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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-31
city and suburban property. Prices are
tending upward

city and suburban property. Prices are
tending upward.
pair of mules owned by a resident
of Tampa are said to be so sore under
their collar that the driver quit because
the stencil from the brutes was unbeara-
Bile.
An investigation Of the numerous rob-
berries at Ybor City convinces Marshal
Burke that it is people out of work and
who are in starving condition that are
doing the stealing.
The Owl Cigar Company of Quincy has
now working IN its fulier's earth mine over
300 men, Its crop of tobacco will be so
lurge this year that large number of new
barns are being built on the different plan
tations.
The public reading room al Daytona has
400 books, besides magazines, papers,
maps, etc. Two years ago the ladies' of
Daytona started this free reading room,
and now it has an organization of sew
enty members who contribute 81 per year.
During a heavy rainstorm at Palatka
Thursday morning lightning struck the
1agpole on the Arlington hotel, complete
ly shattering it. No damage was done TO
the building The same flash burned out
the switchboard in the telephone exchange.
C. W. Kennon of Tampa has patented
a disc for hullng rice. The old system of
rice hulling there has always been waste
of at least 40 per cent, on account of
grains being crushed by the machine.
The disc invented by Mr.. Kennon does
away with great deal of this waste, as
1t does not crack the grain, and a result
in saving of at least 80 per cent.
Mrs Goodman, wife of Isador Goodman,
a tailor of Jacksonville, has just received
word from a sister, Mrs. CHASER of New
York, that the two have become the heirs
to about $1,000 each from some source in
their old home in Posen, Germany. The
Information was received through the fact
being advertised by the German consulate
of 1|ew York. and they have yet to learn
by whose Will the money has been left.
All reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, Capt. C. E. Garner, of the Independent
Line of steamers, states, that the red
spider is getting in its work effectively on
the hyacinths on the Upper st. Johns riv-
er. True, the work is being done slowly,
on account Of the vast quantity of hya-
cinths, but the spider is increasing in num-
bers rapidly, and Capt Garner predicts
that the pest will ultimately be destroyed.
He saws that the spiders naturally feed
upon the green leaves at first, or so long
as they last, but that the experience with
the red spider in South American coun-
tries is that it ultimately gets at the bulb
and kills the plant. This is what he be-
leves will be done on the st. Johns river.
Although the spider is very small, yet it
weaves a web, which can been seen on the
plants by examining them closely.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-31

'.N' Monserrat Of St. Augustine will
.'l a sample Of his shoemaking work to
We Nashville exposition.
Do7ier broome Of DeLand. son Of Judge
.'hn d. Broome OF Orlando. has gone -
''e gold fields Of Alaska.
7, mus ana fever prevail at westvnie.
-. rec WIN Baptist church in Holmes
'' 'S gaining new converts steadily.
n 'en' w. NJ. Ledwith. who has been oni,o
s' ~ ms summer home at Mayport for
cr1,ch sl months. is able to be our on
n 'n'y-S'K convicts have been sent 10
',''e camps during July. ana eight re-
vi. St,,. Next month the terms OF twenty
rt.sSn. local real estate dealers report n
''5 Increasing demand for Pensaeola
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-31
DIED AT HILLMAN.
A Drummer Robbed at n Washington
Hotel.

Washington Ga, July So.-w L. Ed
mundson. late proprietor Of the Edmund
son house. dropped dead yesterday at Hill-
man. lie had been suffering from some
thing like gastritls. and had gone TO Hin
man 70 recuperate Mr.. Edmundson will be
greatly missed here. ar he was a splendid
nurse, and always, exceedingly kind 20
every one IN distress. The body was
brought NJ tonight
A drummer az the Riley house was rohb-
cd Of Sis las, night His purse was found
but the money had been taken out. one
Of the servants az the hotel was arrested.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.
Progressive States Cannot Do without
Good Roads Much Longer.

