ROBIN SON & CO.
STONE CAP. VA.
WATCHES, CLOCKS.
SILVERWARE.
SPECTACLES. ETC.
W. C. ROBINSON F< CO.
NO. 3.
?trade review.
l-^U?- UKU"
I,,,, M,.r, Than T?lce a. LarKO.
k;..rnrr,nr, NMV Increased.
1 v<II:K.A?s.^.-H.i;.nui.&c...,s
?lv review of trade says tbat Ihc spccu
&.' [? breadstuff* has broken down,
fcilura to export at more than about
?> .... ?s.eat I???8 administered a cor
?ve ffhicli this trade greatly needed.
It|,r..r.t.-i.?-d withdrawal of the crop by
?v.mio-' Alliance amounts to so little
t'hc rcccipt? were 11,400,00(1 bushels
,ie|apl week reported, against 4,900,
r?r the corresponding week lasl year,
c ?,e receipts of other grains slightly
111 (? moving rapidly to the inferior,
KhcTreasurv has been strengthening
If nddiii" $2 800,000 to itsgold lor Ihe
also taking in $1100,000 mor?
,?n notes Ihnn it has put out. By
.jring deposits of gold at .New \ork
Shipments of currency to country
ks tiir Treasury has somew hat in- 1
M.u itsgold reserve,but the main fact
,,, itfl receipts for the past week have
Ml, ,j it? pavmcnts of all kinds about
KKMHIO. The official announcement
Jail 4'.' per cent, bonds not offered
Intension S.-pt. 1 will be paid on de
I] promises a large addition to the
liable currency after the first of next
Meanwhile foreign news is com
jttirch unimportant, though the rate
Foreign exchange has declined during
Leek ami the prospect of gold mi?
ls becomes brighter. The exports of
[at for the week are about six times
lu of lasl year, though somewhat less
li a year ago for Hour, und much less
corn. The price of corn declined live
I* for the week, though oats rose one
t per bushel. Crop prospects arc in
respects exceedingly bright, and the
,,,!>' of injury by frost do not appear
li fleet ?ny considerable proportion ol
I crop. There is every reason to sup
e that the yield of wheat will he much
gcr than the 544,000,000 bushels esfi
fed by the Agricultural Department,
DUgli a viebino greater would leave
1,000,000 for export.
Hog products are somewhat stronger in
hipathy with com, but oil is lower, also
itton has advanced 3-lti cents on nc
_ntof the reports of injury to the crop
pome parts of the South.
' he trade at Cleveland shows some
ii over hist year, and at Cincinnati a
it improvement in groceries.
U Chicago receipts of wheat arc ili
ased four-fo)d, and of wool two-fold, I
upared with lust year, and an increase
ecu in flour, cheese, and the sales of
goods, clothing and shoes, but a dc
|asc of one-half in cured meats, a third
ard, and some decrease in butter,
es and n.'ils.
icavy increase is seen in trade at St.
A.i". the country merchants buying 111 *?
illy, and trade is improved at Kansas
y, and ai Minneapolis and St. Paul the
fvesl prospects being of the brightest.
At Na-liville the grocery trade is better,
{ other business only fair, and very lit
; improvement is seen at Memphis,
lie ihe trade in cotton is slightly im
ivcd at New Oilcans, and at Galveston
rospects are favorable. At Snvan
i lain I'm- three weeks has affected
and at Jacksonville business is
Hl NTING KOK UOKOON.
Inj; up the Nile to Hunt for the Hero.
ew Vouk, Sept. Messrs. J. J.
Ic and I'. C. Johnson sailed Sunday on
Scrvia, starting on a journey to the
rcr N ilc.
Jr.Coylc is familiar with the region,
Ring .sei \ed several years with the Hrit
l army in Egypt. Uc .-aid, " When 1
s i>' Cairo I had interviews with three
LMich nuns and four priests, who e\
|ssed belief that General Gordon is still
e. Upon their statements, which
re consistently linked together and ob
ned from sources which, for prudential
?us, I am not at liberty to reveal, 1
lievc that General Gordon is not dead.
