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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04

The use of the Commercial club rooms
and the halls of the Independent Order
B'nai Birth and Massey's Business college
have been rendered the committee on enter
tainmnt of Admiral Schley and the public
generally the two days of Admiral
Schley's stay in Birmingham.
The Commercial club at its meeting yes
terday afternoon adopted the following
resolution offered by Rufus N. Rhodes:
''Be it resolved, That the secretary be
instructed to call the attention of the COM
mittee on entertainment to the wisdom or
propriety of requesting the various churches
of the city and community together with
those in control of the opera house, the
Auditorium and the various lodges, clubs
and secret societies, to have their build
ings and rooms properly heated and lighted
and thrown open to the public night and
day during the time the city is crowded
with people in order that no one may be
left without shelter or a place of welcome"
1t is estimated that 1900 or 5000 people
can find shelter in the halls and rooms
abov ereferred to and If the Commercial
clubs suggestion is compiled with no one
need be exposed to the elements.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04

Danville, Va, November S.-Rear Adm raj
Schley was greeted by a crowd of several
hundred persons here this evening as he
passed through to Atlanta and Biruning
ham. He was Joined here by the Atlanta
committee.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04
REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND PARTY
REACH ATLANTA THIS MORNING
The Distinguished Naval Hero Was Given Great OVaGo@ on His
Trip Through Virginia Cities

welcoming address to Admiral Schley, who
is THE hero of the great Santiago naval bait
tie. The facts show that he fought the bat
tie and is entitled to the credit, and the
course pursued by the administration to-
wards him in respect to this matter has
been so mean as ito excite my indignation.
1t is more than disappointment, 1t is a
grief not to be able to accept the invitation.
e. L. RUSSELL.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04
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THE WEATHER.

FAIR AND WARMER oN.4sATURDAY
AND ALSO SUNDAY, WITH N1ARf ABLE
WINDS.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-04

Advertisers in fhe Sunday Age
Herald have the last say TO Mon
day shoppers.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24

Mrs Ira Ally spent most of last
week with Mrs. Terrell, at Steels
burg.
Miss Effie and Mr.. Harry William,
son were up from Graham las Mon
day.
Messrs Lee Ander son, John As,
bury, Milburn White, r. X. Giles
pie and p. M. Alder went to Tazewell
today.
Mr.. John b. Hurt has moved his
family to his farm recently purchased
from Squire III. III. Hunt. and will
remain there until his fine residence
here is completed.
Miss Jessie O'Keefe, OF Tazewell
is visiting her sister, Mrs. II. X
Gillespie.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
War May End at Once.

Washington, March I7.-Advices
have been received from Manila
which indicate that q climax may
occur at any hour. Officials here
arc very well pleased with the con-
dition of affairs, but will not at
present discuss tbs details of the
dispatches. Indications are that
hostilitiss may end within a very
short time. President Mckinley
has been advised.
MANY PRISONERS CAPTURED.
Manila, March 17,-Company G,
of the Washington regiment, has
captuered $50 additional prisoners
near Taguig, and has also seized
some ammunition. Most of the reb
bells were hidden or thrown in th.
river. The engineers threw tenn
porary bridge across the Pasi.
River for the artillery aud commisar,
trains. The Twentieth regime n
eturned from the front TO-DAY.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
Bryan at Knoxville.

Knoxville, Tenn, March 18.-Wil.
liam j. Bryan arrived here this
morning at 8 o'clock. He was met
at the passenger station by hundreds
of Democrats who had assembled
despite the terrible rainfall. The
rain continued throughout the day
and niaht.
This morning at IL o'clock Colo
mel Bryan was joined by Governor
Benton McMillin, of Tennessee. The
two held a public reception in the
Woman's building. This afternoon
they were entertained at dinner by
l.. Ii. Spilman.
at dinner sixteen Democrats and
one Republican assembled around
the festal board. Mr.. Spilman and
Colonel Bryan were boys together al
Salem, ILL.,, and later were friends in
Chicago.
Tonight COLONEL Bryan delivered
his lecture on "Pending Problems
in the large public hall of the city
He was heard by fifteen hundred
people. After the return he was en-
tertained at a banquet, as the guest
OF Knoxville Democrats. He re
sponded to a toast, "Tbe Democracy
OF Jefferson, jackson and Bryan
This morning Colonel Bryan re
ceiyed telegram from newspapers
asking for an expression is reply t.
Bob 1ngersoll's criticism and re
mark that Bryan is back number
and has no political future. Colcne
Bryan's telegraphic reply was that b,
did not regard Colonel Ingersoll a.
a capable authority to speak of hi
eligibility for the back number list
nor upon his prospects for the fu
ture, as Colonel Ingersoll does no
believe in a future.
| Colonel Bryan will celebrate hi
3Sth birthday here tomorrow, az th
guest of his cousin. Mrs. Easter, viii
lof Rev. Dr. Easter, an Episcops
rector Of this city.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
POUNDING MILL.

