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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-06-23
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The Atlanta Constitution.

The Constitution ani.o uces a new
contest, beginning April LIST to run
until Adjust 31st upon the number
of bales in the cotton crop for the
season 1898 90. There are three
prizes offered for April the first 50,
500 for the exact, or nea, est TO the
exact estimate of the number of
bales in the crop; 1,5CO for the next
nearest estimate, and $1,000 for the
next nearest estimate, provided the
three are received during April; this
makes iotel sum of $4,000, very
handsome prize for newspaper
contest
Last year the Constitution paid
$4,000 to Mr.. ID. u. McLaurin, of
Clio, S. g., for his estimate (which,
by the way, was the "ncarestr and
not the exact estimate) on the cotton
crop, and eeyeral other psizes were
paid ranging from 1876. 90 to $4,000
To other contestants.
We wish to state plainly Tor the
benefit OF all our subscrib RS, that our
club rate with the Constitution is
f1.75-and all who subscribe to the
Constitution through Tie on the com
bination offer will be emit, led to on.
ter the cotton crop contest. The os-
innate must be given with the sub
srciption so that it can bc forwarded
by us at the same time the name is
sent IN. The Constitution il known
TO be entirely fair and sc upulously
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 al
missiole and do not constitute "A
lottery in any way. A great dea
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 cottor
crop and its possible bearing upon al
other lines of business. The pres
ent is one of unusual interest, fol
lowing 7ust after one that reached
yearly eleven million two huddret
thousand balee IL has been esti
mated by experts to run as high al
twelve million bales, while som,
have dropped their figures to below
ten million bales, and all have mod
flied their views moro or less, ms th'
time advanced. The question is on,
of unusual interest, and wo feel sur,
that many of our Subscribers would
like to participate in the contest
Do not send you subscription un
der this combination offer to tn,
Constitution; this is our own offe
OF our own paper with the Consiitu
ton, and the subscriptions that in
clude our paper must be sent direct
ly TO us and not TO Atlanta.
The figures given 10y Latham, Al
exa nder * Do. of New York, ar
generally received throughout tn,
South as official.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-06-23
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PUBLIC SALE.
Valuable Land in Tazewell
County Virginia.

Valuable Land in Tazewell
County Virginia.
BY virtue of decree entered in the
chancery cause of w. L. Moore. Adj
ministrator VS.. l.. L. Whitley at the
April Term, 1899, of the Circuit Court
of Tazewell County, appointing the un-
dersigned "A special commissioner OF
said court for the purpose. l will sell
at public auction at the front door Of
the Court house OF Tazewell County TO
the highest bidder,
JUNE Goth 1899.
That being the first day OF the June
lTerTl of said County Court. 100 acres Of
and the property of f. l.. Whitley
situated in the Horsepen Cove Taze-
well County, Virginia, the same being
in four tracts; in accordance with said
decree, three tracts containing 100 acres
will be first offered then the other tract
C ntaining 60 acres; the whole -four
tracts) will then be offered, and tho
hig est and best bid reported to Court
TERMS OF SALE;-Cash sufficient
to pay costs of suit and expenses of
sale, balance upon credit of 6. IL and
IS month, spurchaser to execute bonds
bearing interest from date of sale, with
approved security for deferred pay
ments.
Geo. w. stellar,
Special c m r.
Bond executed as required by decree.
May 10Th. 1899.
III. Bane Hartman. Clerk.
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THE SOLDIERS
WELCOMED.
PocahontaS Grand Re-
Ception to Co. M.
Big Time Given to the Soldier
Boys at the Pocahontas Inn.
Marriage Near Falls Mills.
Especial Correspondence

