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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
THURSDAY, JUNE Is, 1899.
WHAT IS THE CAUsE3

We hear continual good reports OF the
improved business conditions of this Sec
ton as well as every other part of the
Union. Here in our immediate neighbor-
hood we find the coal and coke business
assuming proportions it has never before
held. There was never such demand
for lumber, and the prices that are being
realized are so substantial that the lumber
men have their faces wreathed in happy
smiles. The farmer is also bright and
happy. He is producing nothing for
which there is not heavy demand and a
cash market at hand. He has already
disposed of his lambs at prices that make
his purse much heavier, and cash buyera
are hunting him up to purchase his wool
at prices that make the production Of that
staple once more a leading feature of our
country.
With the manufacturers the same kind
OF good conditions are found. They are
all crowded with work and are giving
their employees better wages and more con-
slant employment. The iron and steel
trade has reached such enormous proper
tons as even to startle the men who are
engaged in its manufacture.
Can these splendid, these happy condi
tons be the result of chance, or DO they
come from the spirit of confidence kin
died by the restoration of the Republican
party to power?
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
OUR TRooPsHIps
European Military Men Marvel as
What Has Been Accomplished
by Them.
Pounding Mill, Va.

Within 60 days 5000 American SOL
diers have sailed through the Mediter-
ranean, past the doors of the nations of
Europe. An object lesson in something
more than numbers has been given.
Ten months ago such possession as
o troopship was unknown to the United
States government. The only trans
portation with which the American
ouartermasters were familiar was on
land.
When the opening weeks Of the war
found troops mobiizing at Tampa, the
government was obliged to charter
craft scattered all the way from New
York to New Orleans. The boats were
of various shapes and sizes. They were
hurriedly transformed into transports
and Skaters expedition of $4,000 men
got off for three days steaming after
what, at one time, threatened to be end
less confusion.
Last week one of the new troopships
dropped anchor in Manila bay, after a
trip more than half way around the
world and in the season of storms. Of
the 1000 souls on board not one had sus-
tanned an accident Of SO much as a
broken arm.
When one of these American troop
ships stopped at Gibraltar, British Of
fcers asked the privilege of inspection.
They went aboard and with the thor
oughness of experts proceeded to look
over the arrangements to the smallest
details. They examined the sleeping
spaces, the galleys, the exercise quar-
tiers, the baths, in short, every part of
the ship.
And when they had finished they
told the American officers that Great
Britain, with all her experience in the
water transportation Of troops, had no
transports to compare with those the
American government had devised for
the movement of soldiers to distant pos
sessions.
They explained that the British gov
eminent never moved such numbers of
soldiers on an ocean voyage without ex-
pecting to lose one or more disabled by
accidents incident to sea travel.
With 5000 on the way to Manila by
the easterly route, the war department
has had 5000 on the water by the west
ern route. Anarmy of American troops
is moving across the ocean bound for
common destination, and the achieve
ment receives scarcely more than pass
ing attention in the United States.
To other governments this easy exc
cution of great military transporta-
ton problem is matter of much more
comment and surprise than it is at
home. The military journals of for
eign countries are discussing it as they
did some of the feats of the American
army and navy in the wal, with spain.
This movement Of troops and NUM-
tions to Manila from the United States
is another of the series of eye-openers
for the rest of the world.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
Plenty of Republican Harmony.

Republicans are harmonious and conf
dent for the best possible reasons. The
platform adopted in national convention
at St. Louis three years ago has been
wrought into law and turned into action
to a remarkable extent. The pledges are
accomplished facts. Prosperity was
promised, and it has come in ampler
measure than was anticipated. The
causes of depression, accurately pointed
out, have been removed. There is new
protective tariff law whose success is fully
up to expectation. "The Republican
party is unreservedly for sound money, :"
said the platform. The dollar on parity
with gold was never as firmly established
in the United States as it is to-day. 1.-The
Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by
the United States" ran another plank.
They have become an integral part Of the
country. In regard to Cuba the Republi-
cans of the nation assembled at st. Louis
declared that "the United States should
actively use its influence and good offices
to restore peace and give independence to
the island" Cuba is free. "We favor
the continued enlargement of the navy
and a complete system of harbor and sea
coast defenses." That, too, has been re-
deemed. In the light of such splendid
realization of platform the Republican
party has the warrant for making its con,
ventions of this year and next success.
sion Of love feasts.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
party to powe.