Mr.. and Mrs. p. M. Alder have
sold out and have their trunks ready
to start to the State of Washington.
They will probably leave next Satur
day, in order to take the emigrant
train from Bluefeld on the far West.
MIR. Alder has been a very efficient
clerk for:the companies that preced-
ed Steele, Hurt & Co., for the past
FIVE or six years.
Mis- Callie Mcclure visited Mrs.
w. b. Steele this week. She will
begin a subscription school here
Monday.
The public school at this place
closed with an entertainment on
last Friday night,
Rev. McReynolds, of the Mission
airy Baptist church, at Richlands
preached here on the second Sunday
and night before We were wei
pleased with his sermons Although
young in the ministry hes promise
to become great prea j D..
Rev. Isaac Wright, OF Blue ield
preached three very ints, estiog seI
mons here last week. 1t plea q
! us to have such good man wit
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
PLEA FOR PEACE
IN THE PHILIPPINE ES,

Schurz. Sherman, Edmunds,
and a Score More Call For
an End to Imperialism
Want Peace For the Islands
Ask Aid of all Lovers OF
Freedom to Urge the Gov
ernment to stop the War.
Boston, March 13,-An appeal to
the people of the United States, urg-
ing all lovers of freedom to cooper,
ate in an attempt to induce the
Government to suspend hostilities
in the Philippines, was issued today
by more than score of prominent
men,
The preamble describes the atti
tude of this Government and OF
President Mckinley toward the Fill
ipinos, before and since the war, and
asserts that there is no rerson for a
change of opinion on the part OF the
Anti Imperalists, and on the contrary
every reason for a continuance of
the protest against the spirit of
militarism and force. They there
fore urge all lovers of freedom,
without regard to party associations,
to cooperate with them to the follow
ing ends:
First-That our Government shall
take Immediate steps toward sus-
pention of hostilites in the Philipp-
ines and a conference with the Phil
ippine leaders, with view of pre-
venting further bloodshed, upon the
basis of recognition of their free
dom aud independence as soon as
proper guarantees can be had of
order anc protection to property.
"Second-That the Government
of the United States shall tender an
officil assistance to the inhabitance
of the Philippine Islands that they
will encourage and assist in the or.
ganization of such government in
the islands as the people thereof
shall prefer, and upon its oreaniza-
tion In a stable manner the United
States, in accordance with its ira
ditional and prescriptive policy in
such cases, will recognize the inde-
tendance of the Philippines and its
equality among nations and gradually
withdraw all naval and military
forces"
This petition is signed by twenty
nine prominent men from q dozen
STAGES, including senators, college
presidents, and many prominent
business men.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
Send No Money.

ANY reader of this paper can sss
cure their choice of Sterling Silver
Bracelet, good Watch, or solid
gold Ring, with genuine diamond
setting, by distributing Flower seed
coupons among their friends and
acouainta,lces. S,nd your name
and address with &c stamp. to the
American Seed Co 335, Broadway
N, Y, today, and you will receive {
sample package of choice seeds, y
orth Of cupons. and full particu
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
HERE and THERE
nterestin G New Fro m Differ
ent Parts of the County.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
'BLUESToME.