It held a captive. My objective point
d the object of tins jouniev is loascer
n whether he is dead or alive. I, being
biliar with the native tongue and cus
hs, will disguise myself as a native and
cr Khartoum, or lose my head in the
[em pi.
|4 ll is my intent ion a|so tu ma|je tju.
V Mrs. Sheldon proposed, and bv a tar
frn- difficult mute. This trip has never
in '?ade, and 1 am ambitious to make
Mr Johnson and mvself will note
t missionary work, their training, and
per interest*, and nil! conceal nothing.
will employ our own means for the
Irney."
??? Coyle is an intelligent, athletic
ng Irishman, about 36 years old. He
ol determination and spirit, and
pc interesting discoveries may result
p his journey.
AFTKK JACK PKINCES NECK.
or WoaM-be-Lynchera Pollad.
pTWriuB, Sept. 3~The colored
fnp, Jack Prince, who shot Galloway,
|ductor of a freight train on the Nor
f alll! Western at Rural several davs
f' und ????her colored man implicated
|!; '? same crime, were taken
p'istol Thursday and tried before the
pirate and brought back to jail at
f place on Friday.
H "i?hl !ls General James A. Walker
depot at Puiaski to
? ?|^0 train for Wythevillo ? man
P" UP t" him and whispered in his
? >e) are g?i,?g t(, |J!|Vc pome fun f||
1 V1 \w ?w?'g?t. A mob is on the
in t. Im.g three negroes in jail there."
V/l . ,, r Ht^?,cd ??* ???e office
J told the operator he wanted tosend
ro.Mau. to W vtheviUe. G?Wt*\ Wal
'"???led, but ihe operator continued
to make excuses till (he train was about
starting. On boarding the train General
Walker overheard snatches of conversa?
tions, etc., which convinced him that a
part of the mob was in the car. After?
ward he warned two or three passengers
i on the train for Witbevillc and told them
to spread the alarm on arriving. When
the train stopped he immediately hoarded
an omnibus and had himself driven to the
jail.
Having roused the jailor and the sherifi",
who lives near by, they hatl the court
house hell rung and went to work.to sum?
mon guards. A guard of about sixty
armed men were assembled?some sta?
tioned within and some without the jail.
A fortunate delay was caused by the
fact that a part of the mob from the
West, together with the lender, said to he
a freight train conductor, were already in
WytnevilleTiud some time was consumed
in uniting 'und 'organising so that time,
for summoning and arming the guards'
was given. News of the determination of
the citizens soon reached the mob, who
speedily disbanded and for the most part
got drunk.
Spies sent out among them heard them
talking very freely of their plans and in?
tentions. The leaders before referred to
snid they were determined to get the man
who shot Galloway and if they did not
get him to-night they would come again.
The guard stayed on duty till between -1
and .") o'clock tin's morning and no dis- I
turbance occurred.
DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION*.
Hon. Abraham Fulkerson on tlie Farmers'
Alliance and Democracy.
Hon. Abrain Fulkcrson, ex-Member of
Congress from this district,'was in the
city this week.
In an interview with a representative
of the Post Mr. Fulkcrson expressed him?
self freely in regard to the Farmer's Al?
liance movement in Virginia. He said
that it was necessary to the very existence
of the Democratic party'in the State that
its organization should be maintained and
that it should allow no secret organization
to d'etate its candidates. The nominees
cf the Democratic conventions should be
made to declare themselves on the sub
treasnry scheme and to boldly attack this
measure. 31 r. Fulkcrson is of the opin?
ion that It would be better to stiflerdefeat
now than to win by dodging the issues
and sacrificing the old-time principles of
the patty. He said that he regretted to
see the tendency of many of the men
who have already received nominations
from Democratic conventions to pander
to the alliance by declaring for the sub
treasury scheme or "something better."