Mr.. James K. Ottley, cashier of the
Fourth National Bank, of Atlanta, Ca,
was in New York the other day, and told
q representative of the New York Com
mercial that all branches of business in the
South, particularly the banking and other
financial interests we're on sounder basis
than ever before.
'With but few exceptions" said MIR.
Ottley, "every bank in the State of Geor-
gia is prospecting. There is plethora of
money lndhe South, and rates are remark
ably low. The South will not find it neces-
sary to call on the North and East for cur
rpncy to move its crops. The Southern
hanks, in fact, are shipping money to New
York and other Eastern cities. There is
clough currency in the South to make
il Independent of the North and East for
the next six moths at least"
That statement is true, but it is mslead-
ing. The banks have plenty of money,
but the people in the rural districts, where
there are no banks, still find it difficult to
get currency; and the difficulty will con-
tinue so long as the prohibitory tax on
State banks of issue remain. All the
South needs today is a good local cur
rency-Rlchmond Times.
The Times makes its remarks in the in
terest OF its pet theory Jon State banks.
But it is mistaken in IFS ideas about the
reason why the people in the rural dis
tricts are not supplied with plenty Of mon
ey, if that condition actually exists. II
they havn't enough it is not because of the
lack of the volume of money or the kind
of money that we now have, but because
they have nothing to exchange for money.
Wherethe farmers have products to dispose
of there is no trouble about exchanging
them for money at good prices. 1t is only
those WHO have nothing to sell who are
short of currency, or those workingmen
who will not work who say anything about
the scarcity Of money.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
PERSONAL NOTES.

Ex-Empress Eugene is said to be vic
tim of the tea habit, and to drink thirty
or forty cups day.
Mrs. Annie Besant has decide to make
Calcutta her future home, and never to
return to England.
Major Apostolos Mavroyenss, the Oldest
living Athenian, has just celebrated his
Tooth birthday. He was friend of By
ron in Greece.
The wife and family of Rear Admiral
Watson, now on his way to take Dewey's
old command, have taken house at Oak
land, Cal.
Mile. Calve says there is no truth in the
story that she has designed and ordered
her tomb. She hopes, she says, to need
no such thing for years to come.
William r. Mc.Sweeney, who, by the
death of Governor ElIerhe, is now chief
executive of South Carolina, was left an
orphan at an early age and earned a !iv-
ing selling newspapers until he became a
reporter.
Charles L. Whipple, the New York
artist, is to paint portrait of Mrs. Nc
Kinley, who will begin the sittings very
soon. Mrs. Mckinley is to be painted in
her favorite chair in the White House sit
ting ROOM She will be dressed in white
brocade.
Colonel Albert Lee, British military
attache at the siege of Santiago, will spend
the major portion of the Summer with
Governor Roosevelt, and accompany him
as an honorary member of his staff during
the annual encampment of the New York
State militia.
General Henry Harnden, of Madison,
Wis, who has just been elected depart
ment commander of the Grand Army OF
the Republic for that State, was colonel
of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, from
which a detail of $50 men under Colonel
Harndel, captured Jefferson Davis.
The death of Ex-Governor Baxter, of
Arkansas, moves one Of his friends to sum
up the strange contradictions of his
career: ale was driven from his home
and State, a non combatant. He was ar
rested by his own friends as traitor and
the bangman's halter dangled in his face,
He broke prison and stole away to return
as a ruler and master; a non-party man,
compelled to be Republican in politics,
and finally, as a Republican, fated to lead
the Democratic party to success and
power"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
England and Its Trusts.
indianapolis "Journalo tRep.ll

