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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-03
TAzEwELL, VA, FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, lsee

long practice. There are living Witness
es ali over this country who willingly
and thankfully testify to his co nscien-
tiousuess as physician and friend.
. For the last several years he had made
his home with his son, DIR. Andrew ID.
Estill at Lexington. In company with
his wife he came back to Tazewell ev-
cry summer aud staid until fall, and
everybody hailed tn, coming OF these
two worthy people with delight. He
was confined to his bed only a day or
so, and passed away peacefully and
quietly on Monday night, January 23,
in Lexington, Va. at the home OF bis
son.
His wife still survives, and 10 tenderly
cared for in the home of her son, in Lex
ington,
Mrs. Estill is known and loved by ev-
cry one ia 1azewell, where, NJ a brids
she began her liie's work. and for atty
years discharged the duties OF uiIe
and mother. and her grey hairs are her
crown of glory.
DIR. Estill was not church member.
He had profound respect for religion
aud during all the years OF his life was q
regular attendant upon divine service,
and liberal and cheerful contributor
During the latter years OF his life, par
ticulariy. he dwelt much in thought and
conversation on the future. This was
noticed and remarked upon by those
most intimately acquainted with him.
At that bar and tribunal before which
he has been called, and before which we
all must:soon appear, standards OF good
ness aud attainments in virtue are
measured by different rule than pre-
walls among men. Who dares dogma
tize concerning the destiny of those W no
fall into the hands OF the Father OF
mercies1
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-03
Is TAKING DISPOSITIONS
Walker Examined Several
witnesses Yesterday.
NEGROES EXCLUSIVELY
The Result OF the Testimony Tax.
en- In Washington City Was
Decidedly In Favor ofRhea.


Gen. Jas. A. Walker, who is contest
ing Judge Rhea's right to seat in Con.
gress and who charged fraud in Bristol,
began taking depositions yesterday in
the Fowler building on Cumberland
street. Seventeen witnesses were ex-
amined, the substance Of their testimo-
ny being affirmative answers to the
question as to whether they voted. for
Mr.. Walker.
The washington correspondent Of the
Richmond Times, writing under date of
Thursday, says:
The taking of testimony in tue
Walker-Rhea election contest, from the
Ninth district, in this city, closed res
terday evening, the result being decid-
edly in favor OF Congressman elect
Rhea. Judge Rhea has been here the
greater portion Of the week, in his an
swer to Walkers notice OF contest was
served on the latter The first deposi-
tions Were aiken ere Tuesday by Walk
er. He examined negroes exclusively
and was represented by a negro lawyer
named M. Ricks. the dispositions being
taken at Kicks Office. Hon sConally F.
Trigg appeared as counsel for Judge
Rhea.
1T was the intention of Walker to
tryto fassen the candidacy Of negroes
for Congress in the Virginia districts
during the last campaign on the Demo
cratic campaign committee by
the evi den ce of so I'M q
Of the candidates and other negroes here.
He made a dismal failure, however, and
the friends Of Judge Rhea claim it ia q
victory for him, at the very outset, from
the fact that the negroes all testified in
his favor. They were unanimous in
saying that the Independents movement
on their part, and the placing Of color.
ed candidates in the field, was actustsd
and caused by the bitter and selfish
course Of the Virginia republican lead.
ers in congress, Walker himself being
one Of them.
"A republican remarked today: walk
| SIS show 10 win In :he Fifty-sixth con
gress is slim and continuation oi
such evidence az be has taken the last
day or two will and ought to relegatt
him to the rear '"-Tribunc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-03

Is again acroad In the land. The air
you breathe.may be full of its fatal germsl
Don't neglect the Grip" you will open
the door to Pneumonia and eonsuption and
invite death. Its sure signs are chills with
fever, headache, dull heavy painsmuce. us
discharges from the nose. sore throat and
never-letgo cough. Don't waste precious
time treating this cough with torch
es, tablets. or poor. cheap syrups. Cure IL
at once with Dr. Kings New Discovery
infallible renedv for bronchial troubles
{ kills the disease ger ms, heals the lunp
and prevents the dreaded after effects
from the malady' Price so ct, and Si.0t
Money back II not cured. A trial dottIe
rec at j. K. Jaekson's Drug store.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-03
BUcKLEN's ARNICA sALvE

The BEST SALvB in the world for
Outs, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
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guaranteed to give perfect satisfact-
ON, or money refunded. Price 95
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Good Little Farms.

