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;kson & BLANKENSHIP,
TTORNEYS-AT LAW,
Jonesville, Virginia.
I hi*?utkw?Hl Virginia, a specialty.
, AVERS. - - JOS. L.KELLY.
' OFFICES IN AYERS BUILDING,
Bir; Stone Gap. Va.
Kl I.I.IT*. J1"
ullitt & mcdowell,
fTORN EYS-AT-LAW,
. ? lUllff< RIO STONK GA1\VA
H. A. W. SKEEN,
;rTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Oflicc in Short! Knildhig,
3ig Stone Gap, Virginia.
R. T. IRVINE,
ffTORNEY-AT LAW.
.? in Suimnerfiehl Building, Wood Avenue,
3lg Stone Gap. Virginia.
L. TURNER MAURY,
TTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Onicehi lycrs'Rulldlng, W.I Avenue,
3ig Stone Gap, Virginia.
WALTER E. ADDISON.
.TTORNEY-AT-LAW.
(Mice i"i Sickels Ruildlugs,
Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
i.- bmuui, v.:. k. m. 111.tox, Wise CIL Va.
BURNS & FULTON,
TTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Itii.srll, Wiwf nrul Dirkcuson Counties, and
m| \-.;. mI- nl Wythei illc, Vn.
, IH.'SCIN, W. K. MATIU'.WS, iw. v. mayxoii,
?villi', Va. I5lg Stone Gap. Rig .Stone Gup.
NCAN. MATHEWS&MAYNOR,
TTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
oitlf in Xii Is UtiiMiitg, Wood Avenue,
Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Mtciiil *11 i ? Vi lit ? lloio ami Prompt Roniitnncc
W. J. HORSLEY,
iTTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Big Stone Gap, Virginia,
m so
Whitosburr, Ky.
in ;h . n tu Colli.'clions and LimdTitle?.
ii.hkiiso.v, WiseC II. w ? t. nili>:i(, Norton.
alderson & iv.iLLER,
TTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
i|>i itlti'iitioii in .il! business entrusted to iis. Ad
?Ii? ? ? [tin r Wi-.- U IL, Va . ->r Norton, Vu.
M. G. ELY.
\TTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Turkey Cove, Lee Co., Va,
j. vv. kelly,
IYSICIANanoSURGEON,
Oflic*1 in drugstore, Ayers lllock,
Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
I Respoutl Promptly to C?Uk, lloth
i> ?y and Night. i:;.tf
c. d. kunkel,
JYSICIANanuSURGEON,
Pig Stone Gap, Virginia,
klil* pnifessiunal services to the people of the city
ftllll vicinity,
N. H. REEVE, M. D.
jREATS DISEASES OF WOMEN
EXCLUSIVELY.
fee: Main St. Bristol, Tenn.
DR. j. c. pruner,
DENTIST,
f-o. Room No. 9, Central Hotel.
? tp tlie 3d Monday Incach
? Ids services should make
'':J I i uccevding days during
?R. F. A. SPROLES,
piDKXT DENTIST,
B,G STONE GAP, VA.,
lM'r(|,nn all oiHuatlous entrusted
*r??w guarantees saUsfnclloni
L.'M-M.-tii-s. i,, Prltt Art Gallery.
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s- W, THACKER,
11 ENGINEER AND
SURVEYOR,
8 Stone Cap, Virginia.
r'a?? W?rk a Specialty.
MALCOLM SMITH,
|IL ENGINEER AND
SURVEYOR.
;ico- Next to Post Office.
mo stoni: ga.% VA.
S- L). HURD,
gCHlTBCT,
bl? Stone Cap, Va.
is.
iPECJFlCAT!ONS
, ,. AND ESTIMATES
; 1 !l" w a thorough and
autistic maknkr.
Mg Mtmu* <??p Companies *n?1 ??rpo
ratlnn*.
1?? Stoxk Gap Iwraovmtarr Co.
Capital stock, $3,HK>,?IJ0.
Hooded lasne, f/.OMMlOn.
Officer*.?U. a. Ayera, President, J. F. Battltt, Jr.,
Vlce-PraaldenU W C. Harrington, Secretary tad
Treasurer, Big Stone Gap; R. C. Hallard Thrnston,
Trustee, Loaiavlllc, Ky.
Director*.?R. a. Ayers. J. F. Hullltt, Jr., J. S.
Taggsrt, Rig Stone Gap; Chas. T. Rallard, Lanls
ville, Ky.; Ja?. W. Fox, Jno. C. Haakell, Sew York;
M. C. McDowell. *r., Islington, Ky.; Wm. MeGeorga,
jr.. PbRaitelpbla; K. It. Whltrhlge, Roatm.
