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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
HAPPENINGS IN
THE COUNTY
What the People are
Talking About.
BonbOw,

Rev. MIR. Mobrey is holding a
meeting Mt this place this week.
We are having some nno sermons.
Mrs. Mag Ward, of the Cove, has
been visiting friends at this place
for tho last week.
MIR. Milton Thompson and Miss
Roso Witten spent Sunday with the
lamily Of A. j. Larimer.
G. w. Mathews and wife loft the
first of tho week for Carroll County
where they will spend several weeks
visiting old friends and relatives.
Henry Williams and wife have
been spending several days with us
lately.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
New Lebanon Association.

The New Lebanon Association
meets with the Tazewell Baptist
Church Aug. 81, Sept. 1st and End.
lnasmuch rs some of our citizens
OF other denominations have kind
~ volunteered to assist our people
IN entertaining delegates and Wis.
itors during tho association. Wo
desire to say should there be 9th.
ers who wish to assist us, if thcv
will kindly hand their name with
the number of guests desired to
Mrs. Geo. Surface or Mrs. w. N.
Surface, we will gladly send the
number indicated I'd their homes.
Delegates who can do so arc ro.
quested to come in private convey.
ancc SO our country brethren NAV
have the pleasure of their company.
All who contemplate attending
Us visitors or delegates are request.
ed to send their names to Mr.. w
N. Surface or myself at once. This
is necessary for the convenience
OF our visitors.
WILLIS Il. WAYTs,
Pastor Tazewell Baptist Church.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Our claim.

We do not claim to do the cheap
est work of any office in town, but
we do claim that we give the best
value for the money spent with us.
We can give you cheap material for
II small price, but we don't like to
send out such work. A trial will
convince you that we give you good
honest work for a fair honest price.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Blue Sulphur Inn.

Quite q number of our people
spent part of last week at Cedar
Bluff. Among them were Mr. and
Mrs. Anderson, j G.. Buston, Mrs.
Aston, Mrs. lizard, Miss Laura
Lyons, Miss Lou Coulling, DIR.
Lyons. H. p Britain and others.
The Blue Sulphur Inn has been full
all the season, and becomes more
aud more popular every season.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Tho Show

The Show at the Opera House
promises to be u good one. Mr..
Elliott, who is at tho head of tho
show knows his business. We
think the lovers of amusement
will bc richly paid for time and
the small expense necessary To
attend. Encourage the boys, and
spend q pleasant evening by at.
tending.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Brief Local News.

Mr.. and Mrs j. III. McMullin, of
Springvillc, were in tho city ycstcr-
day.
Jno. w. Spotts,or Roanoke, was
among us this week for short
time.
Read the new ads of Buston 81
Sons and HARRISON Gillespie Bros.
in this issue.
Mrs. Laura Groseclosc and family
were registered at the Patton
House, BluelIeld, yesterday.
Mrs. j. II. Litz md family are
visiting the family of Mr.. Lindsay
Walker, III Burl1e's Garden.
JAS, Kits has largo force
of men laying brick OH the Buston
building. Tho walls arc going up
rapidly.
Nj. @. McCOrkle came in ycster-
day from Big Stone Gap. IIe says
there arc about dozen cas- cs of
smallpox in that section.
Horsemen should get ono of
those sea grass brushes. The very
finest brush for cleaning a horse
and only 25c. ut Jacksons.
Mcssrs. Hcldreth Il Sons arc
putting sliding partition In the
new High School Hall, which will
add greatly to the comfort and
convenience Of that building.
Mrs. Jettio Turf, of Philadelphia
and her mother, Mrs. A. p. Brown,
of Graham, returned yesterday
to their homes after pleasant
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Lock
hart, and other friends in Taze-
well. Little Miss Pearl Lockhart
returned with them for short visit.
Mr.. Il. o. Clapp, of Situate,
Mass, spent few hours in Taze-
well this week. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. Clapp lived in
Tazewell for some time several
years ago. His old friends here
were glad to SEQ him again. He is
still in the lumber business.
Prof p. r. Allen, principal of
the Cedar Bluff High School, and
Mr.. f. II. Cecil, son of Il. u. Cecil
and one of Prof. Aliens bright
pupils, was In town on last Satur-
day and paid us a pleasant call.
Cedar Bluff is fortunate in securing
the services of so good man as
Prof. Allen.
Here are some samples of the
many bargains to be had at Dodd
Il Co.'S: Glass sets-4 pieces. con-
sisting of sugar bowl, cream
pi cher, butter dish and spoon
ho der, all for 25c. Half gallon
covered tin buckets DC. Ten quart
tin bucket 10c. Large tin wash
basin DC. These are only a few
samples OF many fine bargains.
lThey won't last long.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Fishing Party.