SO acres, 8 miles from 1'azewell,
good orchards house DC. Cheap al
SS5O.00
75 acre.l5 miles from town. good
house-whoat crop on place. Cheap
at 1900.
90 acres, 4 miles from town. two
log houses, well timbered and
watered. Cheap at $500.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-02-03
EAeM FOUND GUILTY
Dismissal From The Army
The Penelty.
NO MEOCY TO BIZ SHOWN
In the Judgement Of the Court
Martial He Was Guilty of the
Charges Against Discipline

Washington. Jan. 2S.-General Eagan
was found guilty by the court-martial
iast night with the penalty that he he
dismissed from the army. In the judge
:nent Of thecourt he was guilty OF both
h,'ges. lie was guilty OF crime
against discipline, good order and decen-
cy it*osft the shadow OF paIitation or
excAse aud in the sentence Of dislnissaI
therSis no recommendation for mercy.
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TazewelI Drug Go.
r. p. DNoos. ye:., G..
riLle THs FrssoE,eTioss"
RUGS

| have a lot of Short-length
Rugs-carpet samples-which /
will sell ut less than wholesale
cost.
They are Of Moqutte, Brus-
sells and Ingram styles, and in
length just suited f Bureaus,
Wash Stands or Sewing Ma
chimes. Prices range from 25c.
to 9Oc. each-very cheap.
Have many remnants and
odds and ends In the various
departments which will be clos
ed out at n sacrifice.
j ID ALEXANDER
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A Father and Son Start Together
and the Son Loses His Life to
Save That Of His Father.

Seattle, Wn., Jan. 27.-The steamer
Cottage City, from Alaska, brings news
that number of Copper River prosroc
tors persisted in Valdez Glazier The fol-
lowing are known TO have been lost:
Charles Horn, New York City, c. p.
Smith, Chicago; ole Evien, Baldwin,
Wis; - Henderson, Wisconsin; George
Sweezy, New York.
Among the many badly frozen miners
are: George oalowitz, New York city:
S. Grogg, ST. Joseph, No.; Holven Evjens,
Buldwin, Wis
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BADLY FROZEN.

There are six men mt Valdez suffering
from frozen feet, hands and faces. A
hospital has been established at Twelve
Mile Camp, on the other side OF the gla-
zier, and fifteen men are suffering there
from the same cause. All were frozen
trying to cross the glacier, but managed
to get back into camp.
The freezing of the Evjens, father and
son., is particularly sad. They started
Tor Valdez, but on getting well toward
the summit of the glazier found their
feet frozen. Both started back.
SONS SACRIFICE.
The son gave his father his extra wrap
ping for his feet, and, as a result, both
the sons legs were frozen in few min
utes, and he was unable to proceed. He
bade his father good-by and compelled
him to go on without him. Then the
boy lay down in the snow to die. His
body will probably never be recovered.
The father reached Twelve Mile Camp
very badly frozen, and is not expected to
live.
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To DIR. and Mrs. Estill were born three
sons and one daughter: DR.. Harry b.
Estill, BENZ. Estill, Susan b. Estil and
DR.. Andrew d. Estill. the only surviving
child, a successful and honored physician
OF Lexington, Virginia, with whom DR..
Estill and his wife have made their home
since laying down their work in Taze-
well.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-10
BAPIIS1SCLOSE YEARS WORK
Large Increase in Contributions For All Pur-
poses Reported.
THE CHURCH'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Speeches by Prof J. B. Carlyle Rev. J. {. White, Presd-
ent BIasingame, Rev. Springfield, and Others
Captyae the Convention. N. B. Broughton
Raises $4,000 in Ten Minutes.
BiItmore Visited.

