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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
THE PLAN PROPOSED
For Filipinos Approved by
the President.

Manila, May 22.-S;15 pm. Pro-
f"ssor Schn,man. head OF the United
States Philippine Commission has
submitted the following written pro-
position to the Filipinos:
"While the final decision as to the
form OF government is in the hands
Of congress, the President, unde his
military power, pending the ection
OF Congi eSs, stands ready to offer
tae following form of government:
"A governor general to be ap-
pointed by the President, IA cabinet
to be appointed by the governor
general, all the Judges TO be appoint
Ell by the President, the heads of
department IS and judges to either be
Americans or Flipinos or both, and
also general advisory council, it's
members 10 be chosen by the PEOPLE
10y n form of suffrage to be hereafter
determined upon.
The President desires that blood.
shed cease and that the people of
the Philippines at ~ early date enjoy
the largest measures OF sci govern.
ment compatible with peace and
order"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26

Olympia will stand straight across
the Atlantic, though she may put in
at Azores for two days.
The Time that should DO occupied
by such trip is variously estimat. d
by naval officers, but the average is
about seventy days from today.
However the public will soon be able
to get more accurate knowledge
OF the itinerary, for within "A few davs
the navy department. will bo in
possession of the schedule of the
ships movements.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Harrnan.

Lieutenant Anvil Nelson, of the
Forty.iourth Regiment of Ky., is
visiting his father Bill Nelson.
We are glad to say Col. Nelson's
fine boz is thriving fast and you bet
old Bill is proud for you all know
an old man of his age is peev;sh and
something like this put him in a
'gooi humor
Greasy Creek machinery is a littls
bit disfgured this week. Mr.. Geo
w. Christian has broke balance 20
his sled factory.
Rev. Dooly preached at the 3 forks
OF McPaynes mill dam la { Sunday
and you never saw the like of
Doolyites there was a grand jubilee
among themselves.
oieasy Greek builds up every day
Uncle Billy harsSS-~s Built him a
new hog pen this week.
w. p Payne Geo. Harrison and
w. S. Payne were on Greasy Creek
this week looking after Ilcal
business.
We arc glad to hear that Jim
Brewster is better from his overhead
by drinking the essence of sang roots
Jim says its fine medicine.
w. 5. Payne has 2oas Cd w Va
we know not what for, and don't
guess lie does either.
Mr McPoyEe has just purchased
from Henry Stuart in Russell rs
thoroughbred cattle, hurrah for Nc
he eau make living Oh rock.
The widow Altizer is having lots
of work done on her little mountain
farm on Greasy Creek,
Candidates are plenty this week,
don't guess there will be so many
next week.
Greasy Greek smelt bad last We'd
nesday morning caused from the
campaign whiskey our Greasy Creek
people got Tuesday.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
CLOSING EXERCISES
OF Burke's Garden Academy
and Old Dominion College.
Interesting Entertainments

The closing exercises of Burke's
Garden Academy will commence
on the evening of May 31st with
9 defamation contest for a gold
fmedal and cantata. The annual
address will be delivered on Thurs.
day morning, at 10 O'Clock, by
Rev. G. w. CasselI, of Graham. at
which time medals will be award
ed. Thursday evening there will
be a contest in recitation, for a
gold medal, by the young ladies,
and also a childrens Cantata. This
will close the exercises of this
foUrishihg and popular school,
The closing exercises of Old
Dominion College will take place,
beginning May 20 and closinS on
the evening of the 30th. On Mon.
day, 29th the musi> and elecution
classes will give recitals, beginning
at $50 p. m At 10 Il. IN. on Tues
day, 3Oth, the defamation and
Grafton contests will take place
and the annual address by Rev.
w. l.. Wayts, OF Tazewell. At s
q. m. the Stuart and Marguerite
Literary societies will hold their
joint celebration. Old Dominion
College has had the most prosper
Gus session of its history, and
their commencement exercises
will be unusually interesting.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Misbehavior.

We are informed that the behay-
lor of lot Of boys and girls was
anything but good at several of
our recent entert ailments. Some
of these boys and girls should
know better, others are too small
to kLow better, and should be kept
at home until they know how to
behave themselves, They annoy
those who are Interested, and anx-
ious to hear. Good breeding and
hometraining can be readily seen
in church behavior, and the lack
of it, also.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Rev. Peter Ainslie.