Owing TO Providential hinderance,
l have not given the news from
Bluestone for few weeks, but hope
that l may do better in the fu.
ture.
We have been having plenty of
wind storms, rain and mud. Farm
ers are considerably behind with
their work.
Rev. j. w. Smith, OF Graham,
came up to Mr.. j. b. Shannon's last
Saturday night and preached at the
Bluestone Church on Sunday morn.
lug.
Mrs. f, L. Walker, of Clear Fork,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. j. Nash.
Mr., j. w. Shannon is preparing
lumber to build fine barn. Mr.. A.
j. Summers has the contract to build
it.
The Misses Hoge and Wagner.
who are attending school at Tsze.
well, came down last Saturday to see
homefolks.
Mr.. H. Bane 4srman. one of the
candidates for Circuit clerk, was in
our valley, electioneering few days
ago.
Miss Jennie Hankins, of Spring
vile, will commence a three months
subscription school at Teal Branch
the first of April. What is TO hin.
der us from having a school here
next winter. We can furnish tweny
or thirty children, within one-half
mile of this place. We would be
glad to hear from some of our Tea
Branch and Bluestone friends or
this subject.
Business has been very lively al
Bailey for some time, more especially
last Friday.
Mrs. VirgvIin Harry, and Miss
Hattie Tickle. were the guests o
Mrs. j. X. Harry, last Sunday
week.
We were shocked on last Saturday
when the news reached us that Mr.
Robert Porter, of Graham, was dead
The widow has our sympathy.
Mr.. A. X. Brown bought a goot
horse from Mr.. c. A.. Deaton las
week. Mr.. Brown and his son
James, are fixing to farm by th'
wholesale,
Mr.. Winston Nash, of Teal Branch
is going to move to Abbs Valley
this week. We regret to see Mr.
Nash leaving the community
Mr.. A. F. Faulkner says he is go
ing to start to Arkansas about th'
first of April, to purchase farm
We wish MIR. G. f. much goo'
luck.
Wonder what has become of w
w. M.s He has not been hearC
from since the snow storm.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
FREE STONE

We have noticed in your columns
two very amusing, as well as inter
esting letters written by our super.
visor in trying to vindicate himself
of the many charges made against
him by the people Of the district
concerning the county roads. But
he is like horse in the mire, every
stroke he makes for freedom the
deeper he insks. We notice that he
begins one of his letters by asking
and answering questions. He also
says the money spent on the court
house could not have been used on
the roads, as it was surplus derived
from q county levy. II we have
such q surplus derived from our
county levy, aud it cannot bc used
as road money, could not n certain
per cent. of this levy have been
annulled. and this certain per cent.
laid as an extra road levyi He also
says that we have about 200 miles OF
road to be kept up with only eight
or niue hundred dollars of roud
money, or about 81 to the mile.
Now we have about slxteen miles Of
road in our valley, and not n dollar
has been spent on our roads since
Mr.. Peory's term. II you doubt
this statement, go and get that good
and accommodating clerk that b'
told us about in one of his letters
to show you that book that he sniC
would show us where the money
was spent, to show you. Now, j
MI. Peery will just spend two dol
lars to the mile in our valley, W.
. will not be any hinderance TO hin
serving the Lord, if we understand
him rightly in saying that he Can
not be supervisor and serve TN
Lord at the same time.
A SUBsoRIBE7.
Mr.. Il. Elbert Showers has return
ed from the West, and settled dowr
in the valley.
Mr.. Powell Ellis has had the mis-
fortune to lose very fine horse this
week.
We have had O few can Nc a
with Us the past week, among whom
was DIR. @. w. Greever, Mr.. Greev
er is good talker, and we believ'
he would make a good clerk.
Mr.. Washington Asbury, wh'
moved to Ooeburn something over
year ago, is going to move beck t
the valley soon. We will welcome
uncle Wash back again.
Mrs. French, wife of A. p. French
ia very sick.
There is much talk of store go
ing up in the valley, but we are afrai'
it is more talk than store.
Mr.. Charles Mitchell has retiret
from the fur business.
Now AND THEN.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALyF

The Best SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tctter, Chapped
Hands, Ohilblains, Corns and Ia
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t 10
guaranteed to give perfect satisfsct-
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
Tnos. Millions Reach Habana.

Habaaa, March 1.-THE United
States transport Meade, formerly
Berlin, having on board $4,000, O,OeO'-
600 for the payment Of Cuban troops
previous to their being disbanGed'
arrived at 10 o'clock this morning
escorted blythe United States crnis-
or Chicago.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
Big HOTEL BURNED ]l[i,]
Appalling Calamity on Fifth
Avenue Gagged Victims Per-
ish-Big Hostelry Soon
Ablaze from Top to Bottom
Some Jump from Windows.

