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Sharp County record., 1900-08-03

John r. Metcaif made @ bust
ness trip to Batesville this week,
W. NJ. Collins has been on
the sick list several days Of this
week.
Deputy sheriff Henry CLARK
of Hardy was in town Wodnes-
day.
Hon. Chas. F. Cole Of Ba1cs-
vile, republican nominee for
congress from the sixtl dstrict,
has made the following appoint
ments to speak in Sharp county:
Ash Flat, August 2l, Evening
Shade, August %, Cave City,
August 23.
TO CURE CHlLLS AND FEVER.
Take Rogers Blue Chill Cure,
The first dose breaks the chIlls,
and three doses will cure. Price
% cents. No cure no pay. Sold
by all druggists.
Mrs. Mary E. Holt Of Kings
Mill made final proof on her
homestead before the clerk Sat-
urday.
Circuit court for the Southern
District convenes here the 18th.
John W. Shell went to Ash
Flat Saturday to attend the re-
publican mass meeting.
Have you sassessed? The
assessor will be here until after
the 4th.
Rev. Anderson and Messrs
Stoker and Marlin seined a nice
lot Of fish Wednesday.
W. D. Cochran's stock of spring
and summer dress goods is COM
plete, and prices very satisfac-
tory.
Bryan and Stevenson demo-
cratic clubs should be organized
in every township in Sharp coun-
ty according to the instruction of
the state central committee. Let
the democrats Of Pinoy Fork have
a club Of this kind,
Davis, democrat, Remmell,
republican and Files, populist,
candidates for governor, opened
their canvass Monday at Con"
way.
The Evening Shade base ball
club will cross bats with the Ash
Flat nine at the ground here
Saturday. Come out and SEQ tho
game.
Last Friday night eight
prisoners escaped from the In
dependence county jail at Bates
vile, part Of whom have beon re-
captured.
If you want Ladies or Chill
dren's spring or summer hats, be
sure TO examine W. D. Coohran'a
large stock Of the very latest and
incest styles.
Sharp County record., 1900-08-03
LOCAL NEWS.

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Sharp County record., 1900-08-03
ELECTION JUDGES.
s-- II

The Sharp county election COM
missioners met Monday and ap-
pointed the following judges to
hold the September election:
Upper North-H. z. Henry,
J, P. Eddy, n, r, Whitman,
Lower Nor.h-A. L.Sveau1ar,
John Bal,dr. M. 3 Etl-ar3.
North Union L. Ward.
Il. A, Ladd 7. J. Peck
South Ua,A-John Hcary,
R II. Morton, b. y. Green.
Jaokson--A. 0. Boyoo, R,
Keiloy,, j. NJ, Harrell.
Haray-8. L. CLARK, ". S.
Fannatta, Joel Turner,
Highland--H. &. Dark, A. J.
Tucker, J. D. Ferguson.
DaviGson-G, E, Oylor. J. f.
Wile5, L, F, Meadows.
BichwooJs-L. j. Worl, J. W.
Mclean, J. N. Roberts,
Lobanon-J. A. Ju9tus, E. V.
Poeblos, D. T. Leonard.
Morgan-J. T. Lock, ". H..
Williams, r. A, j. Dillard.
Lave Greeks, T. Welsh, Jas,
Sine, N. B. Baker.
strawberry-W. H. Spot5s,
J. r. Kirkland, T. H, Wiggs.
Big Rock-M. D. Barnett,
F. M. Biggs, F. P, Ring.
Washington-H. P, Bacon,
]. W, Powell, J. H. Boles.
Big Creek-J. NJ, Hill, Lee
A. NJ. Nixon.
Scott-E. A, Taylor, H, r.
Bowers, D. NJ. Lewallen.
Cave-W. r. Witton, G. N.
Horn, J, 7. Jones.
Sullivan-C. 3. Snow, 3. F..
Meoks, J, r. Hawkins.
Johnson-P. G, Kinks, ], T.
Sanders, j. W. Claxton.
Piney Fork-J, W. Davidson,
S. ". Kirby, John Kerr. o.
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Shell and McLain are good
citizens and good men, but they
are leading a forlorn hope.
Buy your stoneware from
Cochran. He has lots of it.
WANTED--To buy one all
round good harness and saddle
horse.-W. D. Cochran.
Miss Miriam Shaver returned
Tuesday from an extended visit
to relatives in Texas.
We acknowledge receipt of a
complimentary copy of son
Again." new, pretty, catchy
two-step, sent US by K. B. Pierce,
music dealer, Beaumont, Texas.
The price is so cts., but during
August it can be had for 10 cents
in stamps by addressing the
publisher.
Sharp County record., 1900-08-03
NO. NJ. WATKINS,
Physicidm and surgeon,
EVENN g SHADE ARK