In referring to parly organization Mr.
Fulkersou said the Democratic party was
very poorly organized in the Southwest
and there was great necessity of a more
effective organization in order to success?
fully combat with insidious measures that
might tend to the producing of a large
falling oil' of fealty to the Democratic
party.
A N FW I'LUXtiKSfc
."?lakes a Quarter o5" a million in Twenty
Days_From the Hon. A. D. Stockwell
to the Rod -Headed Son-of-a-gun
from Cleveland.
[New York Letter.]
The appearance in Wall street of what
is called a new plunger serves curiously
enough to recall the extraordinary ups
and downs of one of the most famous
characters, on his merits, who has figured
in that stony way of lamentation in the
last decade. The new plunger is a young
man of dapper appearance, homing, rest?
less eyes, named At wood. Two weeks
ago the world had not heard of him, and
it is not uncharitable to surmise that
within two weeks he may he heard of no
more. In twenty days he is credited with
having made a quarter of a million by his
turns in Union Pacific and Burlington and
Quincy. While it has been charged that
he is one of the many daring brokers
through whom Mr. Keene operates, the
assertion has been denied. At all events,
even with his extraordinary prestige of
the moment, At wood is not so interesting
a pcil'inagc as A. 1>. Stockwell, whose;
suspension was announced on the Con?
solidated Exchange just about the time
when At wood's name was first heralded to
the public. Stockwell is still a young
man in spirit and by no means old in
years. He was drawn to this Mecca of
capital from Cleveland as Keene was from
San Francisco. It was said Keene brought
$40,000,0011 with him, while Stockwell
brought $:i00,000 only. By judicious
speculation he increased this to $2,000,
0t>0, went into Pacific Mail, became a di?
rector, and then president. So masterful
was his spirit and so broad his ideas in
this position that the other directors be?
came alarmed and voted him out. Soon
afterwards he told this story : *' When I
first came here from Cleveland with my
little $-200,000 buttoned in my inside
pocket I was known in the street as plain
Mr. Stockwell. When I got it up to
000,000 I was Allen B. Stockwell, Esq.
When I became president of the Pacific
Mail Company, I was the Hon. A. B.
Stockwell, and now tnat 1 am broke I am
no longer anything but 4 that red-headed
8on-of-a-irun from Cleveland.' "
Shooting Attaint.
On last Sunday afternoon O. K. Ball, of
Norton, in company with two friends went
to the house of one Gibson, about eight
miles cast of the city, and after riding up
and down the road in front of the house
for some time, approached the house.
Tbere'itn altercation'occurred which re?
sulted in Gibson's being shot by Ball. As
yet the wound has not proved fatal.
The report that young. MeNulty was
shot and killed at Norton last Sunday,
turned.out to be incorrect. The report
circulated about town freely the first -of
the week, and at one time it was reported
that McN'ulty was dead.
BALMACEDA RESIGNS.
HE IS DEFEATED BY THE CONGRES?
SIONAL ARMY.
Fall of Valparaiso?Minister Egan Con?
ti run the Report of the Victory.?Every?
thing Tranquil.
London, Sept. 1.?The official dispatches
received in Berlin and Paris confirm the
announcement that the city of Valparaiso
had been captured by the troops of the
congressional party of Chili. The orderly
manner in which' the congressional forces
have occupied strategic points and the
quiet prevailing throughout Valparaiso
has been so marked that the admirals in
command of the foreign fleets in Chilian
waters have decided that there is no need
for any intervention on the part of the
assembled fleet to protect! he foreign
population of Valparaiso.
Washington, Sept. 2.?The following
dispatch dated Valparaiso, August 29th,
has been received at the navy department
from Rear Admiral Brown: "The insur?
gents have possession of the city of Val?
paraiso, Was taken yesterday afternoon
after a sanguinary engagement. The gov?
ernment had the advantage?good posi?
tion?but bad generalship, troops disaf?
fected. Insurgent, ships were not present.