The following gentlemen left on
Wednesday for fishing excursion;
Rev. j. S. French, Jno. s. Bottimore
DIR. Hall, Capt. g. A. Fudge and
Capt. j. s. Whitley. They will fish
down Dry Fork to Jaeger, VIVA.
and return by railroad. Provisions
&c were taken along and everything
necessary for t. pleasant trip. We
suppose that the biggest fish will be
those that get away.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
The Meetings.

The meetings OF the Presbyterian
Church closed last week. The
meetings ut the Christian Church
still continues. Rev. Mr.. DeVol, the
Evangelist is giving great pleasure
to those who hear him. The
doctrines which he breaches do not.
of course, meet with everybody's
approval, but all accord to him sin
cere earnestness and ability.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18

the facts are plain to be seen by
every right thinking man.
"The situation is so shocking. 80
indecent, from the ordinary Amer
lean standpoint, that thousands of
Republicans are turning away from
McKinleyism in disgust. The
strongest men in the party have
turned their backs on the admins.
tration.
an New York city the party was
never stronger. We will carry all
before us this fall. The metropolis
is throughly Democratic. The cheap
talk about machine politics has lost
its force.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Yellow Fever Situation.

Newport News, Va, August II
The yellow fever situation continues
to improve. No deaths and no new
cases, is reported again today from
Soldiers Home.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Battle Over The Empty Grave.

You will want to hear the lecture
at the Cristian Church Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock, by evangelist
Devol. on the Battle Over the Empty
Grave. This lecture has been
delivered in all the principal cities Of
the country. You will miss O treat
If you do not attend. Tickets 25cts
each, on sale at Pobst's store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Old Dominion College.

AS will be seen from an ad in
another clumn, this college has been
moved from Richlaads to Honaker.
Read President Huttons announce
met. This school did splendid work
at Richlands.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Virginia Apple Crop.

Roanoke, Va, August Buyers
from tue East and Northern mar.
kets have already been through this
section buying up the apple crop.
The Bent Mountain and Back Creek
sections, which are famous for the
growth of the Albemarle pippin,
have been pretty well canvassed.
John Woodrum, who OWNS perhaps
the largest producing pippin orch
ard i'll the State, has a fine crop
and says that rs soon as gathered
the people of Back Greek and Bent
Mountain will be better off by
many thousands of dollars. Benia.
min Munger, of Daleville, Bote.
tourt County, has already closed a
contract for the sale of his entire
crop to Now York concern. The
price paid is 50 per barrel on the
trees. The crop is large one and
MIR. Nininger will realize about
$4,000. Every year sees n great
addition to the number of growing
fruit trees, as the farmers are fast
turning their attention to the fruit
growing industry. They realize that
an investment in shipping fruit will
i'll the course of few years pay
handsome returns.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
Mrs. Raha Rnll

The latest intelligence from Mrs.
Reba Ball, who has been sick at
Hunters Alum Springs for some
time is that she is much better. Her
family physician, DIR. Crockett. is
with her, as is also her father, II. G.
Peery Esq. and her sister MissP Pollie.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
The Siok.

AS wo go to press this morning
Mrs. SPOTS and little Henry Sur
face are better. A phone message
reports DR.. Crockett, of Burke's
Garden, worse, and Mr.. l.. D.
Snapp sick with typhoid fever.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18

Dodd 81 Co. are overstocked
with Stone Ware, and will sell
their Crooks and Jars at u cents
per gallon, when more than one
gallon is bought. Regular price
loot per gallon. Now is a good
time to buy. This offer is for this
month only, for spot cash.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
WILD WINDS
RAvAGES TOLD
Hurricane Along the
Atlantic Coast.
Death and Destruction on the
Island of Porto Rico-Re-
lieffor the Sufferers to
be Furnished by
Uncle Sam.