F.xecntive Committee.?R. A. Ayers. J. k. TatfRnrt,
Rig Stone Gap; Ja*. W. Fox, Jno. C. Haakell, Saw
York; H. C. McDowell, sr., Lexington, Ky.
Bo; Sto*? G*r **t> Pownu/a VauMf Kaii.wat Co.
Capital stock, $Sft,noo.
Officers.?R. a. Aver?, President, J. K. Taggarf.
Vlce-Prestdent. W. C. Harrington, Secretary aad
Treasurer, Ulf? Stone Cap.
Direetora.?R. A. Ayers, H. C. McDowell, Jr., i. K.
Tagtrart, Rig Stone Gap; W. P. Clyde, Hew York; J!.
C. Wood, Rrintol, Tenn.
Rio Stow* Gap BuccraiC lanir? a*o Powaa Cr.
(Capital Ktock, ?.V?,nf?.)
president, R. A. Ayera; S?-cr.tary, Jo?. \? Rally;
Treaanrer, II. II. Rnllltt.
Director*.?k. a. Avers. I!. II. Rnllltt. R.t. Irvine,
Ona. W. Lnvell, If. C. McDowell, Jr.
liio Stojck C.\r Wat?k Co.
(Capital ftock *2on,ooo. Bond? Uaned, $*S,nnn.)
Officers.?Frealneiit, J. f. Rnllltt, Jr.; Rig ?tone
Cap; Vlce-Frcaldent, James. W, Foi, Sew York:Sec?
retary and Trfaaurcr, W. A. McDowell; Snperlntend
??or, J. L. Jtmninga, Hlg Stone Gap.
Directors.?D. C. Anderson, Ii. a. Ayera, J. F. Ral
lltt. Jr., Rig Stone Oap; J-W. Gerow, Glasgow; I. p.
Kane, Gate City, Va.
Rio svoxa Oat Rnr.msu am? IhvasraKRT Co.
Capital atock?tnlnltnnni?fJW.nOO.
Capital atork?authorized?flOO.fXn.
(No bonded Issue.;
Officers.?President. It. T. Irvine; Secretary and
Treasurer, W. A. McDowell, Rig Stone (Jap.
Directors.?R. A. Ayvr*, John W. Foa, Jr., John m.
Ooodlot, F.. M. Hardln, It. T. Irvine, W. a. Mr Derw?
eil, Rig Stone Gap; John K.Green, Loulavlllr, Ky.
A ita i<a cm am Ramk.
Capital xtock? authorized?fSO,S0O.
Capital stock?paid In?i'ja.oin).
Officers.?President, >V. A. McDowell; Teller, Jno.
R. Payne.
Directors.?J. K. Rnllitl, Jr., C. W. Kvena, J. M.
Goodlse, II. T. Irrlne, ||. c. McDowell. Jr., W. a.
McDowell, J. R. F. Mills Rig Stone Gap; IS. J. Rlrd,
Ironlou, Ohl??.
Daikt Iiios ani> Misiso Co.
(Mtnei located at Hagau, Lee Co., Va ;
Capital, authorized. Saun.?*!.
Capital, paid in, vlf?,m?<>.
Officers.?D.8. Flcasatit?, President, W. a. Mc?
Dowell. Treasurer, nig Stone Cap; Secretary, Walttr
Graham, Graham, Va., .Secretary; II. I.. Motitsiro,
.Manager, Hngan, Va.
Directors.?Walter Graham, Graham, Va.; H. I..
Monteiro, Hagau, Va.; I..Turner Maurj, W. a. Mr
Dowcll, D. S. I*lea*ants, Rig Stone Gap. Va.
IwTP.aaTATr lavasmKKT Co.
Capital stock, $100,000.
President, Chas. T. Rallard; Vice President,
A. T. Pope; Secretary, T. G. Williams, Loo
isrille.
Directors.?CltHS. T. Rallard, .John Church?
ill, W. N.Culp, A. S. Hughes, A. V. Lafar
ette, A. T. Pope, S. Zorn, Louisville.
InTEKSTATE Tt'NNEL Co.
Capital stock, $10,000,000.
President, H. C. McDowell, sr., Lexington;
Vice President, St. John Boyle: Secretary, T.
W. Sjrinrile, !?ouiflvilie.
DirecUirs.?St. John H?rle, J. W. Ganlb?rt,
John K. Oreen, E. T. Holser, Louisrille, Kv.;
Arthur Carcv, Clav City, Kv.; F. 1). Carley,
New York; ?. C. McDowell, Lexington, Ky.;
Jno. R. Procter, Frankfort, Ky,
Faykttk Land Co.