Will engage in the general
practice Of medicine. Will give
special attention to surgery, dis
eas ssDl women and all lorms Of
rectal troubles.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
Brave Men Fall

Victims to Stomach, liver and
Kidney troubles as we'll as women,
and all feel the results in loss Of ap-
polite polsons in the blood, back
ache, nervousness, headache and
tired, listless, run down feeling. But
there is no need to feel like that.
Listen to j. W. Gardner, avilie,
He says: Electric Bitters are just
the thing for a man when he is all
run down, and don't care whether he
lives or dies. 1t did more to give
me new strength and good appetite
than anything l could take. l cau
now eat anything and have a new
lease on life" Only so cents a!
Jno. E. Jackson's drug store. Every
bottle guaranteed.
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thompson VALLEY.
Jan. "a, 1900.

Mr.. Geo o. Thompson, who has
been quite sick for several days, we
have been Informed. is slowly i'm
proving. IL is to be hoped he will
will be out again soon.
Messrs. John Crockett and George
Surface were seen riding through
our valley one day this week. They
say they would enjoyed themselves
better if the roads had not been so
dusty.
We are glad to learn that Mr..
Walter Thompson. who has been
threatened with pneumonia is slow
ly but surely improving.
If there is any one thing We have
our share Of it is mud.
IL is with deep regret that we
learn we will shortly lose three OF
our best citizens, namely Mr.. John
Csrell, to Giles county, Va, Mr.. Jno.
Akers to Northampton, Mo. and Jim
Turner to Baptist Valley, Va. All
these gentlemen have sold their
farms and will leave us soon.
We had quite an interesting prayer
meeting at Pleasant Hill chcrch
Saturday night. These meetings
will be held every Saturday night at
the ch urch. 1t is to be hoped all
will take a hearty interest in them
and encourage them by their pres
ence.
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BENBOW.

1t is with deepest regret that we
announce the death of that excellent
christian woman, Mrs. Martha Kill
der, which occurred last Thurs iay
after three weeks illness, of pneumo-
MIA fever. She was an excellent wo
man and will be missed by all who
knew her
MIR. G. w. George made a business
trip to Washington county last week.
Mr.. Ed and John Buchanan both
have been confined to their homes
seve'al days with gripp.
Miss Mamie Walk has had very
severe attack of quinzy, it being
three days that she could not swal-
low any food, but she is improving
slowly now.
Hiss Betty Mathews, accompa MED
by her nephew, Doak Mathews left
here Sunday for Tennessee, where
she is going to nurse the wife of her
brother, Mr.. j. E, Mathews who has
been quite ill for the past three
months.
1t Ia cnrrently reported that there
will be splendid ball given in
about three weeks to the young peo
pie of this place 1t has not been
positively decided as to who will
will give it
We are glad to learn that Mrs.
Mamie Buchanan who has been con.
fined to her room for several DAYS is
able to be out again.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
Millions Given AWAY.

