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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
is AN OYSTER A LEGAL FiSH7
Scientists Dispute About II and the Church
Is Called In.

A dispatch from Annapolis says:
The question of whether oysters and
crabs are fish has arisen in the con
tention between Maryland and Virgi-
mia over the dividing line in Potomac
River. Tomorrow committees of the
Maryland and Virginia Legislatures
will inspect the disputed section.
Senator Dryden, Of Somerset, states
that new point will be raised by
Maryland. The south bank of the
river is the dividing line between
the States, but under the compact OF
1855 the citizens of Maryland and
Virginia have enjoyed equal rights
of fishing, oystering and crabbing.n
The comprct states that "the right
of fishing shall be mutually eujoyed.
At that time neither Grabbing or
oystering was recognized industry,
but every attention was paid to the
great shap and herring fisheries.
The point now raised is: Can oys-
terlng and grabbing be included in
the term 'fishing2' Scientists, to
whom the question has been submit
ted, agree that oysters and crabs
are not fish, having neither vetebrae
nor red blood In all the laws pass.
ed in Mrryland oyeters and fish
have been separately treated.
1t is expected that the Virginia
committee will ref.,se to consider
the point raised, but an interesting
test case may grow out of it. The
biological department of John Hop
kins University has informed the
Legislators that zoologically the oyster
is not fish.
But leading lawyers contend that
legally the oyster is fish, and Car
dinal Gibbon says that from the
Catholic church point of view, oys.
ters and crabs have always been
regarded as fish. The church per-
mits, however, during the lenten
season, the use as food of nearly all
kinds of living creatures out OF the
water, including tarrapins.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
TO MAKE HAULING EASY.

Expcrfm ments I'm the Use of Steel
Trnci<ways on Wagon Roads.
In accordance with the desire of the
secretary of agriculture to promote
more extended experiments in the
use of steel trackways on wagon roads,
the Office of road inquiry has made
arrangements with the Cambria iron
works, of Johnstown, Pa, for rolling
special rails for this purpose, these ar
rangements to go into effect as soon
as definite orders from responsible par
ties amounting to one mile of track
are received.
The director of road inquiry and the
engineers of the iron company, after
much discussion, have agreed upon a
plan of track which promises TO meet
all requirements. 1t uses no wood in
construction and no cross ties for sup
port, but consists of a simple inverted
trough or channel of steel for each
wheel with a slightly raised bead on
the inside to guide the wheels, each
channel resting in bed of gravel and
the two tied together occasionally to
prevent spreading.
Special devices for remounting are
provided at each joint The bearings
or tread for wheels is eight inches wide,
the thickness about seven-sixteenths of
an inch. The weight of the structure
is about 100 tons per mile of single
track road and it will be furnished in
small sections at the rate of $4,000 per
mile.
The first order for track has been
given by the New York State Agri-
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
a BIG TURQUOISE.
VIII weigh Fully Eighty-Eight Car
ats When Cut and Polished.

VIII Weigh Fully Eighty-Eight Car
ats when Cut and Polished.
Probably the largest and finest tur-
quoise ever taken from American soil
was received at Santa Fe, N. NJ, tho
other day from southern New Mexico.
1t weighs about 176 carats and it is es-
timated by competent experts that it
will weigh fully SO carats when cut and
polished.
1t has the best color known, being a
delicate sky blue, just shade lighter
than a bluebird's wing. This, with q
number of smaller stones running from
forty to ten carats, was taken from a
newly-discovered mine, the location OF
which, it is believed, is in Lincoln coun-
ty, N. NJ.
Absolutely no details of the discovery
can be learned. The large stone is es-
timated to be worth $4,000,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident of which Mr..
John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the
subject is narrated by him as fol-
lows: II was in a most dreadful
condition. My skin was almost vel
low, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pains continually in back and sides,
no appetite-gradually growing
weaker day by day. Three physici-
ans had given me up. Fortunately,
friend advised trying "Electrict
Bitters,' aud to my great Joy and
surprise, the first bottle made a de-
cided improvement. 1 continued
their nse for three weeks, and am
now well man. 1 know they saved
my life and robbed the grave of
another victim. No one should fail
to tro them. Only 80 cenis per bot
tie at Jno. E. Jackson's Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
The Discovery of the Day.

