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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

The SUMAC TRADE.-Since the close of
the war sumac has gotten to DO a very i'm
portaut article of commerce, aud large
quantities of il are gathered Ia the cnnnliss
OF Eastern Virginia ana North Carolina.
The green leaves AID t"lgs Of the present
years growth are the parts OF the plant gath
cred. These are dried and packed in bags
and sell readily in the markets for from one
dollar aud seventy five cents to two dollars
per hundred pounds. Tbs Richmond Dis
patch says We are toll that in Sputtsylya-
MA county last year the sumac brought
more mouey than the entire grain crop. In
Orange county woman ana httle boy made
SIX hundred dollars last summer,
1t grows spontaneously, aud the crop Of
next year is Improved by breaking OH the
growth OF the present year. 1t Is used in
tanning leather and as dye stuff Llrge
quantities of it aro exported to Europe, al
ter having been finely glouud aud packe :
IN barrels, May persons IA that part Of
the State that WAS dovas ated toy the war
derive almost their entire support by gath
erng and preparing Tor market this article.
la connection with the above, We quote
the following remarks, scut Ia the Norfolk
Journal by A. 5. McCtae, Of Liverpool, da.
ted August ZG
~ no ioI W t"o hh"Elcu Gags ol Anltfl-
eau sumAc, Fredericksburg brand, has been
sold aud tIiei aud gives every satisfaction.
IL contains uearty as much 'Iannil' as the
most approved Sicily aud must ultimately
command a better price than 47aES per
/ ton, AZ which the above trial lot was an.
necessarily sacrificed. Indeed, Es to l.
| los. would uow DO given, hut believe vnIs
to DO much below tue proper value, ifat.
/ tputiou is 1iyeu Ia the selection and grind
/ OF tue leaves"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

The FEMALE SUFFRAGE QUESTION Lon
don, September l5,-The registration Of vo-
tiers for the parliamentary elections, which
commence about the IS Of November, Is
being prosecuted with great diligence
throughout the British Isles. At many
places women formally demand that their
names be placed upon the lists of voters, on
the ground that they possessed the proper
ty qualifications prescribed by the reform
bill, and the legal aspects of the question,
as we'll as the extent Of the movement, have
excited much public interest on The su c..
Over six thousand women claim tue rignt to
be registered in Manchester alone, and their
demands we're urged in an able speech be-
fore the registering officials by Miss Lydia
Becker. After argument on both sides the
claim was disallowed. Similar proceedings
took place in other towns, and in some cases
the question was reserved for legal decision.
A case has Hnally been brought before the
Judges at Westminster, and they have over
ruled the application Of women to be regis
tered as voters ON the ground that an
amendment to the reform bill, which was
proposed in the House OF Commons by Mr..
Mill, substituting the word "person" for
"man" was rejected, and that by this action
the House clearly indicated the extent aud
purpose Of the bill in this respect.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
From "Brick Pomeroy's New York Dem
Ccrat
ETu.s Tln.u,,


Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Pomeroy left the
city to oil engage meDts on the stump in the
int, ri,T, and has played us nice trick.
Finding a returned soldier on the street with
an old hand -organ, on which be pays ten
dollars year license, which goes TO the
support of the bondhoders, he hired him to
come to the ,fiice Of the Democrat, and from
one till four every afternoon play Dixie"
And here he is under our window. We
like it, but the editors of the Sun are out
ragged One Of them says it is id nu-
sance Another says tits damnable And
there be sits and grinds
'Oh, wish / was in Dixie,
Way down South in Dixie %
hour after hour. The man won't move, for
he says Pomeroy hired him by the week.
The Sun folks don't like it. Passers by
wonder why in thunder he don't change his
tune. One man, from Goshen, Orange
county, stood there an hour to-day, waiting
10 hear the next tune. But no ether comes
out Of the horrid instrument. And there he
sits, grinding
"Way down South in Dixie;
Oh | wish | was in Dixie"
Yesterday Pomeroy had a row about the
matter. A Radical, who Offices close by,
came down and ordered the soldier TO
mOue on!
Cant do it," replied the cripple,
"Why ?"
"'Cause I'm hired to stay here on these
steps, under this window, and play this ERE
tune ~
"Well, I'll see," and up stairs came the
excited Radical. He rayed and swoTe,
threatened arrest and all sorts of trouble.
"Can't help it," said Pomeroy "that
man was a soldier-he fought-he saved his
Countrywide pays ten dollars a year to grind
his machine-I have hired him for the sea-
son, and | shall have him play that same
tune day after day, 10 remind the working
men that
"Way down South in Dixie
are lot of Diggers, scallawags and carpet
baggers they must support. And" said he
"f yon touch that soldier, I'll mash your
loyal head. ] rent these premises; that SOL
der has paid his license pay for the mu-
sic and l'll have it Just as l want it I"
And the man is still grinding away
"'Way down South in Dixie ~
How long he is to grind at that mill, God
and Pomeroy only know. But it's funny
idea, compelling us to sit here hour after
hour, to listen TO that soldier grinding out
of bis ten dollar license organ,
"Way down South in Dixie %
We tried to coax him to change his tune,
but nc won't. He says that Pomeroy hired
him to grind it till his return. Ii lie will
hasten back, Wen pay the bill and call it
quits.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
REPUBLICAN.
Total 1874