1t is certainly gratifying to the
public to know of one concern in the
land who are not afraid to be gener-
Gus to the needy and suffering. The
proprietors of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds have given away over ten
million trial bottles of this great
medicine; and have the satisfaction
OF knowing it has abs olutely cured
thousands of hopeless cases. Asth :
ma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, and all
diseases of the Throat, Chest and
Lungs are surely cured by it. Call
on 'no. +. Jackson. druggi.t, and
get a free trial bottle. Regular
size SOC. and 500. Every bottle
guaranteed. or price refunded.
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|R g. Chapman
The Things that are Worth Doing
Well.

In the course Of an article in the
Youths Companion on Ambitions:
True and false," Bishop Potter of New
York says "One of the saddest things
in life is to see how much time aud how
much pains are spent upon things that
arc not worth either of them. In art.
it is true, where things endure, like an
exquisite bit OF carving. or one OF Meis-
sonier's paintings, or IL lovely miniature
the beauty and perfection are OF so fine
and high kind that to spend much
time and labor upon them, and to be
ambitious for All excellence (that which
excels) OF that kind, is at any rate intel
lglbe. But the people who spend
weeks in engraving Home, Sweet Home
on a ten cent piece, or doing anything
else of kind which, when it is done.
is not worth the doing, they are, | can
not but think, the victims of an ambi-
ton that is both false and foolish.
''lf one is beginning life with a few
fixed rules, one OF them may well be:
What is it that is best worth doing?
Can do il? And il can is it worth
while throwing away time and strength
upon what is not?' Take the matter of
our reading. One of the things, that
when we are young, we do not realize
is that, when we are older, and find
ourselves among other people and hear
them talk OF what we know nothing
about, one OF the keenest notifications
OF llfe will be the consciousness of our
own ignorance. We will remember then
perhaps the books we have read, and of
what poor stuff many OF them were; and
we will realize that if we had given the
time that they have cost us to books
worth reading, we would have been fit
companions for educated people. and
happy and at ease in their society.
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Echols IA Candidate:

IL Is positively announced by the
Stanton Spectator that the Hon.
Edward Echols, Of Augusta, 10 o
candidate for governor OF Virginia.
MIR. Echols is at present lieutenant
governor and is we'll known through
out the Commonwealth as a consis-
tent Democrat and man of intsgri-
ty and ability
The Spectator says: HE may be
said, without exaggeration, to fulfill
the measurement of the Jeffersonian
requirements Of fidelity, capacity and
honesty" 1t is evident that there
is going to be lively contest in tho
Democratic party for the gubernato.
rial nomination next year. Mr.. .Echols
is the third candidate in the field.
The friends of the Hon. j. Il. Ell
Tyson, chairman OF the Democratic
State Committee, and the friends OF
the Hon. Claude A. Swanson, the
present representative OF the Fifth
district in Congress-, will earnestly
press the claims OF their favoritss.
The meeting of the convention il
Yet long way of, but the friends
OF the several candidates are moi
losing any time in working up in
terest for their respective candidates
There is no telling how many new
Richmonds may enter the field before
the State convention. At present
the contest is triangular, but it may
become quadrilaterai before the end
is reached. In fact there may be
five or six candidates for the Dem
ocratic nomtnation.-Lynchb urg
News
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
Working Night and Day.

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is DIR.
Kings New Life Pills. Every pill
is sugar.coated globule of health,
that changes weakness into strength,
listlessness into energy. brain-fag
into mental power They are won
derful in building up the health.
Only 25c per box. Sold by Jno.
e jackson, druggist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26

Was the ball that hit G. B. Stead
man, Of Newark, Mich, in the Civil
War 1t caused horrible ulcers that
no treatment helped for 20 years.
Then Bucaleu's Arnica Salve cured
him Cures Cats, B uises, Burns,
Boils, Felons, r"rns, >kin Erup
tions Best Pile Cure on earth 25c.
box. Cure guaranteed Sl by
Jno. E Jackson, druggist.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
POVNDING MILL.

