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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-06-17
VALUABLE FARM
FOR SALE[

That splendid estate, known as the
"Rhea Farm" east of and adjoining
the rapidly growing town of Marion is
for sale. The Rhea heirs wish to sell
for division of the estate.
The farm contains 754 acres, and can
be divided into two farms. 1t is val
liable for both grazing and the produc-
ton of grain, is we'll watered and nearly
all the land is in grass. Much of it is
available for town lots, and lots are in
active demand at Marion with good
prices ruling.
No more valuable property in South
west Virginia is now on the market.
For prices, terms and any information
address
n. B. STALEY,
MARION, VA.
April q, 1909.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-06-17
S. M. GRAHAM, Clerk.
VIRGINIA: In the Clerks Office of tn

VIhGINIA; IN the Clerks Office of the
Circuit Court of Tazewell County.
L, s. NJ. Graham, Clerk of the Circuit
Court OF Tazewen County, do hereby
certify that proper affidavit having been
made that The McCue & WRIGHT Mil
ing Company is a foreign Corporation.
and that it has estate and debts owing
to il within the County of TazeweIl. and
that there is no agent Of said company
III Tazewel County upon whom process
can be served, therefore, for the pur-
pose of having service of process, It is
ordered that the foregoing process be
published for four successive weeks in
some newspaper published In Tazewell
County.
Teste:- s. N. GRAHAM, Clerk.
Henson & Bowen, .. a.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-06-17

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Recollections of Old Montgomery ""eHHH @

behavior. but she accomplished her mission--she attracted attention, she spread the alarm. WAen my brother from the high school. arrived at home. for dinner, he was disposed to joke our mother relative to Harriets per- formance. but she was so thankful that the house and contents had been saw ed. that the joke dld not ruffle her in the least
 It may seem strange, but, neverthe- less, 1t is true that. at that date. Mont gomery had no equipment for fighting fire. It is possible that some hooks and ladders were hid away somewhere, but I do not recall any suggestion of such a thing.
 On the other hand. only two fires oe- cured in Montgomery during the for ties. One destroyed the Reid House on Dexter avenue between Perry and Lawrence streets-the other destroyed the capitol
 That was a remarkable record. when it is considered of what inflammabie material the stores up and down Dex- ter. Court and Commerce streets. were constructed.
 Charles Ray. true to my mothers in structions. did so to the well and draw water. and so faithful was he in the performance, that my mother gave Rim as much credit as any one else for heroic work done. He was q well ins formed negro-couId read and write. A few years later he managed to eA. cape to Canada and freedom.
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Doctor Boiling had four or i've sons ana one daughter He was a native or Virginia and boasted of having Indian hlood in his veins through relation. ship to Pocahontas. His daughter hore the name of that historic individual. one son was named Powhatan. Flu gene was said to be very talented as an artist Johnnie enlisted In the ln- dependent Rifles and fell at Seven Pines. May 31. '62
 R. E. Boiling was a merchant on Commerce street for many vears af- ter the war.
 Doctor Boiling and sons were very fond of hun nting and fishing. Together they owned six or seven shot guns. nhnnnan hnnhhh hnnsnhnhhn Ennnnca would frequently go on a ashing excur- sion with my father and the doctor. do not think more humorous, agree able person ever lived. If we caught fish he 1oked. If we failed to get a bite he 1oked-
 On one occasion he and my father and two other Montgomerians srrang- ed to have squirrel fry at Norman Bridge on the Catoma Creek. The party were to go in a wagon driven by a negro man who was to do the cooking. When they were preparing to leave home on the morning set for the fry. three of the party were in the wagon 1t finally drew up in front of the doc tors residence. To the Surprise of the others the doctor soon put in his ap- pearance with a double barreiled gun fin each hand. The others wished to know what he intended to do with two guns. He replied: T thought one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
BY s. Q. HALE.