In that election Missouri was carried by
the emancipationists, and Delaware, altho'
electiDg a Republican Governor, cast a
Congressional majority for the Democrats.
IL will be seen that neither Vermont nor
Maine afforded any indication of the great
change about to take place in the political
sentiment of the country, but that the rev.
olution commenced with the October cleo
tons. IL will be the same this year. Yer
mont amounts to nothing. Maine is i'm
portant only in so far as the Democrats
nave made a bot contes. there add may be
discouraged by a bad defeat. But on the
18th of October, when the voices OF the
men OF iron, tho Hoosiers and the Buck
eyes make themselves heard, we shall know
whether the radicals are to be hurled from
power or whether the stupidity and stub
bornness of the Democratic managers are
to check the revolution foresh allowed last
fall and occasion the re.enaction of the
election of 1864.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

"The wickedest man in New York" hav-
ing retired from business, Parson BTownow
the Wickedest Man in America, is now left
without pretenSe to competition in that
field. Aud he is quite equal TO the extern
sive situation. We have only to glance at
the successive issues of the press Of Ten
nessre to discover day by day new proof
of his enterprise. At present the Wicked
est Man in America Is cOucocting scheme
to organize u colored militia for the purpose
of more ettectually dragonnadng the white
people OF MS State previous aud up TO the
day OF eleciiJn. 1t happens that this pro-
ject runs directly counter both to the Con-
sttution aud certain explicit laws of G,
gress. The President has notified him Of
this fact, and minated that if standing
army is 10 be kept in Tennessee IL must be
an army of the United States and not jan
iZary guard Of the Wickedest Men. Where
upon the W. NJ. storms according TO his
wont. And what q mouth and pen be has
at his will An extensive knowledge OF re-
Lyon, aud much practice in species Of
inverted or diabOlical preaching, give him a
command OF biasphemy which John Allen,
in his wickedest day would Simply have
wthered under. Yet this man, backed up
by the Radical Cougress and the sentiment
OF the Radical party, is absolute despotism
OF region purportirg 10 be one Of the free
United States Ot America.
We notice the press generally discerns
the fitness Of the title with which we re-
Gently invested the Tennessee parson. Pass
him round as Tue WickedesL Man IN Amer
lea. IP eSt.--BuBaiO Courier.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
Fossil Remains Of Extinct Races
OF Men.

Sa.uel Johnson, OF Middletown, Connect
lieut., Irites to the Maine Farmer OF wonder
Jul dicoyeries made at Portland, just across
The Connecticut river from Middletown -
He sys. "On the east bank Of the Connect
icut re- the Portland stone quarries, which
havebeen worked for $50 years. At pres
ent, the three quarries, about Que thou
sautmen are at work, aud thirty 10 forty
vessls are employed in carrying the stone
to 10 great markets. These excavations,
With have now reached depth of one
hurried and five feet below the surface OF
lhewater in the river, have revealed I'M
tol wonders.
ne stone is said to be full Of fossil re-
mans in its lowest depths. / might call IL
a geat charual house, but this is too gloomy
trm 10 apply TO il. 1t il rather God's
grat Book OF Records, which has been here
capfuliy preserved aud hermeticaly seal
cdup till within the last few Years. On the
co niless leaves of this book are found the
records of the past ages. They tell MS OF
pet ages. They tell us Of the climate, the
So sous, aud of the storms of the birds and
~ mails add more wonderful still, they
lei ms Of the men of thuse ages, SHOW us
thir implements aud shadow forth some
thug of their customs.
They also open TO us their MODES OF Oull-
q, the meu lying IN one posture and The
,umen in another. These meu had all
tree tingers aud a thumb, and four toes
he comparatively more recent OF them
,ere six To seven feet high, hut as we IN
old the leaves farther aud proceed far back
n the cN cles OF time to the lower depths n'
Ehe rock, we come TO race Of giants Twelve
feet hish, with feet twenty-five inches IN
length. rbrne men wore Shoos and had do
nestle animals OF peculiar structure and
great size. Tae only human instruments 50
lar discovered we're made OF sone. They
had saws and long kaivcs made of slate, and
brought probably FROM Vermont.
"Thls sand stone basin is believed to be
Of tho same geological age rs the basin q
Paris, Ia Frauot, but the fossil remains ave
more numerous than those IN the Pans IA
sin, more wonderful. and in a better sla''
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

