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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
SOME BASE BALL DOINGs.

News reaches us that the Kilmar.
mock team has been crippled by the
return of their pitcher and short
stop to BALTIMORE.
Two games were played on the 4.h
at Sharps. The morning game be-
tween Wheaton and ,Urbanna broke
up at the end of the fifth inning.
the Wheaton team leaving the field
from dissatisfaction with the UNI
plre and the game was given to Ur-
banna. When stopped the score
stood six to five in Urbanra's favor.
Wheaton strongly objected to Ur-
banna's playing four from Irvington.
The evening game between Warsaw
and Lively was hardly interesting,
any further than viewing the splendid
playing and support of the Warsaw
Crescents. The score stood 33 to 8
in favor of Warsaw. 1t is due the
Lively team to say that two or three
OF their best men were delayed by a
belated boat and boys had to be put
in their places.
!rFington and Lively will play
today (Friday) at Lively.
1t is probable that Irvington and
Warsaw Will play two games at the
latter place the last of the month.
They will then play one game here
the week following.
The Kilmarnock ball club will
not play the Northumberland club
there on Thursday, and manager W.
II. Boyd has made arrangement is
with the Hague club instead.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

But | have digressed. / started
out to say that now we have local
option the law should be obeyed
and the violators brought to book.
Whether the law is right or wrong is
immaterlal so long as We have it; it
should be obeyed, if it is wrong then
repeal it and make a new one. In
pursuing this subject / would say
that the man who buys whiskey from
one who sells it illegally is il the
same boat, for he is aiding and abet-
ting him in breaking the law, and
the only difference between the two
is one breaks the law oftener than
the other causes it to be broken. IF
it wasn't for the buyer the seller
couldn't break the law, therefore he
is necessary adjunct. 1 know that
this statement will create stir that
will go home to more than one who
thought himself IN no way to blame
for the "speak easy" system. We
think local option is far superior to
open bars, and there are many un-
deniable arguments which will prove
that it lessons the sale of liquor Gin
most cases) and at the same time
does away with all rowdy scenes, but
to say that it is panacea for all the
ills of whiskey drinking is to say
what observation will prove false.
We think the seller is too often shot
at over the shoulders of the buyer.
for the buyer is primarily the cause
of the whole trouble. Let public
sentiment get down on the drinker.
let it be considered a disgrace to be
seen drunk, and you will fnd You
have the only complete and effective
cure for drunkenness. IF society ex-
cluded the drunkard the practice of
drin king would soon be relegated to
the lowest and basest of the people.
=" Pirginian," en- Potomac Progress.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
TROUBLE is IMMINENT.
Ning George People Tired of
Negro Excursionists

Trouble of the most serious nat 70
is going to result from the pract;ce
OF steamboat lines carrying negro ey-
curslonists from Washington to King
george county unless the practice IS
discontinued. A number of the most
prominent young men of the county
nave resolved to take the law in their
own hands, and if the steamboat
companies continue to charter boats
TO negro excursionists to Somerset
Beach and other points in the county
the people will take steps to make
landing the negroes impracticable
The people of King George have
been greatly annoyed by the hordes
OF blacks of both sexes, many of
them have half drunk, who scatter
over the county from the boat. At.
teppts to maintain order are futile.
The better class of negroes do not
go on these excursions, and the
whites of King George are left at
the mercy of the worst negroes of
Washington. The officers of the
boat recognize the desperate charac
ter of their passengers and 60 heavily
armed all the time.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
NEWS ITEMS.