'Spccm correspondence
Pocahontas, Va, June 1S99-It
Will be remembered by the readers
Of tho News" that the President in
April 1899, in respones to the piteous
calls from the women av children
OF an outraged and downtrodden
nation, issued call for volunteers.
and at this time the national firma.
mont, from zenith to horizon, was
black with righteous indignation.
and in response to His Maiesties
call, from Maine to California, from
the mountains to the sea shore, the
young manhood came to the front
and laid themselves on their coun.
try's altar. Old Virginia, the
grandest old state in the union, was
ready, as she always is TO do her
part, and this lovely southwestern
part of the grandest old state in the
union, was ready, az she always is,
to do her part, and this lovely south
western part of the grand old State.
cher Eden" her garden spot, sent
her horny handed sons Of toll to do
battle for her country's honor, and n
drawer, truer, moro loyal set OF BOYS,
and boys of better grit, never trod
Cuban soil. This reception was a
grenp and perfect success, but at
the same time, it was but feeble
effort to express the appreciation in
which wa held our boys.
All praise to the Giver of all good.
that none of our boys were left to
sleep in Cuban soil.
The chairman of the committee OF
arrangements, w. w. Brenuaman,
so well understood his business that
he handled the immense crowd with.
out jar. The first speaker on tho
programme was our highly esteemed
townsman, Col JAS. $ Browning,
who can always secure tho closest
attention, when it is known be il TO
speak, did ample justice to his sub
Ject and often WAS enthusiasm the
widest. He was followed by the
writer, In few remarks OF welcome
to the boys, then followed Rev. @.
j. Jones, the pastor of the Baptist
Church OF this place. in an eloquent
and pathetic address of welcome.
Then followed our well known
townsman and attorney, Nj. II.
Browning, who in his usually good
humeredly way won his way to the
hearts of ali who heard him. Then
the occasion closed with n splendid
address from Capt. Preston. who
had charge of Company M" giving
minute account OF his company,
from the day he took charge of them
a. their commanding officer, t. tie
present, and closed his address viii
an earnest appeal to them, that il
they were never called To arms again
that when tue final roll was called
they might hear the Captain Of heir
salvation say, come into the lows
of thy Lord.'
MARRIAGE NEAR FALLS MILLS.
At high II on the 7th inst, quite
crowd gathered at the hospitable
home Of Jno. Tabor, near Falls
Mill, in this county. to witness the
marriage of his daughter. Lille
May, To Robert l.. Vernon. The
writer officiated. May long life aud
happiness be theirs while here below
aud bliss eternal in the world above.
w. NJ. MINrRR.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-06-23
How Are Your Eyes +,
re they alike7
Are they weak3

Are they weakf
Are you sufferer from headachei
Do they cause you any trouble
whatevSrf
Can yon see as well now as you
could five Years agol
Do you have watery eyes7 Are
they some times swollen?
After +, aiding for while do the
letters seem to ran together?
Do you have to hold book or
paper further from you than former
ly?
Do you ever have a swimming
sensation after using your eys at.
tentively.
If you are troubled with any of
Cthe above symptoms your eyes need
attention.
DIR. LOUIS E. PEPPER,
Optician and Refractionist,
will examine your eyes with all the
latest appliances, free Of charge, and
tit pair Of glasses that he guaran.
tees absolutely accurate. and if
glasses will be of no service to you
he will advise you.
Have your eyes examined. 1t
costs you nothing and may be the
means of saving your vision. Don't
neglect this opportunity.
Will be in Tazewell for one week
commencing July 1st
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WANTEDll

A bright young man who desires to
travel, to take half interest in a porta-
ple photograph gallery. One hundred
dollars required-will teach right party
the business and guarantee hi income
Co hf not less than $4,000 per month
from the beginning. Call on, or address,
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Poundi ng Mill, Va
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Take up the White Mans Mus
kef.