Capital at-ook, $200,000.
I ^President. J. II. Simrall; Secretary and
Treasurer, (I: H. Whitnev, Lexington, Kv.
Directors.?Attla!?ox,*J. M. Felter, H. F.
Smith, Louisville, Ky.; Thos. Martin, J. B.
Simrall, G. Ii. Whitney, Lexington, Ky.:
Horace K. Fox, Dig Stone Gap.
Soittii Appalachian Lanp Co.
Capital stock, $200,000.
President, H. C. McDowell, Rr., Lexington,
Ky.: Secretary and Treasurer, T. W. Spindle,
Louisville, Ky*.
Direetora.?St..John Doyle, J. W. Gaulbert,
.lohn E. Green, Louisville, K v.; Arthur Carer,
Clav City, Ky.; F. D. Carle/, New York; It.
C. McDowell, sr.,;Lexington, Ky.
Wkkt End Land Co.
Capital stock, $200,000.
President, Jns. T. Shields, Knoxville, Tenn.
Director?.?K. P. Bryan, St. Louis, Mo.; U.
W. McCrarv, Frankfort, Ky.: Jas. T. Shields,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Virginia Coal and Thon Co.
Capital stock, $1,500,000.
President, E. B. Leisenring, Philadelphia,
Pn.; Vice President, Dr. J. S. Wentx, Mauch
Chunk, Pa.: Treasurer, M. S. Kemmerer,
Mauch Chunk, Pa.; Secretary, W. C. Kent,
Philadelphia; General Manager, J. K. Taa;'
gart, Big .Stone Gap.
Directors.?U. A. Avers, Big Stone Gap:
John C. Bullitt, E. VV. (Mark, Sam'l Dickaon,
Philadelphia,M. S. Kemmerer, Mauch Chunk,
Pa.:E. B. I jcisenring, Philadelphia; Robert |
II. Sayer, Bethlehem, Pa.; Sam'l Thomas,
(Tataaqua, Pa.; Dr. J. S. Went*, Maueh
Chunk, Pa.
Powkll's Rivkr Coai and Ikon Co.
Capital stock, $120,000. I
Preiident, E. B. Leisenring; Secretarr and I
Treasurer, W. C. Kent, Philadelphia.
Appalachian Steel and Ieon Co.
Capital stock, $800,000.
President, E. J. Bird, jr., Irouton, Ohio;
Secretarr and Treasurer, M. T. Rideuour;
General Manager, E. J. Bird, sr., Big Stone
Gap, Va.
Director".?R. A. Avers. E. J. Bird, sr.;
M. T. Rideuour, Big Stinte Gap: S. P. Bacon,
Cincinnati: II. W. Bates, Greennp, Ky.; E. J.
Rird, jr., Ironton, Ohio.; Jno. C. Haskell,
New York.
Soi Titw est Virginia Minerai. Land Co.
Capital Stock, $55,000.
President, llarton Myers; Secretary and
Treasurer, L. H. Shields, Norfolk, Va.; Gen?
eral Manager, Jas. W. Gerow, Glasgow, Va.
Directors?Jas. W. Gerow, Glasgow, Va.;
R. M. Hughes, David L?wen berg, Barton
Mvers, L. 11. Shields, W. F. iL Slaughter,
Norfolk.
Bank of Bio Stone Gat.
Capital?authorized?$100,000.
Capital?paid in?$44,300.
President, W. II. Nickels, Duffield, Va.;
Cashier; H. H. Bullitt; Teller, W. M. McEI
wee, Big Stone Gap.
Kkntix'KY-Cakomna Timber Co.
President and General Mauager, T. H. Ma?
son: Vice President, L. O. Pettit; Secretary
and Treasurer, H.H. Bullitt, Big Stone Gap.
Centkai. Land Company.
Capital, $200,000.
President, James W. Gerow, Glasgow, Va.;
Secretary and General Manager, R. T. lrrine,
Treasurer, W. A. McDowell, Big Stone Gap.
Direetora.?J. E. Abraham, Louisville, Ky.;
James W. Gero?, Glasgow, Va.. J. Hollidar",
Columbia, Ky.: R. T. Irvine, W. A. McDow?
ell, Big Stone Gap; Barton Myers, L. H,
Shields. Norfolk, Va.
East Bio Stone Gap Land and Impkotb
mknt CO.
Capital Stock, $500,000.
President, J. B. F. Mills; Vice President,
R. T. Irrine; Secretary, S. C. Berryman, Big
Stone Gap.
Directors.?Geo. K. Dennis, Rocky Mount,
Va.; U. T. Irrine, I. N. Jones, Gus *W. Lor
cll, J. B. F. Mills, Big Stone Gap: M. IS.