ADA1AO AAOIi AOp W OOIOOll
Some Jump from Windows.
New York, Mar. 19.-The splen-
did Winsor Hotel, fifth avenue, be
tween Forty sixth and Forty seventh
streets, in this city, was burned
Fri lay. At least seventeen people
were killed and forty seven injured,
some mortally.
Never did a catastrophe by fire
appeal to so many and with such
horror. 1t started while the brillian
t. Patricks Day parade was passing,
In the twilling of an eye the entire
building was a mass of flames. Face
after face-half hundred-appear-
ed in windows; wreathed in flame.
LEAPED TO DEATH.
The hotel was full A dreadful
panic seized all. A score hurled
themselves from the fifth, sixth, and
seventh stories, to fall to death on
the pavement below.
1t was at 8 10 p. m. when the fire
started. The head of the parade had
just passed. A tongue of flame shot
out from the window on the Forty
sixth street side.
In what seemed but an instaut the
ground floor was ablaze. Then came
the rush to escape. Scores piled
nown the stairs-men, women and
children, witho anything but they
clothes they stood in.
The porters tried to run out hose
They might as we'll have tried to
stem Niagara In another minute
the great hotel was ablaze from cell
lar to roof Agonized faces appear
ed in the windows. There were men
in the pride of life; young gir Is in all
the bravery of new spring attire ;
matroms in silk and diamonds.
For half an hour there were faces
in the windows. Occasionally one
jumped--that was death. Occasion
ally one fell back into the flames
behind-that was death. too.
But many were rescued. Firemen,
policemen, citizens, all took hand
and got many soul out in safety.
LOSS S1,OOO,OOO.
At z p. III. tie lire was out. The
loss then was Sl,O0O,OOO. Hundreds
were then rushing around looking
for loved ones. There were some
in the neighboring hotels and board
ing houses; some were dead.
Wall after wall of the hotel fell,
till not one was left. Some fell
through the windows across the
s : eet. All the houses in the side
street suffered, too.
And this loss of life, this horror,
was caused, according to a waiter in
sthe hotel, by a patron of the house
throwing down a lighted match in
the corridor.
1t ignited a curtain and nothing
could stop the flame.
No bodies were found yesterday
The list stands ten known to be dead
and fitfy-five reported to be missing
The World will introduce at AL
bany a bill to make hotels safe anG
and to fix the responsibility wher
the next hotel frs comes whore lif'
is lost.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-03-24
The oregan Reaches Manila.

Washington, March 18.-The Ma
Wy Department has been advised of
the arrival of the Oregon at Ma
Mia.
The following is the cablegram
from AdQiral Dewey:
Manila, March I8.
THE Oregon and the Iris arrived
to day. The Oregon is in fit condi.
ton for army duty"
General Otis is planning another
blow at the insurgents in executing
his general plan of Fastening the
ending the rebellion in Luzon before
the advent of the rainy season. The
fact appeared quite incidentally in q
cablegram received from him in
which he replied to an inquiry from
the war department relative to the
discharge of the volunteer soldiers
serving in his army.
The light batteries which have
beeAordered to Manila are Batter,
e, First artillery, now at Jefferson
Barracks, Mo Battery f, 4th artil
cry, now at Fort Adams; and Bat
terry f, 9TH Artillery, now at For
Hamilton.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-01
JACK IN HIS STALL.

vised box built in the left-hand corner
of the rear of the stall and at the side
of the door through which he backs.
Jacks popularity was discovered the
evening of the first day he spent at the
institution. His introduction was a
days work al grading and when he was
relieved from the harness and led to the
door of the stall assigned to him he re-
fused silently, but emphatically, to go
into it. The men thought this was due
to the fact that everything was strange
to him, and they began to coax and per-
suade him, but to no avail. They then
resorted TO force, but this brought no
more satisfactory results, for Jack could
not be made to enter. After working for
some time the men became exhausted
disgusted, angry and weary. They sat
down on boxes and barrels to discuss
the stubbornness of mules and to devise
some means of making the new one
obey instructions, when, to their sur
prise, before even suggestion had been
made, Jack turned around, lined him
self up evenly before the door, and was
soon standing in the stall calmly and
with an air of satisfaction, staring at
the men.
He was led out and another effort
made to have him go in the stall in the
proper manner, but he again, and just
as emphatically, refused; yet as soon
as released, he repeated the operation
of backing in.
Since that time he has been allowed
to have his own way, and never has he
followed the example set by the other
mules and the horses in the stable. Jack
IS an honest and conscientious worker,
aithful and dutiful, and is prime fa-
'orite with the employees and prison
ers who work about the stables.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-01
MEXICAN WASP AND NEST.

