Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-05-28


TO-DAY we appear before Virgiuin
end Tennessee with additional claims
for their confidence aud patronage. The /
.yers is now enlarged TO TO size which /
will rank it favorably with the largest /
journals in TIE South. The price;s at
once placed beyond the reach Of sac
cossfal composition Our efforts in
'Ibese particulars must be regarded as |
Indicative Of our determination to dc
vote ourselves with energy and patience
to the production Of frst-class paper
We aim at and will be satisfied with
nothing less, and design pressing on
until all impedimcnis are overcome,
aud the end snali be fully in view. A.
rapidly as the public patronage will en-
axle us, we expect to introduce new
features aud multiply the nnmbcr f
orr issues uaiil a daily paper shall be
demanded in tie hcll VIC have chosen.
Increased attention will be given to
he elimination and Classification Of
Tennessee news, and Virginia new.
/ occasionally the one and thOn the other
win claim more Of our attention, as the
Heexcit6ment aud interest may
no transferred. Now we have the can.
sass ia Virginia; TO morrow the curtain
will rise upon struggle for the sue
eessiou 10 Tennessee. We shall be
alive to both. As our means may pr.
NIT, We will enliven our pages with
illust atoms. Next week We expect to
present to our readers. one Of no ordi-
nary interest. These and our selections
Of general reading shall be first class
No reader of the Mus shall pass with
impuDity over the matter Of our first
page Our selected poetry shall ] Q
from standard authors, aud calculated
10 improve the tastes of our readers.
The appearance OF one in the NIeps
should be its passport to the attention
Of cur reader.
We ask our friends to aid US in or
subscription list The Nfps is cheap,
but it must be paid for. Any reader
Van raise two dollars, else be can club
at lower rates; but the money must
come. Those Of our present Est wi o
have not paid, can do so at the present
price; else they will be stricken there
irom and their subscriptions collected
Nothing so much adorns and gives
character to place as its newspaper
nothing is more positively useful. At
! times we shall not be surprised to find
ourselves at variance on some questions
With popular sentiment; but we shall
approach it in all cases as closely as
ruth and efficiency viii justify and
allow. One unpleasant duty We shall
dislike, but never shrink from-tho
exposure Of those who defy and shock
the virtuous sentiment of our people.
we will award credit to the deserving
with the most lively delight, but dis
order, lawlessncss and vice We will not
hesitate to expose. If, 10 our efforts to
promote :he public virtue, we shall
wrong auy-eyen the humbiest indi-
Uidual-we shall hope aud expect to be
corrected, and will always promptly
make every effort at restitution and
correction; but it will be a mistake fatal
to. the effort to suppose that We can be
forced to do so at the end Of the whip,
So we start forward in the ample field
before US, and we indulge the generous
aspiration to accomplish good in our
day; and when We shall have been
summoned by superior power to the
duties which lie beyond, we shall be.
!ieve that some friend may be left who,
in his charity far our dust, will write
above it that.we aspired to improve the
world VIC lived in .-EDs. NEWS.