AshevilIe, \. c.. Dec. S.-tSpecial.l-
Devotional exercises at the opening the
the Baptist State Convention this morn
ing were conducted by Rev. G. Id.
Church, of Statesyille
The minutes of the previous meeting
We're read and approved.
There are now three hundred and
fifty delegates present.
An amendment to the Constitution was
passed to the effect that DIR. Kerfoot's
Manual of Parliamentary Practice in
stead of DR.. Melps, which has heretofore
been used, be adopted by the Conven-
ton.
Report of committee on Destitution in
the East was read by Rev. G. w. Bban-
chard, of Kinston. The most promising
mission field in the State IS that covered
by the Atlantic and Neuse Associations,
embracing ten counties, having only
about three hundred Baptists and forty
churches. The Tar River Association is
also an important mission field. Mr.
Blanchard, speaking TO the report, said
that the Atlantic Association had once
been a field occupied more largely by
Baptists. That persecution by the es-
adjustment in olden days the preaching
of the doctrines of the so-called Primi-
tive Baptists, of the Free Will Baptists,
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purpose of these schools is to educate the
ministery Of the west, which will mean
much for the future. Rev. A. H..
Brown next addressed the convention.
This gentleman is general missionary i'll
Western North Carolina. He said that
the West was really Baptist country,
having plenty of churches and preachers;
that they had been careless about their
duty; but in the Providence of God they
are being stirred to activity by the conf
ing of other denominations for mission
AIRY effort. He said the people lived well
and had made much progress, but had
little money; therefore help must come
from the outside TO help found and run
their schools. He spoke of the pressing
need for colporteurs in the West. to
get people to take and read good litera-
ture.
Rev. Mr.. Justice also made a short
address on educational work.
Rev. John f. White next made a short
address There is no need, he said, to
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factory owners and bosses than perhaps
in any other way. The trouble is the
owners instead Of going to the factory
churches go to the uptown church and
leave the operatives to themselves. As II
result, many Of them have no church
home.
The work among such people is hope
full: they are appreciative. Working
among them we are doing what our Sa-
viour delighted to do when in the world,
working among the lowly.
The report Of this committee was
adopted.
Rev. Adam Carr. the oldest minister
in Western North Carolina. was ut this
juncture introduced to the convention.
He is - years old, has been preaching
- years and walked to 4Asheville
from his home thirty miles away Mr.
John III. Justice was also presented, who
is the oldest member of the convention.
He made a very touching and earnest
talk.
The report Of the Committee on Edu-
cation in Western North Carolina was
read by Rev. w. t. Wilkins. of Clyde.
This report commended Mars Hill Col
lege. Taylorsville. Fruitiand and otler
schools as excellent BAPTIST schools in
the west. The report also recommended
that associational schools lie established
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work have been urged with more than
usual energy, and that no effort has been
omitted to enlist the sympathy and llb-
crafty of our people for our State Mis-
sion work. Twenty thousand State Mis-
sion tracts have been distributed. The
Corresponding Secretary has travelled
more than thirty thousand miles. made
two hundred addresses and sermons, and
written IL 900 letters.
1.-THE financial situation which the
board confronted january 1st, was as
follows: A debt of $633.00 to the mis-
sionaries ON the work of the year pre-
ceding; an overdraft of $1,061.07 which
was reported to the convention at Ok
ford. In addition to this acting under
the instructions Of the Convention, the
Board had appropriated for this years
work $1,000 more than i'm any year pre-
yious, making our total liabilities Jan
uary 1st, including the obligations as
summed by Associations for Associational
Mission work, more than $4,000. 1t is
to be noted that this enlargement was
made after the meetings Of the Associa-
lions last year, and was mot therefore
provided for in the pledges of the church
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and of Alexander Campbell, had, how
ever, prevailed The people there, he
said. were willing to hear the gospel,
that our cause is now gaining ground,
and encouraging progress has been made.
The establishment and support of schools
in this section was recommended by the
speaker, also the sending out of a large
force of missionaries.
Rev. NJ Il. Kesler. of Rocky Mount,
spoke of the conditions in the Tar River
Association. This section, he said. was
dominated by the anti-mission spirit. As
a result many of the people belong to no
churches at all. The people are largely
fatalists. though not church members,
and it is very hard to get them to come