The widow of James G. Blaine ID
dying.
Russia is preparing for war with
Japan.
The cotton market seems broken.
Prices are beginning to decline.
New York has 1920 millionaires,
aud they form a full regiment of
dyspeptics.
The survivors of Colonel John S.
Mosby's band will hold their annual
reunion at Culpeper on August 5th.
Richmond will have her 3rd an
nual horse show October 1917. Pri-
vate boxes are already selling at $50
to $72 apiece.
1T is estimated that 235 men ont
or 2S2 who were in the Wyoming
coal mine disaster were killed in the
explosion. The majority of the vic
TINS are Findlanders and negroes.
The quarterly estimate of the value
OF foreign coins, issued by the Direc-
tor of the Mint, shows that for the
three months ended June 80, the
value of silver decreased from 53.I44
cents an ounce TO 1850.
Norfolk business failures con tinue
daily and the "good old Mckinley
times" seem to be rapidly changing
into "Roosevelt hard times" Many
mechanics and others are on the
street for want of work, and nearly
every day heavy discharges are oc-
curing at the Norfolk navy-yard.
Anent the article that crows are
useful to the farmer, published in
our columns last week, comes the fol-
lowing In the Times Dispatch: There
is nothing new in that "discovery."
Years ago ex-Assemblyman William
L. Wilson, of Pittsylvania county.
the "Hustling Farmer" of the Ring
gold section, found out that crows
protected his corn and tobacco from
the destructive worms, and he en-
larged his homemade law of long
standing, forbidding pacing mules
and dedicated niggers" on his farm
SO as to also prohibit crow shooters.
Twenty-Five policemen twice pre-
vented lynching at the Evansville,
Indiana, Jail Sunday, but their
bravery was not sufficient to avert a
race war between the negroes and the
white mobs that sought the life of
Lee Brown, the negro slayer of Pa
trolman Massey. The mobs smashed
down iron gates and was part the
way in the Jail before they were re-
pulsed by the policemen. Their eff
forts to lynch Brown aroused the
enmity of the negroes of the city,who
gathered about the Jail and made a
threatening demonstration. The ne
groes were chased away by u crowd
of white men. Mutterings of re-
venge are heard, and clash NAV be
at any time.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
sAwDUsT AS AFERTILlzER.

The country sawmill that moves
from farm to farm leaves a sawdust
heap to be in the way for several
years. Occasionally we find farmers
who believe that sawdust will kill
ground because the sawdust yard will
not SO much as grow weeds. A yerv
heavy dressing of freshly made saw
dust would probably do damage to
some plants, especially if the dust is
made from green oak. There is.
however, no reason for losing the
use of the old millyard for several
years to allow the old sawdust pile to
rot down until it may be turned under
without removing any sawdust. In.
stead of being An obstruction or a
nuisance the old sawdnst heap NAV
be made source of profit.
If used on strawberries, onions and
potatoes or small fruits, old sawdust
makes an excellent mulch. 1t not
only holds the moisture in the soil
beneath and smothers the weeds. but
forms an excellent carpet for keep
ing clean all berries that may come
In contact with it. A sawdust cover
ing OF about two inches in depth on
the onion bed will prevent all but the
larger weeds from coming through.
and will make it very easy to gather
the onions in the fall. Even In the
very warmest weather the sawdust
may be found quite moist where it |
comes in contact with the earth.
while the covered soil is always full |
81 moisture. A great advantage of
the sawdust mulch for strawberries
IS the ease with which it may be
spread between the growing plants so
IS to keep down all troublesome
weeds and grass.
Besides acting "a a mulch cauJ,atl
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
STRIKE NOTES.

The car company thinks the back
bone Of the strike is broken. Cars
are being run, under supervision of
the military, but the strikers hold
out and are encouraged by SO few
people riding on the cars.
Here is'the way The Opinion, the
strikers paper, views the Importation
of soldiers: ave advise all our peo-
pie and all our friends not to shoot.
You may hit the wrong man. Am
munition ought not to be wasted on
game that isn't worth picking up af-
ter it is killed. Let Montague, Tsy-
lor 4 Co., do the killing. We are
men of peace. Our banner is the
white flag of peace"
The boycotting business is carried
on extensively in Richmond by the
strikers. They are not only boycott
ting merchants, manufacturers and
ministers who ride on the cars, but
they are spotting city officials and
promise to remember them hereafter.
But we are told that this practice is
gone beyond the strikers and is
taken up by employees generally who
belong to labor unions. One manu-.
facturer who employs large nnm-
Der of hands seems not to regard the
threats of his men. He boldly as
Serts that he will ride on the cars
when it suits him and If the men
wish to stop work they may do so.
lie declares that he will shut down
his plant rather than to be dictated
to In this matter. In such an event
his employees would be the losers,
and they ought to have sense enough
TO know it.-Fres Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
CLAY CALLS FOR CHILD WIFE.
Lion Of White Hall" Threatens
Others with an Arsenal.