Wood, Bristol, Tenn.: J. W. Yates, Flint Hill,
Va.
Bio Stone Gap Grate and Mantlx Co.
Capital stock?preferred?$10,000.
Capital Stock?common?$15,000.
President, W. K. Harris; Secretary and
Treasurer, J. B. Dowdou, Big Stone Gap.
Directors.?J. B. DowoYn, John Glllev, W,
T. Goodloe, W. E. Harris, R. T. lrviue", Big
Stone Gap.
a i?g kxtkki'kike.
A New ltntlraari to Pierre the MonutaltiB
from Pineville tu Mnrlnn C. H.
llottUrllW? CrUlr.l
Should the line mentioned below
be built, it will result in giving Big
j Stone Gap another railroad. The
distance from Pineville to Big Stone
Gap is 73 miles, and this enterprise
provideT for the first 32 miles. At
this end 12 miles will he built from
Big Stone Gap to Morris Gap, which
is at the head of Clover Fork, one of
the tributaries of the Cumberland
River, for the accommodation of the
operations of the Interstate Invest?
ment Company, of Louisville, which
owns 8cveral thousand acres of land
there and which is going into the
coal and coke business, as soon as it
is ready. This leaves a gap of 29
miles between Morris Gap and Har?
lan C. H., (Mt. Pleasant,) which
would he filled to make a through
line. It is predicted that the Louis?
ville it Nashville R. R. would never
allow any other corporation to do this,
but will do the bnilding itself. The
Clover Fork section is the richest in
Harlan county, Kentucky, and con?
sequently in eastern Kentucky, lying
as it does between the Little Black
and the Big Black mountains, 4,000
feet high, with the richest soil, finest
timber, largest expanse of fields of
coking, cannel and ordinary bitumi?
nous coal.
"The Mt. Pleasant k Elkhorn
Railroad has come into existence very
unexpectedly to the railroad people
and the communities through which
it will run. The organization was
completed in the city and in the city
of Chicago this week, and the deed
of trust for the issuance of $3,300,
000 worth of bonds of said road was
duly approved, the same having been
recorded in the counties through
which the road passes. The legal
amount of stock has been subscribed
and taken by persons in Chicago,
Minneapolis and this city, with some
connections in New York, that scorns
to assure the early completion of this
valuable road.
It is 158 miles lond and passscs
through a region the most remarkable
for coal and mineral deposits deposits
and for timber in tho State. There
isn't a mile of this road but what
passes through thirteen veins coal,
opening on either side of it. Geo?
logical reports show ten veins within
forty-six feet below the surface. These
deposits reach a thickness above sur?
face of ninety-eight inches, and the
quality of the coal is extraordinary,
especially as to cannel coal and cok?
ing coal. The road parallels the
Cumberland and the Big and Little
Black Mountains for the whole dis?
tance, and will open up a region that
in the next few years will be the rich?
est of all Eastern Kentucky. It is
remarkable that so valuable a region
has lain dormant so long. The first
division of the road will be let be?
tween this and the firs of July, be?
ginning at Pineville and ending at
Mt. Pleasant Harlan county, Ky.
Already the value of the lands in
Harlan county is increasing, and in
less than one year the Critic predicts
that the lands in that county will be
worth and cannot be bought for less
than three times their present value
in the market. This line will open
up the far-famed Elkhorn coking coal
rehion, as it will traverse Elkhorn
from the head to the mouth of Big
Sandy River. There is great proba?
bility that this road will be connect?
ed with one or two of the systems
now in operation in West Virginia,
and it will also make certaiu the com?
pletion of the Chattaroi Railroad,
which is completed from Gatletts
burg to Peach Orchard now.
The Mt. Pleasant & Elkhorn road,
in the next ten years, of its length in
the State. It has advantage of par?
alleling the mighty ranges of moun?
tains, and at the same time does not
necsitate the tunueiing of a single
mountain, the whole route being up
and down the accessible valleys of
the Cumberland and the Kentucky
rivers and their tributaries. The
break between the Cumberland and
Kentucky in the Pine Mountain,
through which it will necessarilly
pass, is perfect and the way made by
this fault is almost level, the water
running both ways for a distance
that is hardly perceptiole. So as
soon as the contract for the building
of this road shall be let the Critic will
publish it so that the people of that
region may get the full value of their
lands, minerals and timber.
