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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
The Carter OUTRAGE.

Eagan and Carter.-The lawyers
nave invented a new bubble which
they hope will keep Carter out of pris-
on. They contend that as the court
mas sentenced him to dismissal from
the army he is no longer subject to
military authority, and hence that the
courtmartiaPs sentence of imprison.
ment is void. But the precedents
are all against the bubble. In the
latest case-Eagan Sin which an Off
ser was sentenced to dismissal from
the army tor conduct unbecoming to
an officer and a gestleman" tbe Pros,
dent, so far from holding the convic+
to be beyond military Jurisdiction al.
though he approved the finding and
sentence, changed the punishment TO
one of six years furlough on full nav
with honorable retirement at the end
or the term.-N. Y. Verdict.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Speaking and Writing English.

We have often heard it said
| that the English language is the
most difficult To master of all the
languages. This may be true so
far as foreigners are concerned.
but ShOnld not be tho case with
native Americans. But ,udg1ag
from many Nnd most communi-
cations received in our Office
either the language is difficult. or
else teachers are careless and neg
llgent. In one short conmunica-
ton received in this office re.
Gently, covering two small pages.
there were SIX words misspelled.
and two other grammatical error.
And this, too, from COLLEGE SIN
dent. Nine out of ten of the COM
municatlons received in newspa-
per Offices have to be re- written
or corrected, and this is true. even
"heh the writer Is school teach
CT. Now, something is wrong.
The public schools ought to be
able to teach pupils to at least
spell correctly. Ii everybody con-
cerned would do their duty we
would not have such miserable
Ootch work. We know of the diff
hcultles, but we also know thai
there is no excuse for such butch
erlng of the English language as
usually done by our school
children, after they have been
through the schools. Better leave
of L'tin and Greek, and the at
temp at higher mathematics. un.
I'll taey have learned to spell. write
and read correctly. Until then
they are not prepared to enter
upon higher work. We commend
this view to our teachers and nm.
pills. There is lack of honest.
prudent work somewhere.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
The Years Record.

We sold and exported 1882 .
100000 worth of our domestic pro-
ucts, and our total export and
Import trade for the first time ex-
ceeded two billions. In the total
of the exports, manufactures ap-
pear to have the value OF S375,OOO.-
900. an increase of S6S,OOO, 600
over 1898.
We raised nearly two and one
half billions of bushels of corn, of
which the average price was 3
cents per bushel over that of last
y ar. We raised $4,000, 900
bushels of wheat and 100000
bales of cotton.
There were shipped from the
mines 47,25O,OOO tons of anthra-
cite coal, the largest production in
our history. The production of
bituminous coal is estimated at
l9o OOo,OOO tons. In a closely re-
lated branch of industry, the iron
furnaces turned out 295,OOO tons
oil pig iron a day, as against 235,-
oOo gear ago, and prices of iron
and steel are double what they
were then. We export four times
as much iron and steel as we did
Ten years ago, and import one
fourth as much.
The aggregate bank clearlncs of
the year were S93,OOO.OOO,0 900, an
increase of 81 per cent over the
record of 1S9S.-New York Times
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Exploit Private Grabs

The Commissioner of Navigation
Mr.. Chamberlain, uses his Office to mt
out a stirring plea for Mark HANNA
bill to present $1,000 900 a year to our
languishing shipbilders, who have to
turn away orders. and, pending the
passage of the Hanna grab, are organ
ling a trust to put up prices. In no
other civilized nation are statistical
and scientific departments intended
'or the supply of accurate information
given over to figure juggIers for the
exploitation of political and private
jobs and grabs.-New York World.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Longer Terms and Better
Schools.

a ''lOnger term in itself, viii
not insure "better school," unless
there is a good teacher in that
school. To have "loDger termsn
will scarcely "draw teachers
from other sections unless we can
offer better salaries.
Good teachers command good
salaries, and they will 90 where
they can get them. We have
often-over and over again-tried
to show, that nire out o. every ten
schools could have better teachers
and longer terms by supplementing
the public school appropriations
In every community there are from
six TO ten patrons who send from
one TO four or more children to
school, who could pay something
like - per month per pupil, and
scarcely patron who could not
pay as much as 81 per pupil PEI
month, which, added to the salary
given 10y the public school fund
would give teacher $50 month
and his board. This amount would
secure a good teacher. but SO
far, we have failed to get many
people to see it this WAY.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Millions Given Away.