indianapolis Journal" (Repll
A writer in a recent issue of the "Con-
temporary Review" British periodical,
under the caption, "The Growth Of Mon
opoly in English Industry" shows that
England is the home of trusts. He shows
that combinations in that country control
the cotton, thread, screw, salt, alkali and
rubber.tire industries. lie declares that
twenty-four engineering firms are asso-
GATED, with subscribed capital of $685.
225, 900, and that this combination claims
that no other combination in Great Britain
can turn out battleship complete. There
is not trust in this country that will
openly make such claim. The writer
shows that dozen Birmingham firms fix
the prices of all metal utensils. If there is
such combination in this country it is
not generally known. He further shows
that there is no open market in steel and
iron rails, petroleum, lead pipes, fish sup
ply and other articles which he names.
We have petroleum trust or monopoly,
but the tariff has nothing whatever to do
with it. The writer also declares that the
staple trades and textile industries of Biz
mingham are operated by combination.
a feS staple trades are controlled by CON-
binatiors in this country, but most Of
them, including cotton and wooden textiles,
are open, and no effort has been made to
control The cotton industries of the United
States by combination. Summing up, the
writer says: eve thus see in British in
dustry steady movement toward combi-
nation and monopoly" No one will
claim that free trade has had anything to
do with the great combination in Great
Britain, some of which have existed for
several years. Free trade, however, does
not prevent them.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
Watterson Philosophers.
MAX NoRDAU
lie Courier-Journal (Dem.D.

Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.).
Now that they are gone an& that all is
dark again. Yes, they are gone-"quite
gonested away" as poor Artemus used to
observe-the Legaguesters-th Bimeteoric
Monometallic Leaguesters, and all is sad
and dark. Nomorc do we behold the
flash of the diamond upon George Fred's
shirt-front, nor the bullying brow of Tar
win, the child of genius, bursting with
thought. The sweet, soft, cynical smile of
the only Altgeld likewise is vanished. The
Boy Orator has transferred his activities to
other scenes of conquest. Mr.. Belmont
has taken his resplendency eastward.
Even the three "little jokers"-Hardin,
Stone and Goebel-having fired blank
cartridges at one another in the air, as it
were-are off among the hayseeds again
to startle and confound. ALI is drear.
And the wind blew through his whiskers.
And next day, when it showed, there was
not pickle left in the bottom of the jar.
md no piel
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
TIE PHILIPPINE SITUATION.
The Blame for the War Clearly SET Forth
by General Otis.

New York Times Qnd. Dem.)
We hope the American Philippines
will have the candor to read General Otis
report upon the train of events which led
up the outbreak of hostilities between our
troops and the insurgent Filipinos. They
have pretty generally believed, or said,
that General Otis men were the aggressors
and were responsible for the beginning of
the trouble. If they still believe, or say,
after reading the Generals report, that we
were the aggressors, that fact will be evil
dence that their Partially and favor for
the Filipinos are SO great that they refuse
to accept the testimony Of an American
officer against them.
The truth is now made clear by this
official report. 1t is shown that the pa
thence and forbearance of our men under
insult and indignity were remarkable.
General Otis was as considerate of Agui-
naldo as one would be of a forward child.
Our kindness and indulgence were thrown
away, for it is now made plain that Agui-
naldo was resolved to be content with
nothing short of the recognition of his
Malalos Government, and failing that he
determined to drive our forces out of
Manila.
General Otis went to the full extent of
his powers in conserving to send commits
sioners to confer with commissioners ap-
pointed by Aguinaldo as chief of the in
surgents in the hope ofreacbing an under
that would avert the threat
ented trouble. Certainly no one but
rabid anti-imperialist can withhold from
General Otis the simple justice of admit
ting that his letter of January 9 to Agui-
naldo is most kind, considerate and mol
flying.
The military power could hardly have
been used with greater forbearance than
vas shown by General Otis. We think #
must be admitted also, that in directing
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

THE Memphis appeal speaking of
Altgeld, Mr. Bryan's political chum, says:
1.-The Hon. John P. Altgeld, bolter, trai.
tor and anarchist, is still inviting himself
to Democratic feasts." If that meeting of
Bimetallists at Louisville was Demo-
cratic meeting, Altgeld appears to be net
only an invited but an honored guest at
Democratic feasts. He and Mr.. Bryan
seem to go hand-in.hand on such occa-
sions.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
OF ms n Road 5Iender.