Mt. Pleasant is the county seat of
Harlan county and the terminus of
the first division of this road and will
excel Middlesborough as a thriving
town on a snbtantial basis where no
undue inflation will preced its begin?
ning. It now has about 800 inhabi?
tants, but we predict in five years it
will have 8,000, and when this popu?
lation settles in Mt. Pleasant there
will be plenty for it to do and no need
of outside assistance for support. It
will foe a town that will not go back
on the line of progress, but always
forward in the conservative, substan?
tial manner. In the next issue of
the Critic there will be pubished the
names of a number of gentlemen who
[have undertaken this valuable ami
needed construction.
$1,300.000 worth of bonds have
been issued and many applications
for contracts have been received from
substantial construction companies.
This road will not have a construc?
tion company of its own nor will it
be connected with any company, but
the proceeds of its stock and bonds
will be economically and carefnliy ap?
plied to the expenses of building and
equipping the road and for nothing
else. The Mt. Pleasant & Elkhorn
is really here and will be a factor in
the future."
Wonderful Cnrrn.
Sir Humphrey Davy was once
tempted into playing an amusing
practical joke by way of testing the
curative powers of imagination.
When the properties of nitrons oxide
gas were discovered, Dr. Beddoes,
jumping to the conclusion that it
must be a specific for paralysis, chose
a subject upon vrhoin to try it, ami
Sir Humphrey consented to adminis?
ter the gas. Before doing so, Davy
desiring t o note the degree of animal
temperature, placed a small ther?
mometer under the paralytic's tongue.
Thanks to Dr. Beddoes, the poor
fellow felt sure of being cured by the
process, although utterly in the dark
as to the nature of it. Fancying
that the thermometer was the magi?
cal instrument which was to make n
new man of him, he no sooner felt it
under his tongue than ho declared
that it acted like a charm throughout
his body. Sir Humphrey wickedly
accepted the cure, and day after day
for a fortnight went through the
same simple ceremony, when he was
able to pronunce the patient cured.
M. Tolcipelli. a Bornan physician,
played a similar trick upon some of
his hospital patients, who were great?
ly affected whenever powerful mag?
nets were brought near them. Plac
theni* under exactly the same condi?
tions to all appearance, but taking
particular care to exclude magnetic
inflnonce, ho found that every one of
them was disturbed in the same de?
gree as when the magnets were actu?
ally employed.
Thought the New* Fresh.
Some of the newspapers in different
parts of the country are entertaining
readers by printing reports from
their own columns of events of inter?
est that have passed into history.
For instance, a Philadelphia paper
publishes the despatches that it re?
ceived from the field during the war,
and a Boston journal revives the oc?
currences of fifty years ago. An
amusing mistake growing out of this
practice happened in southwestern
Oregon recently. There a paper is
pulishing a selection of items from its
files of thirty years ago, the historical
past in that part of the country. The
story of a terrible Indian massacre
of settlers on the K la math River was
retold in one of the issues. The
''new" aroused the sympathies and
inflamed the iramagination of a citi?
zen of Gold Beach, who took up his
paper in the intervals of plowing and
seeding, when his mind was perhaps
too weary to observe the date of the
sensations. Like a public spirited
man, he at once raised the neighbor?
hood, and found others equally be?
hind the time with himself. Notices
were posted, a public meeting was
called, and a company of volunteers
was organized to take the field
against the redskins. Finally, it oc?
curred to a cautious "volunteer'* that
it might be well to communicate with
Portland and ascertain the exact pos?
ture of affairs before embarking on
the campaign. The result of his in?
quiries has been a cause of more dis?
comfort to the organizer of the expe?
dition than taking the field in grim
earnest would have been.?New York
Post.
A Story of tt Most DIamoud King.
"It is queer how lost valuables are
sometimes recovered, and the story 1
tell you was related to me by Goerge
iT. Dawson, who breathed much easi?
er after he had again secured posses
jsion of his diamond ring," said Tom
Larrimore yesterday, "Dawson was
courting a pretty country girl, and on
i Sunday would drive out to her fa?
ther's farm in a buggy and take her
out driving. He was the proud pos
sersor of a $300 diamond ring, which
he transferred to his girl's finger one
Sunday morning as they started to a
country church to attend meeting.
"The ring was to large for her fin?
ger, and somewhere on the road it
slipped off and was lost. Paterfami
lies with other members of the family
followed with a 2-horsc wagon, and
all gave up the trip to church and
joined in the search for the diamond,
i but the gem could not be fouud. It
j was springtime, and the roads were
very soft, which allowed the wagon
wheels to become coveren with the
loamy soil. After dinner the boys
were strolling around the yard, and
one of them stopped at the wagon.
Taking out Iiis pocketknife, he be?
gan cutting the mud on the wagon,
when off dropped a lump of dirt, dis?
playing the diamond ring sticking in
its center. The ring had fallen in
the wagon track and had been car?
ried at least three miles iucased in
the lump of mud which had adhered
to the wheel/"?St. Louis Republic.