groes who lifted the carpet from the floor of the dining room. souced 1t in a tub of water and with the assistance of others, managed to carry 1t to the roof, and spreading 1t over the portion that was burning contributed largely toward extinguishing the fire. The arrival of MT. Robinson and his force was certainly opportune. Had they been delayed five minutes, the house and contents would. beyond doubt. have been destroyed.
 During the time the fire was being fought by the negroes. MT. Robinson, tall and erect, stood upon the roof. like unto the historical pictures of Old Hickory at the battle of NNw Orleans. He didn't give a single order to the negroes, but oath after oath rolled from his lips in one continuous flow. and his underlings seemed to think "MarEe Bird" was terribly in earnest and they hustled accordingly.
 Beneath a rough exterior Mir. Robin son carried big heart and his ne- groes were devoted to him.
 Before MT. Robinson and his crew put in their appearance. my mother had said to Harriet. a servant who roomed in an out-house: Run. liar riet, spread the alarm"
 In obedience. she went flying along Lawrence street. and yelling at the top of her voice: MT. Hale's house is on fire Run! every one of you, run! The house Is done burn up before now and 1t Is too late. but run, anyhowE It must be admitted that my mothers messenger was somewhat cratic in her
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had ever done. Today they thrill me as they did in my childhood.
 The same issue of The Advertiser contained an account of the dOinEs of a mob in New Orleans. So soon as ac- accounts of the execution of Critten- len and his men. reached that city, a mob attacked the Spaniards who resided there and destroyed all the merchandise of those who kept stores.
 At the breakfast table, MT. Williams and my father discussed the pTobabil- ity of war between Spain and the Unit ed States, I knew nothing of the re- lative strength of the countries from a military standpoint. but I wanted cur government to assist Lopez.
 I saw Dan Ledyard passing in front of our gate. I ran out with The Ad- Sertiser in my hand. He and I were of the same age and I wanted to talk over with him the news that was cous- ing so much excitement.
 To my question as to which of the two countries would whip In event of war, he replied: "Pshaw. the United States can tie one hand behind her back and than whip Spain." Dams manner was so assured that felt con- fident of Lopez's ultimate success; es- pecially as I thought he would certain ly get the assistance of )uP country.
 A few days later the paper stated that Lopez's forces had been routed and the leader captured by the Span iard's week or two later, The Ad- vertiser contained the information that he had been garroted by order of the governor general of Cuba.
 MT sherman lived on the corner of
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mighty burst" It was suggested to him that after the bursting of one, he would probably not be in frame Of mind to try another.
 Before the party reached the creek, a slow, chilly November rain set 1t and not a single squirrel was seen and but for the fact that they met negro and bought of him a number qf cartridges that he had trapped, the hunting party would have gone without meat for dinner. That fact. however, only &C., centuated the joke the others of the party had to tell on the doctor, after their return to Montgomery.
 The Lopez insurrection In Cuba was regarded with much interest by tho citizens of Montgomery. My father was A subscriber to The Advertiser and { read each issue of that paper eager lv. For days all accounts faprescuted that Lopez had met with success in the engagements with the Spaniards. In all the world he didn't have more ardent admirer than I was. wished that I was big enough to help him. One morning The Advertiser was full of the incidents connected with the thooting of Crittenden and his one hundred and fifty Kentuckians, who had landed in Cuba for the purpose of re-enforcing I,onez. hut had been captured and eXe' cuted by the Spaniards. When Crit -tenden and his men were ordered by the Spaniards to kneel preparatory to receiving the volley that was to end their lives. he, starding erect replied "A Kentuckian kneels to none but God" Fifty nine years ago those words stirred me as no othsr words
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26

Santa Anna wished to declare himself
 President for life. and so circulated petition for his re-electon.
 shows Ills Fearies.ness.