Progressive States Cannot Do Without
Good Roads Much Longer.
At the meeting OF the Farmers Ma
tlonal congress, held in indianapolis,
Mr.. Domer, of Wisconsin, spoke on the
necessity of good roads. a part of
what he said follows: Good roads have
paid for themselves in Europe; they
have paid for themselves in New Jer-
sey; they have paid for themselves in
North Carolina and in Alabama; they
have paid for themselves in Massachu
sets and New York; they have paid for
themselves wherever they have been
properly and economically built and
properly taken care of. Gentlemen
who have made study Of the subject,
Including the chief of the bureau Of
road inquiry at Washington, have told
us as u result of their Investigations
that it costs our farmers on an average
a little over three dollars per ton to
market their product This three dol
lars per ton of course is not necessarily
money expended, but is the value IL
dollars and cents of the time, labor
and effort on the part of man and beast
i'm travelling with load of crops from
the farm to the market. These gentle
men tell us further that fully two
thirds of this three dollars per ton
might lee saved by the construction of
good roads. You see this amounts to
a great deal, and will give you little
example from my own state of Wiscon-
sin as an Illustration. We raise in Wis
cousin each year about 100000 tons of
oats, 100000 tons of corn, and enough
wheat and barley to make another
100000 tons, a total of 100000 tons,
rot to mention other products, such as
hay, potatoes, rye and tobacco, all of
which amount to considerable. The cost
of marketing this at three dollars per
ton is SS,25O,OOO. Two-thirds of this is
So, SEQ 900, tremendous amount, which
might be saved in Wisconsin alone on
oats, corn, wheat and barley, and that
year after year.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
GOOD WINTER WORK.
Induce Your Legislators to Push "Im
proved Highway" Bills.

Induce Your Legislators to Push elm
proved Highway" Bills.
Inasmuch as the legislatures of the
various states are in session during the
winter, this is really one of the most i'm
portant seasons in. the work of road
making.
The need of a more general knowl-
edge of the necessity and value of i'm
proved highways is very pressing one.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
League of American Wheelmen has
spent much good time and money es-
pousing the cause of good roads, there
are still many persons who look upon
the movement as something intended to
benefit bicyclers only.
So long as this narrow view obtains,
so long will the movement for getting
good roads for all the people be him
dered. It is true that the riders of bicy-
cles are now counted in such numbers
as to entitle their wishes to the legisla-
tive recognition they are receiving in
some instances, but these grants do not
partake of the broad liberality that
should be shown toward an organiza-
ton that has as one of its chief aims the
securing of a great national system of
splendid highways. ga long pull, a
strong pull, and pull altogether" on
the part of the whole people, will do the
work. It seems very reasonable to be-
lieve that when there is no longer any
one to oppose the movement and many
favor it, il must go forward.
A good roads system is q proper thing
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
KANGAROO HUNTING.
Riding to Hounds After the NimbIe
Brutes in Australia.

Riding to Hounds After the NimbIe
Brutes in Australia.
There are two ways of hunting kan
garoos in Australia, ore followed by ma
tive hunters and the other by white
men. The natives surround herd OF
the animals, narrow the circle and then,
when the kangaloos dash at them in
wild efforts to escape, kill them with
short spears and clubs, commonly called
waddies. 1t is lively work for the ma
tive. The kangaroo uses his hind leg
viciously and with great Judgment, and
dogs, horses and men have been torn
open by the nails of his hind feet.
The white men prefer to follow the
kangaroos with dogs. Every herd of
kangaroos has q leader, known as the
old man or boomer, which warns his
followers of the approach of danger
by stamping the ground with his hind
foot, making a booming sound that
starts all the kangaroos in hearing on
a run. A scared herd will run 20 or 50
miles at times, or until it reaches safe
~. y male weighs from 100 to 175
pounds and is seven or eight feet long.
The English make up parties OF hunters
and follow the kangaroo with dogs
somewhat like foxhounds, but of great
err size and strength. Women and men
join in the sport, riding to the hounds
on good horses.
riding to the place where u herd
Of ho to Inv
before by bushmen," q.Sportsman Mag
az:ne writer says, eve came to the bush,
a growth of ubiquitous trees and tree
ferns, fit to brush one off his horse.
Quiet was the word of caution passed
when we came near the sparsely grown
ground beyond the bush where the
kangMoos had been seen. The dogs
were called in, and then we rode from
the bush into view of the herds senti-
mel, and then away went the kangaroos,
followed by the dogs, and we were at
the tail tips of the dogs. The kanga-
rcos could not run, but folding their
forelegs across their breasts, they sat
down. Then, with tail and hind legs
away they went by hops, no hop being
less than 20 feet long, and others being
more than 30 feet. They cleared shrubs
10 feet high.
Cautiously enough, the kangaroo tray
els faster up hill than down, the dogs
catching up on the down slopes. The
beast sometimes breaks its neck while
running down hill by going head over
heels. The does began to throw their
young out of their pouches, and we knew
they were hard pressed. They turned
suddenly for the water. We found the
dogs at a water hole with two Ecom-
ers at bay. We dismounted, and draw
ing our knives, waited an opportunity
to run in and hamstring them. A dog
rushed in and was caught by the hind
leg of a boomer and pressed under
water, where it was quickly drowned.
Then dog got onerof the beasts by the
back and threw it. whereupon my cousin
quickly hamstrung it, while raped its
nose with my whip, killing it. We had
kangaroo tail soup and steaks for din
ner for several days.. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
WISE ADVERTISER.
A Little Jokelet Now and Then Is
ReIishcd by the Best Of Men.

