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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-05
Fifteen Years "a Captive with tLIc
EndIans-A SyIwicrcT Meets
Hlis NviEc slt the Grave Of Her
Second Husband.

From tho Findlay (ohio) Courier.
Some fifteen years ago there lived in
the northen part of Portage township
young married couple 10y the name of
William and Annie Clark inson. They
owned little farm and made enough
to keep themselves comfortably in the
world, and We're apparently happy.
William was handsome and well odu-
Gated, having graduated with honor at
an eastern university. lie did not
like the honest but humble occupation
of farming. Wealth accumulated too
slowly following the plow; he wanted
TO make money by the thousand OF
dollars. So The farm was sold. Mrs.
Clarkinson went to live with her par
cnts, and William started for the gol-
den state of California, with the eX-
pectation of "piclling up' couple of
million dollars in couple Of years.
For a few months Mrs. ClarllinsOn
occasionally heard from her husband,
either directly or through some of the
neighbors with the same train with
which her husband was going. Then
| there was long interval, duringwhich
no word came. After time there
were rumors that the train had been at
tackled by Indians any every one Kill
ed. This was at last too truthfully
verified by one poor fellow who was
! found 10y another party few days az
ter, with just life enough left 10 tell
! how the train had been attacked
one dark night, and before any one
/ could recover from the surprise all
were killed and scalpcd and the In
dani rode triumphantly away with
| their booty.
For three years Mrs. Clarl,inson
/ mcuned for her dead husband. After
the lapse of that time she married
again and moved 10 wood county. For
nearly twelve years she was as happy
as kind and ailectiouate husband and
! two beautiful children could make
woman. Atthc end Of that time (Which
carries us up to the lst instantl allie
ton again cast It's mmt!e ovor her
Death claimed her husband and again
she was asOrrowing, weeping widow
She follows weeping TO the grave
she hears the sad, solemn words, " Dus
, to dust and ashes TO ashes "; tho earth
falls with dull, droary thud upon the
coffin as the sexton slowly covers az
all that remains of him whose spirit
has gone before 10 the other world.
The widow raises The black veil anc
looks around. As she does so, she
meets apair of eyes fixed intently upoi
her. She starts memory rushes bacl
fifteen years, and brings up the picture
OF her first husband. There can be n'
mistake-'ts he! The recognition d
mutual. There is a sccnoi the widow
and wiio fints; the bronled stranger
explains his relation 10 the woman
ana all repair TO the house OF her whl
ten minutes ago was widow, but now
opain is a wife. Then Nir. ClarkMsoi
tolls how he was not killed 10y the I'm
dians at the time Of that sudden ON
slaught on the plains, but was nkei
prisoner by the BlAckIeot, Wid carrio'
far away among the mountain fast
nosses, and during all those long year
had been forced 10 slave for his erie
! C0ptor5,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-05
TEE HORSE AND ASS.

In very able paper in the OLD
GUARD for August, the origin respect
lively of tho horse and ass is thorough
ly discussed, and after clear and
learned statement OF facts, reaches tho
following conclusions:
The horse was used by the Aryans
from the remotest period to which we
can trace their history, and prior to
the separation of their western and
eastern tribes; that is, before they pen
etrated into Egypt.
The ass, on the contrary, was wholly
unknown to them at that period. The
various Aryan nations of Europe and
Asia received 1t much later, aud scpa-
rately i'm the countries where their
great migration led them. II was
brought.to the lranians, of Persia, by
the Semits, of McsOpotan,ia hence it
passed into India, preserving, however,
its Semitic name, which indicates its
origin.
The ass had been brought to the
Greeks by race speaking a Semitic
tongue-prohably the Phmnicans; but
it was completely naturaliZod among
the former when the Homcric poems
were written. 1t was from the Greeks
| that the Latins received it, and they,
! in their turn, spread 1t among the peo-
| pie i'm the north and west of Europe,
| Colts of the Continent or of Great
| Britain, Germans, ScandinaVians,
and even Slavonians. In the time of
Aristotle there were no asses in Scythia
or in the neighboring lands, nor even
In Gaul. [Aristotie, Dc 9CHCr amin.
IL. 2.
These facts, which philosophy has
| disclosed, are strengthened by those
| which We think we can draw from the
monumental representations of An
cient Egypt, and from Bible texts,
which confirm the opinion that the
horse and ass originated in countries
widely separated. Tho horse becamt
domosticated in the highlands of uppei
| Asia; and the Aryan migration Was
the most powerful means of spread
ing that species through the world il
was rather lately adopted by the Sem
it's, aud did not appear in Egypt until
about twenty-five centuries before the
Christian era. The ass is AN African
species, which first must have been
domesticated on the shores of the Nile
l1'rom Egypt it early passed into The
hands Of the ocmitcs, who transmit
ted il afterwards TO the Aryan tribes
in Greece on one side, and Persia OF
tho otheri nd this animal followed
exactly the opposite course from ia,
horse, tut finally found It's way {,
(. every part of the world. Thus th'
two tpecies, though starting from op
pOsile points, were destined % muc
and be used in every land.
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VIRGINIA.
shenandoah valley RnIIrond.