Forts notcngaged. The Lynch with three
second-class torpedo boats were captured.
Foreign admirals demand guarantee in
protecting the lives and property of for?
eign subjects. I have a hundred men at
the consulate. Many refugees are on
board. The provisional president is here."
The following dispatch was received this
afternoon by Montt, one of the congress?
ional envoys:
"IqiQCE, Sept. 2.?Dom Pedro Montt,
Washington: The Junta of the congressr
ional government is en route for Santiago
to-day. (Signed.) EititAzuuiz."
Washington, Sept. 2.?At last the De?
partment of State has heard directly from
Minister Egan. The news came in the
shape of the following cablegram :
Santiago, Sept. I, 1891.
Blaine, Washington :
Decisive battle at Valparaiso twenty
eighth of August. Revolution entirely
successful. President Balmactda re?
signed on the twenty-ninth. Revolution?
ists fully installed. Everything tranquil.
[Signed] Euan.
-?-<?-??
A FT 10 It NINE YEARS.
Two Blen are Arrested in this County for
Murder Committed in North Caro?
lina Nine Y'ears Ago.
William and Thomas Whit son were ar?
rested near Norton, on Saturday, charged
with having killed Kit Byrd, at Red Hill,
N.C., in IStfci.
It seems that there were three brothers,
William, Thomas and Dick Whitson, en?
gaged in the whiskey business with Byrd
at the time of the killing. Byrd on the
morning of the 5th of November, 1882,
came to the store and was ordered out by
the Whitsons. On Byrd'a refusal to va?
cate the premises he was shot ami killed
by the Whitson's, who made good their
escape, and had never since been heard
of in the Red Mill neighborhood until the
authorities of that place were informed
by a drummer who was traveling in this
county, and who was a former resident of
Red Hill, that he had seen and recognized
two of the Whitson's near Big Stone Gap.
Steps were at nice l iken to effect' the
arrest of the offenders, and A. S. Penland
and J. H. flyman came on here from Red
Hill, and securing the assistance of W.
W. Adams of the police force of this
place, went in search of the Whitsons.
As Adams had known the men for years,
little trouble was met with in making the
arrests, which was done near Norton.
Adams had always known the men by the
name ol .Jones, as I hey had passed by that
name ever since they have been in this
connty.
The prisoners were brought here on
Sunday and kept hI the Central Hotel un?
til Monday morning when they were taken
buck to North Carolina, there to stand
trial f<u- I heir crime.
Immediately after the killing the Whit?
sons went to the Northwest, but soon
came and settled near the line between
this and Letcher counties. There they mar?
ried, and have been living there for some
years, notwithstanding the fact that they
had wives at Red Hill. They have always
passed by the name of Jones here, and
were considered bad characters.
Dick Whitson, the missing brother, was
one of the men who was shot in the double
murdet near the double funnel twelve
months ago.
The Whitsons were part of the gang
who have lately squatted on and laid
claims to a small portion of the Virginia
Coal and Iron Co.'s lands near here, and
who have been so much trouble of late to
the police of the town atid county, in at?
tempting to enforce their claim to this
land by force of arms.
GEORGIANS GROWL.
Confederate Veterans Condemn the Legis?
lature?Duels Probable.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 2.?The Georgia
House of Representatives enjoyed a great
sensation when a large proportion of the
membership jumped on Speaker Howell
and tried to give him a legislative black
eye.
It all grew out of the action of the
House in refusing to accept the Confeder?
ate Veterans' Home. The whole State is
excited over that action. The newspa?
pers are teeming with condemnation, the
people everywhere are denouncing the
Alliance and the members controlled by
it in the strongest possible terms and at
least -1 wo duels are pending in consequence
of the strong language that has beoti used
in the newspapers and on the floor of the
I [louse. The newspapers were full of in?
terviews and editorial utterances denouuc
ing the action of those who voted against
the acceptance of the home.