Regarding the use of crude oil as a
road member, Mr.. Meigs, Of Barre,
Mass, says that the road should be in
a condition to receive the oil. If only
one barrel of oil is used, the cheapest
way is to use q watering pot for dis
tributlng it Where the experiments
are on a more pretentious scale, a tank
on wheels and pipe pierced with holes
or Sits to let the oil out should be used.
1t is calculated that one mile Of road,
12 feet wide, can be successfully treated
with one-eighth inch deep of oil for
S141 50
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

THE Richmond Times is now making
itself an ultra Southern paper, sufficiently
SO, no doubt, to commend that paper
again to Southern Democratic leadership.
But the Times will find that the so-called
Democrats of Virginia and the South will
fall in behind the leadership of Bryan and
Altgeld in 1900. and prefer a debased cur
rency and the teachings of socialism to
sound money and law and order.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

Mr.. Bryan says: 81 stand to-day just
where I stood three years ago." This is
true enough, but in the meanwhile almost
everybody else has moved on.-Richmond
Times.
Yes, nearly everybody but the Demo-
cracy. 1t either stands still or moves
backward. Sometime we apprehend the
Times will be utterly lost by a backward
movement. 1t seems to be advancing
only on one line, and that is its champion
ship of trusts.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

SOME of our Democratic friends now be-
gin to doubt whether Hon. Thomas B.
Reed will quit Congress for the present
term. Mr.. Reed knows what he is going
to do, and the Democrats will find out at
the proper time.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

The Fourth Regiment of Volunteer
Immunes that recently returned from
Cuba has a wonderful record. 1t was in
the service eleven months, eight months
of which were spent in Cuba, land only lost
eleven men by death. 1t looks to us that
Uncle Sam or somebody looked after
those boys wonderfully we'll
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

THE German press thinks that Germany
paid Spain too much for islands recently
purchased by the former from the latter.
We expect the real trouble is the Germans
are dissatisfied because the United States
has acquired so much of the valuable pos
sessions of Spain.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

sJoHN P. AITeEID proposes that in view
of tfefact that trusts have come to stay
in this country the thing to do is for the
government t. buy and run them. The
trusts would be splendid, no doubt, run
by Bryan and Altgeld.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
Mantci.

A bright young man, who desires to
travel, to take half interest in Portable
Photograph Gallery. $4,000 required;
will teach right party the business and
guarantee his income to be not less than
$4,000 per month from beginning. Call
on or address.
C. H. HUNT,
Pounding Mill, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
Wool Wanted.

1 will be at Tszewell on Wednesday, the
9lst inst, and remain several days for che
purpose Of buying wool, for which / will
pay the highest cash prices. All persons
vino have wool for sale will do well to
come to see me. can be found at the
Coffee House.
B. F. ORRIsoN.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

BRISTOL Virginia is not only gaining a
reputation for it's wonderful election meth
dds and peculiar peacemakers, but also for
the sanctity Of its courts.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF TOLEDO,


FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm Of f. j.
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that the firm Will pay the sum Of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Halls CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9Th day of December,
a. d. 1856.
A. w. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public
Halls Catanh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly OH the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testlmo-
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O..
neap Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
NOTICE.

All parties having old prescriptions which
they wish reiiIed can Go So by sending
the number Of the same to Pocahontas
Drug Co., Pocshontas, Va. We have all
the old files of 1azewelI Drug Co.'s pre-
scriptions.
PocAHoNTAs DRUG Co.,
Pocahontss, Va.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
nod ROADS Sion Business.