out and hear preaching. He stated that
there We're scopes, of country ten and
fifteen miles square where there are no
religions opportunities at all. On motion
the report of the committee was
adopted
The report of the committee on Mis-
s;ons in Manufacturing Centres was read
by Rev. T.. II. pruitt, of Charlotte. The
report recommended that the board seek
to provide church advantages for every
town and factory community. Mr..
Prritt, speaking to the report, spoke es-
pecially of his work in Charlotte among
factory operatives as being difficult, yet
encouraging He said he thought these
people could be better reached by the
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raised a subscription in pledges to
erect this building of $1,000 in about
ten minutes. This was the amount
asked for, and the congregation as
soon us it was secured stood and sang
praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow"
The report was adopted.
Rev. o. l.. Struggled read the report
on the Baptist Female University.
The report stated that $50 students
matriculated at the beginning of the
first session. The University has ac-
commodations for one hundred and fifty
boarders. The property of the Univer-
sity cost about ninety thousand dollars.
The expenses are being met by the re-
ceipts of the institution, but it is neces-
sary to raise money to pay AN indebt-
edness incurred by buying the Adams
property. Over fourteen thousand dol
lars in cash and subscriptions have
been raised during the year. The report
commended the work of Miss Fannie
f. c. Heck, Of Raleigh, in raising
funds for this work. 1t was recom-
mended that we endeavor to raise $780,
600 during the coming year to pay the
indebtedness of the University.
Mr.. Struggled. in a happy way, in
troduced President Blasingame, of the
University.
President Blasingame said that he
felt he was directed to his present work
by the providence Of God, and rejoiced
in the fact that he was to be co
worker with the noble Baptist people
OF this State.
He said that at length our people
have been awakened to the Importance
of wonans education; that the Univer
sity, the latest child of the convention
it is the happiest family in the world
is moving on well and hopefully. Speak
ing of life at the institution he said that
it is made honle-like for the youna
ladies' The sentiment that permeates the
institution is that it was erected for thu
glory of God. Secular education is mo-
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everything, this institution has been
founded that young women may be train
ed to serve God. Some, he said, that en-
tered the institution unconverted had
already been led to Christ. 49, out of
$50 students are professed Christians.
The president next spoke feelingly OF
letters he had received from poor girls
Who We're anxious to enter the Uniyer-
sity.
The needs of the institution are many.
Its equipment must be looked after, and
an endowment mast be raised.
1t is not enough for us to praise
woman; She is entitled to more, the
training of her mind for the highest use
fulness.
Mr.. j. w Bailey spoke and said that
woman was her own best argument. He
said the fact that our State stands fifth
in the education of her women was more
to its credit than the erection of a thou.
sand factories. He spoke of vision
that grew into plan, plan into q
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praise Western North Carolina. for what
are mountains and rivers and wealth
compared with men. The question that
concerns this convention is what shall
we do for the men and women in these
mountains? He spoke of the union of
the Eastern and Western Conventions
as being most auspicious.
The time has come for another great
revival in the worlds history, a revival
Of apostolic liberality and apostolic con-
secration Of property. Said he, the lbreth-
rem Of the East intend TO help educate
the people of the West, and the people
OF the West will realize that they are
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has ever striyen to be true to its mas
sion to give the gospel to the world.
As for the present, it must meet the
requirements of the age. 1t must make
broad, properly equipped men for the
world Here the speaker paid worthy
and deserved tribute to his fellow pro
fessors at the college.
Our college is resolutely set toward the
sunrise. The best is in the future. Late
IN a sister has been born to our college,
in the city Of Raleigh, the Female Uni
versity. We are looking to the future
and the promise of the coming century.
What shall dominate that future? 1t
must be the exaltation of manhood i'm
stead of qnammon. That to give is better
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blessing. He said that he believed that
all our UNCONVENTIONAL institutions We're
controlled by men and women VINO would
put emphasis on the religious life. He
said that there was not college ON earth
that deserved consideration from Bap-
fist before Wake Forest.
Next Prof. j. B. Carlyle spoke. Wake