til she has placed as many spiders in
the tube as, according to her judgment,
will be needed. She then lays an egg
in the cell and walls up the opening.
"The remarkable thing about this per-
formance is the magic effect of her
sting. Whether it is the result of
subtle poison or whether it is special
spot in the spiders nervous system
where the sting is inserted we do not
know. Certain it is that after being
thus stung the spider lives on in a
paralyZed condition for weeks and even
months. 1t can move only slightly, and
remains helpless in its mud sepulcher
until the wasp egg matches into vora-
cious grub, which at once falls to and
eats with great relish the meat thus
miraculously preserved.
Another remarkable thing is that
the wasp knows that the spider is a
great glutton and can eat in one day
26 times its own weight in food, and
when it wants to oan go weeks and
even months without eating at all. Now,
how does the wasp know this?
Another equally remarkable thing
ludl 10 tic lHdt
is rendered unconscious by the wasp's
sting. The wasp does know it, for she
invaribly selects the spider to provide
food for her young. She knows that
when she stings the spider it is not
killed, but will live without food long
enough to be fresh meat for the young
wasp when it is hatched and until it
tiberates itself from the cocoon. But
what kind of an instinct or sense that
tells all this to Nine. Wasp we do not
know.
Whether the wasp sting renders the
spider insensible to pain or not is
question not yet settled. However, the
chances are in favor of the theory that
it does. Anyway, we need waste no
sympathy on the spider the most blood
thirsty of all the little people of the
woods. There is a sense of retributive
justice in the thought of a spider help
less at the mercy of a small insect which
it would have mercilessly devoured had
it been able.
$50 we need not accuse our alert, in
dustrious cement maker of any unrea-
sonable cruelty if she, like us, insists
upon meat diet for her young, nor
need we have any fear of her sting, for
she seldom uses it as weapon of of
fense or efense."-Brooklyn Eagle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-01
A FUNNY OLD MULE.
with His Head where His Tail
Ought to BE.

At the Cincinnati workhouse is an
old white mule, known as Jack. He is
considered one of the most peculiar and
eccentric of mules because of one habit.
Jack refuses. and has refused ever since
he came to the workhouse, several years
ago, to occupy his stall like the other
mules and horses in the same stable,
and instead of walking into it, as they
do, he approaches the door, and, turn
ing about, bachs into the stall. In this
position he occupies the stall allotted to
him at all times, his head being where
his tail ought to be.
No one knows just how Jack con-
ceived the idea that this is the proper
way for him to enter the stall, and lit tie
is known as to his views on the subject
beyond the fact that they are positive
and unchangeable, for no living man
has ever yet been able to convince Jack
that he is in the wrong or to induce him
to reverse his movements in taking his
place for meal or to retire for the
night.
Thus it is that the stall occupied by
Jack, though originally like the others
in the row, has been readjusted to suit
his habits and needs. In the front
proper of the stall is the regular feed
box and the rack into which the hay
is thrown from the loft above, but Jack
has never seen them, because he takes
his subsistence of life from an impro-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-12-01
WISE MEXICAN WASP.
How 1t Manages to Provide n Fine
Meal OF Fresh Ment for
It's Young.

Here is a picture of Mexican wasp
and its nest, or rather the nest in which
it lays its eggs. The natural speci-
mems from which the artist made the
pictures were sent to John Dean, the
well-known Brooklyn naturalist, and
when asked to tell about the habits of
this wasp he said:
"The wasp is not a vegetarian like the
bee, and our cement maker has before
her the problem of supporting her
young with meat, rather than with
bread. AS her eggs are laid out in hot
weather, and as enough food must be
stored in the cell with the egg to ma
ture the young insects, the question is
how to preserve the meat fresh for so
long time. She meets the difficulty
thus: After tube is finished, except
at one end, which is left open, she flies
off on hunt for spiders. She finds a
fat, healthy one, pounces upon it, stings
it and carries it off and places it in a
mud cell. She repeats this process un-