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G.S. COMPTON, Shawver Mill, was here on Monday, looking as hungry as ever, and was as blue as indigo. He said that the big frost and freeze of last Saturday night finished up about everything on Clear Fork. Apples, fruit of all kind, potatoes, and all garden vegetables were killed. Corn that was up was injured. Wheat shows the effect of the frosts of May. The frosts of last week, including the big one of Saturday night, did great damage in this section. Reports from other sections are not encouraging, but it is hoped the case is not so bad as
COMPTON thinks. Of course, much of this bad weather is attributable to the comet now in our midst.
The Norfolk and Western Railway clerks quit work on the entire system on Tuesday afternoon after a vain effort to get an increase in wages. There are between five and six hundred clerks who joined in the strike. About twenty five of these are on the Clinch Valley, the majority of this number being at St. Paul and Norton, the two division points. On account of the small number of clerks, and the imperfect organization on this system, the organization being only about a year old, it is thought that the effect of the strike will only result in hardships, and loss of employment by the striking clerks. The strikers places are being filled by others as fast as possible.
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