Aug. j. Bogel, the leading drug
gist of Shreveport, La, Tsays: "Dr.
Kings New Discovery ie the only
thing that cures my cough, and it is
the best seller have.v J.F. Camp
bell, merchant of Stafford, Ariz.,
writes: "Dr Kings Neg Discovery
is oil that is claimed for it;it never
fails. and is sure cure for Consump
ton, Coughs and Colds. I connot
say enough for its merits" DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is no experiment
II has been tried for quarter of a
century, and today stands at the
head. 1t never disappoints. Free
trial bottle at Jno. +. Jackson's
Drug Store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
The Preacher and the Newspaper.

A preacher yecently said that q
newspaper that told the truth, and
the whole truth, couldn't be a pecu.
mary success, to which an ex
change replies as follows:
"The minister who Will at all
times, and under all circumstances,
tell the whole truth about his mem.
oers, alive or dead, might not occupy
the pulpit more than one Sunday,
and In some cases might find it
convenient to leave town. The press
and the pulpit go hand and hand
with the white wash brush and
osant We rds, magnefying little
'urs into big ones. The pulpit,
se press and the gravestoue are the
great siint making concerns"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
Double Homicide in West virqinia.

Charleston, w. Va, February 5 -
George p. Tucker, coal miner, at
Crescent, Fayette county, went home
at noon yesterday and found bis
wife with V lillian McAllister. Yre
hired four shots, killing both his wife
and McAllister instantly. He then
walked two miles to Montgomery
and gave himself up to tie officers.
Mrs Tucker was the mother of three
grown children, who lived at home.
She was Al years old. McAllister
was %.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
REPUBLICAN HARMONY.
Probability of its Restoration
Discussed at Washington.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. S.--(Spe-
cial. )-Republicans coming from Vir-
ginia say that movement is on foot
to restore harmony within the ranks
of the party, and that the factional
fight which has disruputed the party
throughout the administration thus
far, as a result of the disbute over
the distribution of patronage, will
soon come TO an end. Some time
ago announcement was made of the
effort being made by the leaders of
both factions to come to an under
standing, and the statement now
made bears out the report.
Nearly all of the important local
officers in tho state with the excep.
tion of the marshalship aud district
attorneyship of the Eastern district
have been given out, and it is argued
that the distribution of the patron
age removes the real bone of
contention, and there is nothing fur
ther to be gained by the continua.
tion of the internecine war.
Those persons who predict q re
Cancellation of the two wings think it
will be accomplished by the recogniI
ton, on the part of Lamb factionc-of
the state committee, headed by
Chairman Agnew, but nothing pos
tive can be stated as to this. They
believe, however, that the republicans
will put out tickets this year in
every congressional district in the
state.
The election this year will be ma
tional in its character-that is, il
will be fought upon the lines laid
down in 1896, and the Agnew faction
could not we'll afford to refuse to
place tickets in the field at this
time. In the congressional election
it is thought the main effort will be
made to retain the Ninth and Tenth
districts for the republicans and it is
conceded that both Yost and Walker
will be renominated. There will be
a hot fight made in the Second, oil
Norfolk district, ard also in the
Fourth, Fifth.and baly tn
Eighth districts
AT the last congressional election
a determined effort was made in both
the Fourth and Fifth districts, and
although unsuccessful, the result
was so close that contests were i'll.
stituted.
Democrats from Virginia say that
there is no doubt as to any of the
Virginia districts with the exception
of the Ninth, which is General Walk
er's, and which is conceded to b,
very close.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
NORTHERN MANS PLAIN TALK.
Wage Reduction the Only Hope Of New
England Cotton Mills.