Rev. j. Il. Sparks is moving
again today, he says, for the last
time, until he moves into his own
house, the erection of which will be
oegun this week on the lot opposite
w. b. Steele's.
Mrs. Floyd Whit, who has been
very i'll with pneumonia, is i'm
proving slowly. Mrs. a. ii. Ryley
is also better.
Mrs. j. Marion Nj cGuire, Cedar
Bluff, spent Saturday aud Sunday
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
w. B. Steele. Her sou, Fred G.
Mcclure, entered Tazewell Col
lege Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. II. Nj. Sparks visit
cd their parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jonas Sparks, at Gap Store, one
day last week.
Mrs. j. Sam Gillespie returned
Tuesday from weeks visit to her
fathers, MIR. Crockett. ut Raven.
Mr.. Faulkner is the new section
foreman here, Mr. Il. link, opera
tor and agent.
Miss Rosa Fcrrell, one of Steeles-
burg's most charming young la
dies, spent Saturday with her
friend, Mrs. w. b. Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. X. Gillespie
have a new girl baby.
Mrs. James O'Keeffe spent a
coupl of weeks with her daughter
Mrs. II X. Gillespie, and returned
home Monday. The DR.. was ais,
down during the time.
Messrs. Monger Il Mcleod ar,
preparing 10 saw Hurt ~ GIlles-
pies timber on .he Hunt bounda
ry.
Mr.. Oscar Nunley is moving his
family into the Underdunk prop
erty, Mrs. Underdunk having
moved back to her fathers, at
Steelesburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Giles
PIE, of Tazewell, are visiting their
children at this place.
Mrs. j. B. Hurt and Mrs. Geo.
Gillespie are spending TO day with
Mrs. Sanders Gillespie and the
new girl baby that arrived last
week.
Jan. "a, 1900.
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POCAHONTAS.

w. S. Lyons was visiting in Blue
field Monday.
Ed. Sincock, who has been in New
Port News, Va, arrived here Mon
day where he will make his future
home.
B. Maxey and J. s. Stout visited
Tazewell Tuesday.
Miss Hickey, of N. c., is visiting
Mrs. Nj. Bateman.
Mrs. Joseph Hymsn left Tuesday
for Pittsburg, Pa, on visit.
Z. z. Dillon was in Bluefield Mon
day.
DR.. Zimmerman was up from
Bluetield Saturday.
j. @. Freeman visited Bluefeld
Saturday.
j. f Thomas aud wife, of Kew
stone, were visiting friends here
Sunday.
w. E. Jenkins and wife visited
friends in Bramwell Sunday.
Geo. .W.ZimInerman visited friends
in Bluefeld Sunday.
DR. L. E. Ward visired Graham
Sunday.
A l.. Hill made business trip to
Blue6eld Monday.
JOS Hyman made a visit to KEY
stone Thursday.
VIM. Berry mtIrned Tuesday
from Newport News, Va.
Jno w. Crorkeit was up from
razewell Thursday.
Joe Kwass, who has he"n livin" M
Newport News, arrived here Tues.
day to accept a position with S. L..
Matz
W = u NtWSuudm was DOWN on
Tug River Friday.
n. Millner visited Bramwell
Thursday.
E. j. Ware, buyer for Southwest
Virginia Improvement Company,
left Tuesday for the east on a bus
mess trip.
Sol. Hyman and AL Baldwin were
up from Biuefeld Tuesday.
r. S. Gillespie, of Tazewell, was
in our city Tuesday
The Citizen Fire Company has
just received very large fire bell,
which was place d in the tower and
gives entire satisfaction The bell
can be heard for two miles. 1t will
only b' rang in case of fire.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
Died Of Rheumatism

Mrs. Sallie Holley, wife of Eek.
Holley, one OF our most respected
colored citizens, a daughter OF
Reese Bandy, died at her home near
Col. Mays, on Sunday morning last.
She was 29 years of age, and had
been member of the Methodist
church for nine years. She was the
mother OF six children, two of whom
are dead.
The funeral services were conduct
ed by Rev. A. Davis ut the Methodist
church (col.) Monday at 3 p u., fol
lowing which the remeins were in
tered at the Peery graveyard, near
fair grounds.
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Death Of Mrs. Painter.