Penscola, Fla, Aug. IA terrific
storm swept over Pensacola and vi.
cinity this afternoon. Warned by
the weather bureau of the approach
of the West Indian durricape, the
people were very uneasy and there
was much excitemeut. BY 2 o'clock
tho wind was going through the
city at the velocity of 40 miles per
hour. All shipping had been warned
and was snugly tied it.
Jupiter, Fla, Aug. 12.-Tho day
has passed with no further touch
of tho West Indian hurricane than
q steady gale which hasn't exceeded
forty milos por hour. The wind fresh.
ened at this morning and under
murkey skies increased in velocity
until rate of about forty miles was
recorded. AT 8 o'clock tonight tho
speed of tho wind is thirty eight
miles. Tho barometer registers 20.57.
Washington, Aug. 12.-Reports
received at the weather bureau lato
tonight indicates that the great
Woet Indian storm is central at
point several miles from tho Floridn
coast between Jupiter inlet and Key
West.
Tho work of sending supplies to
porto Rico to relieve those made
destitute by tho storm is progressing
rapidly. The mayors of tho largo
citios have joined heartily in the
plnn'and in many cases have issued
proclamations appealed for gifts of
money and food.
The transport Mcpherson will
leave Now York with great stores
of rico and beans for the Porto
Ricans.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
FIERCE FIGHT
WITH FILlPINOS
Twenty-Five Hundred
Rebels were Routed.
The Twelfth Infantry Loses
Two Killed-Filipinos
Driven in Disaster
TheInsurrection
Gaining

Manila, August 16-The Filipinos
sustained q severe defeat before An
geles today Ten companies of the
Twelfth Infantry, aud two Cannon,
attacked twenty five hundred insur-
gents intrenched near the town.
A fierce fight followed. The Flip,
mos were worsted, and driven in
disaster, with loss of two hundred.
Our loss is two killed and twelve
wounded. The Twelfth occupied
Angeles.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
A Man Found Dead Under the
Fence.

But that makes no difference.
Atkins will be at Kelly for few
days and will make you some of the
finest pictures under the sun. Look
for my large tent.
All work the best and satisfaction
guaranteed. ATKINS.
the Bluefield Photographer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
WILLIS Il. WAYTs,
Pastor Tazewell Baptist Church
Miss Williams School

Miss Anna Williams will reopen
a private school in Tazowcll, Sep.
ember 1lth. For terms address
l5OS Grace street, Lynchburg, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18

A Davis Sewing Machine new, price
$S5.0O; White Machine, new, price
$SS. w. Both Machines will be sold at
$1,000 and $40. 90 respectively for cash.
Apply to this office.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18
REBELLION STRENGTHENED.

Manila, August 13. via Hong
Kong, August 16.-Tho arrival of
mail advices from Negros and Cebu
agree that the iusurrection is gain
ing strength remarkably in both
islands, hitherto most friendly
which received Prof. Schurmam with
the greatest cordiality. Out breaks
are feared. particularly in Cebu,
where some Of the leading meu have
gone over to the insurrectionists
Many wealthy inhabitants are pre-
pairing to leave the islands. The
result Of the autonomist government
III Negros is disappointing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-08-18

The newest thing in initial ste.
tiohery, the correct tinr and fine
quality at JacksOns.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14
A MUMMY NECKLACE,

The mummy necklace was a quaint,
rough thing, more quaint than beauti-
ful, yet with a certain picturesqueness
and an undeniable fascination, alter
nate beads Of cornelian and gold, and
two tiny hearts hanging from the three
central beads.
My father gave it me one day, know
ing I had a fancy for these out-of-the-
way jewels. l do not know it's history,
but was told it had been taken off the
neck of a mummy.
FROM the moment it was given me
It's curious fascination Ovcrcame me.
l wore it day and night. l fancied it
would bring me luck. l certainly felt
tiny soft pinches OH my neck made by
the beads. This ! wondered at for a
time, but afterward grew too accus-
toned to them to wonder. There were
curious marks on the beads; they were
clipped off Or indented. Here and
there were dark stains.
FROM the moment | began to wear
the necklace my health failed. l grew
weaker and weaker, and at last fel!
seriously i'll. Naturally l did not dream
or connecting my illness in any way
with the influence Of my mummy neck
lace. On the contrary, l chung to it
more and more, believing it to be a
talisman.
was lying on my sofa one day when
a friend, who had observed my neck
lace then for the first time, said: why
40 you wear that? 1t isn't pretty. Let
me look at it."
She held 1t a moment and shivered.
"Oh, it's a horrible thing! Don't
wear it. 1t will bring you dreadful
III luck. I believe those are the marks
of teeth and the stains Of blood"
| said: ut bewitches me. | can't
bear to part with it, and l wear it day
and night"
Another friend of mine ooh a dislike
to it.. She was a believer in magic of
all sorts, and was persuaded that the
necklace had made me i'll and was pre-
venting my recovery.
At last she persuaded me to let her
take 1t to a clairvoyant. A certain
cobbler in a suburb Of London was the
clairvoyant we chose. He and ! had
had strange experiences some time be-
fore this, but, as Rudyard Kipling
says, that Is another story"
l parted with the necklace rcluct-
antly. My friend promised to arrange
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14