Little Jokelet Now and Then Is
ReIishcd by the Best Of Men.
"If there is anything l don't like,
observed the drummer, SIT is puDs or
the man who produces them on sight or
keeps them on tap. The only place
that a pun can be used at all, in my
Judgment, is in an advertisement, for
there a man pays for it, and he can
print anything he wants. Besides,
pun in all advertisement seems to catch
the eve that kind Of wanders around
waiting for something to fix it.
81 guess that is what l was doing
about ten days ago in a New England
town of about 4,GO0 people, where you
might expect people to make prayers,
but never purs. was merely there TO
catch train on 4 crossroad, aud while
waiting | wandered along Tie main
street of the town. At last | came TO
a store where the proprietor had out in
frontal otof Observation-Disclosures wraps,
robes, gloves ard that kind of winter
wearing apparel, with sleighbells on
the side. On the lot he had a card that
showed up like circus bill, which bore
the inscription: killing Costumes
at was none of my business. CT
course, but 1 stopped to examine the
stuff. and the proprietor, Il cheerful
sort of soul, came out to see Inc.
"'What you got that on there for%
said 1, pointing to the card.
"'Cause that's what ought TO be
there said he, smiling.
"'But it ougbtn't,' said 1.
"Why oughtn't it?'
"'Simply because killing" in the
sense you use it there means something
brilliant and striking, and those things
are as plain as the nose on your face
"'Just the same, they are for sleigh
ing purposes grinned the merchant,
with his thumb up to that same plain
nose, and the far-off forests of PGnjab
echoed the notes of his triumph as l
hurried back to the train that was to
carry ne away from the scene Of my
discontinue. ""-WaShirgtop Star.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
PUBLIC sale
VAL LIABLE REAL PROPERTY
AT POCAHONTAS, VA.

BY virtue of deed of trust executed by
w. A Whitley and Cosby Whitley, his
wife, to J. Taylor Ellyson and Geo. W: st.
Clair, trustees of Old Dominion Building
and Loan Association, on the 18th day OF
September, 1895, of record in the clerk s
office of the County Court of Tazewell
County, In deed book So, pages 174-5; de-
fault having been made by said VIM.
Whitley to comply with the terms OF con-
tract with said association and terms OF
deed of trust, by direction of board of di-
rectors to us, we will sell on Saturday,
APRIL "a, 1897,
at front door of court house of said county,
ut o'clock p. m., all that certain house
and lot situate in the town of Pocahontas,
Tazewell County, Virginia, being the north
east corner of portion of lot No. l, East
St. Clair Street, fronting % feet on Church
Street and bounded On south by said street.
and fronting OH Center Street so feet and
bounded ON west by said street, and on
north by property of Tompkins, and on
east by property of B. Prince.
Terms: Cash sufficient to pay expenses
of executing trust, and amount due from
said Whitley to said association, lat this
date being 81, 410.50), balance on a credit
of 6, Il and Is months.
GEO. w. ST. CLAIR,
J. TAYLOR ELLYsoN,
March 23, 1897. Trustees.
Sale of above mentioned property con-
tinued until 22d May, 1887, and to be sold
on the premises at Pocahontas, Va.
GEO. w. ST. CLAIR.
j. TAYLOR ELLYsoN.
d-22-4t
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
WORTH CONSIDERING.
A New Line of Argument on the Road
Improvement Question.