PHTLADELPHTA, July 2l.-An inn
portant railroad contract was conclu-
died here to-day by a. Kl Mcclure
counsel for the central Improvement
Company, made up of strong railroad
men, with the Shenandoah by way of
Charlestown, Front Royal, Luray,
Fishcrsvilie, Lexington, etc, to the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad near
Salem, entire within two years ready
for the cars. Tho management con-
template extending the line through
tho Clinch aud Holston Valleys 60
Knoxville.
The managers of the Wytheville Ag-
rlcultifal Society have changed the
time for holding their annual fair from
the l4th September to the FIRST week i'm
October, so as 90 conform to the time
selected by the Lynchburg Society.
Hon. VIM. Milnes has contributed
81 900 towards the endowment of a
Virginia Prolcssorship Of Mechani-
cal Engineering" in Washington Col
loge.
ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE.-A negro
follow by the name of Richard john
son was committed To the Jail of WythC
county, on Tuesday last, for attempt
ing 10 commit AN outrage on the person
of Pauline Peek, Il white girl living
with the family of Mr.. james Stevens
of Reed island IVyfhoVRto Enter
prise.
DEATH OF A LEGISLATOR.-Mr :
Nj. Dodge, member of the lower
house of the General Assembly from
MecllcnbuTg county, died Monday IN
this city of typhoid fever. He was 4
native Of New York State, and Repub
lican in politics.-RichmoRd wing
TRIAL CONCLUDED. The trial of Mr.
lewis Wimbish, charged with being
implicated in the shooting of Majol
Randolph, was concluded before The
Mayor Monday and resulted in hi'
being sent on for indictment at the
August term of Judge Garland's court
lie was admitted To bail in the sum o
5000, with Col. John Wimbish, Sr.
and Capt. G. NJ. Blacllford ms securi
ties.
The case of Mr.. John Wimbish, Jr.
was the taken up, and the accused WA
sent ON for Indictment at the Angus
term of the court. An application 10
bail was refused, and Mr.. w. was com
mitted to jail. il.-LyHchbur6 Ne'os.
THE LATE Cor. RANDOLPH. Col
randolph, killed at Lynchhurg, mad
NWill IN 1852 leaving all his propert,
10 his only child. His life was insure'
tlr %, 600.
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Moro et nnIe,s SwindIiny.