The will CT Henry Yocum, who own
ed the yacht Paul Jones, and was on
it when it was lost in the Gulf Of
Mexico, left all his estate to his daugh-
ter, II should she have died before
he did the estate would have gone to
his heirs. The daughter was also on
the beat, and because she. too, has
heirs, the case makes a curious legal
tangle. The old Roman law held that
in case Of shipwreck a person below
the age of Is was presumed to die be-
fore an older person who persisted in
the same wreck. Above the age of Is
it is presumed that the elder of two
persons died first. The daughter was
20 years old, but the heirs of the father
propose to have a fight for the estate.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14
Indian Justice OF the Fe.ce.

Antoine Jackson, a full-blooded In
dian, known Familiarity as "Kanaka
Jack" has been elected justice OF the
peace for the reservation adjacent TO
Tacoma. Although he a neither read
nor write, he is said to fill his office
with dignity. The first case he had TO
deal with which came under his notice
the other da.',was that of a man arrest
ed upon the charge Of carrying con-
cealed weapons. The Indian Judge
demonstrated that the alleged culprit
could not force the entire revolver in
question into any Of his pockets and
therefore dismissed the case. Although
the courts reasoning was not based
on Blackstone and Kent, it was strict,
ly in accordance with the evidence.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14

Perhaps no kind of superiority is
more flattering or alluring than that
which is conferred by the powers OF
conversation, by eXtemporaneOus
sprightliness Of fancy, copiousness Of
language, and fertility Of sentiment. In
other exertions of genius, the greater
part Of the praise is unknown and un-
enjoyed. The writer, indeed, spreads
his reputation to a wider extent, but
receives little pleasure or advantage
from the diffusion Of his name, and
only obtains a kind of nominal SOW
ereignty over regions which pay no
tribute. The %colloquial wit has always
his W radiance reflected on himself,
and enjoys all the pleasure which he
bestows; he finds his power confessed
by every one that approaches him, sees
friendship kindling with rapture and
attention swelling into praise.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14
THE COLOR OF SNOW.
Why 1t Is Generally white, but Some
times Red,

"Ne SonIS
times Red.
Inc white colo of snow is the re-
suit Of the combination of the different
prlsmatlc rays issuing from the minute
snow crystals. Pounded glass and
foam give analogous illustrations Of
the prismatic colors blending together
II forming the white light out OF
which they had been originally formed.
h air contained in the crystals in
tenslfies the whiteness OF the snow.
The snow from its loose texture and
the fact that it contains about ten
times its bulk Of air is a very bad con-
ductor Of heat, and thus forms an ad-
mlrable covering for the earth from
the effects of radiation, it not infre-
Q%uently happening in times of great
cold that the soil is forty degrees
warmer thar the surface of the over
lying snow.
The apparent redness Of snow as
seen from a distance is often an effect
of light which adds a peculiar charm
to mountain and winter landscapes,
f~A Al lAS IN / SS dLu Wv
enings, when the rays of the sun fall
most obliquely on the surface of tie
snow. But snow is occasionally found
both in Polar and Alpine regions of a
really red color. This phenomenon
seems to have been observed by the
anclents, as a passage in Aristotle APP
parently refers to it; but it attracted
nc attention in modern times till 1860.
When Sanssure observed it in the Alps,
and from chemical experiments con
cluded that the red color was owing
to the presence Of some vegetable sub
stance which he supposed might be
the pollen OF a plant. The next obser-
vatiOns on red snow were made in the
Arctic expedition under Capt. Ross,
when it was found extending over a
range of cliffs on the shore of Baf1in's
Bay for eight miles, the red color pen
etrating the SNOW in some places to a
depth of twelve feet. On the return OF
the expedition in 1919 the coloring mat
ter as then existing in the melted snow
was subjected to careful examination
by Robert Brown, and by Francis
Bauer, the former most eminent botan-
list ~pronouncing it to be produced by a
unicellular plant Of the order Algae.
Baron Nrangel afterward declared it to
be a lichen and called it Leprasia Ker-
mesina. But DR.. Greville, of Edin-
burgh, who obtained specimens from
the Scottish island of Lismore, on fur
Their examination returned to the opin-
ion of Brown, an opinion which has
since been fully confirmed, and the
plant is generally known by the name
predecessors nivalis.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14