Boston, February st. jefferson
Collidge, treasurer of the Amoskeag
Mills, of Manchester, has returned
from trip TO Florida. He says of
the general mill situation:
''On the maintenance of the reduc.
tion in wages depends the existence
of the New England mills, and strik
ing against the reduction is a mis-
take OF the part of operative who are
attempting to kill the goose that lays
the golden egg. If the mill hands
desire to be out of employment, they
are taking the right course in strik-
ing.
NEARLY all ofthe Southern mills
are prosperous. The biggist mills
are earning large divididens, but
rarely paying six per cent. as they
are reserving their excess profits to
increase their quick capital.
The Southern mills get some ad
vantage from the cheaper coal and
cheaper cotton, but the wage ques
ton is the greatest factor in their
favor. If it were not for the lower
wages paid in the South, our mills
could compete with them without
trouble
Southern mills, having been
built later, are superior to the aver
age Northern mill. The best South.
ern operatives turn out just as much
work as the Northern operatives and
are just as intelligent
Fall River, Mass, February 5.-A
conference was held today by agent
A. b. Chase and Superintendent p.
A, Natthison, of King Phillip Mills,
and ex-Secretary Robert Howard and
Secretary Thomas o. Donnell, of the
Mule Spinners Association. At the
conclusion OF the conference, Secre
tary O'Donnell said the situation re
mained unchanged. Mr.. Chase re-
fusing to make any concession.
Taunton, Mass, February 5-Tho
employees of the Whittenton Mills
have been notified of seven per
cent. reduction in wages to take ef-
feet Monday. More than eight hun.
dred hands are employed and the
concern is the largest manufac. urer
of cotton cloth in the city.
Keen competition and the condi,
ton of the market are given as the
cause of the reduction. There will
be no strike. and the cut will be ac.
cepted. Congressman William c.
Lowering is president of the corpora.
ton.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
THE "CHEwING GUM VICE"
Bishop Vincent, OF the Methodist Church,
Wants II crusaded

wants ~ Ntuoaucus
Bishop John II. Vincent, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, appear
ing before the State Temperance Un-
ion at Topeka, Kan, yesterday, ap-
pealed to his bearers to fight the
chewing gum habit and 10 ersevere
until it is crusaded out of Kansas.
He said that the "chewing gum
vice" had made millio naires out of
few men in a few years, and instead
of doing any good was encouraging
dangerous habits among the people.
The bishop argued that the founda-
tion of temperance reform should be
laid at the chewing gum age of child
hood, as the habit, he said was sort
of self indulgence that should be re.
strained. If the child's will were
educated to resist this habit, it could
be easily trained to resist other hab-
its.
The Bishop was particularly severe
in his criticism of the chewing gum
girl. He urged that she should be
given to understand that the indul
gence of the habit was to her dis
credit.-Daily Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
SIX FIREMEN KILLED.
Four Others More or Less Seriously Injured.

Four Others More or Less Seriously Injured.
Boston, February Six fireman,
incinding district chief, a captain,
and lieutenant, were killed at q fire
here this morning, which burned out
the interior of a five story building
on Merrimac street, occupied by G..
w. Bent 81 Co., manufacturers of
beds, bedding, etc.
The dead are: District Chief John
f. Egan, Captain James Victory.
Lieutenant George G. Goltwood,
Hoseman Patrick III. Disken, Fire.
man John ]. Mulhern, and Hose.
man w. J. Walsh.
-Four other fireman were buried
IN the ruins, but they escaped with
more or less serious injuries They
are; Captain Joseph M. Clarity,
Hoseman Thomas E. Conway, Hose.
man L. j. Doherty, and Hoseman
Edwarl Shea. Lieutenant John ].
Mccarthy, of Protective Company
L., was slightly bruised by falling
bricks-Dispatcb.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
Earthquake Kills 100 PeopIe.

Constantinople, February g.
Earthquake shocks continue to be
felt at Balikes, Asia Minor, and in
Its vicinity. About 1000 people have
been rendered homeless, some 3.6OO
houses, thirty mosques and fifteen
khans have been more or less de.
stroyed and 120 persons have been
killed or injured.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
WILL NOT STARVE.
Moro Encouraging Report from the
Gold Fields of Alaska
Miner Who Has Been I'm Yukon Coun-
try Five Years Says More Is TO
he Feared from Cold
Than Hunger.