Ii has been quite awhile since the.
public heard from the sage of White
Hall. 1t is now believed by friends
of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, the noted
Kentuckian, that he is hopelessly
insane In a room of his mansion,
White Hall. They have received a
message from the Generals body
guard, "Joe" Perkins, saving that
the old warrior had asked for a
physician to be sent to his bedside.
Friends responded Immediately,
and within two hours were in the
front yard of the Generals residence.
That is as far as they got, for the
General issued orders to his servant
not to allow them to enter under any
circumstances. After two hours of
pleading with the "Lion of White
Hall" they returned to the city.
The servant told the doctors that
General Clay was seated on bed
with two pistols by his side and a
Winchester rifle in his hands and
would not let anyone enter.
ne nau Ierklhs Telegraph his
nephew, Green Clay Goodloe, of
Washington, to come to see him, but
on his arrival here the General re-
fused to allow him to enter and Mr..
Goodloe returned to Washington.
According to reports from the
servants ne eats and sleeps well, but
looks as savage as a beast and calls
constantly for his divorced child
wife, Dora Clay Brock, whose second
husband died last Sunday, aud who
has promised the General to return
to White Hall to make her home. 1t
is believed by many that the return
of Dora will bring back the reason
of General Clay. If she refuses to
return to him, his relatives will forci-
bly, take him in custody and send him
to sanitarium for Treatment.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10

On July 4th President Roosevelt
flashed the first electric message that
ever girdled the globe. The great
Pacific cable has been laid and is
open for business, Que of the most
stupendous undertakings in the
worlds history. In the section that
was laid to the Presidents instru-
ment pieces of wire from half dozen
noted electrical accomplishments
were used, among them being piece
of the wire over which Prof. Morse
sent his first telegraphic message.
Another was piece of the first troll
ley circuit put mp in Richmond, Va,
the first city to run cars successfully
by electricity.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10

WESTMORELAND DOTS.

DWELLING BURNED.-PERSoNA
The dwelling of Il. w. Self, stu
ated between fuckers Hill and the
Hague, was totally destroyed by fire,
together with all of it's contents, a
little after midnight on the morning
of the Fourth. Mr.. Self, wife, aud
adopted son and daughter retired
about eleven o'clock, after storm
was over. Nothing seemed to be
wrong at that hour, but shortly after
twelve Mr.. Self was awakened by
smoke pouring in through the open
window of the bed room. Rousing
the others they rushed out into the
open. The gentleman being afflicted
with heart trouble was unable to
make much effort to save ANYTHING
and the others were too dazed and
excited to render assistance. Mr..
Self who was barefooted, not having
time to put on his shoes, cut his foot
by stepping on piece of glass. His
adopted son, aged about sixteen, ran
a nail in his foot about the same time
and had to have medical attention.
A large quantity of choice old bacon
was burned. The house contained
Lifetime of saving and accumulation.
There was no insurance. The cause
OF the lire is unknown, but the owner
believes it was of incendiary origin.
30 far things seem to point that way.
lnasmuch as small quantity of fine
shavings were found at the point
where the blaze was first discovered.
Mr.. Self says no shavings were
brought TO the place by any member
OF the family, neither had they any
planes with which to make sbayinps.
The shavings appeared to be old.
This is one of the saddest cases of the
kind that has occurred in the county,
and MIR. and Mrs. Self have the heart
felt sympathy of the community.
Mrs. Laura Thrift and daughter.
Ethel, paid visit to j. G. Thrift
last week.
Miss Maud Hardwick, of Federal
Hill, was in our hamlet last week.
James s, Sydnor and bride have
returned from trip to Washing ton.
They will settle down in their very
pleasant home on Jackson's creek.
Mrs. Lloyd Snead and daughter.
Miss Tebe DeShields and baby Louis
arrived at Ii. II. Moss
Thursday. Mrs. Snead aud daughter |
returned to Heathsville the same |
day. Miss Tebe and baby Louis will |
remain awhile longer.
Garland Unruh is on q visit to his
parents.
The Fourth was pretty generally
observed according to the bent of
each individual mind.
Commodore John II. Dos Passos
did not have an entertainment at
sandy Point on the Fourth.
Miss Homoselle Moss whilst walk
ing on the pier at Lynch's Point had
her handsome Panama hat to blow
INTO the river. II was lost. She was
q company with Miss Tebe De-
WILLwArcU
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

The road machines are at work in
the different districts of the county.
and such improvements are being
made that it is not likely that King
George will have its soil improved
another WIG ter by the transportation
OF the Westmorelsnd mud on the
wheels of vehicles that travel the
highways to our sister county. Rich
mond county will also share a like
fate. improvements aud progress
seem to be the watch words. i at
tribute largely the spirit of enter
prise, push, development and in
dustry that has characteriz ID our
people the last three or four years to
the reading Of newspapers, many tf
which are published nearby. They
are good educators, and there are
now ten newspaper readers where was
one ten years ago, and if it were pos
slble to have every citizen read the
papers old fOgy notions that have
been drawbacks in the past would be
dlslodged and people would exercise
their thinking powers and better
things would result West,noreland
Corr. in Free Lance.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
An Editor With Grit.