Take mp the white mans musket.
Tho deadlicst one yc makes
Go drill your sons 10 usci Ia.
And then. FOR Jesus sake,
Send them with ammunition
10 hunt these heethen wild.
Your new caught, suli,'n people
On whom God never siutcd.
Take up the white mans cannon,
The largest that ye east,
Go put II ON your warships.
The strongest ones and fast-
Speed them Co heather countries
Seek out each farthcst spot.
And save these sullcn people
With bibles and with shot.
DAWN Z. PAGE.
Ia Humanity
The times., 1899-10-29

Americans can occupy these buildings there
will have 10 be a thorough house-cleanng
from top 10 bottom, and a plentiful dis
tribution Of disinfecting material.
The population OF Agana is estimated at
about 1000 souls, Of whom the better class,
who are also the controlling class, num-
Der about 100. The people are glad to be
under American rule, and already arches
are going up in the streets and committees
are being formed 10 welcome the Governor
when he takes up his official residence in
Agana. The natives are peaceful and
gentle in disposition. The Filipino con
victs, sent here from Manila, seem TO be
the only distrusting element on the island.
These Filipinos tried to inaugurate a
revolution last March, but the plot was
nipped in the bud by the naval officer in
charge here at the time The native SOL
diers are Well-behayed and their appear
ance neat and military
Guam is an island Of great possibilities.
Strategically it is important in being a link
in the chain between San Francisco and
Manila. Commercially it may be import
ant, but at present little is known of its
resources. as the island has never been
developed. II is known, however, that the
land is extremely fertile-coffee, cocoanuts.
lemons lines. corn, sugar cane, all grow
with but little attention further than the
planting.
The times., 1899-10-29

the three liberal leaders Of Spain-who had
been banished by Queen Isabella. returned
10 their native land and were so success
full in pushing their revolt that Isabella in
turn had TO flee. SerranO became regent; t;
but there was TO money in the treasury.
money the new Liberal government must
have. So General Prim suggested the sale
Of Cuba confident that the United States
would jump at the opportunity. But at
that time our own national debt was very
large. and General Grant, Senator Sumner.
and other prominent statesmen thought il
should not be increased. Finally il was
decided to incorporate a company. with q
charter something like that OF the Indian
Empire Company, which should provide
for the purchase of Cuba for 800 OOO 600
one-fourth 10 be paid down in gold and
the rest of the debt to be funded in a
twenty-year bond, secured BY q lien uLon
the revenues of the island at per cent.
All the pros and cons were settled, and
into the wonderfully fascinating scheme
went the Astors and the Vanderhilts and
other New York miIliouaires. The first
payment was Immediately subscribed
and then the house of cards tumbled with
the assassination of General Prim and the
political storm OF 1868, which swept Spain
like a cyclone.
The third time that the requirement OF
Cuba seemed imminent was in 73. TO
avenge the murder of sixty passengers of
the ship Virginius. The day Of reckoning
was nearer to Spain than she realized, and
1t needed only the second tragedy Of the
Maine to complete her undoing.
4 Tragedy of the War.
Not a great way from Cardenas in the
hamlet of Guadalupe occurred one of the
saddest tragedies Of the recent war. The
village was crowded with starving recon
centrados. of whom more than 1900 had
died in the streets within three months. a
wealthy English lady, then in Cardenas.
| answering the appeal of the priest, accom-
panied by her beautiful young daughter
lust out Of school, went to Guadalupe with
seven ox-loads of provisions, clothing, and
medicines, which she had bought with her
own funds for the starving. The two wOm-
en- with their servants, personally super
intended the distribution, which occupied
two days, and they promised TO return at
once to Cardenas and bring another supply.
On the night before the good Samaritans
were to leave the Spanish officers gave
them a banquet. The house was draFed
with flags and Illuminated in the ladies'
honor. and that decoration proved their
undoing. The lights attracted the atten-
| ton of insurgents on the hilltops, and
with the first course of the dinner came a
| fusillade of musketTy, in which both moth
| er and daughter and several Spanish Off
! GERS were killed. Whether the patriots
| knew that their benefactors, who had come
! to save their wives and little ones from
perishing of hunger, were inside none car
| say. At any rate the Cuban troop that did
| the bloody deed was captured the next day
! and shot on the spot.
The times., 1899-10-29
THE SIX NEW CRUISERS.
The Navy Department Preparing TO
Let Contracts for Building Them.