JONEsBoRo' Tenn, July -, 1870.
ELBERT FOWLER, ESQ,
Dcur Sir II soc controversy I'm
your paper regarding Clarkson and
yourself. I also saw local speaking
Of the arrest Of one Peter !. Hale at
Abingdon for forgery. I write this
letter to you to prove who said Halo is
and you may use this letter a5 YOU
may deem proper, and if you can in
form me WhCthCr / will have any re-
dress / wish you void do SO. The cir
cumstances are as follows: On June
18th, Peter J. Hale came to my store
and showed me letter purporting to
ba from McClung and Betterton, Knox
Vile, showing That they owed him n
balance of Sl6.Sl cts, and instructing
him to draw Cor amt. consequently
acting upon that letter, and believing
it genuine, accommodated him to the
amt of Draft After that / sold the
Draft to party dealing with McC. d
h. when it was returned unpaid upon
the ground that they did not owe such
a party. Afterward / wrote 10 them
asking for an explanation, stating ]
had seen letter to Hale from them,
when they answered me that they
never knew such Il man, never wrote
n letter to such man, nor over had
any dealings with him. l have writ
ten to Hale at Abingdon, as | tracked
him to that point telling him 10 re-
nit amt, or be proceeded against ac-
cording TO law. As yet / have no an
swer, cxcei { your "iocalr which eX-
plains the situation. You may use
this letter any way you think proper.
1 have the proof, the Draft and McC.
81 BIS letter to me, which / will pro-
duce, If desired, to further the ends of
Justice. OF course | have nothing to
do with your Clarkson difficulty or
controversy, but admire your moral
coUrdgc in trying to break down the
barbarous dueling code. All honest,
brave men will sustain you.
Yours very truly,
81 IrG'L'IHT II
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He had finally escaped, and during
his flight through mountain gulches he
discovered rich gold deposit. How
he had written back to his old friends
but could get no answer. He then went
back and worked the gold mine which
he had discovered. He grew rich. and
longed to again visit the homo. Of his
youth and happiness. He had got Off
the cars at Pittsburg and taken the
stage to Bowling Green; had hired u
buggy there, and was driving to his
old home when he overlook the funeral;
the widows person seemed strangely
familiar, and when she drew aside her
veil he recognized her as the wife he
had hidden adieu TO fifteen years before,
and whom he had thought to be dead.
They now live happily together.
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one is in the act Of speaking, II ribbon
OF paper Is detached from the machine.
similar to that thrown Off by the tele--
graphic apparatus, on which the words
pronounced are traced in black and
white. The mechanism is in all re-
spects most ingeniously constructed,
and worthy of being compared with
the inventions of Niepce, Daguerre
and Morsc.-Rurdt Neu- Yorker.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-05

may be awkward in look; but few are
there who would dare to say, go up,
thou bald head, to even tho worst of
them.
Away up on the Nile, close by the
cataract, 80 near the tropics that once
It was reported that 'gnomens on the
dial cast no shadow lie the now silent
qurries from which many of tho enor-
nous stones we are sitting upon earliest
came for the building of The pyramids.
One finds his imagination kindled into
curiosity, first, as to the methods en-
ploycd TO transport such mighty mass
es Of rock so far; and thon his mind
lap5es into pensive sentiment OF
thoughtfulness, while he remmembers
how silent to-day are the myriad hands
which once In these sands wrought so
busily.
THE SPHINX. au.fs
"At tho foot of thepyramids, imme-
dlately below us as we BAT on the ledg-
es, thoro rises out of the vcrdureless
sand one of the most singular idols
that human ingenuity ever imagined (;
one of the awkwardest bodies aud one
of the most massive heads that human
hands ever carved. No line of beauty
has il anywhere to exhibit. Tho cars
are enormous; the nose il gone; the
mouth Is ragged the beard is broken /;
the open eyes stare blunkly and closely
dOwn upon you the wig bags iiatly
and tlaringly out on either side the
chin has lost half its stony hair, and
all its semblance of dignity; the face
was formerly painted, and the red is
washed Off on the weather side; alto
gether the structure has pretty much
gone under the effects of age, and has
quite the look of used-up piece of
property: But there yet remains n
tranquil majesty in its mein that every
one recognizes and feels the moment
he sees 1t.
"Coarsc in its construction, uncouth
and stiff in every lineament, il is yet
able to impress the soul of every travel
Ter, even the most careless, who beholds
it. IL is better seen from below; the
first sightof it, if from the top of pyra-
mid5, belittles and dwarfs its proper
tions; If from the long and winding
approach of the old path, it is best of
all. This figure is the collorral form,
sculptured roughly in yellowish stone
-numulite, full of millions of minute
and perfect shells--of brute's body
with human head. The body re-
clines at length in the sand the head
finely erected in the air. There used
TO be an altar between the foropaws,
located precisely where the sweet SAVIOR
of sacrifice might mast easily be sup
posed to reach the nostril.
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Scientific.
NEW n0nE nF prc0RnIyG spEECH.