A Missouri editor who is about to
pull up and leave for lack of support
sarcastlcally remarks in parting that
editors don't need money.
"Don't worry about the editor" he
says. He has a charter from the
State to act as door mat for the COM
munity. He'll get the paper out
somehow, and stand up for you when
you run for office, and lie about your
plgeon-toed daughters tacky we'd
ding, and blow about your big footed
sons when they get 81 week Job,
and weep over your shriveled soul
when 1t Is released from your grasp
ing body, and smile at your giddy
wife's second marriage. He'll get
along. The Lord only knows how
put the editor will get there some
how. Kansas Cty Star.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10

scattered on the surface soon rots
and adds humus to the soil. Well
rotted sawdust thoroughly worked
into soil adds plant food. Fertility
similar to that contained IN the rich
leaf mold that cbaracterizes our vir,
gin soils may be in a great degree
restored to the long cultivated area
by covering its surface with well
rotted sawdust. Near many cities
and towns straw is expensive, but
the sawmills near the place are only
too glad to have the sawdust refuse
taken out OF their way. Fresh saw
dust, used in stables for bedding,
while not as good as straw, does not
inJure the value of the manure, as
many suppose. The green dust when
scattered with the manure in the
deld is not in sufficient quantity to
affect growing crops.-Iadianapolis
Neacs.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
No Greater Than Lee.

1t is doubtful if this country pro.
duced soldier during the nineteen h
century who was the equal of the
gifted Confederate comma nder. In a
war hatproduced heroes by the hun.
dred, he stood among the greatest. II
was his genius that kept the Con.
federacy alive, and enabled it to re-.
sist Tor more than four bloody years
the government, with all its vast
power and resources.
SO says the Philadelphia Ereninq
Bulletin III an account it gives of tbe
days battle of Gettysburg. Pretty
neat compliment to come from a nor.
thern paper; but We observe that the
northern press is becoming more and
more liberal in recognition of the
southern solder, and it is seldom
they have anything but nice thugs
to say of Lee.-7ImeS- Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
FAIRFIELDS.

Miss Kathrina Burgess has re-
turned from a pleasant visit among
relatives in Wicomico.
Mrs. Martha Burgess is spending
the summer with her daughter, Mrs,
h. Il. Coles, near Wicomico church.
Messrs. j. l. Brent and r. L,
Burgess have returned from a trim
to Baltimore.
Miss Veasy, of Richmond county,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. O. B. Ed
wards, of Edwardsville.
Miss Anderton, of Saluda, is a
guest at the home of MIR. and Mrs.
nj. T.. Burgess.
X. l.. Burgess & Co. have placed
new boiler in their canning factory
at Burgess Store.
Mr.. Hall is still quite sick at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. NJ. f.
Burgess.
Rev. Mr.. Rice delivered an ad.
dress to the @. 4. Society of Fair
held NJ. Z. church at their regular
meeting on Sunday, 2Stb, which was
very instructive and highly appreci-
ated.
Their many friends here are de-
lighted to have Wilson and Collie
Selby among them again.
Master Archie Jett, sou or Mr..
and Mrs. K. A. Jet, has returned
from Baltimore, where he has been
attending school.
William S. Jett and Annie Pearl
Hlllmon were married at the NJ. u.
parsonage at Burgess Store on Tues
day, June 30th, at p. NJ, by the
pastor Rev. j. K. Wooden. VoX.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
TIBlTHA.

During the month of June toe
children of Bethany NJ. Z. church,
Reedvillc, raised the neat little sum
of $2:.3l, for the Orphan Asylum at
Richmond.
Miss Blanche Edwards is at home
and Will spend the summer with her
mother and sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Morris, of
Reedville, viii leave in day or two
for Atlantic City and other points
north as far as Newport, r. l., to be
gone about three weeks.
The weather in this section has
been extremely hot for several days
past. On Friday the thermometer
registered log degrees.
Our farmers are about done
threshing wheat. The yield is very
poor, indeed. Most of the wheat
has only yielded about half crop,
and some not that much.
Fishing in this section has so far
been very poor, our fish factories
not getting enough bunkers to run
them more than half day.
OCCASIONAL.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is about to
senda protest from Jews and other de-
nominations in this country to the
Car anent his dealings with He
brews and the recent awful massacre
of those unfortunate sons of Shem
within Russian dominions. The Rus
sian government warns MIR. Roosevelt
not to send the petition, unless he
wants to have his feelings and those
of his country quite rudely Jared.
The move is a very proper one from
a sentimental and humane point of
view, and is good politics for the man
seeking q denomination, but it looks
al though this country were in for
a great big snub and some dirt
chewing.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
.Paine'S Celery
Compound
Permanently Cures Sick and
Nervous Headaches that
Make Life Miserable.