The visit Of this gentleman to our
sown was greatly enjoyed by the
large crowds that heard him. HIS
lecture OH the Spanish American
War, his two sermons on Sunday
and literary address on Tuesday,
were splendid efforts. He has n
fine. .-Noice, we'll under control, a
splendid person, fascinating aid
graceful manner, and above all a big
heart aud brain, developed by edu-
cation and wide read ing. All these
superior qualities combine to make a
workman of skill aud power in the
pulpit or on the ros;rum. HIS visit,
all too short, will be remem bered
by all WHO we're so fortunate as to
meet or hear him.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Plans and Estimates.

Mr.. W. II. jerks, Electrical En-
gineer, of Richmond, Va, was in
town several days last week. Mr.
Jeuks came here to look over the
ground, and will make plars and
estimates for the plant of the
Electric Light Company. He left
on Saturday for Staunton and will
confer at once with Mr.. Jno. M.
SPOTS.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Commissioners Notice.

Commissioners Office, TazewelI, Va.
May 1st 1899.
roote ~ Johnson ct al, Complainants.
VS.. In Chancery
A. j. May, Administrator OF II. ID. Huf.
ford, deceased ct al Defendants.
To Foote a. Johnson. Geo. p Hall and
all creditors of X. ID. Hufford. deceased
A. j. May, admnr. of X. ID. Hufford, de-
ceased, Carrie Hufford Groseclose, Nellie
ID. Surface, VIM. Wallace Hufford. Rob-
ert T.. Hufford, jamie B. HuHord. Mary
i. Hufford, the last Il We Of whom are In
fants, ID. III. Smith, guardian ad 1item
for said infants, III. S. Surface and Wal
ter Groseclose.
You are hereby notified that have
fixed upon June 1st, 1899 at my Office, at
TaZewell, Va, as the TIME and place to
take the account ordered 10y the Circuit
Court Of Tazewell County. Va, at the
April term, 1899, in the above styled
cause which is pending in said Court, at
which time and place you are required
to attend. And all the creditors of II. ID.
Hufford, deed are notified to present their
claims to the undersigned on or befoi e
that day at said Commissioners Office
properly proven, in order that they they
may be properly audited or otherwise
acted upon.
If from any cause said account bo not
commenced on that day, or if commenced
and not completed, the same will be con.
tinued from time to time, or from day to
day, at the same place, or If necessary
from place to place until completed.
j. ii STUART, Commissioner.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Wil1Leave Tomorrow.

Mr.. O. W. Jones leaves tomorrow
Tor Cumberland county. where he
Will be married on Wednesday, 31st,
to Miss Gertrude Foster Mr.. A.
5. Higgin botham and Common
wealth's Attorney Barnes Gillespie
will accompany him. The marriage
Will take place in Antioch Church.
The ceremony will be performed by
Rev. w. G. Foster. brother of the
bride. and former pastor of nhe Bap
tIst church i'll this town. After an
extensive tour in Eastern cities Mr..
and Mrs. Jones will return TO Taze'
Tazewell and make their future home
here.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Married.

Mr. Robert Mathews and Miss
Carrie Allen, of Thompson Valiev,
were married OH Wednesday, at
the Presbyterian parsonage in the
Valley, by Rev. Mr.. Now bray.
Miss Allen is the Oldest daughter
of VIM. Allen, formerly a citizen
OF this town, and Mr. Mathews is a
well known young man of Tnomp
son Valley,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
THE CONSTITUTION
he Leading Southen
Newspaper.
Has the Largest Circulation of
Any Southern Newspaper.