1t is certainly gratifying to the public
to know of one concern inthe land who
are not afraid to be generous % s!e needy
and suffering. The proprietors of DR.,
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Coughs and cclds, have given away over
ten million trial hotties of this great
medicine; and have the satisfaction of
know ing it has absolutely cured thous-
ands OF hopeless cases. Asthma. Bron-
chltis, Hoarseuess aid all diseases of the
throats Chest and Lungs are surely cured
oy IL. Cali on Jno. +. Jackson. Druggist
and get free trial bottle. Regular Size
soc and 81 90.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Scholarship Free.

You may, by doing little writing
at your home, secure scholarship.
Tree, In either Draughan's Praati-
Cal BUSINESS Colleges-NashvilIe
st Louis. Little Rock, Ft. Worth,
galveston, Shreveport or Savan-
nan Best patronized Business
Ooiieges in the South. For par
tlculars address, The Illustrated
aou'h and Age, Nashville, Tenn.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Opinions use,r.s.

What IS your opinion on this new
national question:" said the inquirer.
My boy" said Senator Sorghum. dole
fully. that's a difficulty under which
us statesmen have TO labor. BY the
time ] get through hustling for votes
and watching the schemes OF the op-
position. I cont have = minute left for
forming opinions about anything."-
WASHINGTON star
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1900.
The "JIn Crow Car.

We printed the other day COM
munication from Rev. Il. IL. Camp
bell, urging the Legislature to en-
act law, providing FOR separate
coaches for whites and blacks on
the railroads of Virginia.
We print today cOmmunlca
tion of the same character from
Rev. w. w. Royal, of Chase City.
The Richmond Christian Advo-
cate of this week is out in a Strong
editorial declaring that 'the de
mand for a separate car for the
negro is III the interest of law and
order" The Christian Advocate
further says that "Virginians have
endured the behavior of the blacks
as long as patience will permit,
and that the point has been
reached when a lady scarcely dare
risk herself on a railroad car. The
loud, cur>ing, OdOrous African
seems TO take pleasure in making
himself "A nuI~ance to ladies. We
plead for our Virginia women
The mothers and daughters of tn,
land orghi not TO be subjected to
these brutal insults"
This is stroug language, and it is
significant that three ministers of
the Gospel have come out In favor
OF a separate car law.
We again make the point that
the white people of Virginia have
no disposition to humiliate the
black man, or to impose any un-
necessary hardship upon him. IT,.
therefore, the ''Jim Crow car is
established by law, it will be be-
cause insOlent and ilI-mannered
negroes have forced it. If the no
gro insists upon being rude and
rlOtOus and indecent in public, he
cannot expect TO be tolerated 10y
decent people.-Richmond Times.
We are not prepared to say that
a law, providing separate ears for
white and colOred passengers, is
just the thing or not; but We do
know that the travelling public
generally will approve the law.
The gentleme:. who travel mostly
In Eastern Virginia Ough; % make
few trips through the mining
sections of Southwest Virginia.
particularly at certain seasons.
the necessity of such move Nould
be more apparent. The only
trouble is that there are IA certain
class of white people eq,alN as
Objectionable as certain I'll SseS of
colored people; aud, again, ia Will
be quite "a hardship upon the hr.
ter class of cOlOred people 10 com
pei them to ride In the "Jim Grow"
cars with the mob and rabble.
This move is tot, in any sens. -
discrimination against the co. bored
people, as race. Every one knows.
who has had occasion to travel.
even on the local trains, of The in
dlgnitieS and, even the insults. tn
which ladies' are frequently sub
lected by insOlent, and often times
drunken negroes. This class have
forced this law in other States, and
We will not be surprised if the
same law is enacted in Virginia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Matter Of Spelling.

Magistrate-"How cones IL. sergeant.
that YOU say ga your oral testimony
that the prisoner stole on encyclopeGi.,
ana i' thc written report OF the case
you said ne stole "a cook book?'
Sergeant OF Poiice-"Weu. you see.
Judge. it's easier 20 spell cook book
than encyclopedia "-Heitere Welt.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Advise Gratis.

Mr.. Buyer-"Nr. Green, there seems
10 be something serious the matter
with the horse l bought OF you yester-
day. he coughs and wheezes distress
ingiy, and / think perhaps he is wind
broken. What would you advise me
10 do2"
jay Green tprCmUtly)-"Se him as
quickly as YOU can. 1 did."-Tit=B Bits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
FrisseII's testimony.