Forest said he. has a debt to the past,
a duty for the present and a promise for
the future. TO the fathers who builded
1t owes loyalty and truth 1t is a
chief function of the college to train
ministers for the Masters service.
Through peace and war the old college
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Pastor First Baptist Church, Asheyille.
es. Consequently, to meet these greatly
increased obligations, an extraordinary
effort was necessary. That effort has
been made Nobly have our pastors,
churches and people responded to It,.
During the last week the treasurer re-
ceived more than $4,000 Our missionar-
les have been paid in full except $416.S3
vouchers outstanding due January 10Th
the note due at bank December LIST has
been paid-the oyerdraft of $1,069.07 of
long standing is wiped out and with
heart full of joy and praise to God for
the tidelity( conservation and loyalty of
our people we report TO the convention
this glorious achievement. 1t must mot
however, be forgotten that our new
conventional year began November l,
$685. and that at the end of the first
quarter, February l. 1900, we viii need
So, 600 to pay our obligations to the mis-
sionaries for that quarter.
Perhaps the most noteworthy feature
of the financial condition of the work
is the encouraging fact that the churches
at the recent Associations have increas-
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to the convention in the following re-
Spects:
I'VE have had more missionaries, regu-
lar and voluntary, engaged directly an the
work of preaching the gospel ON state
Mission fields. Their reports show great
er activity in sermons preached, religious
visits made in protracted meetings held,
and money collected ON the field. More
Sunday schools iu operation, more OIL
GERS and teachers enlisted, more contrl-
buttons from schools, more pupils en-
rolled in same and the number of Dap-
tisms is larger than last year by 200.
''We have raised SIS, 1890 more for the
objects of the Convention than last year.
Thirty of our largest Associations have
increased their pledges to State Missions
33 1-3 per cent over the pledges for
the same cause last year, and our Treas
urer's report will show that we have
done S1,116.SS better for Home Mis-
sions. and $2,31644 for Foreign Missions,
and $4,553.16 for State Missions that
last year-which was the best year in
the history of the convention in aGgre-
gate receipts for these causes.
FINANCIAL CONDITION.
ct does not require the report Of the
board to acquaint the convention with
the fact that the financial needs of the
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struggle, a struggle that grew into a
great institution. In this we glory; it is
work worthy of our people, and is
born of God" Much has been said of
our fathers an this convention, in anoth-
err convention that will meet years hence
men will speak tendedly of those whom
/ dare not here mention because they
have suffered and toiled for this great
achievement"
This institution stands for the princi-
pie that education is not for the making
of money, but for the making of life. We
hurl back TO the man who made it the
scoff that our work is failure and that
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in the different sections of the west Rev.
L. NJ. Honeycutt made u talk concern
ing this report. He spoke of progress in
the west, comfortable school houses for
the public schools, and good churches
now abound. There are now much bet
ter equipped school teachers than form
erly. He spoke of work being done by
the Presbyterians in this section aud
urged that this stir us UP to generous
emulation. Mars Hill College, he said,
was doing a great work, and has more
students than ever before in its history,
having 30. This school needs money
badly for the sake of enlargement. One
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orphans if there were hundreds more
OF them at Thomasville. What we need
now is more buildings. With more
room we could take care of twice as
many orphans with an increase of only
80 per cent. in contributions.
eneral Manager ]. B. Boone, of the
Orphanage, next addressed the con-
vention He said the Health at the
Orpbanage is excellent, and that the
condition of affairs at that institution
are progressing well. He said thar
the institution had 175 under its care,
and that there had been two hundred
there during the year. He spoke of
the generous Thanksgiving Offering
from the people as an evidence of the
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magnificent estate of Mr.. Cornelius Van
derbilt at BiltmOre.
The night session was preceded by de-
votional services conducted by Rev. w.
Il. Watson of Gastonia and Rev. G. M.
Duke. of Dukes. Prof. Wofsohn also
delighted the audience with another OF
his splendid solos.
Report ON State Missions was read by
Rev. D. p. Bridges. 1t was recommend
cd that we work next year ON basis
of $4,000 and that our volunteer mis-
sion work go on as before. This report
was adopted without discussion