
S..without a bottle. Bcnton'> Imminent
i for sale at all drug store..
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
Assessment Notice,

Monarch Consolidated Gold and silve,
Mining Company.
Location of principal place of business
Carson City, ormsby County, State OF
Nevada.
Location of wOrks-Silver Lake Min
ing District, Douglas County, Nevada.
Assessment No. s.
Amount one half cent a share.
Date Of levy, November 5th, 1907.
Delinquent December 3nd, 1897.
GSdle day January 3rd, 1898.
by order ofth Board of Trustees.
JAMES r. JUDGE.
Secretary.
Nov s, 4~
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
TO WHOM IT NAY CONCERN

State Land Otice, Carson CT. Nevada
June -, lS9T:-Notice is l"r" V giver
that the State Of Nevada, una, the Act
Of June rs, 1880. has filed in the United
States Land Office at Carson CITY. Neva-
da, list No. POP Of lands selected under
said Act and has applied for patent for
said lands; that Il part of said list is
open TO the public for inspection AMI q
copy thereof. by descriptive s~ub-divis-
IONS has been posted in q convenient
place in said United States Land office
for the inspection of all persons inter
ested and the public generally.
thin the next sixty days following
the date of this notice, protests or con
tests against the claim Of said State Of
Nevada to any tract or subdivision de-
scribed in the list. on the ground that the
same is more valuable for mineral than
agricultural purposes, will be received
and noted by the Register and Receiver
of the L. 5. Land Office at Carson rjtyi
Nevada, for report TO the General Land
Office at Washington, u. e.
The following are the subdivisions
described, to-wit:-W. / of &. W. Sec 26.
Tvs Is, u. K. 10, F. 80 acres.
A. G. PRATT.
State Land Register OF the State q
Nevada.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08

Nov s, 4~
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
Doe Benton's Linimcnt.

In the war betweea the ~lili1ncnts. the
Old Boss of the Road, tie linimcnt made
by Doc Ben'on, still holds strongly in pub
i c favor.
1t has been relieving suffering human
ty IN Nevada for thirty wears, and time
has G nonStrated that it is good for both
maj and beast, and mighty few COM
pounds viii stand that test, If
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
For Over Fifty iears.

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup ha,
been used for children teething. It sooths
the Child, >ottens the gains, alavs all pain.
cures wind colo, and the best remedy for
Diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-12-08
NOTICE..

At the regular meeting of the State
Board of Examiners held April s, 1897,
the following resolution was adopted:
RESOLVED. That the Board of Exam
ers shall meet on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in each month for the
purpose of allowing claims against the
State, and all claims not in the office of
the Secretary Of State on or before said
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
each month shall not be considered or
allowed by the Board until it's next
meeting which will be on the third
Tuesday of each month.
REINHOLD SADLFN
EUGENE HOWELL
JAMES Il. Judge
Board Of Examiners
Attest:
J. DoANE,
Clerk.
Carson City, Nevada, April f. 1897.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-09
BLIND BIIL1k ARRESTED.

Boston, Novembe 8.-William Leavitt,
the blind song sell r who lodged in the
same house with Alt3e Brown was arrest
ed tonight charged, with her murder.
Upon just what evic snce Leavitt has been
arrested on such srious charge, the po-
lice tonight refuse t. state. Is is denied,
however, that Leayit IS arrest was brought
about by the Threatening language he is
said to have used against some woman
during his conversation with Mcmillan.
The fact that the wlman was strangled
to death instead of bling killed by more
usual method with ,Dme instrument has
been considered for some days rs par
tioularly queer aspect Of the crime and
might seem to shoH that it was blind
mans only method of dispatohing his
victim. The police believe that Leavitt
has spent portion f\his life in prison
in other states.
The murdered gira wrs positively iden-
titled tonight as May Alice Ruderham
of Rindge Center, NJ 81. The identitiea-
tion was made by Mrs. Lucy S. Brown
of Cambridge for waom the girl worked
year ago and whofs name she assumed
when she left and SOCK up her abode in
this city.
A sister of Mrs. Brown as we'll as
neighbor also identf11Ed the girl.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-09
BURGLARS CAN'T SELL THEM.
Safe in Harrison Robbed of $4,000 Worth
of Securities.

Harrison, November S.-The safe in the
store of NJ. Jordan & Son was blown
open at $50 a. m. Monday morning, and
$4,000 in bonds, stocks and funds were
stolen, belonging to the proprietor and to
the Odj Fellows and Harrison Cemetery
association Of which the proprietors were
trustees. The job of safe blowing was
done by professionals, the safe being
drilled just below the handle. Residents
of the town heard the noise of the explo-
sion at half past three o'clock, but no one
paid any attention to it and 1t was not
known that burglary had been COM
mitted until the next morning, when the
store was opened. The door Of the safe
which was large one, was blown COM
pletely off and the inside was thoroughly y
ransacked. AS soon as the break became
known searching parties we're organized
by the citizens, many starting off on
horse back along the different roads lead
Ing out of town. 1t was found that two
teams had left the place that night and
Deputy Sheriff Waterman and George
Tarbox went to Lewiston and arrived at
that oity about noon. None of the securi
ties stolen were negotiable or they will!
not be after notice has been given.