Sick and nervous headaches are amonps,
the worst ills of life. The man or woman who
IS subject TO headache at irregular intervals.
goes through life bearing a load of misery
and wretchedness that is terrible 10 think
of.
Headaches as rule, result from a dis
ordered condition Of the nervous system.
Mental excitement, loss of sleep, bodily
fatigue, and disordered digestion are exciting
causes. When the brain becomes tired and
debilitated, the whole nervous system is weak
ened, and headaches result. n the liver is
sluggish, the kidneys inactive, and digestion
deranged, headaches invariably follow. 90
cure and prevent headache, the nervous sys.
tenn must be strengthened and vitalizcd.
The most persistent cases of headache, nervous
feebleness, and sleeplessness, arc permanently
cured by Paine's Celery Compound; il is the
great reconstructant of the nervous system.
Mrs. Henry Westrick, ST. Clair, Mich, tells
OF her release from suffering as follows:-
have been troubled with dyspepsia and
sick headache for a number of years. About
every week would have a bad spell of sick
headache, but since 1 began using Paine's
Celery Compound, my dyspepsia is gone, and
! do not have any more headaches. feel
better than have for years"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
PORTRAIT UNWILLING.

There will be a brief and interest
ing ceremony in unwilling portraits
at Heathsville next Monday, July ID
court day., at 1:30 p. IN. A fine
oil painting copied from Chester
Harding's portrait of Gen. Walter
Jones, now owned by Miss Virginia
Miller, of Washington, ID. c., has
been donated by his grand children,
Miss Annie Lee Peyton, Hon. Joseph
Packard, Henry Harrison and Miss
Virginia Miller, and will be presented
by DIR. Beale in their names. Miss
Ida Gordon Peyton, of "The Plains"
Fauquier Co., and some of the other
descendants of the distinguished
iurist will be present as visitors to be
greeted and welcomed by the people
of Northumberland. DR.. Beale will
also present the oil painting of Capt.
DeShields.
The portrait of Col. S. b. Burgess
will be presented by Rev. A. f. Rice.
DR.. Tankard will present Rev. Starke
Jett's, W. Il. iiathaway will present
John r. Stith's and 4. j. Downing
will present Col. Water Rice's. The
portrait of John II. Coles, donated
by Mrs. Irene l.. Lewis, of Wicomioo,
will also be presented.
Mr.. Robert Eden Pey young
lawyer of Richmond, Va, and Mr..
G. s. Towles may take part in the
Jones portrait unwilling, and other
lawyers and citizens in the other
pictures. Rev. +. w. Claybrook will
deliver the Invocation and the best
musical talent of Heathsville and
Northumberland will render appro-
pirate selections, and the fairest
women of the Northern Neck will be
present.
Judge j. @. Ewell and Judge L.
X. b. Wright will! be present.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-07-10
THOMAS CROXTON.
Lawyer. Congressman, Judge, Passes
Away.

Judge Thomas Croxton died at his
home. near Tappahannock, FRIDAY
morning last, aged SO years, after a
period of Ill health of several wears
The deceased was one of the most
prominent public men of Essex
county. He was a distinguished
lawyer, served a term in Congress
from this District, was Judge of the
County Court of Essex for eight
years, and filled other important
positions of trust from the people
Several years ago he retired from the
Judicial bench on account of the
infrmities of age and had been living
quietly at his home near Tappahan,
mock since. He is survived by seven
children-Mrs. James r. Gordon. of
Richmond; Mr.. r. S. Croxton. of
Baltimore; Capt. Richard Croxton.
U. s. Army; Mrs. j. Z. Mcdaniel.
Miss V. S. Croxton, Miss Josephine
Croxton and Mr.. George Croxton.
of Tappahannock. Funeral services
took place from st. Johns church
Iappahannock, Saturday morning at
10 O'Clock.