\ Mechanic living on the shores OF
Lake Zurich, M. The0dor Xuppinger,
A's just invented a mechanism as mar
Nelous as the daguvrreolyp was M
INST considered TO be, tie Applications
~ which have since become SO popular
Sehd universal. The machine OF NJ.
"0ppnrcg Is no larger than the hti-
man hand, and performs the work ol
"n accomplished stenographer Placed
,u contact with tho vocal organ, IL re-
'9G1ucea the slightest sounds enuncla-
"" 10y the tongue, ihroato lips. Wlnlc
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-05
GEORGE w. ROYSIER,
GENERAL
Commission Merchant,
zoos Gary Street,
RICHMOND, Virginia.

Solicits consirnments Of Flour, Grain. To-
bacco and Produce generally.
With ample facilities, and being associo-
ted with the old and well known house OF
Dunlop & McCann, he hopes b. close ap
plication to business, quick sales and prompt
returns to continue to merit the patronage OF
the public. For his standing and response
hility he refers to
Gen. John Echols, Pres. Nat. Valley Bank,
W. Harvey Efinger, Casl'r First Nat. Bank,
Staunton.
A. T. Dewey, Caah'r Bank Of RocAbr dgc,
Lexington.
James Davenport, Jr., Pres. lst Nat. Bank,
J. r. Morton, Cash'r Nat. Bank Of Virginia,
Richmond. July 29-3m
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FRIDAY. August 8, 1870.

,,T,s REs ADVERssE - OR, "a LOs
FRS HiRD LCCa.~
A homo ibat one dar1 night
puellas visliare,
And mausit there 40 vorv late,
TLa, iilum constant care.
Pucr. walking by the house,
saw caput in fencsatra,
Etsunt morati fora while
To see qui erat In there
Soon, capu' turned It's nasum round.
In visu puer0rum;
Agnoscunt there the pedagogue,
oh maximum pudorum
rrogressus puer to the door
Cum magma quietatc,
II turned the key to lock him In,
Maraius erat safe.
Then pedsgogue rose to go,
Est feeling hunky doro;
llc non potest to get out,
Tho koy's outside the fore.
Ascendit sweet. heart nuno tho stairs.
Cum fcstinato pode,
" reused puellas from their sloep,
sed, babent not the door-koy.
Then, exeitato domino.
By her tumultous voice,
InsSnus ourrit to the door,
II Obvenit the lady.
"Furentem place !" the nastor roared.
"Why spoil you thus my somnumf
B1ito from the other door,
81 rogues have locked the front enc -
Paslls trialIs hung hcr head,
ARd took her lovers mspnm,
~ eito fron the other door
III. eaput est impalaun.
cuu magno gradu redit homo.
Rstrersum nunquam posping,
n mover ausus est again, mon f
Voxare peoples sleeping.
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TENNESSEE.

PIntsONAI.--Mr: David SEWER, who
has for some time been absent from
town, is at his farm in Sullivan county,
noar Kingsport, preparing to remove
his family there this fall. Mr.. Sewer
has long been an influential and lead
Ing citizen of Greeueyillc, and for a
quarter of century has flied the of
flee of Clerk and Master of our Chan
Gerry Court, with marked ability and
success. He prefers now, we under
stand, to pass his time upon his beau
tiful and productive farm-to handling
the musty files of Chancery records,
over which he has labored and sweat
for all tho better years of his life. We
are sorry to lose him. GreoneUiAe
Union.
Tenn. and Paciiic RaiirOnd.
Tho Tennessee and Pacific Railroad
Is making satisfactory progress. The
brids over Dry Fork, two miles this
side of stones river, was completed
on Monday, and the bridge over Ston-
or's creek will probably be finished to-
morrow. a note from Superintendent
paramore informs us that regular trains
will commence running between Nash
willie and Green Hill early next week.
The stage from this place will then
connect with the train at Green Hill
daily.-Leb. Herald.
TIE WOLF ON THE WALK AGAIN.
Capt. VIM. l.. HARRISON was way
laid and shot, about 10 o'clock, last
Saturday night, while entering the
yard in ffont of his residence, which
Il in the extreme edge of town on the
road leading in the direction of Forest
hnl L.. el.s l.;
in the back of the neck-one in the
shoulder, and one on the arm. Nine
shot missed him entirely, and lodged
in the Notwithstanding OF the house.
The night was dark, and the assassin
must have been concealed in the gully
on the opposite side of the road, some
twenty-five or thirty PAGES Distant
One of the wounds in the mock looks
ugly, but is not regarded as serious at
present, though the surgeons failed to
find the bail. The murderer used either
II shotgun or mushet- the same ouC,
no doubt, with which he killed the
student, Woody, two months ago,
whom he mistuOk in the dark for
lIarbsOn, and who was shot down
within hundred and tifty yards of
whore this last attempt at cowardly
cold-blooded murder was made. The
same gun was used, the same sort OF
wadding- particles were found in
10Th instances sufficient to indicate the
,npers from which they had been torn
and the same hand fired both shots
This is the common opinion. Had
the assassin cmptied ,fs weapon he.
fore his iD..,rucd victim entered the
fHtc he would in all probability have
accomplished his object. AS it was, ht
had TO elevate il too much, and the
most of the load missed and lodged in
the front of the house, one slug pas
sing through the Notwithstanding
and Elastoring into the family room
--.ithcns Post, 18th.
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RSSOTN- Al.
NTeiic0I.
DIR. j. y. ENSOP,