Mr.. j. b. Painter received telegram
on Sunday last that his sons wife, Mrs.
Warren Painter, had died suddenly at
her home in Dublin, Va. No particulars
OF the sad affair were given. She leaves,
besides her husband, four young chill
dren to mourn an irreparable loss.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
Closing Exercises Of Graham
High School.

The closing exercises of the Ora
ham High School will be held Janu-
airy 3Oth and 31st, commencing each
night at z: 80 o'clock. We have
good program. Will have play of
Graham authorship" each charac-
ter representing one in Graham.
The last night will include a de
bate upon the question, "Sbould the
Churches Unitef' Also "Cantata"
representing all the nations that
have laid claim to our country.
There will be four gold medals
awarded.
III. l. B.
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A VERY FAMILIAR KIND,
An Unidentified Exchange Describes Types
Every Reader viii Recognize.

"-"-~-'~-
Every Reader viii Recognize.
To one who is fond of studying
human nature, there is no business
that offers so rich a field as that
of a country newspaper, in every
type of human nature that has thus
far been discovered. The subscrip.
ton book can properly be called
the index of the towns people-a
reflector, so to speak. 1t has them
all there-the good, the bad and
the Indifferent. You may think
you are onto them all, but you are
not, if at some time in the villages
history you have not studied the
subscription book of the newspa-
per Office.
Upon this book is the man who
insists upon paying for his paper
In advance. He knows the exact
day it expires, and on that date he
makes his annual visit to the Of
fee.
There is another kind, who al
ways pays when you present the
bill, be it one or five years. sub
scriptioh. You must go after it,
but it is always waiting for you.
There are some who pay on the
street. never take a receipt, leav-
ing it to the editors honesty to
give him the proper credit. This
man doesn't know exactly when
his paper does expire, but he Is
good pay just the same.
Bnt they are not all that kind.
for here comes part of the shadows
of the business. Here is a class
OF fellows who, when presented
with a bill of account, swell up like
a )copperhead, and get very mad
Tor your having wounded their
dignity. They pay up, and stop
the paper at once.
Another kind is the fellow who.
every time he sees you, duns him
self. He is coming to the Office
right away, and pay 1t, -snd apollo
gizes for not having done so lon =
ago. Again and again we sec
him, and again and again, as earn
est aud suavc as Colonel Sellers
ever dared to be, lie tells you he is
coming to the Office right away
perhaps that day.
We pass on, aud here comes the
fellow who never sees us. He sud-
denly becomes attracted to some
thing across the street; and If he
doesn't cut across between cross
ings, his eyes are rivited in anoth-
er direction until you pass by.
Then he moves OH.
But one of the meanest of them
all is the man who claims he
doesn't get the paper half the
time, when it is sent to his address
every week. One man who owes
four years. subscription, and gets
the paper every week, when asked
to pay not long since, got very
mad, cut up a good deal, aud then
claimed that he hadn't received C.
single copy during that time.
And there are other kinds, too,
that cas-: their shadows amidst the
little bursts of sunshine that occa.
slOnally creep into the office.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
General Wheeler.

Washington, Jan. 22.-The War
Department received cable gram
from General Otis to-day stating
that General Wheeler will sail
from Manila Wednesday on the
transport Warren for the United
States by way of Guam and Homo.
lulu.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26
THE BLAME RESTS
UPON PARENTS
Why Our Public Schools
Are Not Better Attended
Other States Who Have Wres-
tied With this Problem Have
Adopted the Compulsory
System of Education.