Let Contracts for Building Them.
Preparations for letting the contracts for
six new cruisers November ! have been
completed by the Navy Department. and
bids from about a dozen firms are ex-
pected. None Of the bids, however. are
looked for before Tuesday, as the policy Of
the contractors has been to wait until the
last moment before filing their proposals.
Irving v Scott, President of the Union
Iron Company, is in Washington, and call
ed at the Navy Department yesterday. He
expects to get al least two Of the cruisers
for his big plant at San Francisco. where
the Oregon and Olympia were built Other
big contractors are expected in Wash
ington Monday
The new cruisers will be known as the
Denver Des Moines, Chattanooga, Tacoma,
Galveston. and Cleveland. They will cost
SIl40 600 each. and are TO be completed
inside Of thirty months They will be of
the type and size Of the Raleigh and Gin
cinnati but will be slower vessels, being
designed for only sixteen and seventeen
knots. while the Raleigh and Cincinnati
are capable Of nineteen knots an hour.
The armament will be as follows: Main
battery, 10 5-inch rapid-hre guns. Auxil-
iary battery: 86-pounders rapid-fre guns;
/ 2 I-pounders rapid-fre guns; Colt ma
chine guns sail area, about 5000 square
feet.
The guns viii all be designed for smoke
/ less powder The 5-inch guns Will be
more effective than the old type OF G.
/ inch guns Eight of them Will be mounted
/ on the main deck in recessed ports. The
! four forward ones will have a range from
/ right forward 10 so degrees abaft the beam,
and the four after ones from right aft to
I co degrees before the beam. The two re-
naming 5-inch guns will be mounted
/ behind shields on the spar deck. one for
ward and one aft Four 6-pounders will
/ be mounted on the main deck, two forward
and two amidship, and four more on the
/ spar deck.
The two 1-pounder guns viii be mount
ed aft on the main deck, and the Colt
machine guns on the top OF the hammock
] berthing Rmidships.
The times., 1899-10-29

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under 81 a pair.
The times., 1899-10-29
The Acquisition OF Cuba.

The Acquisition OF Cuba.
Three times between Lopez's day and the
late war with Spain, did Uncle Samuel Sc
riously consider the acquisition of Cuba,
by purchase or conquest. It Is not new
story, but it will do us no harm to fur
bish up cur history. Late in the Dos
bill was introduced in both Houses OF
Congress declaring it eXpedient that the
key of the Antilles should be in possession
OF the United States and that negotiations
should be opened with spain, looking 10
the purchase of Cuba, for sum not eX-
ceeding $10O, 600 900 II had been expected
that the solid South" would particularly
favor the scheme: but when the latter
came up for discussion in the Senate, Mr..
Soule of Louisiana. led d strong opposi-
ton He wanted the island, but not by
purchase He was a brilliant speaker and
his slightly foreign accent, impassloned
speech, and personal magnetism added u"
the charm OF his oratory. The Dill was
lost in the Senate and never came out OF
the Committee on Foreign Relations, but
Mr.. Soule's words still live in the Con
gressional Record" =" and his prophecy has
been fulfilled. Said ne. in final burst of
eloquence: Let the United States 90 and
take the captive queen Of the Antilles to
her ample bosom. | hope to live to see
the AdJ MDEl the EOl4GAl anu blbbHy AiN5
of Spain shall float no more over any ter
ritory be it island or city, which of right
should be dominated by the American na-
| tion, when the flag of cruelty and tyran-
| ny shall be replaced by the banner which
today floats above this Capitol-the flag
of the free"
Meanwhile other influences were quietly
| at work Col. e. v Sumner, who was
| then in Europe was commissioned 10 as
! certain how a movement tending to the
| purchase of the island would be regarded
| by France and Spain, but it was necessary
| to go about it diplomatically lest relations
| be strained with the French foreign Once
| Hon John Y Mason then our Minister
| to the Court of St Cloud, was left out or
| the matter altogether, and Colonel sumner
! sounded the Duke de Morney, the Empe-
ror's half brother who was the rullng
| spirit of the French foreign office. lie de-
| clared himself strenuousIy opposed to any
| attempt to coerce Spain into yielding her
| island either under threats or moral
| pressure, and intimated that II the united
States persisted in her effort to acquire
J Cuba she would have France TO deal "lth'
as we'll as Spain.
Then for u decade, nothing more was
| heard about the purchase OF CUBA III L
| 1868, after our Civil War was over ana
slavery dead, the suggestion came from
Spain herself 1t was when General Prllh'
| General Serrano, and Marshal obohhai-
The times., 1899-10-29