has The Largest Circulation of
Any Southern Newspaper.
The Constitution announces new
contest, beginning April 1st to run
until Aubust 3lst, upon the number
of bales in the cotton crop for the
season 1898 80. There are three
prizes offered for April the first So.
500 for the exact or nearest to the
exact estimate of the number of
bales in the crop; $1,000 for the next
nearest estimate, and 81, 200 for the
next nearest estimate, provided the
three are received during April; this
makes totel sum of $4,000, q very
handsome prize for n newspaper
contest.
Last year the Constitution paid
$4,000 to Mr.. ID. p. McLaurin, of
Clio, 5. g., for his estimate (Which.
bv the way, was tho "noarest' and
not The exact estimate) on the cotton
crop, and eeveral other psizes were
paid ranging from 1915. 90 to $4,000
to other contestants.
We wish to state plainly for the
benefit of all our subscribers, that our
club rate with the Constitution is
,l.76-and all who subscribe TO the
Constitution through us on the com.
bination offer will be entitled TO On.
ter the cotton crop contest. The On.
tlmate mus be given with the sub
srciptlon 30 that il can be forwarded
by us Mt the same time the name ia
sent III. Tue Constitution is known
to he entirely fair and scrupulously
Just In the conduct OF its contests.
The postal authorities have ruled
that these estimates based upon
figures aud statistics that are obtain.
able and widely published, are ad.
missiole and do not constitute q
lottery In any way. A great deal
OF good is being accomplished by
contests OF this character; they cause
our people to think and figure care
fully upon the size of the cotton
crop and its possible bearing upon all
other lines OF business. The pres
ent is one of unusual interest, fol-
lowing fust after one that reached
yearly eleven million two buddred
thousand bales 1t has been esti-
mated by experts to run as high as
twelve million bales, while some
have dropped their figures to below
ten million bales, and all have mod.
iiied their views moro or less, as the
time advanced. The question is one
oi unusual interest, aud we feel sure
that many of our subscribers would
like to participate in the contest.
Do not send you subscription un.
der this combination Offer to the
Constitution; this is our own offer
OF our own paper with the Constitu-
ton, and the subscriptions that in
clude our paper must be sent direct
ly TO us and not to Atlanta.
The figures given by Latham, Al.
exander & Do. of New York, are
generally received throughout the
South as official.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
We Suspected Something.

We met our friend, j. n Rhudy,
of Bnrke's Garden. on the street
one day last week, and noticed an
unusual twinkle in his eye and a
broad smile on his face. stretching
from ear to ear. We were correct.
He will lead to the alter next
Sunday, at Central church, Miss
Matte Fox, an attractive and popu.
lar youl G lady of Burke's Garden.
We extend congratulations in ad.
vance
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
New Brick Store.

1t is authoritively stated that
B. w. Stras will begin at once the
erection OF a new brick store here
on the lot now occupied by the old
Moss Y Greever building, adjoin =
ing the new store house TO be built
by Busion Il Sons. This Will be "a
valuable addition to that side of
Main street.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Under the Knife.

Mrs. L. Nj. Hawkins, who has
been at DR.. Gillespie's hospital for
a week, is very much improved
and will soon be able to go to her
home. DIR. r. b. Gillespie assisted
10y DR.. Conner Hall, performed a
surgical operation on Mrs. Hawk
ms week ago. She is much re-
lieved, thanks TO the skill and
kind nursing of her physician and
friends.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Good Reasons for Going tc
Church.

81 should say" writes Rev. Armory
ii Bradford, d. d., on "What is the
Good of Going to Churcb?H in the
June Ladies' Home Journal, "attend
church that You may learn of the
things OF the Spilit; that you may be
brought face to face with the doc.
tIine OF gIace, which in houis of
depest need alone can satisfy either
the mind or the heart. Ts YOU can
answer, 4 believe an none o. these
thug, Thea / rcpi, A tv,a church
that you may hear the loriest ideals
presented by those wlo have TO
selfish ends iO subserve, and that
you may be kept sensitive to the
moral der of the world in which
all men are included, the violation OF
which means ruin ard misery, and
harmony with which is followed by
benefit aud blessing
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Cut His Leg.

Prof Z. IL. Williams has been
moving around very cautiously OF
late by the aid of u aue. He was
splitting post on his farm near
Knob, when he made a miss lick and
stuck the axe in his leg just below
the knee. The wound is not a
serious one, however.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Old Dominion Cadets.

Major w. Ii. Carter, First Lieut..
Aeb. V. Carter and Second Sergeant
Aaron Johnson, OF Old Dominion
College, oi kichlands, paid cur office
n pleasant call last Saturday These
are nice boys and presented a Zine
appearance III their neat and attrac-
tive uniforms.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Spotts

We are all glad to welcome Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. SPOTS to Tazewell
after their lengthy sojourn in Lewis
burg, W. Va. 1t is very gratifying
TO Mr.. Spott's many friends to see
him looking so we'll, and in such
good health. They returned yester-
day.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Shawvers Mills.