Editor NEws:-We have read
with interest the articles PUBLISHED
IN your paper of last week in refer
ence to the small percentage of
attendance of children at our pub
lie schools as shown by Supt. Viii.
liams' report, as also what has
been said upon the pertinent ques-
tions of "Who is to banner" and
"What is the remedyp Now, in
regard to the first question, we are
OF the belief that in large ma
Jority of our country schools the
blame for small attendance rests
with many of the parents of the
children, who, from mere indiffer-
ence as to their mental training
neglect the opportunities afforded,
Notwithstanding they may have
an efficient, earnest teacher; one
who loves his work, and is doing
everything in his or her power TO
advance the pupils committed to
their care. The writer has come
TO this conclusion, not hastily, but
after long and varied experience
in teaching, and in different To-
caiities; and we believe that until
our people are aroused from this
indifference, and awake TO the i'm
portance of our public schools and
TO the education of their children,
our country schools will not be
what they should, and what we
would love to see them, even
though presided over by the most
efficient teacher that our worthy
superintendent can secure.
There may be, and are, no doubt,
instances in which ;he teacher is
at fault, either in incompetency,
tact in government, or something
else, and in cases of this kind, the
remedy is at hand, and the district
trustees have the legal right to
dismiss such teacher, and place
one who is competent in charge OF
the school. But we rep at, that
IN our opinion, the blame for tins
state of affairs rests more with the
parents OF the children than with
the teachers.
Prof. Williams has been making
heroic efforts to increase the eff
cheney of the schools of our county,
and we are proud to- see his efforts,
in measure, crowned with sue
CESS, and our people are ready to
accord him all honor for his lauda-
ble zeal and interest in behalf of
the schools; but until the parents
Of the children awake from their
indifference and come to realize
the value of these schools, and the
importance Of educating the youths
of our county, our country schools
Will be in measure failure.
Other States, as is Well known,
have wrestled with this same
problem, and nave brought it to q
satisfactory conclusion by the
adoption of a compulsory system
of education; and our law makers
at Richmond might we'll consider
the advisabllIty of such a measure
for our old commonwealth.
TEACHER.
Cedar Bluff, Va, Jan. %.
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ILynchburg News 1

Richmond, Jan. 22.-The Gen
eral Assembly today adopted with
a dissenting vote a joint resolution
inviting the Hon. William Jen-
nings Bryan to address this body
at his pleasure. The resolution
reads:
"Resolved, by the House of Del
egates, the Senate concurring,
That the Hon. William Jennings
Bryan, the greatest living expo
nent of the time-honored princi-
pies of the Democratic party, be
and he is hereby invited to ad-
dress the Virginia Legislature at
such time during the present ses-
sion as may best suit his conven-
ience."
The resolution carries with it
an understanding that the legis-
lature is to bear all of the expen.
ses Incident to Mr.. Bryan's visit
here to deliver the proposed ad-
dress. 1t is wQrdeH very much
like one presented to the Mary
land LEGISLATURE, and - hat
body peferred 10 committee.
HAVE A WARM SPOT FOR HIM.
The fact that Mr.. Bryan was
given the cold shoulder by the
N aryland legislature, it is believed,
had much TO do with the introduc-
tiokof the resolution. The Vir-
ginia Democrats wish to let Colo
mel Bryan know that the mem bers
OF his party in Virginia have a
mighty warm spot in their hearts
for him.
Two years ago the Legislature
invited Representative Bailey, of
Texas, here to address them.
Nothing was said at the time as
to paying the expenses of the Wis
ltor. After his departure, a resolu.
ton was passed by the two house s
authorizing the payment of several
hundred dollars incurred in enter
tanning the Texas orator. There
was some little surprise among a
few of the mem bers that such a
bill was presented, but it's pay
ment was ordered. There Will be
no such misunderstanding should
Mr.. Bryan come here, as it is pret-
ty well understood that the Legis-
lature is to be his host and foot all
the bills.
MARTIN FOR NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
The announcement that Senator
Martin is mentioned i'm connection
With the craftsmanship of the Ma
tional Democratic Committee,
gives much pleasure to the friend s
of that gentleman in the legisla
sure. Should Mr.. Martin, howev-
er, be selected, it is pointed out,
the committee would have at its
head a gentleman who does not, it
is claimed, favor the denomination
of Bryan, the conceded choice of
the party.