The Constitution was especially strong
in its utterances, and ns Managing Editor
Howell, of that paper, is the Speaker of
the House of Representatives and was
rather between the devil and the deep
blue sea when the resolution was intro?
duced, condemning in strongest terms the
action of that {taper, there were resolu?
tions and speeches that consumed the en?
tire morning.
After everybody had said his say,
Speaker Howell made a short speech,
making clear the difference between his
duty as manager of a newspaper and
Speaker of the House, but reiterrating the
position of that paperwitli regard to the
home. Then he was sustained by a good
vote, the motions to condemn the Consti?
tution being tabled.
. The veterans have held a rousing mass
meeting condemning the action of the
Legislature in failing to accept the home.
-?
MARRIAGE OP REV. UK. CARTER.
The Rector ?f the Episcopal Church of
This City married to Mi.is Roland of
I.mnion County.
MlODLEBUBO, Va., Sept. 3. ? Rev.
Robert S. Carter, Rector of the Protes?
tant Episcopal Church of Big Stone Clap,
was married here to-day at 12 o'clock to
Mis? Elizabeth L. Noland. The ceremony
was performed in Emmanuc'. Church by
the Right Rev. Thus. U. Dudley, Bishop
of Kentucky, assisted by the Rev. C. E.
Grammer, of the Theological Seminary
ol* Virginia. Mr. Peyton S. Cole, of
Esfoutville, Alhcmarle county, was the
best man, and Miss May Dudley, of Louis?
ville, Ky., the Maid of Honor. Messrs.
Thos. Dabney, of New York, and B. P.
Noland, brother of the bride, officiated as
ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Carter left to-day
for a short bridal tour and will return to
Big Stone Gap on the 15th.
POLITICAL NOTES.
A Candidate for the Legislature Nomi?
nated 8>y the DeinncraU oftliiK l>ist riot.?
The Senatorial Fight on.
As the time for the fall ejections is
drawing near, politics and candidates are
being talked generally about on the streets.
This year there will be elected a member
of the legislature from Wise, Dickeuson,
and Buchanan counties, and a State Sen?
ator from Wise, Lee, Scott, and part of
frickeitson; The democrats of Buchanan
and Dickensou have opened the fight by
nom: .atiug a candidate for the legislature
from this legislative district. The con?
vention was held at Clint wood some days
ago, and a candidate nut up whose name
no one here seems to know.
Chairman H. A. W. Skccu, of this
county, claims that this action was taken
without notifying the Democratic Com?
mit tee of this county that it was contem?
plated, and there exists considerable dis?
satisfaction among the Democrats of the
county that they were thus slighted. The
County Chairman of Buchanan and Dick?
ensou, however, claim that Skeen was no?
tified in time of Ihe intention to hold the
convention, and no attention was paid to
the notice.
The Republican convention will meet
here next Thursday, the 10th to
name a candidate to succeed Senator
Mills. There are several names reported
as likely to be placed before the conven?
tion. Captain H. C. Slemp has been
prominently mentioned as a candidate for
the nomination. When asked about the
report Captain Slemp said that he had
nut now any intention of being a candi?
date, and thought that Senator Mills
should be his own successor.
There are a number of democrats men?
tioned as likely to be candidates to suc?
ceed Sonator Mills. Major McConncll,of
Scott County, has a large following, and
his friends are confident that he will ne
ciire the democratic nomination. Scott
has another candidate in the person of
W. D. Smith, tiie Superintendent of Pub?
lic Schools lor that county, who it is said
has announced himself as a candidate,
and will make an active fight for the
nomination.
Mr. J.C. Mayuor. of Big Stone Gap,
has been talked of for some time past as
a probable candidate, but Mr. Maynor
emphatically denies I hat he has any aspi?
rations in that direction.
The respective friends of Judge E. M.
Fulton and C. F. Flannary, both of Wise
C. H., are urging those gentlemen to
make the race, but it is not yet known
whether they will consent to run or not.