Laud stilt Bring* t? Good Pricei? the VIe
giiiia. tfonntaln*.
The Bluefield, W. Va? Water
Works and Improvement Company
has purchased two acres in that city
for $25,000, and will inaugurate ex?
tensive improvements.
Opportunity OflVrrU to W??o?l-W arising
Plants.
(The Progressive South)
The Virginia, Coal and Iron Com?
pany (at Big Stone Gap, Virginia),
has jast completed a map for distrib?
ution among manufacturer;;, showing
and describing the great body of val
uahle coal and timber land owned by
said company in the Powell's river
water shed. The company's proper?
ty in the territory named embraces
about 64,000 acres of the finest virgin
forest to be found anywhere in the
South, as well as carrying possibly
the most valuable coal deposits to be
found in the United States.
One of tl>e principal objects in is?
suing this descriptive map is to place
before operators of wood-working es?
tablishments the superior advantages
of Big Stone Gap for industries of
this kind over almost any other point
in the South.
It is the policy of the owners of
this great body of fine timber to see
that it is all worked up and utilized
here at Big Stone Gap. The great
folly heretofore displayed by the peo?
ple of this country has been the reck?
less destruction of the choicst tim?
ber by the invasion of the portable
saw-mill. Comparatively little of
the timber of value is ; miss on the
great boundary owned by the Virgin?
ia, Coal and Iron Company, and Mr.
Taggart says it is useless for a saw?
mill man to open negotiations with
him unless he is able to take the
timber clean as he comes to it. util?
izing the small and objectionable
trees in the manufacture of box
shooks (knocked-down boxes), wood
pulp, tannic acid, hubs, spokes, han?
dles, etc.
The company, as soon as it lias
closed a sufficient number of eon
tracts to justify the undert iking, will
at once commence the construction of
a flume on Powell's river, 3,500 feet
in length. This fltnne will carry a
sufficient volume of water to Uoat
the timber from its head?to which
point the timber is to be brought by
means of sluice-dams?to the factory
sites. The water carried by this
Hume will also furnish the 000 to
650 horse-power to be used in run?
ning the machinery of the different
plants.
By this arrangement it will be
seen that manufacturers, with the ex?
cellent shipping facilities afforded
by the different convenient railroad
connections and those running in
here, the almostMnexhaustable supply
of material so near at hand and the
reasonable leases of water power
that can be secured of the company,
will have advantages hardly afforded
at any other point.
John A. Itucliunun.
If there are special reasons why
Hon. John A. Buchanan has stronger
claims to a seat on the Appellate
bench than other advocates of South?
west Virginia it is certainly time
that his friends were pointing him
out.
It has become proverbial among
certain hero worshipping individuals
to claim the "earth and the fullness
thereof" for Mr. Buchanan. Why,
we have never been able to discern.
Did he ever make a sacrifice for the
party9 Where was he in the turbu?
lent days of 'TD, and for several
years thereafter, when wanted to
make the race for congress? Where,
when Connelly F. Trigg and R. R.
Henry came out in the face of dis?
mal defeat? His health was bad.
But when the skies were cleared and
the way was plain Mr. Buchanan
yielded to the demands of his par?
ty.
Any good democrat could have
been elected then. The tide had
changed, and no one knew i, better
than John A. Buchanan. It is no
uncertain sound with him. His ad?
roitness as a politician has never been
.surpassed in the history of Virginia
politics. Gratitude finds no dwelling
place in bis political bosom.
Where was he when his kinsman,
A. B. Buchanan, of Tazewell. was
an applicant a few weeks since, for
the office of United States marshal
of the western district of of Virginia?
If he ever spke a word in his favor,
no one ever heard it, or if he ever
wrote a line no one ever read it.
This too, in face of the facl that in
each of his contests Beau Buchanan
not only worked for his election, but
spent Iiis own money with an un
spareing hand. These are facts, ami
there is no use trying to "whip the
devil around the stump" with a de?
nial. We do not know how A. B.
Buchanan feels -about the matter.
It might be all right with him, but
it does not clear the political skirts
of this modern political St. John of
the Southwest.
That Mr. Buchanan made a good
representative in congress, no one has
denied, but there wasn't money
enough in the job, and notwithstand?
ing the fact that he was appealed to
by the press and people to stand at
the post awhile longer, he resigned
to take care of a very large and lu?
crative law practice.
Now isn't it singular that when
there is another honor soon to be
awarded to one of the learned law
vers of the Southwest, that there are
those who would place it on the brow
of Mr. Buchanan as though there was
not another to be found worthy to re?
ceive it. Why not have some con
sideration for a man's preferment?