the Hampton Normal and Indus
trial Institute, in his testimony be-
fore the Industrial Commission,
gave his view of the educational |
and industrial status of the ne
groes. The following is an ex-
tract from his remarks:
"Although the South has spent
SlO0,OO0,0OO on public education
for negro es, one.third of the race
has actually retrograded, onethird
is where it was at the beginning
of the war, and the other third has
advanced.
"NegrOes, he SAID, have been
taught that their salvation will be
found through political means
rather than by hard work"
The last remark is very signiii-
cant. 1t is in accord with the
opinions of the most intelligent
men of both races. Booker Wash.
ingtOn has been laboring ea.Ously
to disabuse the negroes of that
idea aud teach them to look for
advancement along industrial
lines. 1t has been said with great
force, 81: is the fiat of faith; there
is no excellence without great
labor" This applies to the negro
as well as every other race. The
Caucasians have reached their
present status by long and ardu-
Gus struggle. 1t is absurd to sup
pose that the negroes can reach at
one bound and with little effort to
position of equality with those
who have been marching onward
and upward for thousand years.
a little book learning will never
suffice to place the negroes on a
footing of equality with their
white neighbOrs. The sooner they
learn this, the better it will be for
the race. Mr.. Frissell, speaking
in general terms, thinks that one
third of the negroes in the South
have made substantial improve
mcnt. Well, that is an encourage
lug statement, because 1T justifies
the hope that in time the proper
tion Will grow larger. The fact
that the South has expended $780,
00O,0 900 in the public education of
negro children ought to be duly
noted and appreciated both by the
negro and those persons in the
Northern States who are always
ready to blame the South for its
treatment of the negroes. 1t
should be rememb ered in this con-
nection that ninety five per cent Of
this vast SUN comes out of the
pockets of the white taXpay ers, and
that, too, although many persons
doubt whether a little book learn
ing is of any real benefit to the
great majority of negroes, nor
should it be oIgotten that all the
Southern States which make this
liberal appropriation are under
Democratic rule. 1t is not a mat
ter of surprise that the negroes
almost SOlidly array themselves in
every election against the party
which has displayed such gener
Osity towards them History can
furnish no parallel incidents of
such magnanimity on the one side
and such iugratItude on the
other -Lynchburg News.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Beneficial Exercise

Mr.. Pinlie 90 p. ND y dear. the
ioctor SAYS a brisk walk before goinf,
% bed viii insure sleep TO insomnia
sufferers ike myself"
Mrs. Wei. my dear, l will
clear the room So you can walk.
Please carry the baby with you New.
York Weekly
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Natural Effect

First GOat-Oh. Nanette. Come over
on the next lot. There's such a pile OF
old magazines there.
Second Goat-No, William. Ever
since ate that last poem I've been so
dizzy my feet gets all mixed up.-New
York Press.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Only Three.

Friend-"The gossips have formu-
lated n regular indictment against your
character. They say YOU were a ter
rible fiirt while abroad. Do you plead
guilty?"
American Girl-''Y-e-s: to three
Counts. Kew York Weekly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Real Estate Bargains.

we have several pieces of real es-
tate recently purchased by the Hol-
ston National Building and Loan
ASSOCIATION, which can be Dough,
cheap and on easy terms. Call at
TINS Office or on Judge j. HI. Stuart
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12

Some Republicans express them
selves in such optimistic language
when talking on the subject f
prosperity, that we begin to fear
for the equity laboring man.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Meant as q Commitment

Don't you think, Mrs. Spitely. that
this hat is little too gay for a ma
tronly woman like me?"
mot at all, my dear. Neu know
that you're years younger Nan you
Nook. Tit Bits. =
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
A Puzzler.

John has five oranges. James gave
him eleven. ana he gives Peter seven.
how many has he left?"
Before this problem the class re-
cOiled.
Please, sir" said a young lad. 1--WE
always does our sums in apples Tit
Bits.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12

Editing an English comic paper
at the present time is not the
next thing to Icing OIL Easy
street.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12

One hundred yea ago this town
was laid off and began TO be built
This, then, is our centennial.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Competition.

Maud says she is madly iG>o -
withiher new wheel" -
Nph! Another case where man Isl
iisplaCfd by machinery. "-Househol6
Words.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
OneNof Fashions FriIIs.

II hear theSare trimming the bot
tom of skirts wiz n fur"
Eyes; that's antsther fashionable fur
oelow."-PhiIa'oirN nul'etin.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
Perhaps when IRON and CO.

Perhaps when iron and steel. cot
ton goods, wooden goods. leather
goods tobacco and other leading lines
OI manufactures are "syndicated''
lhroughout the world, the wage earn
er VIII begin to realize what is meant
by government by industries. by and
with consent of the governed-or 9th
erwise-Paterson Guardian.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-12
For WAGE Farmers.