Mayor J. F. Bullitt, Jr., is another man
much talked of as the democratic stand?
ard bearer, but his friends say his exten?
sive law practice will not admit of his
being absent from the county long enough
to attend to the duties of Senator at
Richmond.
LATEtt.
Notice has just been received at t
office that the action of the Buehansfn
and Dickenson Counties has been re?
ceived, and a convention to nominate a
candidate for the lower house from this
district will be held at Clintwood on Sep?
tember lath. Chairman Skeen announces
that a mass-meeting of the Democrats of
the county will be held at Wise C. H., on
the 14th, to select delegates to both this
convention and to the Senatorial conven?
tion.
Change of Management.
The Intcrmont Hotel changed hands on
the first of September. Mr. W. H. Hous?
ton bought out the Intcrmont Hotel Co.
which has been running the hotel from
its first opening. The new proprietor
says that he will keep the hotel up to the
old standard, and continue to run a first
class hotel. The old company will con?
tinue to run the bar and billiard-rooms
in the basement of Ihe hotel.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
A SEASON OF SUBSTANTIAL PRO?
GRESS FOR ?IG STONE GAP.
More Freight for the I.oulnvllle & Nash- ,
ville.? Increase Output of the Coal ?tilten.
? Work on the Furnace* l'rujrrehui ug.? |
Fay Boll* Increasing and a Good Outlook j
for Trade.?New Iron Mines Being Opeiy/
ed.?Stonega Academy Nearing Cuin^j
pletlon. jr'
Mr. S. R. Knott, Traffic Manager of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, accompanied
by Mr. Thompson, Treasurer of the road, ;md
others came in a private car over this branch
of the line on Thursday of last week. Mr.
Taggart, of the Virginia Coal <fc Iron Com?
pany, and Mr. Dowden, of the Grate & Mantel
Company, were invited to go up the road with
them and discuss the situation with a view, it
is supposed, of developing more freight. Mr.
Taggart was prevented by other engagements
from going, which was most unfortunate, as
our community has so very much to expect
from the beginning of operations on his pro-!
perty. Mr. Dowden, however, had a talk with
them, and this week is doing a large business,
which will increase from time to time.
* ?
Our city had as visitors last week, L. 1>.
Treadwell, of the Tredwetl-Young Promoting
Cornpanv, 280 Broadway, New York; D. J.
Turner, Jr., of Culpeper & Turner, agents |
Old Dominion Steamship Company, Norfolk;
L. D. Smith, Norfolk; \V. W. Flemming,
Washington, 1). C, and J. N. Grecar, Brick
ley's Mills, Ya., who with their associates, it
is understood, form the Big Stone Crap Coal
Company. It is not known whether they own
or by arrangement with the Virginia, Ten?
nessee A Carolina Steel & Iron Company
have a lease upon the land on Looney Creek
now operated by the latter company, but Mr.
Treadwell, the Vice-President gave it out
that the output of the mines would soon be
increased to fifteen cars of coal per day and at
the end of the year to thirty, which will help
this place very mush, as it will give employ?
ment to some two hundred men, and make a
pay roll of perhaps $10,000 a month. As an
indication of growing business, ? commissary
wan started at the works September 1st, by
Mr. Rosebud, for the accommodation of the
increasing number of workmen.
? #
The work on the two furnaces is progressing
steadily, and one of them is to be blown in by
Thanksgiving Day. The six ovens are up so
far as the iron work is concerned, the two
furnace stacks are up to the same heights, and
the twelve boilers and three engines are in
place. The stone work is most behind, but
that will be pushed, the workmen now being
engaged in excavating for the smoke stack to
be 175 feet high, which is a ahell of iron lined
with brick, being some 15 or 20 feet in diame?
ter at the base, and 10 feet at the top. To
show Gen. Aycrs's zeal in the matter, he has
taken the masons off his own house to hasten
the brick and store work of the furnace.