The GREATEST Invention OF MoDERN
TIMEs.-Mr. Samuel Custer, an humnle
citizen Of Ronoake county, Va, after more
Jhau twelve years Of ss,iduOus labor aud
scientific research, has at length invented
an Automatic Registering Marine Compass,
tie needle OF which, lt is claimed, aud eX-
perimentS have proven the claim well
grounded, will resist any aud every local
attraction whatever.
A short time since, Mr.. Clusters model
was eX perimented with m he Patent Office
az Washington city. The eXperimt u S
were made along with the Richie Compass.
The needle Of the latter was found, when
certain tests were applied, 10 vary from
two TO three degrees, while the needle OF
the Custer Compass, under the same tests
continued 10 point uualterGbly TO the North.
Repeated experiments have since been
made by scientific men, but with the same
result. Every test they have thus far been
able 20 apply has taiIed TO int. Trupt the
needle. A professor ia one Of our best col
leges, after a careful examination of the
principles involved in the consruc tion o
this com, as, aod { or many exper meat,
made WITH the model by himself, unhesitat
| ingly prOnouuces il success.
We learn that tho inventor has taken q
/ patent for the United States and secured
one for Eoglaud also. II the compass 4
tue success which il ispronounced 10 be, i
is worth millions TO the inyentor.-LyRCh
burg PirgiRidn.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
NObLe Erprcssions.

The followiDgis an extract from Albert
Pixies late speech in St. Louis. 1t cannot
be reprin ted toe often:
The man who says that we who are now
designated as r. bells do not intend in good
tsitb 10 support he Constitution and labor
for the preserve ion Of the Union, tells you
a falsehood. He lies in his teeth, and have
no hesitation 10 saying so. tGreat cheers !
1t is not the hoIorable Federal soldier who
makes the chGrge, but the sneak who never
saw the tented ield, aud who never dared
to enter pers, n lily into the light. [Cheers. |
desire to testify my appreciation Of the
kindness and nsgnsnimity Of the Federal
soldiers, who, we're II left to them to decided
would settle on difficulties at once justly
and generously towards all. tCheers. l say
it with pride tblt never since the close OF
the war have Deen treated discourteously,
pever an unkiid look, nor unkind word
from the opei, manly Federal soldiers
They fought molly, they fought successfully,
they know how to treat brave and manly
zoe. Aud if 'ou give confidence to the
honest and Courageous people OF the South I;
if you take the bayonet from their threats,
the paddock frm their lips; if you enfran
chise ard trust them, 7 pledge you the word
of man, aye,I pledge you the honor of
my race, that We will in good faith dis
charge all the Obligations imposed upon us
by the Constitution, all our duties under
the Union.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

The funeral of the late Bishop lulf -
tho Metropolitan Bishop OF Canada, took
place AZ Montreal on Sunday evening, aud
was attended by an Immense number Of
persons.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
ma. WIN. N. NANCE.

s n ATE of kingsport, resides IN Bristol -
IL lie will attend 60 professional calls
from town aud country.
OFFICE, in Kings Block-hrst door on
the right--up stairs. aug IA, y
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
ms, ]. b. WINSTON,

i. OFFERS his professional services to the
eitizeus OF Bristol and vicinity.
Residence at Prof Winston's LIST door
Above Mrs. A. X. Moores. aug2S ,3m
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

Brigham Young, jr., was propose TO the
" School Of the Prophets" as the prospective
success ~ OF his father Ia the leadership Of
the Mormon Church, and upon vote being
called for, only three we're cast in his iavor'
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

At last the circle has been squared. -
There is dull 90 exhibition in BIoJkiyn
which bOres a square hole.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
w. n. CLARKSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
lIeIicdI.
TO THE PUBLIC GENERALLY.