If he wants to practice law let him
alone.?Blucfield Journal.
Cmmnuulmi, Wine.
Edltor Pott :
There are tv/o theories in the world
with regard tc wine that we beg leave
i to notice a moment. There is. a class
who believe tlicrc is just one kind of
wine; and that a fermented or alco?
holic drink that will make drunk
come, that this is the only wine men?
tioned in the Bible, and that conse?
quently, we must use this alcoholic
stimulant for communion purposes.
There is also, a class who believe that
there are two kinds of wine, one fer?
mented, the other nnfermcntcd. They
I claim that grape juice is rightly call
| ed wine just as it Hows from the press,
and even while it is yet in the srrape
and that therefore, there arc two
kinds of wine spoken of in the Bible*
We believe that this latter idea is
correct and that all churches should
use only unfermentcd wine for com?
munion purposes. We cannot under?
stand how an article that is intit for
christians to use ordinarially because
of the mischief it does, and against
which we are solemnly warne.! in the
word of God, can be the right thing
to use in the house of the Lord in
memory of his dying love to man.
We think the term wine is geaer
ic like the term drink as used in llab.
2-15 and Bom. 12-20 and like the
term cider as used in general. You
grind your apples and press out the
juice and while it is fresh and sweel
.011 call it cider; then after it fer?
ments and bcomes alcoholic so it. will
make one drunk if he swallows it
freccly, you call \tcidei\ ami we think
the term wine is in like manner, ap?
plicable to the juice of the grape both
in its fermented and unfermented
states. Now let us see if this idea
will bear tin? light of God's truth,
tnd since it. is admmitted by all thai
fact. But if we can show that grape
juice is right ly called wine while in
a state in which it is impossible for
it to be fermented, then it must be
admitted that we have made the cor?
rect application of the term wine,
and also that there are two kiuds <>f
wine to-wit: the fermented and tin
fermented. Now to the law and tes
limony,otic divine writer says: "The
new wire is found in the cluster" will
any man affirm that grape-juice is
fermented before it is pressed from
the grape? if there be such this
communication \ is c not designed for
them.
Again we read, "Thy presses shall
burst forth with new wine." Is
grapc-ji ice filled with alcohol pro?
duced by fermentation just as it flows
from the press or while it is vet in the
cluster? if not, then these scriptures
in connection with what is univer?
sally a Imitted, prove clearly that
there are two kinds of wine
mentioned in the Bible, one ferment?
ed and alcoholic, and against which
we arc warned in many places in the
scriptures, the other unfermcnted,
sweet and harmless, and the use of
which is highly recommended in the
won! of God. lint aside from all
this, if there is just one kind of wine
known to the human family, just one
kind spoken of in the Bilde, and that
the fermented kind that will make
drunk come, then it docs not follow
that it is at all necessary to use this
alcoholic wine for communion pur?
poses, it does not follow that it is even
right in the sight of God to thus use i
it, and why? because Jesus did not
tell us to use wine for communion.
Wine is not once mentioned in con?
nection with the institution or the
observance of the Lord's supper. But
that which Jesus gave his disciples
in "the cup" and commanded them
to drink in remembearnce of him.
he called "the fruit of the vine" and
that "the fruit of the vine" is that
which the vine naturally produces,
no sane man will deny, and that the
wine has any capacity to produce an
alcoholic substance, no man who
knows B. from brandy will attirm.
You may search every plant in the
great botanic kingdom of earth from
the tallest tree down to the tiniest
spite of grass, and you will not find
so much as one grain of alcohol pro?
duced by natures growth. Alcohol
is generated by a process exactly the
reverse of that by which all vegeta?
tion is brought to perfection. The
latter is produced by a process of
composition while the former is gen?
erated by a process of decomposition.
W. L. iTrssre.
Cleveland, Va., June G, 1898.
WHY THE SOUTH IS POOR.
Northern papers generally speak
of our country "being prosperous
while Southern people feel the pinch
of hard times. We have often point?
ed put the one great reason of our
financial depression, viz., federal tax?
ation, but we reproduce a portion of
Dr. J. S. Curry's remarks at Nash?
ville, which throws light on this sub
ject. He said,''More money is re?
turned to Northern States from the
federal treasury, than they pay in.
Illinois pays in $3,885,000, and re?
ceives from the federal ttcasurv, $9,
943,000. Indiana pays $2.030.000
and receives $10,430,000. Michigan1
pays $2,087,000 and so with New
Yo.tk, Pennsylvania and other States.