* *
A force of men under Jeff Dillion is now pros?
pecting for ore on the South side of the South
Fork, near the end of East Fifth street, in the
town limits, on the lands of the Big Stone Gap
Improvement Company, and the Virginia Coal
& Iron Company, and he has unearthed a tine
red herratite or fossiliferous, that will proba?
bly run 42 to 47 per cent of metallic iron. ? It
is the intention of the Valley Street railroad
(if there is no opposition from the City Council,
as it is hoped there will not be,) to run a track
out East Fifth street, across the river, and load
this ore which can be shoveled directly into
the car, or dumped from an incline. The Bris?
tol Furnace offers a good price for a supply of
this ore, and the furnace at Graham is anx?
ious to trv it.
* *
The three instances cited above show how
Big Stone Gap is gradually getting what it
needs most of all, regular pay rolls, more of
them and larger in volume. This makes
money circulate freely, and consequently the
merchants do a good business, the banks feel
more kindly toward customers, and our citi?
zens generally arc more cheerful. Easier
money in London, New York, Louisville* and
the points toward which our people have to
look for financial help, improves the situation
already; and it is reasonable to believe that
October 1st will see the condition of affairs
much bettered. This should be a passably
fair business autumn, and the spring is of
glorious promise and, it is hoped, will show
satisfactory fulfillment.
* *
Nickels & Company are rapidly getting in
the foundations for their new store 48x60, and
the building will go up rapidly.
? *
Mr. W. C. Harrington has now completed
the plans for his dwelling on the East corner
of West Second street, and Cherokee avenue
on Poplar Hill, and stone for the foundation
is already being delivered. This will be one
of the most unique buildings and things of
beauty on the Hill. >
* ? V
The building of the Stonega Academy cor?
poration is growing daily, the sides now being
covered and the roofing rapidly going on. The
csterior is of stained shingles, the sides being
brown, the roof a vivid red (which will make
a beautiful contrast with the dark grecu of
the beeches among which the academy is sit?
uated,) the trimmings olive greer, and the
windows ivory white. The four rooms and
hall are plastered, with wainscotting up four
feet, will be lighted with electricity and, for
purposes of ventilation will be heated by Dow
den's patent grates from the Big Stone Gap
Crate & Mantel Factory. The grounds, lots
1 and 2 in block 252, about two fifths of an
acre in extent, will be enclosed, and water will
be brought within the fence.
\ * *
The Virginia Coal & Iron Company has
agreed (and other large landholders will proba?
bly join in the project) to rent its vacant
houses and the cleared land surrounding them
to tobacco tenants, who shall be brought in
from North Carolina and other tobacco grow
ing sections, with a view to making such an
out-put as will make this no inconsiderable
market for that article and perhaps later lead
to the establishment of tobacco and cigar
manufactories. The plan will probably be to
lease the ground at so much per acre and, if
the tenant prefers to pay at the end of the
year, take a iien on the crop. Correspondence
is now being carried on with some Ninth C?ro
\nf parties. \
Mr. Beckford, who bus been East for the
last three weeks is expected tomorrow', to push
things to a completion so that school may be?
gin as intended Tuesday, Sept. 15th. Mr.
Dcckford has been successful in raising among
his relatives,.school-mates at Vale, am! friends
in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York
City, a considerable sum for the building, and
further will probably erect u cottage tor his
own use in Plat <>.
&*
Two car loads of brick have arrived and
eight others are on their way for the residence
of Mr. W. .1. Horsier on Poplar Hill.
* *
Mr. 1). ('. Williams, living within a mile of
Big Stone Cap, is the origina tor of the at?
tempt to cultivate ginseng, and has one of the
only two known ginseng farms in the world,
(the other being in Lee county nearby.) Mr.
Williams has in at present an acre and a half,
rich shaded soil, which he sowed with seed
and planted with roots, propagating very
rapidly. In three years the plants come to
maturity and Mr. Williams says that by a
judicious system of cutting and digging, the
plants can be made sclf-perpetualing. As the
dried ginseng is worth litre $2.50 per pound, a
profit of several thousand dollars per acre can
be realized from its cultivation. Ginseng
finds its sale in China almost exclusively,
where it is used as medicine, and to be burned
as incense in its temple.
