Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-04-29
BRICK POMEROY IN LYCH-
BURG.


From the v. Democrat, April Oib. Editorial Cot
rospondcnce.
LYCHBURG, VA, March, 1870.
There is no place like Lynchburg.-
1t Is in Virginia. Rome sat, like seven
ten-cent pieces Of silver, on as many
hills, and sits there yet, for all we
know, while Lynchburg sits upon,
runs into, over, under, around, and
hangs on by its eyclids to about seven
hundred hills.
The James pronounced Jccn,s) riv-
err runs by the city. And well it may.
No river could run over 1t. We never
saw so many hills. McGregor and
Dubuque, Iowa, are nowhere. The
river, the railroads, the canal, are all
down there-just under the city and
its fifteen thousand inhabitants, white
and black. You go up one hill to go
down two. You walk around one lit
tie hill to climb up six. And rocks
And the billy country about Judea ?
Shoe, Fly-Lynchburg can discount
all these, and the youngest son OF the
Rocky Mountains. Town property Is
high in Lynchburg. Except what Is
i'm the ravines. The hills are in all
shapes-all sizes-all heights. Great
big hills with castles on top and houses
stuck on to the sides--little hills for
the children. It's all up hill, or up
stairs. The houses are like swallows
nests i'm n sand bank-one above the
other. But Lynchburg is n healthy
place. AS If fever or whooping-
cough could get over these hills the
same season. If baby is missed-it
rolled down hill! In time of fire,
everything goes down hill to the
| Jeens! A procession moving in
Lynchburg resembles q string of ants
climbing over Jumps of sugar in SUI
gar-bowl. We saw n few chickens,
but no geese-for how can goose
| climb up u grindstonc?
It's but few feet into your neigh
boris window-but half an hours walk
down hill and up. They don't sell
city lots in Lynchburg-they sell you
a hill. Sometimes a house stands on
two hills, witha forty-yard deep ravine
| for the cellar. SO handy to empty ash
es, drop cat, or empty slops. Suspen-
| sion bridges wanted--inquirea Mt Lynch
burg. They carry goods up by hand
and let wagon down by a rope. Its
the most corrugated city we ever saw.
The gardens hang edgewise, like two
shingles covered with molasses to catch
flies. There are lots of little valleys
they look as il empted in by mistake
or bad little valleys that had got lost
WAY down there? That Is little
creek, but no one knows how 1t get
into the Jeenls Way up there? THAI
That is II cottage-one story on one
side. ten stories in the rear. Like help
ing fat woman with sun-bonne
to the top of an omnibus! And thu
echoes? The yells of Absolom wher
caught by the hair reverberote ther,
vet! One block of the town rests sc
curely on thirteen hills and a knob
If ANYTHING falls out of the window
YOU will find it on the top Of hous
lust below YOU. And the Easements
They are in sections, like the leg of
grasshopper!
THE MARKET-HoUSE.
Did you ever see market-house ,
Then come to Lynchburg. Here
one as is one. 1t occupies the publ
square. The public square Is abou
: three hundred yards long and invent
, yards wide. 1t leans against the hill
: and the Market-house looks like III
p tie covered stairway way with bodl
broken back, ready t0sitdc down int
/ the ,JeeD,s soon as crowd Of lazy mig
! gers get out OF the way. 1t is about
i regular as the pedigree Of Brigham
, Youpg's babies. AS If boy had trie
: to draw string of little houses up hi
and quit to rest!
/, There is a marble yard in the rea
. or at the upper end of the Marke
. house. They construct grave-stont
+ and monuments here. And in tf
n rear of the grave-stonery Is a drinkin
II saloon. Spirits of just men made pc
: feet behind their little "In Memoir
. ams.u One day q chap'was led out
4 the gin mill tight as two bricks froze
. fast. He stumbled over a grave-stoI
h and said:
: ats most d-hic-d coldt Les {
y in an git'r 'nuther-hic-nip!"
q Then said his bon Uoy09em-
"No-come home. If you use a
b your money for whiskey, you can
a buy a grave-stonc."
"a "Wall-give us-hic-'nuther drir
a and RI take a thinner tombstone
ar The Market-house at Lynehbu
i. hangs in front of that place. Els
- calves, chickens, and such are delivS
y ed by throwing them down hill to Gu
~ toners. The Lynchburg Market-hou
m is a modern structure, put up I'm l6C
ts or less. 1t looks like ashot-towcr wi
4. its sides kicked in, trying to lie dow
W. Or man with the rheumatism tryi
4 not to snip from the roof of a barn
~ Patent applied fort But 1t is mari
house-it couldn't be anything else
x Venerable market-house-H we
~ not respect old age