Improvement Question.
The good stone roadway in the United
States, according to the computation of
Gen. Roy Stone, the accomplished en-
gineer of the bureau of roads of the de-
partment of agriculture, was increased
during 1896 by 1000 miles. This seems
little enough until we remember that at
the end of 1895 the good stone roadway
in the country did not exceed 1000
miles. If we should continue at this
rate it would take more generations
than we have patience to think of be-
fore the reproach Of bad roads could
be lifted from our country. But if the
good roads could be increased in this
proportion each year-that is, doubled
we should soon accomplish something
worth while.
There is unquestionably widespread
desire for good roads in this country,
but the people are hampered by the cost
and hindered by the apprehension OF
too heavy taxes. And then, notwith-
standing all the agitation and all the re-
cent literature on the subject, the peo-
pie at large are still dreadfully ig-
norant. One ignorant set think that
road Improvement means The universal
substitution of macadam pavements for
dirt roads; another ignorant party is
deluded with the idea that the macadam
pavement makes the dirt road unneces-
sary. Both of these parties are as
wrong as possible, and hurt the cause
they seek to advance.
In answer to one false idea it may
be said that every macadam pavement
should be paralleled with wcll-drained
dirt road. A good dirt road is pleasanter
to use eight months in the year than a
macadam pavement. And during that
time is just the period when macadam
road is injured by travel. 1t is in dry
and hot weather that the macadamp pave
ment is worn by traffic.
Then again, macadam pavements
could not be built in 500 years to re-
place all our dirt roads. And it would
not be well, anyhow.
If we could teach the country peo-
pie to make these dirt roads properly
and then drain them sufficiently, they
would answer every purpose. But how
to do this is the question. One way sug-
gests itself at once. Let county So
cieties be formed and prizes offered for
the best district in each township. This
would conduce to thought and study.
To make good dirt road and keep in
repair is so easy that none but sim
pleton could fail to understand proper
instruction.
This is hint to the organized wheel
men and the department of agriculture
rs well. But there is no suggestion
whatever in this hint that the high
ways should not have stone pavement
over a part of each such road-a stone
pavement paralleled by well-drained
dirt road.-Leslie's- Weekly.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
PAINT LICK ITEMS.
Easter was very warm and pleasant.

Easter was very warm and pleasant.
Mrs. Minnie Steele and children were
visitingat A. Ascue's on Sunday evening.
Mr.. James Bradshaw is attending Sun
day School at Midway regularly. Wonder
what the attaction is?
Miss Lucy Kidd and Rosie White spent
Sunday at A. Ascues.
Does any one know the young gentlemen
that was so attracted by young lady he
forgot his hat? Girls you ought not have
the boys so excited.
Miss Mable White spent last week at
her grandpa's, near Belfast.
Mr.. T. \. Mcclure was visiting ZIP"
Sunday.
We have good Sunday School and large
attendance William J. Lester is Supt.
Laurence Ascue brought q large eagle
home from Testers Cove, that had been
caught in a trap. lie now has it ina cage.
Some of our good Christians have organ
lied Sunday School at Christians school
house Wish them success in their good
works,
Misses Molle and ELI. White attended
their Uncle John Whites wetd ding in Rus
sell, the Sth.
F. II. Ascue will quit hauling logs from
Paint Lick to Cedar Bluff with inten days,
and will move his teams to Cedar Bluff to
haul lumber from Beach Fork for Mr..
Adams.
"ScRIvoR AND TMME".
April 10th 1897.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
NOTICE.

The undersigned will, on the 10th day
of February, 1897, at the front-door of
Tazewell Court house, sell for cash to the
highest bidder at public auction, $50
shares of the capital stock of the Virginia
& Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, and
100 shares of the capital stock of the
Cranes Nest Coal and Iron Company,
which said shares of stock are held by the
undersigned as collateral security for the
payment of certain notes belonging to it,
and will be sold to pay said notes.
The shares of stock of the Virginia &
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. to be
sold, are in three certificates, one for 25O
Shares, and two others for 100 Shares
each; and the stock of the Cranes Nest
Coal and Iron Company is in one certiti.
tcate for 1U0 shares. All Ct said stock is CT
the par value of $4,000 per share.
THE BANK OF RICHLANDs.
PER CHAPMAN & GILLESPIE.
Attorneys for said Bank.
The above sale is postponed until the
18th day of May, 1897, Court Day.
jan IS, st
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22