* *
The Big Stone Gap Orate & Mantel Com?
pany made a run of eastings amounting lo 1400
lbs in about an hour .Monday afternoon.
* *
Sleeping cars are now running through Big
Stone (Jap from Louisville to Norfolk direct,
and are proving a great convenience to this
section.
a
Mr. .1. L. Jennings superintendent of the
WattrWorks is kept busy putting pipes into
dwellings ami business houses. He Una had
experience in this business from Alaska to
Mexico, and says that nowhere else has he ever
seen so pure a water supply. It is so pure that
Dr. Sbelton, of the drug-firm of Shelton <fc Co.,
says it will stand the nitrate of silver test,
(which some of our gentlemen will under?
stand,) that is to say some nitrate of silver be?
ing dropped into it, it remains perfectly pure.
It would turn cloudy or milky if there were any
mineral salts,, decayed or organic matter in it. ?
As a matter of fact the head of the system is
above the last house on the river or any other
possible source of contamination, (lowing, as it,
does, from a primeval forest in a sand-stone
formation. It is very light and pleasant to (he
taste, and has no effect upon the drinker, ex?
cept that if he has been accustomed to lime or
other impurities, their absence will be noticed
temporarily, and a negative effect produced.
* *
The Louisville &. Nashville is still delivering
from 11)0 to 200 ears of freight per day to the
Norfolk & Western. One engine came down
Tuesday with 41 cars and a caboose, a train
1500 feet long.
Friends of the Louisville ?i Nashville i*>'<ice
with pleasure the rapid rise irr value of its
stock from 00 odd a few Weeks ago to 77 and
over this week.
Dr. A. J. Iloback is moving this week from
his tent quarters to one of theGoodloo cottages
on the corner of Giiley Avenue and West
First street.
* *
There were 349 arrivals at the Central Hotel,
and 411 at the Intel moot during the mouth
of July, a total of 7'JO people; in August there
were 34* at the Central and 314 at the Inter
mout,total657, which indicates a good travel
for months usually considered dull.
Several members of the I'. S. Geological
Survey are encamped at the North end of the
Gap, working up the geology of this section,
the topography of which was taken by other
members of the force some six years ago. The
development in these parts is thus attracting
the notice of the government, and hence these
researches, one object of which, it is under?
stood, is to study the formation and locate the
anticlinal in which natural gas is generally
found. Asa compliment, the sheet contuiuing
the geology and topography of the territory of
which our [dace is the center, will be called the
Big Stone Gap sheet. '
* *
Few men in Southwest Virginia keep more
closely in hand with the industrial development
of the South than does Col. John C. Haskell,
President of the Virginia, Tennessee & Caro?
lina Steel & Iron Co., which has such large
holdings hereabouts, and he has recently
shown his faith by his works in buying for him?
self and friends in New York City a tract of coal
Kid, just through the Gap, in which Gov.
mpbelI,of Ohio, was interested, and he was
here again yestorday to buy another boun?
dary for other friends. Such things indicate
the development that is bouud to come to us a
little later.
* #
The Valley Street Railway bridge at East
Fifth street would have been in use for trains
before this, but the iron men unfortunately
furnished cast iron parts where wrought
pieces were necessary, hence the delay.
* *
The trains of the Valley Street Railway
are now housed in their new car shed on East
Fifth street. The engine and two cars which
have been leased to the Bristol Belt Line
railroad were returned yesterday.
stricken With Apoplexy.
Loi.iavii.lk, Ky., Aug. 29.?It is reported
here that Senator Blackburn was yesterday
stricken with apoplexy at Newcastle, about
sixty miles from "Louisville. His friends have
kept the matter a secret to save him annoy?
ance. He rallied rapidly and is uow said to
have quite recovered.