with the memory of my midnight hor-
rCr.
Two days after this my friend who
had taken tie necklace to the clairvoy-
ant came, bringing it back with her IN
a sealed envelope, begging me not to
touch it.
She ave me an account Of her inter-
view before told her my experience.
The c~lairvoyant, in his trance, had
become unusually excited when she
placed the necklace in his hands. He
paced about the room, then flung him
self on the floor, saying: Dying, dy-
ing! see autumn leaves everywhere
that is death. Oh, tell her lever to
touch 1t again. It is an accused thing.
1t belonged to an Egyptian king thou
sands of years ago. Blood and warfare
1ollO"ed his footsteps. He wore it. 1t
mas never been on a woman's neck be-
lore. He knew she wore it, and when
lie missed it from her neck he was
angry. He wants his necklace again.
She must not wear it. 1t will be death
to her. But even now she may be
saved If she never wears it Or wen
touches it again"
left Off wearing that necklace, and
finally parted with it, for ill-luck was
my lot as long as it was in my pos
session.
That is the true story of the mummy
necklace as far as l am concerned. l
nave never seen my terrible visitor
again. Will he come again some day
and ask what | have done with his
necklace? Arabella Romilly, in Lady's
Realm.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14

Miss Rella G.. HARDER Of Trenton,
Mo-, secretary Of the Interstate Good
Roads ond Public improvement Asso-
citation, appeared in Springfield, Ill.,,
last week to inaugurate a movement
for the organization of the state in the
interests of hard roads. 1t is proposed
to hold a state convention in Illinois
early in the summer, and plans will
then be made for the organization Of
every county in the state. There is at
present a hard-roads association in Hi
nOis, and it is not proposed to organize
a rival association, but to make the
existing one perhaps the nucleus for a
great organization. The object of Miss
Harber's visit to Springfield at this
time is to interest Gov. Tanner and
the members of the Legislature in the
project. Lists of questions are to be
sent out over the state with a view to
securing reliable information as to the
condition of the country roads and the
amount annually expended upon them.
1t is proposed to institute such a sys-
tenn of agitation that the question OF
hard roads will soon become a local
political issue.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-14
The nondescript tongue known a

The nondescript tongue known as
"pidgin-English" is almost the only
medium Of communication between
foreigners and the Chinese, and nine
tenths of the enormous business done
in China between the English, German
and Americans and the Chinese is done
through this grotesque gibberish. Mr..
Chester Holcombe, in his Real China
man." gives two amusing anecdotes to
show how absurd it is. A young for
eigner who called upon two young
ladies, also foreigners, was informed
by their Chinese servant, "That two
piecey girlo no can see. Number one
piecey top side makee washee. washee.
Number two piecey go outside, makee
walkee, walkee." He meant to say
that the elder of the two vas taking a
bath upstairs, and the younger had
gone out. When King Kalakaua, OF
the Hawaiian Islands, visited Shang-
hal, he occupied a suite of rooms up
one flight of stairs at the Astor House.
Two American gentlemen called to pay
their respects one morning, and meet
ing the proprietor, inquired if the king
was in. 81 will see," replied the land
lord, and shouting to a Chinese SER
want at the head of the stairs, asked,
boy! That piecey king top side, had
got?' "Hab got" laconically answered
the servant. Gentlemen, his majesty
IS in. Pray walk up" said the and
lord.