HRS. TEMPLETON & CARTER, having
~ permanently located in Bristol, Tenn,
would respectfully announce to the public
generally that they are now prepared TO
treat Cancer, in all its forms, without the
use Of the knife, They have in their hands
a remedy which has been used successfully
Ia hundreds Of cases, and having thor
ough knowledge Of Medicine, none need
fear to place themselves under their care
and treatment. They will also give par
ticular attention TO
DISEASES OF THE EYES,
Such as Suabismuss, (cross-eycs,l Ptory-
GUM Cataract Chronic luAamatjons, &c.
Persons wishing to place themselves under
our treatment can procure board in our
town at low price, or. II tAey prefer il, we
Mill visit them at thoir homes. An commu-
plcatous promptly answered
Address TEMPLETON 4 CARTER,
Box l6, Bristol, Tenn.
- (0fiiOo in the Lancaster BuildiugJ
aug II 1858
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
JOHN KEYS, MD. DDS.

A GRADUATE in both Medicine and
IA Dentistry, but who devotes his time ex-
clusively to Dentistry, will be found at his
Office, next door to Ensors Drug Store. al
all times, except when professionally absent.
He will visit Blountville on Monday OF
each Court week. He will also be at Jones'
Vile, Lee county, at the Circuit Court.
Aug l4-tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

Frank BiHir IS trou, indiana TO fenn .
yLnia. Wherever ha speaks he will
make votes. lie says himsef that he has
an intuition that he is going to be Vice
PRESIDE Mt.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

Nina new Democratic papers have been
started In Wisconsin since the nomination
Of Grant.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

An ancient Iudiau mill has been iounl in
one of tho mounds in Utah. IL Is Of on-
glomerate stone, and Of very rude structure.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

the Union.
THE DK1REcoNsTUCTED STATE.-Grant
and his friens ray, LET us have peace"
| The question arises whether we can have
| peace under heir reconstruction policy
But we are wrong; there is no question
about it. Tie thing has been tried, thor
ouIghly tes;d, and results are before all
the world.
Look at Time ssee. Look at her in all
The aspects he presents. She was recon
slucted yeas ago, reconstructed just as
the radical congress, thinking and acting
under Brow lows inspiration, thought prop
er TO recUusl uct her. She is the Oldest OF
the Tecopst ucled States. She is a model
RECONSTRUCTED State. And what is her con
dition Aqin we say, look at her. Scan
her. ScIuInize her. Say what you think
of her. Yu uust say that she is even
more wretc ed than either of the ten lying
south of hr. The condition of the ten
States is terrible, but that of Tennessee is
more terrible.
What encouragement is this for the main
tensnce Of the radical plan Of recOnstruc-
ton Whit reason have we to think or to
hope that the radical reconstruction will
work bette in the ten Southern States than
it has world in Tennessee Brownlow is
authorized 10y his Legislature to suspend
the hdbedscOrpuS and 10 establish military
rule IN an, county and all counties he pleas
es, aud 10 jay his standing militia force from
the treasuy of Tennessee. He is empow-
cred, il hi infamous Legislature could en-
power hin, to establish Il standing State ar
my, to KEEP down, stab down, shoot down
all discohents Ia the State, and to enforce
radical snremacy at the point. of the bayo-
net.
But whit are we to look for What are
We 10 regtd as Inevitable If this repub-
tic is to sabd will it or can it STAN as
negro repblic Will it or can il stand as
counterpart of San Domingo? Ii white
men do ri control our federal governments,
shall we AVE any federal government or
any Stat governments l-LOuiSUAe Jour
MCCLELLAN AND GRANT.-In an article
on the ctnpariuve losses in the campaigns
of Nc lelan aad Grant, the Army aud
Navy Jotnh" of August 20, says:
1--WE bid it to be quite evident that our
total loses in killed and wounded, from the
Rapidarto the Appomattox, were, at least,
double hose suffered by General Lee. We
hold itb be no less evident that the total
of our loses, from May, 1864, up TO Lees
| surrendr, in April, 1865, was about double
that of be enemy. Ga the other hand, is
tolerate certain that McClellan's losses in
his iamus Chichahomiuy campaign were
l,ss tha those which be inflicted. Taking
Antietm, and his other battles into the ac-
count, ur belief is that McClellan's entire
loss, in killed, wounded and prisoners, was
less tina that suffered by his oppo rents at
his hah."
The Army and Navy Journal" is non-
partiza American journal, and considered
authoIIy in all military aud naval matters.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
Dental.
DIR. DUNN,
DeHL0I S1II.IeOn, q