 Tn due course the petition came to the law school attended by Diaz, Not to have signed it meant Imprisonment. perhaps death. The students and pro-
 fessors were gathered together In the
 assembly hall and all filed slowly to-
 ward the rostrum and amxed names
 to the document: that is. all except
 Diaz. Some one of his feliow-students
 taunted him with cowardice. and. walking straight to the desk. he reg lstered, not his assent. but his disap-
 proval The hubbub that arose over this unexpected and daring act allow ed Diaz to escape from the hall before he could be seized. and from that mo-
 ment he took to the hills. This was l the beginning of his career as sol
 dier. He organized the Indians into companies and fought their dictator and was largely instrumental In his defeat.
 | Then came the great struggle be- l tween the Liberals and the Conserva- tives The latter wished to free the | country from the grasp of the church and a bloody civil war lasting many years resulted. Diaz fought under the | banner of the Liberals and was nnaiiy | rewarded by seeing the laws of reform passed and Jaurez made President Of | the Republic.
 The triumph of the Mexicans was | short lived France England and Spain
 sent warships to the Mexican port of Vera Cruz for the purpose Of collect- ing the foreign debt: which the new | cHhhFes,s had repudiatecsy This was In
 the early sixties. when the United States was in the throes of her own
 great Civil War and could not think | of trying to enforce the Monroe Doe
 Urine. All three powers were finally | satisfied with the promises made ov
 Mexico, and England and Spain i'n-
 mediately withdrew.
 | France Makes Grab.
 | But France under Napoleon III. had other ideas and dreamed of an em-
 pire in the west. The French ruler asked the Austrian Prince Maxinil- Han to take the new throne. Maximil- | Han was at that time living In beau'
 tifuI castle on the shores of the Ah-
 riatic and did not relish the Idea or this new empire. but his oeantiIu'
 wife. Carlotta, the daughter of the Belgian King. Leopold. finally per- | suaded him to embark on the ventura. | Loyal Mexicans had no intention or | allowing the French to thus steal From
 them. the independence which had COST
 eleven years of bloody war against | spain, and so the patriots took the 1 field. although the conservative ale-
 ment, which was really in the majori- ty, accepted the new Emperor. Diaz
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North McDonough and Columbu us Streets. He had two children, the old- CT a daughter, sixteen or seventeen years of age, and Levi. q boy twelve or thirteen years of age. The former was engaged to a young man who serv- sd as conductor on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. One Sunday evening he was mortaIly wounded in a wreck. On his deathbed he willed one thousand dollars-his accumulations-- to his bethrothed. Years later, she was united in marriage to a Mir. Harris of Lowndes county. Ala. Levi enlisted in the Montgomery Greys, 9th Alabama Infantry. In 1861. and was killed at Seven Pines in May. 1882.
 Col Charles T. Pollard was president of the Montgomery and West Point Rail- road in 1850 His residence was on the corner of Columbus and North Court Streets. He had two sonS Joe and Charley. They were never my school mates, but we used to play marbles to- gether. after school in the evenings and on Satudays.
 I heard during the war. that Joe. an officer of a battery Of artillery, was killed at Perryville.
 Charley is a well known citizen of Montgomery. but l have not met him since the first day of october 1851.
 The Cromlin residence was the cas- tern limit to Columbus street. From that point A large, uncultivated field extended up to and in front of the cemetery. In that field. one night. I witnessed the first display of fire works. had ever seen. I think it was in celebration of Christmas. From
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my viewpoint the performance coulo not have been excelled.
 Mrs, Cromlin. widow. had two or three sons and as many daughters Tom. the oldest son. was schoolmate of my older brother. After school m the evenings. he and others rom tne high school would play marbles on the sidewalk near our home.
 As l recall. Tom died many years since. The old residence stands where it stood sixty-five years ago-the e shrubbery grown so thick as to almost exclude 1t from the view or one pass ing by.