The packers at some of the potteries
of East Liverpool, Pa, have had to
stop work because the roads in the Vi
cinity are so bad the farmers are I'M
able to bring any straw for the pack
ing of the pottery. tbs probable straw
will be shipped in by rail from towns
possessing sufficient enterprise to
maintain system Of passable high
ways.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
VIRGINIA: In the Circuit Court of Tazewell
' County, in vacation, April 9th, 1899
T. G. Neel and Ebcnezer Neel,
plaintiffs.

-ohn W. Crockett, sheriff of |
Tazcwcll county. and ms such |
administrator of J. i. Neel.
deceased, Peggy Necl (widow).
W. Z. Neel, Georgia Lester,
Thomas Lester, Lena Re
mines, Thomas RemineS, Willie
Whit and Frank Whit, (the
said Georgia Lester. Lena Re-
mines and Willie Whit being
infants), and the said Willie
Whit and Frank Whit being
non-residents, defendants.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
B. F. ORRIsoN.

Peery & st. Clair have just received an
elegant stock of furnitnre-all new styles.
Get their prices before buying.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

Remember o ton of wheat takes 81
worth of fertility from your farmi
ton OF butter but 80 cents. and a ton Of
butter brings vastly more money.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15

The object of this suit is to order an account, if
necessary. and to assign down to the widow OF j.
Z. Neel. deceased, and have partition in 50 acres
fork of Clinch River, situated about fourteen
miles west of the town of TMcwell between the
heirs at law of j. E. Necl, deceased And it ap,
pearng from affidavit that Willie whit ana
Frank Whit are nOn-resdents it is ordered that
they appear here within fifteen days after due
publication of this order and do what is necessary
to protect their interests in this suit, and that
copies hereof be published and posted as pre-
sCribed by law
A cOpy-teste: ,,
II. C. ANDERSON, p. q. CLERK.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1899-06-15
Faint Your Buggy for rs Cents

with Devoe Gloss Carriage Paint, ready
for use; coIors. Gives high gloss, equal
to new. Sold by Jno E. Jackson.
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THE REPUBLICAN is entered at the Post-ofice at
Tazewell, Virginia, as second-claSs matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-20

deepest hatred of the coward who had
murdered his sister,.
Have they got him yet?" followed
like flash.
mo. but the officers have been
searching all night and will undOubt-
eddy find him today
"Oh. but il could but put my hands
on him. the officers wouldn't need to
hunt
Sheriff McFaddcn then asked II AL
fred Small was there and the young
man said that was his name and was
given letter from Gardiner. With
shaking hands and tear bedimmed eys
he hastily read the short note and
said:
please wait here. just IL moment.
while l break the news" and as the
party silently acquiesced he entered
the kitchen.
Miss Lizzie Small. who had COME
home from Gardiner. only the day be-
fore, as was told. Saturday. by the
Journal. after Mamies clothes, was
evidently awaiting him, for what Is
it?" i'm an agitated voice was i1lstinctly
heard by those outside. tn answer
must have fallen with deadly force. for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-20
He Confesses to a Kennebec Journal
Man, Telling the Whole Story.
The Small fami|y's Stoy---Ihe Ar
rest at Home at Richmond.

Bradford p. knight. the confessed
murderer of Miss Mamie Small at Gar
diner. Friday evening at 7.45 o'clock.
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Newell
of Richmond at S.45 Saturday morn
ing. at knights home 3 miles from
Richmond village. in Sagadahoc
county. turned over to Sheriff McFad
den of Kennebec county. within one
minute. taken to Richmond village.
where he>was later given into the Gus
tody of City Marshal Drake of Gardi-
ner. and taken on the noon train to
Augusta. where he now lies in jail. In
exactly - hours to minute after the
commission of as brutal crime as has
been known in this section for many
years, the murderer was under arrest,
although he had eluded the officers in
the night and taken to the county
roads for escape.