If any one doubts the tendency of
trusts TO spread their protecting wings
over all the civilized world, and lacks
imagination enough to see that the
working populations of five or six
great nations are thereby likely to be-
come employees of hundred or fewer
SloOe-clrcling industrial combines, he
has only to read the testimony of John
w. Gates, Of the American Steel and
Wire Company. before the Industrial
Commission at Washington, to be
ruthleSsly undeceived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-28
STEVENSON IS NAMED.
Succeeds TOwne on National POpulist
Ticket.

At meeting of the peoples party ma
tional committee in Chicago yesterday the
destination Of Charles A. Towne as the vice
presidential nominee of the party was ac-
cepted and Adlai Z. Stevenson was put in
his place.
This result was obtained after long de-
bate. beginning at pm. and ending about
$50 pm In the beginning there were three
courses advocated by different members of
the committee, viz: To nominate a popu-
LIST, to leave the place blank or, lastly. to
indorse Mr.. Stevenson.
Senator Marion Butler, chairman of the
committee in warm speech of some
length advocated leaving the place blank,
contending that Bryan and Stevenson
would receive more popuist votes than IL
a candidate for Vice President were named.
But one test vote was taken. A motion
was made to indorse Mr.. Stevenson. For
this motion Mr.. Washburn of Massachu-
sets noved as substitute that populist
be placed upon the ticket. The substitute
was lost on a call of the roll by a vote OF
twenty four yeas to seventy-one nays. The
original motion was then adopted by viva
Voce vote.
There were 124 members Of the commit
tee present or represented by proxy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-28
THE KRIEBEL-DONEY NUPTIALS.
Remarkable RelatiOnship Established
by a January and May Marriage.

-
by January and May Marriage.
A special to the New York World from
Allentown, Pa, says: When f1fteen-year-
old Ida Kriebel married sixty-year-old
Jacob Doney of Plover, Pa, recently, she
did not stop to figure out that she would
become the wife of her own stepgrand-
father and consequently the grandmother
Of herself. In addition to this she so twist
ed the relations of a large number of peo-
pie that a committee of reconstruction Is to
be appointed at a family reunion to ascer-
tain where they are all at" By marrying
Mr. Doney she becomes stepmother of
seven children all of them old enough to
he her father or mother. She becomes step
grandmother of twenty-five young people
and step Observation-Disclosures Of lot OF boys
and girls her own age.
Doney's first wife was the widow OF John
Wieden She had three more children by
Doney One of her children married sam
uel Kriebel and year later died. The
widower married again. From this second
union came Ida Kriebel, who has just
mussed her whole family tree by marrying
Doney BY the present arrangement Doney
becomes the step-grandfather OF MS own
childA
Miss Ida Kriebel was housekeeper Tor
Doney for several years and her ability TO
make light biscuits won the love OF her
Observation-Disclosures, who offered her MS
hea rt and hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-28
Mu.t Mark SOldiers' Graves.

A great deal Of difficulty which mas oeen
exnerienced In establishing the Identities OF
hurled soldiers, owing to the failure Of COM
handing officers to state precisely the To-
cation of the graves of men dying in the
field or in hospital. has prompted the War
Department to issue an order directing that
wherever conditions make II possible, every
grave must be carefully marked by q head
hoard. with the name, rank and organiza-
tion Of the deceased. Company command
ers are to be held responsible for this iden-
LITIGATION 10 the extent OF men who die in
the field. while hospital surgeons are to an
swer 1cr usen dying In the hospitals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-28
CLAIMS TO BE CHARLEY ROSS.
Story of a Tramp Now in POughkeep-
To UsaiI


A special to the New York Evening Jour
nal from Poughkeepsie, n. Y, says:
I'm Jail for vagrancy in this city is a
tramp who startled the recorders court
today by stoutly asserting that he is Char
ley Ross, who was kidnapped from his par
ents at Philadelphia nearly twenty-five
years ago-an event which has always
been of national interest.
1.-The man tells a story which accords in
every detail with the accepted story OF
the kidnapping of young Ross, and pro-
duces documents intended to substantiate
his assertion. He has assured the police
that a man lives in New York who can
prove that what he says is true. Chief of
Police McCabe has requested the New York
police to investigate the story.
Ross says that he has been tramping
about the country for ten years without
money or work. He carries with him
picture of young Ross taken just before
the kidnapping occurred. There is strong
similarity between the photograph and the
tramp's face. Ross does not explain why
he did not long ago clear up the famous
mystery"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-28
Maryland. Hagers.owu.
Kee Mar College,

ROCKVILLE INsTITUTE-A DAY AND HOME
school for nLited number OF girls; surroundings
renned he!lthful and happy: reopens Sept. 10
For particular: apply to Miss LUCY s. SIMPSON.
Principal, Rockville. No. au2l- -
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