 The residence of MT. Bird Robinson was on northwest corner of North Law renee and Columbus streets. He was A building contractor and had many workmen employed. One noon the root to our home caught fire from defect in the fue of a chimney. l was III the house at the time and heard man who was riding along the street call out: That house over there IS on fire" e.
 ran to the back door and found that it was our home to which no had reference. My mother had. also been apprised of that fact. She called to Charles Ray, a servant of Mir. Gus Ray who happened to be present: "Go to the we'll, Charles, and draw water! MT Robinson and his laborers had just ar rived at home for their dinner, and they came streaming into the yard and in oufck time the roof was lined with negroes working with all their might to subdue the fire
 My mother superintended two ne-
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cd the end of the road and liberty when he all but stumbled over a ssu- try who was asleep at his post. Thers was not moment to be lost. Dfaxis mind worked quickly. Grasping the sleeping sentry by the shoulder. hs roughly awakened him. Taking him for the officer making his rounds. tha sentry apologized. and. after telling him not to let 1t happen again, Dfaz walked on 10 liberty.
 Is this wonderful presence Of mind and courage which made Diaz able to consolidate the warning ele- ments of Mexico and give the country thirty years of peace and progress. Iasa escape sealed the doom of the French. They were beaten and Jaurez reEained the presidency. Diaz went back to l1is native State. but upon the death of Jaurez. Lerdo de TeJada became presi- dent. He attempted to establish a dic- tatorship and Diaz led the revolt which caused Tejada to flee one morning early in November for the port of Acapulco. He later weut to Now York. where he died in 1889.
 Diaz entered the capital it's conqusr- or Later he was declared President. and on May s. 1877. elected constftu- tionally to the office. He has been President practically ever since. At that time the Mexican Constitutton did not permit of a President holding offics longer than four years. Manuel Con- zales became President from 1880 10
 1884. but Mexico was rapidly drifting | back to her old evil ways. pias was | elected to succeed Gonzales. had tho | Constitution amended to do away with
 the four-year clause and hS has since ruled the country.
 1 Tn the eighties Mexico was infested with bandits and thieves. there was | no security of life and property and the government was a mockery to the civilized powers. Diaz offered the han- dits the choice of joining the army at good pay or fighting to the death They split up about even on the propo. eition. Then commenced that war 0f extermination, which gained for Dias the reputation of e martinet. He kllls ed ruthiessly, but he was actuated bv the same motives that would be one who was in e meadow surrounded by snakes.
 When the killing had served it's pur- pose and either rid the country of the terrorists or shaped them into good soldiers. Diax began the building Of railroads and telsgraphs Now the country is netted with them. They were built primarily az revolution pre- venters. but have blessed the people incidentally. With them have come foreign dollars to the total of mora than one billion. Mines factories farms have been opened up and the credit of Mexico has been made good the world over.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
< Diaz and What He Has Done for Mexico

there he took advantage of the dark ness, to make his way slowly towards
 the cathedra, roof.
 He was aided in this also by the pc.
 culiar formation of the prison roof.
 which was broken by numerous dome.
 like projections. The roof. however.
 was covered with peb bies and bits of
 of broken glass and he had to proceed
 with extreme caution. for he feared to
 attract the attention of the sentries
 perched high up on the cathedral. At
 last he made the first section of the
 low half of the nearest wing of the
 cath edral This was protected Dy
 low wall. which he easily scaled.
 He found this part of the cathedral
 to be the abode of the priest, and hard-
 ly had he touched the floor when he
 heard a door grate and . young man
 enter whistling merrily. The young
 fellow was relative of the priest and lived with him. He had been out to
 the theater and was returning home
 late. Diaz had smuggled into prison
 to him an old clasp knife and some
 pieces of cord. He took tight grip
 on the knife when the young fellow struck a match. The boy lighted 6
 candle and marched past where Dtas was erouching almost brushing hts
 prison garb. but not seeing him.