Hope for those who have friends in,
der. who returned to Seattle, Wash, on
the steamer Humboldt, after having
spent five years in the Yukon. He does
not believe there viii be any deaths
from starvation, though he admits that
food will be scarce. Cryder says that
lack of shelter is more serious condi-
tion confronting the miners in the gold
belt than starvation. He states that the
closing of the company stores a Daw-
son was temporary eXpedient merely
to prevent spectators from cornering
all the provisions in the country and
thereafter holding supplies at fabulous
prices.
"It is not proposed to allow this" con-
tinued Cryder. ''The miners have de-
termned that any man selling food
must do so at the company's prices
These are fixed and will not be allowed
to go higher. Where so many people
are together and can interchange, food
goes long way. An outfit that would
last one man a year can be made TO hold
out is months by judicious trading. Do
not understand that am advising any
one to go there this winter. I am simply
stating these facts to encourage those
who have friends in the north.
Lack of shelter will, in my opinion.
be responsible for more suffering in the
INondille than will famine. 1t costs
81 900 for n fair log cabin already built.
and the time and labor in construct
ing new one would amount to about
the same. There were not over 100
houses in Dawson when 1 left, while in
the city were 1900 people. In the
gulches are being built huts to shelter
those who labor in the mines. Where
newcomers with light outfits and empty
pockets will lay their heads is an un-
solved problem"
AS to the mining outlook, Cryder de-
clared that SOS, 900, 600 will be taken this
: winter from the claims on Bonanza and
s-Eldorado creeks, while from the Birch,
Miller and Munook districts will be
washed about 100000.
AIRS. Z. A. Henderson, the first news
paper correspondent to make tho trip
TO Dawson City, arrived on the Cleve-
land from st. Michaels and is visiting
friends in Tacoma, Wash.
She spent some months in the minin g
district, and in answer to the question:
"Is the Klondike country as rich as re-
ported?" she says: 81 was prepared at
one time to say: TT can scarcely be
exaggerated but since then, 1 have seen
newspapers and reply very cautiously.
In several papers I saw the statement
that somebody had seen five five-gallon
coal oil cans of gold in one cabin, the
work of two men for winter. No one
in that country ever heard of such n
cabin. The truth is, lifted less than
$4,000 of dust in n granite bowl with
difficulty"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
Morgan Treat Appointed Marshal

Washington. February S.-Tbe
President today nominated Alonzo
Q Yates Of Virginia, to be consul at
Patras, Greece, and Morgan Treat
to be marshall of the Eastern dis.
trict of Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
THE SPIRIT OF
AGGRESSIV EN- ESS

which is manifest in our Shoe Department
is due to confidence in the merits of our
goods. We know that our shoes are intrin-
s1cally as good value as can be produced,
hence our confidence and aggressiveness.
A business built upon any foundation other
than merit is built upon the sand. We
know that the Best and Largest General
Lines are here. Our new line of Ladies'
lace shoes with silk vesting tops Tin choco-
late, tan and brown colOrs, are beautiful to
look upon.
HARRISON and Gillespie Bros,
.. 80.
TAzEWELL, VA.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
c0-EDUcATI0N TO BE TRIED.
Trustees Authorized II In Richmond coIIeue
ina Limited Way.

Richmond, Va, Feb. S.-The
Board OF Trustees OF Richmond Col
lege, at their semi-annual meeting
here to day, adopted resolution
empowering the Committee on In.
struction to establish at the college,
co-education in a limited way, by ad-
mitting young women to the higher
classes.
The board decided to establish at
the collge a chair Of English Litera.
cure and History.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11
TAzEWELL DIRECTORY.
CITY OFFICERS.

CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor A, Greever.
Sergeant-G. l.. McClintock.
Assessor. II. Lewis.
COUNCILMEN.
j w. Chapman, Smith Lockhart, L. @.
Wingo, b. w. Stras and-G. r. Surface.
POSTOFFIOE.
Open during week from 7:30 a. m. to 700
p. m. daily, except Sunday.
Money Order window open from 8 a. NJ to
4 p. m. daily except sunday.
West bound mail closes 1:15 u. IN.
East bound mail closes $40 p. m.
CHURCH SERVICES.
CHRIsTIAN.-Rev. A. A. Ferguson, Pastor
Preaching every Sunday morning Sun
day School $3.50 a. m. PRAYER meeting
every Saturday evening.
STRAs MEMORIAL EPIsCoPAL.-Rev. w.
d. Buckuer, Rector. Divine Service
on first and third Sundays of each
month, at IL a. m. and eight p. IN.
Holy Communion on first Sunday, at
IL a. m. Sunday School every Sun
day, at 8 a. m.
lPRESBYTERIAN.-Rev w. w. Ruff. Pas
- tor, preaching second Sundays at IL
a. m, and at Kelly at 2 p. IN Third
Sundays at IL a. m. and z p. m.
Fourth Sundays at IL a. m, and at
Mays Chapel at p. m. Prayer
meeting Thursday at p. m.
METHoDIsT.-I. p. Martin, Pastor. Preach
ing on first and third Sundays at IL
a. m; on second and fourth at 7:45
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7.45
p. m. Epworth League meeting each
Monday night. Sunday School at $50
a. m. Woman's Missionary Society first
Sunday at 3 p. m. Ladies Aid third
Friday at 3 p. m.
BAPTIST. Rev. w. G. Foster, Pastor
Preaching on 1st and 4th Sundays at
IL a. m. 1st and 3rd Sundays at z: 90
p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday
at ZOO p. m. 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, 1898-02-11

Virginia City Coal delivered at
$2.40 per ton, SPOT CASH. Doran
Coal, owned by Col May and others
So 65 per ton, delivered.
TAZEWELL SUPPLY CO.,
Kelly,Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11

A Dakota man has after 20 years. ef-
fort succeeded In collecting SIS from
the government for supplies furnished
Clusters army on its way to the Little
Big Horn.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11

A salary, in the first place, was a
sum of money given the soldiers in az
army with which to purchase the salt
used with their food.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ilis, BIZ
lousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 26o.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1898-02-11

plAtAfNr< NUBIAN TEA cures Dyspsp-
s~ss~s = sia, Constipation and Indi.
geation. Regulates the Liver. Pries, e c.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-04-21
NASHVILLE STUDENTS
The Colored Jubilee Singers Entertain
Fresno, Cal.

Thearle's Nashville Students, the
"Colored Jubilee Singers" " sang at
Kutner hall last evening for tue ben
eft of building fund of the Baptist
church. The entertainment they put
up is a good one and was thoroughly
enjoyed by the crowd that packed
Kutner hall to hear them.
All the members of the company
possess rich and pleasing voices, ant
their rendering of plantation and ju
bilee songs was most excellent. On
member of the troupe gave a yer,
clever exhibition of ventriloquism -
Daily Evening Eqpositor, Fresno
Cal.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-04-21
The Surprise of All.

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones g. Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking of
DR.. Kings New Discovery, says that last
winter his wife WAS attacked with la
grippe. and her case grew so serious that
physicians at Cowden and Pana could do
nothing for her. 1t seemed to develop
into hasty consumption. Having DR..
Kings New Discovery in store. and SELL
ing lots of it. he took bottle home, and
to the surprise of all she began to get
better from first dose, and half dozen
dollar bottles cured her sound and well.
DIR. Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, coughs and colds is guaranteed to
do this good work. Try it. Free trial
bottles B. M. Jenney's drug store.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1898-04-21

might be going on in the jury room
between different jurors. In about
half an hour rap was heard on the
inside of the jury room door, the ju-
ry might be getting hungry, but the
jury only wanted to know what they
were to do if they were evenly di-
vided, and also plaintively asked il
they could not leave the matter to
either Mr.. Ayers or Mr.. Mitchell.
They were told that unfortunately
Ayers or Mitchell were not the jury
and they would have to render YER
dict themselves. Shortly after, Mrs.
l. f. Smith sent up nice little lunch
for the jury and after this grateful
refresbment they attacked the mat
ter in hand with renewed vigor.
At $50 the announcement wal
made that q verdict had been arrived
at and the jury filed into the cour