AGANA. Guam. Ladrone Islands, Aug
l2.-On Monday, August z, the United
States steamer Yosemite came to anchor
iu the harbor Of San Luis de Apra and
completed her voyage Of little more than
1s 600 miles AS the anchor chain ratified
through the hawse pipe a sigh of relief
went UP from officers and men. Though
the voyage was interesting from the start,
vet the desire Of all had been growing
stronger day by day to get down TO work
on their new station. The first sight OF
Guam was rather Disappointing There
we're several rain squalls OF the horizon,
and in reply TO the questioner the lookout
picked out the blackesJ looking squall and
said: That's Guam, sir" AS the squall
disappeared the island developed into a
bold mountainous range, not altogether
tropical IN aspect.
The harbor OF San Luis de Apra is by
far the best Of any in the whole Ladrone
group. being sheltered in all weather ex-
cept southwest gales. On entering, the
snip passed close TO Diete peninsula, a
high promontory forming the southern
boundary OF the harbor, and then swinging
northward she anchored under the lee Of
Cabras Island, which forms the northern
shelter. One serious drawback 70 the har-
Dor lies IN the difficulty Of landing cargo,
owing 10 the coral growth which extends
out for more than mile from the shore.
A pier could readily be built but the
easiest and cheapest solution OF the prob
lem Is 10 send out from the United States
several small wooden steruwheei steamers,
drawing only q few inches Of water, and
thus capable OF passing over the inner reef
At all stages Of the tide. Around the shores
Of the harbor are several towns. Somay'
San Luis de Apra and Pitt. The last
named is the port Of entry for the island
and consists Of two stone buildings and
about q dozen native huts.
The first sight OF the town was not i'm
pressiye for the place is on low land and
ms now In the rainy season. is mostly
under water. Agana is four miles inland
Looking al IL with the knowledge tha.
Suain has been here several centuries, one
wonders that there Is so little. RealiZina
that the large majority Of the natives ar,
only semi-civilized. the place presents
very credItahle appearance. The street
are regularly laid out and are clean, IN,
houses are whiteWashed and neat in ap-
pearanoe, and there are no street loafer,
or beEgars hanging around. The point o.
interest in the town is the plaza on which
are situated the palace, the barracks, al
the cathedral These are quite respectable
looking buildings from the outside. but OF
close inspection the palace and barrack,
were found TO be In q filthy condition, Wit
no attempt at sanitation, and with the dir
OF years left undisturbed. Before ih'
The times., 1899-10-29
srn-M eed as Fool.

The use of seaweed as food ana for fling
mattresses and cushions hes been os-upy-
ing the attention of ore ot the branch OF
the Department OF Agriculture Hitherto.
seaweed has been used almost exclusive y
for fertilizing purposes, but L. fortheoa-
ing bulletin on the subject some l.gat viii
be thrown on other ways in wEieh IT can
b@ turned 10 account.