 This over, DiaZ made Tor the coruer
 of the building. which overlooked an
 unfrequented street Reaching theUe.
 he looked down into the blackness without being able to see the ground. | but he knew that he was some nfty | feet from it. He arranged his cord and | then felt for an anchoring place. On | the wall was an old statue of an an-
 gel. He touched this to see if it were l firm and it swayed so that he thought it would fall to the ground with crash. | It did not, however. and then he re- membered that an iron rod ran through l the center. He fastened his rope, and. taking his knife in his teeth. swung | off. Swaying in the wind and pumping l the wall with regularity, he slowly | let himself down hand over hand. A particularly hard bump caused him to l lose his knife which dropped to the ground below. Instatly piercing
 soueal rent the air, followed by scuff- ling and grunting. Diaz was swinging
 directly over a pig sty. He dropped
 hurriedly among the animals just as
 A Rendarme poked his head over the fence and swore at the pigs. Diaz huddled in one corner. and. keeping perfectly aulet. caused the pigs to finally cease their noise.
 Then he scaled the fence of the pen | and made his way down the street | feeling his way along the wall and fearing every moment that nash or Iightning would betray his position | 10 the guards, for heavy thunder storm had set in. He had almost gain-
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F U cuIpepper Chats of Filling Offices

ed with the paralysis of his lower limbs: and then 1t was necessary that he lose a foot.
 Under all he was the same cheerful, joyous man. loving everybody and bee loved by all. Just the other day the order came for him to join the com rades who gave up their lives in vir- ginia, and those who, one by one, have gone before
 Our friends. of whom we say. They are dead" have no faults. Their va- rious abode precludes the very thought of imperfection
 Their abode is the Beautiful Isle of the Past" and the Sweet Bye and Bye"
 These delightful lands are Joined hp the Isthmus of Blessed Sleep"
 Friendship and Love guard the Beau. tiful Isle of the Past against the ap- proach of the thought or suspicion of fault--our friends there are perfect.
 In transferring to the Sweet Bye and Bye" they rest for moment on the Isthmus of Blessed Sleep" and ws say of them. there. Asleep in Jesus. blessed sleep. From which none ever woke to weep.s
 Tn the Sweet Bye and Bye" frien6- ship and love follow them and see them infinitely perfect in our Fathers fove
 So. when Pink Bain. the old soldier. went ahead of the small remnant of that splendid company. he bade us Good Night" on the shores of dark ened humanity and went forward. so that. when. for us. the dawn Is areak- ing. the shadows fleeing and the mista are rolling away. he may bid us q cheery Good morning. in ''The land upon whose blissful shore
 rhere falls no shadow. rests no
 stain,
 Where those that meet shall part no
 more
 And those long parted meet again.-
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 bents. 1t is true; may complain that their. valuable services are not proper. iy appreciated at che poor. dying rete' of pay, but precious few of them re- sign. In the course of nature some die' but, no doubt. they hate to do It. I, in one of my applications to the Governor, told him only wanted the place for one year wanred to Ds commandant of the Soldiers Home just l for one year--for the purpose of se- curing hfstofy of the Civil War going to waste.
 meant to get me stenographer and d printing press and publish a nagazine, something like the Outlook, for every word in, 1t would have been worth a dollar.
 As the Governor turned me down. I was forced to the conclusion that he doesn't feel that interest In the re- maining .heraes of the Lost Cause" that is usually pr0fessed. | think he probably, was in the skir- mish about Chehaw. N he had been where I had been land saw what I have seen" he would have appreciated my desire to be the Desdemona to | those old soldiers; hear their very | truthful stories of galfantry (of the imagination) and record them to be l treasured in pr. owens Department. | and would have ordered me. instanter. | to enter upon that lucrative ofhce ssI always prefaced my application to the Governor with. T am not Demo- crat." I'm afraid that was ''the feather | that broke the camels back" didn't vote for him. had conscientious ! scruples. think 1t the bounden duty of every good citizen to vote for the best man. And voted for Judge strat- | ton.
 think the gret mass of our voters are sorry they didn't have as much sense of duty as I have
 Regret always comes too late. The next time we have to elect a Governor, if the people will just wait ] patiently I'll tell them, through The