WHERE hc has been engaged in tho prac-
ticc Of Medicine for the pnst twenty year., A.,
has removed to Bristol, aud will attend to
professional calls from town or coultry.
OFFlCE-Ensol's Drug Store, where he
may be found on at his residence, CORNER
ly occupied by Mr.. Wm. Powell } on Virginia
Hill mh2j-Gm-pa
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-05

DIR. LIvINGsToNE's FATE-NEW
LIGHT SHED on TIE CAUSE OF HIS
DIsAPPEABANCE.- letter has been
received in this city from n Detrcit Ia
dy nov sojourning in Syria which as
sumcs 10 shed some new light on the
mysterious destruction of DR.. Living
stone I'm A Africa. The writer made the
acquaintance Of Captain Barton, Brit
ish consul at Damascus, man noted
for his travel both in the New World
and the Old, and i'm position to be well
informed as TO the tribes of Central
Atrlca and DR.. I4ivingstouc's advcn-
lures among them. He says the Doc
tors recent stay of two years or there
abouts, like all other troubles, had a
woman at the bottom Of il. He was
first persuaded, much against his wish,
to marry q rude and clustering native
princess, and when he afterWard pro-
posed to lcaveMrs. Livingstone i'm or
der to prosecute still further his topO-
graphical investigations, his fond IA
therinlaw interpOsed such strong OBJ
jections that he was virtually kept a
prisoner, and thus it happened that
the honeymoon was SO outragcously
prolonged. The Captain says the rea-
son this fact has never been made pub.
lie is that the Doctors friends, feeling
outraged by the transaction, have sue
ceeded until recently IN keeping it So
cret. The letter adds that " Captain
Burton himself married the handsome
est woman in England" so that h'
can hardly be moved with envy to
wards his fellow-travoller, and as hC
| speaks fourteen different languages
his capacity for telling the truth woul,
be considerable.-DetrOH Post, jul,
| 10Th.
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tOriginal attachment.

y. X. Furgason,
In this case ! hud that tho defendant, =. X. Fur
gnson Is non resident of the state ~ that the or-
dinary process of law cannot be served ON him, II
Is theroforn ordered by ne, that publication b"
ruado ia the Bristol NeinS. q rcWHpapvr published
in the town of bristol, sullivan county. Trnn. for
four successive wocks, notifying the defendant, D..
H. Furrason, to appear before ms on the 18Th of
July ls7O, to auawcr said attachment or the case
will be proceeded with eX parte. This tho 10Th
Juno, 1870, L. ID. RAIDER, }. Pvaco,
BAILEY, 7. O.
une2 w4-prs foo a..
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DENTISTRY

81 DIR. II. NJ. GRANT 6 DR.
Snffp JOHN KEYS
HAVING associated themselves m
IL the practice of their profession, in
Bristol, will occupy the office hereto"
fore occupied by DR.. Keys, ON Main
street opposite Peppers Drug Store
DR.. Grant will he in the Office, Friday
and Saturday of each week. Dr. Keys
can be found at the Office at all times
unless professionally absent.
july l-tf.