MIR. e. j. Shawvers and family are
visiting relatives and friends at this
place. Edd loves to come boma
sometime.
One of the balance weights broke
loose from the engine of Neal and
Gillian Bros, and made crack in The
boiler through which the steam
escaped. The machinery stopped
instantly, fortunately no one mns
hurt. The boiler is being repaired
by j. W. Shufllebarger.
Mrs Robert Ruble of Bluestone
VINO has been with us since the
burning of her house, left Friday
Tor her new home near the site of the
old one. 1t will be rmembered that
these good people need the practical
sympathy of the people.
The Spring election is near Mt
hand. The people who were cuttino
imber have deferred their work q n
few weeks through fear of falling n
tree on a candidate.
A cyclone burst fourth with all
its fury last week OH East Bluesttone
The wind took southern course
but did no damage until the last of
Its power was expended against Mr..
A Is. Lefiel on Clear Fork. Storms
have come from that direction before
but have done no damage. Mr..
Lefiel said; 81 thonght l could
trust my wife with the good people
oil Blustone, and / left her in the
care OF my brother.in-law, as she
was so near her journeys end. But
iorewarned is fOrearmed, and here
after L will accompany my wife
through land subject to cyclones
and tell other men to do so, as some
are non compos mentis. / will hide
behind the Cross of Christ when the
adversary hurls has fiery darts and
train my children not to speak
that will cause uneasiness"
Some friends on the head waters of
clear Fork on reading Cyclones
items mistook and rumored that A.
B. Leifel and wife separated. / will
say the story. is entirely without
foundation and a nicer family never
lived.
Last Wednesday us the little clock
on the mantelpiece plodded to al
most 6. am. the soul OF our beloved
Brother Il. G. Gregory, took its
Hight from this world to worlds
unknown to us. We will miss him
much. He was ripe in years, q
consistant Christian, kind husband.
good father and a true friend.
But, musical echoes OF the jubilant
song of the heavenly visitants around
the bed of our dear brother on earth
reach to the gates of heaven itself.
The angel sentinels on the walls OF
the golden city take up the refrain
and the glad chorus resounds
through all the corridors of the
heavenly mansion, until it bursts in
exultaDt hosannas around the throne
OF God. May God, who is able &c
bind the broken hearts of his people
comfort the many bereaved friends
of our dear brother.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
WAN TEDiI

bright young man who desires to
travel, to take half interest in por ta-
ole photograph gallery. One hundr ed
dollars required-will teach right party
the business and guarantee hi sincome
G. III. Hunt,
Pounding Mill, Va
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Tazewell College Commence
meQtS

The closing exercises of Tazewell
College commencement began last
Friday night with a very creditable
entertainment in the College chapel
by the primary classes. On Sunday
the commencemen6 sermon was de-
livered in the Christian church by
Rev. Peter Ainslie, of Baltimore.
On Monday aud Tuesday nights
respectively Gillespie and Jaeger
Literary Societies held their
exercises in the Town Hail. On
Tuesday at IL a. no. the annual
address was delivered by Rev. Mr..
Ainslie, to large. crowd in the
Christian Church. All these College
entertainments were largely attend.
ed and were of very interesting
character, the students acquitting
themselves well. The teachers anC
students have all. donc good worl
the past session.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Our New Ads.

Jno. ID. Alexander talks of
fashionable shirt waists. Harris
son u Gillespie Bros. of fine shirts.
Buston q Sons, our enterprising
grocers, OF fine tropical fruits and
j. f. Hurt, of insurance. Read
these ads.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
i. ]. Kyle Montague, ChIfftiansLurg, Va.

:. =. no s'Outu1iIt, tIiIIitlatlsOurg, Va
Dear Sir: have been in the hotel and livery
business Tor fifteen years. and during that time
have had occasion to try nearly all the rene.
dies in use for sick hosics. I have tried ..Sron-
taeues Collie Cure" for horses, and il is updoa,bt
cdl, the best remedy have ever tried. and I
recommend It to ali who may have occasion 10
se Lt. Very truly. Ctu r. SURFACE
l.z,N,l Dug io's >lor.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
NOTICE.