This vast difference is made up from
taxes paid by Southern States, yea.t
after year. Is there any wonder that
the cry of hard times is heard south of
the Potomac?
YOUNG MKS. Itr.AIKK WED*.
Mnrrleil to her IMiv-Oclan, Dr. W. T. Ilnli.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., ami
Dir. W. T. Ball were married at
11:40 o'clock May 30, iu the Sooth
Reformed church, corner of Madison
avenue and Thirty-eighth street, N.
V., by Rev. Dr. Frederick Terry, th*
pastor. The brido was dressed in
pearl gray siilfc with white lace trim*
mings on the corsage. Her hat har?
monized with her costume in coloring
and she looked charming, indeed.
She carried a bunch of bride roses
and lilies of the valley. The father
of the bride gave her away at the
alter. There were no attendants.
The ceremony was followed by a
wedding breakfast at Mrs. Blaine'*
apartments at the Belmout. Only
intimate friends and relatives were
risked to the ceremony, a* it was
{he bride's desire that the wedding
should be as quiet as possible. Not
more than fifty people were present
in the church lo witness the cere?
mony.
This wedding is a happy consti
mation of a romance begun when
Mrs. Blaine was seriously ill, thr??e
years ago. That sin? would be a
cripple for life was the verdict of the
physicians who had attended Jier.
Altera wedding trip iu this country
Dr. and Mrs. Bull will sail for Eu?
rope.
KU N OA V A NO TlIK FA | It.
The New York World says:
"We are, at any rate, to be spar?
ed a prolonged legal controversy ov?
er the question of opening the
World's Fair on Sunday.
"Mr. (Mney, with what seems to
us an excess of zeal, has directed
that an application be made to a
United States court for an injunc?
tion. 11 it is denied he will take no
appeal and interfere no further with
I he matter.
"That the application will be de?
nied there ought to be no doubt.
Nobody has ever before contended
that congress has constitutional au?
thority to enact Sunday laws or other
police regulations for the several
states or for any part of any of them.
'There is no clause of the constitution
which even suggests a giant of such
power to congress, none that can he
tortured into such meaning except by
a construction which would sweep
away all limitations, making con?
gress as absolute as the British par?
liament is ami reduce the state to
merely permissive governments, ex?
isting by grace of congress alone.
"The United States courts are the
jealous guardians of the powers not
granted by this constitution, but re?
served to the several states or to the
people."
This is a view of the legal aspect
of the matter. The Chattanooga
Times lias before discussed; and all
along tin? line taken by the World.
At any rate, tin* controversy will
soon be closed. The country will be
spared a long wrangle in the courts.
'The fair people will know what they
can depend on.
We earnestly hope the decision
will bo against the constitutionality
of the restriction of the law of con?
gress; and this because we believe
the opening of the fair on Sunday
will be a great benefit to hundreds of
thousands who would attend on that
day and cannot on a weekday. We
believe it would promote order and
morality by attracting men away
from the dives of the great and fast .
city. Even if we were close com?
munion." Sabatarians, we would
think, would favor opening the fair
on Sunday, as the lesser of two evil.
?Chattanooga Times.
KEttAKKAHXE LONGEVITY.
The Oldest Woman in Virginia Liven Near
Bristol.
We heard yesterday of a colored
family of remarkable longevity.
They are "Aunt" Agnes Jones, aged
one hundred and eleven years; her
son, Henry DcBosc, aged eighty-nine
years, and her daughter, Lucy l)e
Bose, aged seventy-one years.
"Aunt" Agnes possesses all her
faculties iu a remarkable degree for
one of her age, and converses with
ease ami readiness. She has one
hundred and seventy-nine descend?
ants, among them several great
great-grandchildren. She formerly
belonged to the Preston family, who
have some records which authenti?
cate her age. She is without doubt
the oldest persou in Southwestern
Virginia.?Bristol News.
DO NOT ADVERTISE
Unless You Have Help to Head Your Cor?
respondence.
The following is a remarkable re?
sult of advertising, Mr. K. E. Hale
one of Wilmington's business men,
inserted an advertisement in two
Chicago newspapers ou Sunday,
May 21, asking for terms of board
for himself and wife for a month flar?
ing the Exposition. On Sunday he
received 149 replies. By Tuesday
noon he had received 449; at 2 p. in.
Tuesday; 1,093; Wednesday at 8 a.
m., 1,218; at 10 a. m., 1,34?: at 2 p.
m., 1,367, and at noon or* Thurday
he had received 1,434 replies to his
advertisement. On one of these days
he received 1027 letters, of which'
G(?4 came in one mail. This would
not indicate any lack of places for
entertaiument ia the Windy City,