ABINGDON, Va, ILtN
~ Visits Bristol every Friday and Sat-
urday' Office on Main Street, one door
west Of Ensor's Drug Store.
peR-- Visits Marion every other Tuesday
and " ednesday. Office at Major Haller's
arg. Ia, 1868. ly
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02
H, NJ. GRANT, NJ, D. D D. s.,

HAVING just returned from Baltimore,
IL will visit Bristol on Friday and Sat
urday of each week.
Office next door to Ensor's Drug Store.
aug l4tf
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

\ Coon WlFE should be like three
things, whch three things she SHOULD not
bs IKE First, sne should be like snii',
10 keep IN her own house but she shodld
echo, 10 speak when she is spoken 10 but
she should not be like an echo, always 10
have the last word. Third, she should DO
Ike a town clock, always 10 keep line aud
gulor ~; but sh6 should not be like a
town clock, TO speak so loud that all tho
can hear her.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

An exquisite at the White Sulphur
Sprug', Nrguia, has a wardrobe, carried
~ seven Saratoga trunks, containing 50 lut
suits OF clothing, ~ dozan shirts, 20 gold
ana diamond shirt sleeve. buttons, IS breast
pin, aud enough rings 10 keep two OF ms
hrgers n closely hooped all The time as a
wine ca,k
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

josh Billings has been experimenting
with pills, and ceitid's as follows: al new
ct hav US d emmy ov doctor Emauueps
LIVER Co ,solinx and Kidney Encouraging
Pills aud q erefore kant tell you how in
hacn,hh she} am, buJ II you are 10 king
after pin AZ mid az a pet lamb aud w
searching ~ iine- tooth comb, buy Doctor
Dhgbune's Silent Perambul,tors, II In a
box, sold by AL respecIubls druggers.
Thrzs pi lis don't phool round, bnt attend
strictly tew bizzoesS, aud are ez good in tho
dead o nigh AZ An alarm clock"
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

For li'tv u's sake, friends, work Work
irom THIS day until election, 0r We are beat
en IN Ohio 10 Indiana, in Pennsylyania, in
New York, and In The whole country -
Ohio State journal
Yes, rails, work work work Work
like Ihubirb pills Work like spsom salt,
Work IKE caLmrl aud ialap or you viii
he beatcu sure !-LOHi,tie Jot4rnaL
The New Orleans crescent., 1868-04-19
Handwrittsg PecuIi.rItls..

1t is remarkable fact that no man can ever
get lid of the style of handwriting peculiar TO his
country. II he be EDgligh, he always writes ia
English style il German, Italian or Spanish, 10
tue style peculiar to his nation. Professor B.
states am acquainted with Frenchman who
has passed all his life in England, who speaks
English like one of our own countrymen. aud
writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety
nine 10 hundred of Us but yet who cannot, for
the life of him, initiate our mode of writing.
knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely
in France, and resided for eighteen years
in that country, mixed exclusively with
French peOpe-but who, although he had
French writing master, and perhaps never saw
anything but French writing in his life. yet wrote
exactly in the English style; il really national
instinct In Paris all the writing masters profess
10 teach the English style of writing. but with all
their professions and all their exertiOns they can
never get their pupils to ADOPT any but the
cramped hand of the French Some pretend to
be able to tell the characteristics of individuals
from their handwriting. | know not how this
may be. but certainly the nation to which an
Individual belongs can instantly be deter
mined by his handwriting. The difference be-
tween the American or English and the French
handwriting ia IMMENSE schoolboy would dis
tinpuish it at a glance. Mix together a hundred
sheets of manuscript written by hundred French
men, and another hundred written by Englishmsn
or Americans and no one could fail to distinguish
every one of them, though all should be written
in the same language aud with the same pens and
paper The difference between Italian, Spanish
and German hand.wTitngs is equally decided. In
fact there is about as great difference between
the hand writings of different nations as in their
languages And it is a singular truth, that Though
a nan may become identified with another nation,
and speak its languages as well, perhaps better,
than his own-yet never can he succeed 10 chang
ing his handwriting to foreign style.