'I< looks" he added. in disgust,
Gas IL this show was stranded.
1 didn't think we'd have to walk
In water when we'd landed.
Ny foot's stuck fast, hate to KICK,
But when I escaped the flood
I owned the EARTH my way looked clear
But now it's thick as mud
"And though Noah naught to get
Inside out Of the rain,
I'd rather have plain water than
This mud and watery plain.
Oh! do not drown this mortal clay
In mud, dear Lord, and be
So gracious as to grant our prayer,
We want good roads, said he
y
That architect of arks IS dust.
In Heaven he's long abided,
But many a road remains the same
AS when the food subsidized.
Joe LINCOLN, in Good Roads.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
HIGHLANDS ITEMS.
April 10Th 1897

Easter Sunday has come and gone and
we all had gool time.
The farmers are preparing to plant corn.
Bro. sheAey is holding series of meet
lngs here. He says he has come TO stay
until after the locll option election takes
place.
Prof Hutton gave the boys, at their
request, holiday on last Monday.
Miss Minnie Brewster is very sick at
this writing. We hope she will soon re-
cover.
Mr.. James Dickinson and wife, just re-
Gently married, have gone to house keep
ing near his fathers, at Doran.
April p st, 1897. ?. j..
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22

TO WORK ror;-or Else TITS not. II it Is an
end worth striving after, then the only
question left for solution is how best to
attain that end.
It is clear that in the state legisla-
lures are the proper places for the dis
cussion of this subject. Many of them
will take 1t up this winter. Write your
member and tell him what you think of
it. He is in office to do the peoples bid
ding.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
WHAT FARMERS NEED.
Good Roads VIII Check Emigration
from the Country.

Good Roads VIII Check Emigration
from the Country.
What is most needed to make farm
life more attractive and to check the
emigration from the country TO the
cities is larger opportunities for social
intercourse. At present there is
little opportunity for the rural classes
to mingle at all. They are compelled by
force of circumstances to remain at
home, and, firing Of this constant rou-
tine, it is natural for the rising gener-
alton to seek the cities, where there
is variety and change. The much
mooted question Of better roads con-
tains remedy, TO q large extent, for
this evil. Better roads will brighten the
life and improve the condition of the
farmer much more than better learn
ing, though we do not desire to discount
the advantages Of education to people
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22

in AT TIE walks or1Tre. AZ present, IN
the winter, when The farmer has the
NEST leisure, the roads are almost i'm
passable, except in sleighing weather,
and this bars his children from all So
c;al intercourse, as, indeed, it would
bar them from attendance upon any ad-
vanced schools that might be estab-
!ishcd in their interests. Give tie
farmer better roads, and there is every
reason to believe his children will re-
main with him longer, and that his gen
cral condition will be much better than
it is at present.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22

When you think of having prescnp-
ton filed think seriously who you will get
to fill it, there is great deal of danger at
tached to having your prescriptions filled
by incompetent hands, the Tazewell Drug
Co. have graduate in Pharmacy to fill
their prescriptions-in his hands you are
perfectly safe.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
smnu Enr1ns Pny best.

Nearly all farmers are coming to
realize that in general their farms are
too large for the intense and careful
farming now necessary to meet the de-
mands of the market and to secure
profitable returns. The pioneers who
first settled in these broad fertile val
levs we're not satisfied unless their
farms were large enough TO consume a
full day in interviewing their crops and
their live stock scattered over their
broad acres. To them quality was not
of SO much account as quantity.-Troy
IN. ~ Times.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22
STRAIGHT to the Point.

A lady having made an appointment
to meet her daughter in large drapery
establishment and arriving 100 soon, oc-
cupied her mind in pricing goods in the
blanket department. After half an
hour had elapsed and bale after bale
had been turned out she said:
"Don't trouble showing me any more.
1 only came in to meet friend"
MADAM" replied the shopman, in SOL
emn tones, "if you think there is the
slightest chance OF your friend being
among the blankets, I'll be happy to
trrn them over again!"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-04-22

Mr.. William Gross, of Bush, KY, says:
Only wife had suffered for about 40 years
with a severe cough and had been given
up to die several times by the best doc
tors. Lately, 1 resorted to Lightning
Cough Drops, and this medicine affected
a complete cure. She is now again able to
do her daily work and enjoy health. y
f sale by Tazewell Drug Co.