Positively no riding, driving, hunt
ing, or sspassing of any kind
allowed on my lands.
@. III. PEERY,
May2o-ly. Kelly, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26
Blue Grass for Rent

L have GO acres of good blue
grass pasture land for rent. Apply
at once to p. III. Williams,
Tasewell, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-05-26

M. VIM. Cullop, of Bristol, father
of Mrs. j. s. French, is in Che CITY
for few weeks rest.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24

groes We're taken from an officer of the
law and lynched by an armed mob near
Silver City, in Yazoo county, last Sat
urday morning. After being shot to
death, the bodies of the victims were
weighted with bundles of cotton bale
ties and thrown into the Yazoo river.
The negroes We're Minor Wilson, C. C.
Reed and Willis Boyd. They were the
r1ngleders of the negroes in a race en-
counter on the Midnight plantation
early last week. They were arrested
and taken to Yazoo, and held in Jail
The offense with which they were
charged having been committed in
Sharkey county, the Sharkey authori-
ties were notified and last Friday even
ing Deputy Constable Sylvester arrived
and the prisoners were turned over to
him. The constable boarded the steam
er Rescue with the negroes on Saturday
morning and reached Silver City with
them. All that is further known is that
the negroes fell into the hands of the
mob at this point, were shot to death
and their bodies thrown into the river.
as above stated.
The feeling against these negroes has
been very bitter, on account of a. dis
turbance at the Midnight plantation
last week, in which they, with two 9TH
er comrades, had fired upon two whites
on the public road. A horse belonging
to one of the white men was wounded,
but the men were not harmed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
WILL SHOW NO MERCY
TO THE AMERICANS
Escaped Prisoners Experience With
Band of Naked SavageS.
Insurgents Are Using Brass-tipped
Bullets, Which Poison the
Wounds-General Otis VIII Re
sumo Active Operations Within
Forty-eight Hours = Intercepted
Letters Show That the Insurgents
Are Out of Funds-Casualties.

San Francisco, March ga letter
from Captain McQuesten, surgeon of
the Eighteenth regulars, now at Ma
Mia, tells of the release of A. R. Pc
ters, a photographer who was captured
and tortured by the Filipinos. Peters
was made prisoner while taking pic
lures outside the lines. He was thrust
into a filthy Jail, where he was visited
by native captain, who tested his
sword upon his body and promised tc
kill him. The rebel chief then called in
a. number OF naked savages, all armed
who executed a war dance and made
passes at Peters, one of them woundinS
him in the arm. The next morning he
was taken to Malolos, where ne found
eight Americans, two Englishanen and
a Spaniard. From here he finally Sc
cured his release through the interven-
tion of American officials.
The saVages who attacked Peters,
continues Captain McQuesten, were OF
the tribe known as headhunters and
cannibals. They live in the interior of
the island, and will not show any
mercy after this to any unfortunate
white man who may fall into thedr
hands"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-24
WARREN LELAND'S INSURANCE.
"Use and Occupancy" Policy Returns
a Nice Sum.

a Nice Sum.
New York, March 2S.-The Herald
says: Warren T. Leland will receive
each day until his new hotel is COM
pleted, a sum, said to be $3.50, on use
and occupancy policies which heN for
tunately held This will be entirely
apart from the insurance he will receive
on furniture, personal property and I'M
proVements. The use and occupancy
policies provide for payments to the
insured for each day his business is not
in operation.
William M Randell, secretary of the
fire patrol commission, New York board
of Fire Underwriters, said: Il know
Mr.. Leland has policies which will bring
him a stated amount each day or each
hour that his hotel business is not run
ming.
THE use and occupancy policies,
such as he held, usually provide that
for every day that a room cannot be
occupied because of fire, certain sum
shall be paid Many owners of public
houses take out such policies to pay
for loss of patronage in event Of fire.
LAS all the rooms were entirely de-
stroyed in the Windsor Hotel fire, and
it will be a long time before the hotel
can be replaced, the amount Mr.. Le-
land will receive from these policies Will
probably be very large. L am not sure
whether the amount he will receive
each day is exactly $3.50. 1 cannot tell
without consulting my books, which
are in my office.
Mr. Leland had no trouble in OBJ
tanning insurance on his property, nei-
ther did the owner OF the building, not
withstanding many reports to the con-
trary All the building laws that con-
listed at the time the hotel was erected,
were complied with